(photo: Muslim Public Affairs Council) Written by Larry Neumeister for Associated Press and RSN A judge on Wednesday struck down a portion of a law giving the government wide powers to regulate the detention, interrogation and prosecution of suspected terrorists, saying it left journalists, scholars and political activists facing the prospect of indefinite detention for exercising First Amendment rights.
May 17, 2012 by Barbara Ehrenreich. This piece first appeared on TomDispatch.com. Individually the poor are not too tempting to thieves, for obvious reasons. Mug a banker and you might score a wallet containing a month’s rent. Mug a janitor and you will be lucky...
Courtesy hark.com You’ve heard: Every time you hear a bell ring, and angel gets his wings. Down in Hell they have a similar saying…
Written by Marjorie Cohn (The start of this article covers territory familiar, but a rather specific case of interest is mentioned at the end.-OEN) Last week, I was invited...
HERD ABOUT IT? by Ana Grarian For some reason I have the character “Pigpen” from Charles Schultz’s “Charlie Brown” on my mind. Maybe it is from watching our four happy...
By WILLIAM DERESIEWICZ THERE is an ongoing debate in this country about the rich: who they are, what their social role may be, whether they are good or bad....
Written By Andy Borowitz WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report) – In a covert mission designed to destroy what remains of al-Qaeda, the CIA has been infiltrating the terror network with...
Written by Paul Krugman for the NYT One of the characters in the classic 1939 film “Stagecoach” is a banker named Gatewood who lectures his captive audience on the...
Written by Alex Cockburn for The Week Was the US drug Vioxx responsible for far more deaths than has been acknowledged so far? RE American lives cheaper than those...
