Category Archives: Politics

Anything that involves power relationships between people and groups.

Re-establishing the Correct Role for Police in a Free Society

For some time, I’ve been concerned at the deteriorating relationship between the police and citizens in the United States. While this isn’t happening everywhere, in entirely too many cities large numbers of police have been credibly accused and often convicted … Continue reading

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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

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The History of Flight (I wish)

The Abstruse Goose, an excellent web comic, illustrates exactly how I am feeling today, as the last space shuttle mission takes off for the ISS. <sigh>

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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

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Bin Laden is Dead

I was going to blog about this, but an old acquaintance in the science fiction and fantasy community, Mitch Wagner, said what I wanted to say, at least as well as I could have said it on my best day. … Continue reading

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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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Nevada Senator Ensign Quits

I live in Nevada. Today one of my two senators, Senator John Ensign, announced that he is resigning and will leave the Senate in early May. This announcement unleashes a major political storm, mostly because his likely replacement is my … Continue reading

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Removing Unreliable “Expert” Evidence from the Courtroom

The UK Law Commission has issued a report calling for greater scrutiny of expert evidence allowed in court, after a series of convictions were overturned (“declared unsafe” in UK legal language) because of shoddy or outright bogus evidence that was … Continue reading

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The Strange Case of “Josef Oehmen”

Before you come to any conclusions whatsoever about anything said, or supposedly said by a researcher named Josef Oehmen on the earthquake, tsunami, and current nuclear plant problems in Japan, please read this link. It appears that he is not … Continue reading

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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

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