http://homepage.mac.com/gcatalone/iblog/B946297652 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss en pa63@mac.com 2002-2006 Sat, 17 May 2008 20:55:11 -0400 Sat, 17 May 2008 20:56:51 -0400 iBlog 1.4.6 Coherent Ramblings A place where I collect and write about current issues. Updated as I find material and have time. pa63@mac.com Coherent Ramblings Politics http://homepage.mac.com/gcatalone/iblog/B946297652/C710521997/E20070401121424/index.html I have been pointing out stupidity, corruption and self-serving on this blog for 4 years. Recently there have been other demands on my time and energy and this blog has slipped a bit lower on my priority list. ]]> Sun, 01 Apr 2007 12:14:24 -0400 http://homepage.mac.com/gcatalone/iblog/B946297652/C710521997/E20070401121424/index.html http://homepage.mac.com/gcatalone/iblog/B946297652/C734535497/E20070121150128/index.html from the gone-too-far dept ]]> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 15:01:28 -0500 http://homepage.mac.com/gcatalone/iblog/B946297652/C734535497/E20070121150128/index.html http://homepage.mac.com/gcatalone/iblog/B946297652/C677636110/E20070121140046/index.html Agents of the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) raided 11 Los Angeles County medical marijuana dispensaries Wednesday, including five in the city of West Hollywood, where supportive officials have been working with store owners to responsibly regulate their operations. The raids mark a departure from recent DEA actions in the state, which for the most part this year have targeted dispensaries in areas where local officials are unsupportive of or even hostile to medical marijuana. ]]> Fri, 19 Jan 2007 14:00:46 -0500 http://homepage.mac.com/gcatalone/iblog/B946297652/C677636110/E20070121140046/index.html http://homepage.mac.com/gcatalone/iblog/B946297652/C1657555381/E20070121135311/index.html In his Senate Judiciary Committee testimony yesterday, Attorney General Gonzales matter-of-factly suggested that there is no right to habeas guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution; the Constitution merely states that the right of habeas, whatever it is, cannot be suspended except in cases of rebellion or invasion. ]]> Fri, 19 Jan 2007 13:53:11 -0500 http://homepage.mac.com/gcatalone/iblog/B946297652/C1657555381/E20070121135311/index.html http://homepage.mac.com/gcatalone/iblog/B946297652/C1838268097/E20070121155415/index.html Given the damaging role corruption played against the GOP in the 2006 elections, one might think that Republicans would be anxious to get on the right side of ethics reform. One would be wrong. Yesterday, the Senate GOP voted en masse against ending debate on the Senate ethics bill. The GOP's first filibuster stops ethics reform. ]]> Thu, 18 Jan 2007 15:54:15 -0500 http://homepage.mac.com/gcatalone/iblog/B946297652/C1838268097/E20070121155415/index.html http://homepage.mac.com/gcatalone/iblog/B946297652/C1657555381/E20070121145814/index.html Attorney General says federal jurists should defer to president's will.
]]> Wed, 17 Jan 2007 14:58:14 -0500 http://homepage.mac.com/gcatalone/iblog/B946297652/C1657555381/E20070121145814/index.html http://homepage.mac.com/gcatalone/iblog/B946297652/C395925165/E20070121145600/index.html Wed, 17 Jan 2007 14:56:00 -0500 http://homepage.mac.com/gcatalone/iblog/B946297652/C395925165/E20070121145600/index.html http://homepage.mac.com/gcatalone/iblog/B946297652/C171605943/E20070121143446/index.html Alberto Gonzales Should Be Impeached ]]> Wed, 17 Jan 2007 14:34:46 -0500 http://homepage.mac.com/gcatalone/iblog/B946297652/C171605943/E20070121143446/index.html http://homepage.mac.com/gcatalone/iblog/B946297652/C1657555381/E20070121143026/index.html U.S. Attorneys are being forced out of office, replaced with interim appointees chosen by the attorney general. ]]> Wed, 17 Jan 2007 14:30:26 -0500 http://homepage.mac.com/gcatalone/iblog/B946297652/C1657555381/E20070121143026/index.html http://homepage.mac.com/gcatalone/iblog/B946297652/C2065988085/E20070121140331/index.html The ACLU has released a new report (available here) documenting that "the Pentagon monitored at least 186 anti-military protests in the United States and collected more than 2,800 reports involving Americans in an anti-terrorist threat database." ]]> Wed, 17 Jan 2007 14:03:31 -0500 http://homepage.mac.com/gcatalone/iblog/B946297652/C2065988085/E20070121140331/index.html http://homepage.mac.com/gcatalone/iblog/B946297652/C1533109893/E20070121152333/index.html Last week, members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee grilled Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice about a hydrocarbon law being considered by Iraq's parliament. The bill, the contents of which have not been published, is expected to prescribe how Iraq's oil revenue will be shared among the major factions in that country. The measure also is supposed to spell out the degree to which foreign companies could invest - and profit - from Iraq's oil industry. ]]> Tue, 16 Jan 2007 15:23:33 -0500 http://homepage.mac.com/gcatalone/iblog/B946297652/C1533109893/E20070121152333/index.html http://homepage.mac.com/gcatalone/iblog/B946297652/C1469112719/E20070121145120/index.html Last week spotlighted ABC and its unfortunate trend toward irresponsibility, as the broadcasting giant hired Glenn Beck -- a high-profile war cheerleader known for grade-school level name-calling of Democrats -- to comment on the day's events for Good Morning America. ABC last week was also dealing with the messy fallout from its wrongheaded decision to fire off a cease-and-desist letter to a little-known blogger named Spocko who had been posting audio clips from KSFO in San Francisco, an ABC-owned talk station where hosts have advocated violence against, progressives, Muslims, and Democratic members of Congress. ]]> Tue, 16 Jan 2007 14:51:20 -0500 http://homepage.mac.com/gcatalone/iblog/B946297652/C1469112719/E20070121145120/index.html http://homepage.mac.com/gcatalone/iblog/B946297652/C1219239097/E20070121153419/index.html In a nutshell: DRM's sole purpose is to maximize revenues by minimizing your rights so that they can sell them back to you. ]]> Mon, 15 Jan 2007 15:34:19 -0500 http://homepage.mac.com/gcatalone/iblog/B946297652/C1219239097/E20070121153419/index.html http://homepage.mac.com/gcatalone/iblog/B946297652/C677636110/E20070121151838/index.html A new study says that a tendency toward delinquency or living in a neighborhood where drugs are readily available are just as important in determining whether a young person will abuse marijuana as whether or not he tries cigarettes or alcohol first. ]]> Mon, 15 Jan 2007 15:18:38 -0500 http://homepage.mac.com/gcatalone/iblog/B946297652/C677636110/E20070121151838/index.html http://homepage.mac.com/gcatalone/iblog/B946297652/C1756308987/E20070121151545/index.html Even as states back away from the death penalty, federal capital prosecutions have increased. The US Attorneys who favor capital punishment find support in the Bush administration's Justice Department. ]]> Mon, 15 Jan 2007 15:15:45 -0500 http://homepage.mac.com/gcatalone/iblog/B946297652/C1756308987/E20070121151545/index.html