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The three Islamic militants terrorists who beheaded three Christian schoolgirls have been sentenced in Indonesia. Want to take a guess at what the punishment is going to be -- and remember that thieves have their hands cut off in Saudi Arabia and drug dealers get the death sentence in Indonesia. If you guessed 14-20 years, […]

You gotta love Barack Obama -- from CNN's Larry King Live on March 19: (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) OBAMA: And if George Bush doesn't listen, then we're going to make him listen because it's time for us to bring our young people home. (END VIDEO CLIP) (COMMERCIAL BREAK) (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) GEORGE BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE […]

Good news from a Massachusetts state appeals court: Cops are allowed to follow fresh footprints in the snow away from the scene of the crime. Second, the NFL may be in serious legal trouble for violating the Digital Millenium Copyright Act. Advice to lawyers: read the law you're using completely before sending out legal documents.

I haven't written about this because it's much ado about nothing -- and that may be an overstatement. The eight U.S. Attorneys are political appointees and serve at the pleasure of the president. He can fire them for any reason -- any. The only way that there is a scandal here is if Bush was […]

Here's a couple of articles that should bring a smile to your face. First, here's a behind-the-scenes look at President Bush's recent visit to Enterprise, Ala., scene of the tragic destruction of Enterprise High School by a tornado. Next, we have a baby who is easily amused by his father playing golf on the Nintendo […]

I got done reading Jan Crawford Greenburg's excellent book "Supreme Conflict: The Inside Story of the Struggle For Control of the United States Supreme Court" last week. I strongly suggest that you pick it up if you're at all interested in the Supreme Court. Greenburg has more than capably outlined the past 30-some years of […]

I've been wanting to point out this op-ed piece by one of the lawyers in the case of Harper v. Poway Unified School District, but haven't got around to it. For those who haven't been following the case, Tyler Chase Harper was sent to detention for wearing a T-shirt in response to the Gay, Lesbian, […]

Blogger/writer Cathy Seipp whose work has been featured in National Review, The Wall Street Journal and The Los Angeles Times is in the hospital, barring a miracle for the last time. *UPDATE 3/21/07* Cathy died today.

Eighteen professors and a ton of computing power has solved E8. Nope, I don't know what it means. Nope, I don't understand what potential benefits this has. I'm only posting this because of this minor fact: Yet an international team of math whizzes cracked E8's symmetrical code in a large-scale computing project, which produced about […]

BusinessWeek looks into those Al Gore-touted carbon offsets and unsurprisingly finds that they're basically bogus.