Tag Archives: Law and Rights

Every year Project Censored puts out a list of what it considers the most censored important news stories of the year. And apparently I’m not alone in wondering just how a story can be censored when the size of the media changes literally each time someone else starts a blog. …

When it rains it pours: William H. Rehnquist, the nation’s 16th chief justice’s casket was carried up the steps of the Supreme Court today by former clerks, poetically including John Roberts, the man President Bush nominated to succeed him. With the impending retirement of Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, Bush will …

Recently I read the cover story in Newsweek sensationalizing the spread of meth across the country. Publications that should know better have done a terrible job covering the issue, many calling it an “epidemic”. For more on that see Slate’s good piece on the topic of why drug reporting is, …

Figuring out the problem is a problem we need to stop having a problem with.

Maybe I missed the psalm or parable that preaches the end justifies the means...

...what are you going to do when there's nothing left to have dominion over except a lot of desert.

Everybody is quick to blame the dog in the case of an attack, but maybe we should be looking at the animal at the other end of the leash.

We may not have their resources, but when we put our minds to it, we can treat people as badly as the next country.

Social stereotypes and race issues in contemporary America

In a move somewhat analogous to the passage of the USA Patriot Act after 9/11, in response to the 7/7 terrorist bombings in London which killed 52, British Home Secretary Charles Clarke today published a list of “certain types of behaviours that will form the basis for excluding and deporting …