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Cherokee Nation: Slave Descendants Need Not Apply :(
I was checking blogs of some of my friends tonight, and ran across a disturbing bit of news on Robert Glaub’s blog. In short, today the tribal government of the Cherokee Nation is reported to have expelled from membership the … Continue reading
First Amendment? What’s That?
The Renton, Washington City Prosecutor has filed a complaint against an anonymous cartoonist for cyberstalking after the cartoonist’s mocking cartoons about the Renton Police Department cut a bit too close to the bone and embarrassed the city. Apparently the prosecutor … Continue reading
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Alan Dershowitz on Casey Anthony and the Burden of Proof
In today’s Wall Street Journal, attorney and Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz explains the difference between a criminal investigation and a criminal trial, and why the proper outcome of a trial is not justice for the wronged, but an answer … Continue reading
There is No Compulsion in Religion: U.S. Version
What one justice on the U.S. Supreme Court had to say to howls of outrage after the court banned states from promoting specific religions or requiring Bible reading and prayer in public schools in the 1947 decision Everson vs. Board … Continue reading
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Bahrain: Zainab Alkhawaja (“Angry Arabiya”) Halts Hunger Strike
Zainab Alkhawaja ended her hunger strike after ten days, according to a blog post by her mother because her health was deteriorating rather fast. I’m glad that she did so. She’s the mother of a beautiful little one-year-old girl who … Continue reading
Bahrain: Zainab Alkhawaja (aka “Angry Arabiya”) on Hunger Strike
A Bahraini woman named Zainab Alkhawaja, who blogs under the name “Angry Arabiya”, just went on hunger strike after posting one of the most eloquent appeals that I have ever read in my life. It deserves to be read in … Continue reading
Khaled Al-Johani: The Bravest Man in Saudi Arabia
Khaled Al-Johani isn’t one of the many Arab Spring protesters in the middle east. He has not had the time or energy to get involved in politics. He’s a religion teacher in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and father of a five-year-boy … Continue reading
UN Abandons Global “Blasphemy” Code — Finally!
Today Human Rights First (the former Lawyer’s Committee for Human Rights) announced that the United Nations Human Rights Council had passed a resolution abandoning the proposed global “blasphemy” code. I searched, but was unable to find a link to the … Continue reading
Why the Government Shouldn’t Rule the Internet
Anybody who says, “it’s clear that the agencies [TSA and ICE] don’t understand the operations of the Internet well enough to be in charge of policing it.”, is probably worth listening to on those grounds alone. David Siegel tells in … Continue reading
New Hampshire Considers Criminalizing TSA Scanners, Patdowns
Today the New Hampshire state legislature is considering a bill that would make using the now-standard TSA “nudie scanners” and “enhanced pat downs” constitute sexual assault, a class III felony. The bill covers any agent of any government at any … Continue reading