[News Hounds]
It seems the last straw that led to Bill O’Reilly cutting the mic of retired US. Army Colonel Ann Wright on The Factor last night 3/30/07 was her declaration of 29 years of service, and her questioning O’Reilly about how many years he served. This happened as she refused to let him silence her by overtalking, twisting her words and accusing her of blaming America for the Iran-Britain situation going on now. With video. …
[WhatReallyHappened.com] A federal judge in California on Friday overturned the Bush administrations revised rules for management of the countrys 155 national forests, saying that the federal Forest Service violated the basic laws ensuring that forest ecosystems have environmental safeguards.
[CFO Jobsite - Available Jobs In: Legal Services] Top Manhattan law firm is seeking a permanent corporate paralegal with a minimum 5 to 7 years experience assisting in corporate transactions. Supervisory experience a plus.  Must be a team player. Full benefits. Please send your resume as …
[CFO Jobsite - Available Jobs In: Legal Services] Cleveland company seeks General Counsel with a JD degree from a top institution as well as 4+ years of private fund experience (preferably dealing with private real estate funds or LBO funds) at a law firm or in-house legal department. Experience with in Investment Advisers Act is a plus. This candidate …
[Intellectual Property Watch] By John T. Aquino
WASHINGTON, DC - Panellists at the all-day 29 March symposium “Ethical Issues in Patent Law” expressed frustration at the inability to improve patent system processes that self-protectively resist change. But the symposium was also filled with lessons on dealing with ethical issues and a determination to keep …
[Blog de cine]
El 4 de mayo se estrenará ‘Verdades ocultas’ (‘A little trip to heaven’), con Forest Whitaker, Peter Coyote y Julia Stiles.
Y la verdad, ya que de eso va el tema, es que tiene un póster bonito.
Se trata de un thriller dramático que transcurre en Minnesota durante los años ochenta. En él se cruzarán tres historias de traición humana.
Por extraño que parezca, nos encontramos ante una producción entre EE. UU. e Islandia pues de este frío país proviene su director: Baltasar Komákur. …
[onegoodmove]
Bush’s long history of politicizing justice | Salon News
YouTube - Halliburton provided contaminated water to Soldiers
(tip to Justin)
Power of prayer flunks an unusual test - Heart Health - MSNBC.com
Bush’s long history of tilting Justice - Los Angeles Times
Over the last six years, this Justice Department has ignored the advice of its staff and skewed aspects of law enforcement in ways that clearly were intended to influence the outcome of elections. …
[Sentencing Law and Policy]
Though my views on the death penalty are always evolving, I am always sure that many flaws with the modern administration of the death penalty stem from the desire of many jurisdictions to operate a capital system on the cheap. This interesting article from the Los Angeles Times spotlights this reality in the context of Georgia’s recent debate over capital defense funding. …
[The Volokh Conspiracy] The Institute for Justice has a new study on state campaign-finance laws that focuses on the impact of state campaign-finance laws and especially the impact of these laws on grass-roots activism,…
[Wizbang]
The discussion up to now has been a bit muddled, as many people fall back on old methods of general “who’s best/worst” labeling. I have tried to suggest an alternative method for evaluating the performance and capabilities of Presidents, emphasizing that each President has areas of relative strength and weakness. The next step in setting up the contests, is to evaluate each of the five areas of responsibility, relative to each other for the same President. That is, we already know the top and bottom for each, but now need to assign a place for the other three. …