There is a story that has been making the rounds about Mitchell Wade’s first contract with the White House. Wade, you’ll remember, is one of the guys involved in the massive Abramoff / Cunningham / CIA money-laundering network. Wade pled guilty in 2006 to a number of counts of bribing Duke Cunningham and various other [...]
Archive for March, 2007
What’s $140,000 Between Friends? Especially When It’s Someone Else’s Money
Posted in contracts, criminal law, ethics, politics on March 31, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Shocking: Kerik a Liar and a Tax Cheat
Posted in criminal law, ethics, politics on March 31, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Remember when, on Rudy’s recommendation, Bush nominated Bernie Kerik to be director of the Department of Homeland Security? Yeah, I thought you might. Remember how that worked out? That’s right, Kerik had to withdraw when it came out that he was having extramarital affiars with two different women at the same time. They were [...]
Bud Cummins Says: Bush and Gonzales Damaged American Justice
Posted in criminal law, ethics, politics on March 31, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
And really, that’s the more serious problem here. Sure, eight prosecutors were fired because they failed an abhorrent political loyalty test. And sure, high officials in Justice and EOP are guilty of obstruction of justice, at a minimum. But the real long-term effects of the prosecutor purge and the corruption it reveals are yet to [...]
Will Harriett Miers Go to Jail to Protect the President?
Posted in constitution, ethics, politics on March 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
John Dean put up a new post last week, giving his readers the rundown on the latest application of Bush’s theory of the ‘unitary executive.’ Bush and Gonzales are trying to use that theory now to keep their deputies and advisors from testifying in the attorney firing scandal. Dean concludes that Bush will force Congress [...]
Styles of Political Thought
Posted in internet, politics on March 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I know, I know, this has nothing to do with school. I’m on spring break. Cut me some slack.
Jonah Lehrer has a post up at frontal cortex discussing Bush’s reading habits, and how they betray a bewildering (if not shocking) lack of intellectual curiosity. From the comments:
One of the points that Tetlock makes [...]
I Think I Called This One
Posted in copyright, ethics, fair use, free (or not) software, internet, technology on March 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Some high school students in Virginia are suing Turnitin, a company that helps schoolteachers detect plagarism by running each student’s paper through their database of source material. Apparently Turnitin also adds these student submissions to its database, without compensating the students.
Now, I haven’t taken classes in copyright yet, but this is pretty much a textbook [...]
Castle Doctrine Adopted in Texas, or: Shoot Them All, and Let God Sort It Out
Posted in castle doctrine, constitution, criminal law, politics, property, torts on March 28, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Texas has enacted a law allowing people to use reasonable deadly force to protect themselves and their property. The majority rule has been that if you are attacked, you have a duty to retreat if you can reasonably and safely do so, except if the attack happens in your home- thus the “Castle Doctrine,” because [...]
