Notes"This is so much worse than I originally thought. Is there any doubt that this is a horrible violation of both separation of powers and states’ rights?"Unfurl
Notes'"Get a license or do not sample," the court said Tuesday. "We do not see this as stifling creativity in any significant way."' Wow. I guess it's not significant if you don't listen to it.Unfurl
Notes"Agreeing to a request from the Homeland Security Department, the State Department refuses to issue a visa to a Muslim European professor hired by Notre Dame." Score one for the good guys.Unfurl
Notes"It is not known exactly how Kennedy became mixed up in a national terrorist database - whether by accident, or as a practical joke, or as a Republican dirty trick to keep him out of Boston during the Democratic National Convention."Unfurl
Notes"John Young, a 69-year-old architect, was contacted a few weeks ago by Department of Homeland Security officials, who expressed concern about what he was posting on his Web site." Wow, I wondered if he'd get some attention from the spooks.Unfurl
Notes"The US publishers of a harrowing real-life tale about Net-related child abuse are refusing to admit they cocked up after naming the book after a Web site owned by a British woman."Unfurl
Notes"So, if you hear people drone on about how John Edwards is on the side of those shark trial lawyers who file frivolous lawsuits like that one against McDonald's because its coffee was too hot, tell them the name Stella Liebeck."Unfurl
Notes"As early as 2001, McGaughey provided visitors to his website the opportunity to download copies of Stargate SG-1 episodes." Hmm, still disgusting that the PATRIOT Act was invoked, but this sheds some different light.Unfurl
Notes"The REAL reason for this lawsuit was that divx bootlegs of nearly (all?) every episode, up until a couple years ago, were available here for download. THAT'S why he got raided." Hmm, further down the rabbit hole.Unfurl
Notes"Federal charges were filed against Adam McGaughey, creator of the popular SG1Archive.com website - a fan website devoted to the MGM-owned television show Stargate SG-1." And I just was just watching SG1 as I read this. Absolutely disgusting.Unfurl
Notes'There was never a "dirty bomb." Or a plan to explode such a bomb. What there was, was a failure in the legal process, thanks to recent "advances" in the anti-terrorism laws.'Unfurl
Notes"In what can be only described as an ultimate constitutional irony, Scalia was praising the Constitution and its First Amendment while a federal marshal harassed reporters and curtailed their right to gather news at a public appearance"Unfurl
Notes"On February 19th I was suspended from school for a computer infraction. Which was making an account on the network. I made this account so I could save my files so when the computer rebooted, it wouldn't erase them."Unfurl
Notes"... the jury came back with a verdict in Phase I of Gaiman vs. McFarlane, awarding a complete victory to writer Neil Gaiman in his court battle with toy and comic magnate Todd McFarlane."Unfurl
Notes"Superior Court Judge James Warren told plaintiffs he would not issue a court order until they corrected a punctuation error in their legal filing." Hey, it's the same in programming.Unfurl
NotesD'oh! Joe Grossberg corrects me - there's already been at least one amendment imposing a restriction of rights. Though, we all know how well that went...Unfurl