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Random Wit, Errant Rhyme. Not A Literary Crime My mate on the coast used to train a porpoiseInstead of Fred, he christened it Habeus CorpusThen he worked with a bottlenose dolphin And used it as a caddy when he went golfin’ David McMahon is a Melbourne journalist, photographer and bestselling

If nothing else, you know we are winning the battle of ideas when even the Bush administration is reversing itself at a dizzying pace. Not long ago the administration acknowleged the reality of global warming and announced that it would not block work towards a new global warming treaty (though both

Hidalgo County has seen contractors already readying the earth-moving equipment needed to construct their portion of a the border wall as early as July 21.  While officials have dodged specifics and Hidalgo County officials emphasize the fact that this cement structure is actually just an addition

Court again (barely) side with Constitution Enemy combatant can challenge designation Associated Press The Bush administration has not given the only enemy combatant held on U.S. soil an adequate opportunity to challenge his detention, a closely divided federal appeals court ruled Tuesday.

I talk with Linda Monk, constitutional scholar and author, about the recent Supreme Court decisions, including gun control, Exxon Mobil, habeus corpus, Gitmo, and more. Great show. Enjoy. ShareThis

I get too many newsletters.   Back a couple of weeks ago, I wrote an article titled 'A Nation at War with Itself'  It would have been nice to have read this article by Newt Gingrich to include a few points about how the war is being fought.  I suppose I could call this a supplemental post, but

Your Neocon mind in all its glory Glenn Beck on the Supreme Court's decision on due process: This court has done some frightening. frightening things….If I’m president of the US, I would go on National television and say—’ladies and gentlemen, the Supreme Court said that we don’t have Gitmo so that is over.

I could of found a better word than ’shoots’ probably, but none the less this is an important ruling. From McClatchy: A federal appeals court for the first time has rejected the military’s designation of a Guantanamo detainee as an enemy combatant. A three-judge panel of the U.S.

Big brother is watching you and his name is AT&T. Sometimes he goes by the name of BellSouth and at other times he is known as AOL-Time-Warner. Big brother goes by a lot of names. He is listening to you while you talk and watching you while you type and everything you say could be recorded so he can look at it somewhere down the line.

Supreme Court Flexes Its Muscles in Boumediene Decision by Kenneth Anderson Obsessed with expanding judicial power, Anthony Kennedy fails to recognize that his country is at war.