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"FBI posts fake hyperlinks to snare child porn suspects"

Posted on March 20, 2008
What do you think about this: The FBI has recently adopted a novel investigative technique: posting hyperlinks that purport to be illegal videos of minors having sex, and then raiding the homes of anyone willing to click on them. Undercover FBI agents used this hyperlink-enticement technique, which directed Internet users to a clandestine government server, to stage armed raids of...

Religious Leader Prosecuted!

Posted on March 20, 2008
Quick: Someone call the American Center for Law and Justice. A religious leader has been prosecuted because, during a sermon, he told his congregation that they were doomed to eternal damnation if they did not give money to the poor and tithe to the church...

Explaining the Subprime Mortgage Debacle

Posted on March 17, 2008
This is genius.

Checking a Second Bag?

Posted on March 14, 2008
Then you should read this.

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Elliot Sptizer's Plea Bargain

Posted on March 12, 2008
According to this news story: Eliot Spitzer is going to resign his post as governor. Sources tell CBS 2 HD he's using the resignation as a bargaining chip with the feds. But after negotiating all day there was still no deal Tuesday night. Spitzer doesn't have the luxury of playing deal or no deal...

"Spitzer, Stop Torturing The Wife"

Posted on March 12, 2008
Maggie Gallagher makes some good points in her latest column on Elliot Spitzer. Check it out.

Officer Rondal Laroy Brown Kills Animals?

Posted on March 10, 2008
This is shocking, if true: A Miami police officer surrendered Monday to face animal cruelty and other charges in the death of his K-9 partner, a female bloodhound named Dynasty. ... Brown reported the dog had died on Nov. 30 and told a supervisor she had gotten loose and may have eaten some rat poison at a nearby construction site...

Iams Dog Food and David Motari Have Something in Common

Posted on March 06, 2008
Both are evil. If you're pissed off at a Marine for throwing a puppy off a cliff, you shouldn't be feeding your pets Iams dog or cat food, either. Go to this website to learn why. Feed your dog or cat something from this list, instead. I feed Amicus Dick Van Patten Natural Balance Organic.

Motari's Identity Confirmed

Posted on March 05, 2008
Those who had lingering doubts about the Marine puppy killer's identification can put those doubts aside. According to David Motari's sister, he was indeed the Marine depicted in the video. Details here.

David Motari Abuses Animals? Part 2

Posted on March 04, 2008
The mainstream media has begun covering this shocking story of animal cruelty. One article is available here. Based on David Motari's family's behavior, I am now 99% sure that David Motari is the man depicted in the video: First: The Herald is not publishing the man?s name because of the many questions surrounding the video...

David Motari, Coward

Posted on March 04, 2008
CNN has finally picked up the story that I broke yesterday. According to CNN: "This is a shocking and deplorable video that is contrary to the high standards that we set for every Marine," Marine Corps spokesman Maj. Chris Perrine said at a news conference Monday night...

David Motari Abuses Animals?

Posted on March 03, 2008
In this video, someone in Iraq identified as "Motari" tosses a puppy into the air, probably killing or crippling it. The video is very disturbing, and it located here. The Motari depicted in this picture looks identical to the man posted in the video; though, with goggles on, it's hard to make a perfect ID...

The Constitution, Annotated

Posted on February 26, 2008
I may have mentioned this site before. Even so, it's pretty cool. It's an online annotation of the Constitution. It's interesting reading on its own. But tonight it proved a great way to find the leading Supreme Court cases on an issue I knew almost nothing about...

These Lawyers Are Lame

Posted on February 22, 2008
Really lame.

New Appellate Blog

Posted on February 18, 2008
Say hello to "The California Blog of Appeal."

Know Your Meat

Posted on February 18, 2008
Here is how cattle are treated at Hallmark Meat Packing in Chino, California: Video footage being released today shows workers at a California slaughterhouse delivering repeated electric shocks to cows too sick or weak to stand on their own; drivers using forklifts to roll the "downer" cows on the ground in efforts to get them to stand up for inspection;...

Liberals Don't Regularly Have Orgies (And Other Discoveries)

Posted on February 16, 2008
If you're conservative or libertarian, you can sympathize with this post. In essence, a liberalish law professor actually listened to Rush Limbaugh and was shocked to learn that he's, well, a hedonist. (Can you really get as fat as Limbaugh was without being a pleasure seeker?) What got the ire of one conservative blogger was that liberals seem to discuss...

Conservative Judicial Activism

Posted on February 16, 2008
Here is a distressingly easy hypothetical. Police say they want to question you about your involvement in a crime. You say, "I plead the Fifth." Query: Have you invoked your rights under the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution. Shockingly easy, right? Yet three conservative judges on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals would have held that saying, "I...

Skateboarding is Not a Crime

Posted on February 14, 2008
Yet another douche bag cop caught on video. Bring on the civilian-surveillance society!

Our "Fair" Tax System

Posted on February 13, 2008
Suppose that every day, ten men go out for beer and the bill for all ten comes to $100. If they paid their bill the way we pay our taxes, it would go something like this: The first four men (the poorest) would pay nothing. The fifth would pay $1. The sixth would pay $3...

Islam, the Religion of Love

Posted on February 11, 2008
Dubai authorities have sentenced a man to four years in prison for having - literally - a grain of marijuana stuck underneath his shoes. Be careful where you step in Dubai. (Via.) I wonder how much prison time a person with gum stuck under his shoe gets...

Three Stooges As Criminals

Posted on February 05, 2008
What would happen if the three stooges tried to commit an armed robbery? Hilarity, of course, would ensue.

Election Day

Posted on February 05, 2008
I entered Amicus in a "cutest pet" contest. Yep, I'm lame like that. He and I would appreciate your vote. (Unlike in Chicago, you can only vote once.) I can assure you he has more honor and cares more for humanity than any of the other candidates being voted for in today's other election! Vote here please...

Voytek the Soldier Bear

Posted on February 05, 2008
This is an amazing story that appears to be true. Be sure to check out the photographs.

Women Jurors a Recent Development?

Posted on February 04, 2008
Who knew?

Valleywag's Nicholas Carlson and Owen Thomas

Posted on January 31, 2008
In an earlier post I noted Valleywag's disgraceful reporting on Google and Yahoo! I demonstrated an overt bias at Valleywag. One thing I did not note was that Owen Thomas, Valleywag's editor-in-chief, has supposedly chastised Nicholas Carlson for two bumbling errors made in the past nine (yes, just nine) days...

Valleywag's Pro-Google Bias Leads to Embarassing "Reporting"

Posted on January 31, 2008
This is getting embarrassing. Valleywag is a technology blog that boasts a daily readership, as measured by SiteMeter, of nearly 65,000. Regular readers of Valleywag have noticed something over the past year or so: The pro-Google/anti-Yahoo! bias has become ridiculous...