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Just When Did We Loan Saddam $4.1 Billion?
The U.S. has kindly agreed to cancel the $4.1 billion dollars that Iraq owes to us. But the news stories don't explain what this debt consists in. When di…
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Bah humbug.
Those creative folks at Jib Jab have come out with their Santa Claus parody... ho ho ho. See www.jibjab.com.…
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Please Someone Explain "Physics" to Rumsfeld, and then "Incompetence"
In his response to soldier Wilson, Rumsfeld said that the failure to produce more armored Humvees was a matter of "physics." It seems hard to imagine…
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Kerik Fathered and Abandoned Daughter in Korea
As reported in the Korea Times, Kerik fathered a daughter with a Korean woman while he was stationed as a policeman in Korea in the 1970s. New US Homeland Chie…
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Presidential Medal for Failure
Incompetence has its rewards. Bremer badly mismanaged the Iraq Occupation. Just yesterday, the Iraqi interim President complained bitterly of the disbanding o…
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Google to Scan Books Still in Copyright
According to Harvard University Libraries, Google will scan not only books out of copyright, but also books still in copyright. It will not make those latter b…
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Saddam Found in Hole: The first anniversary
BBC.com reports that "More American soldiers have died since Saddam's capture than before." That makes this a much sadder anniversary than it mig…
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Scandal: Bush Is Coached on What to Say Before He Is on Camera!
This letter writer to the NY Times defends Rumsfeld's interrogator... Re: "G.I.'s Query to Rumsfeld Prompted by Reporter" (news article, Dec.…
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Something borrowed
From time to time, my snail mailbox here contains an interesting article sent to me from Paul Lomio, one of the amazing law librarians here at SLS. Paul recent…
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Affidavit by Australian Guantanamo Detainee
The allegations in the David Hicks affidavit are shocking, even though we are inured to the steady stream of horrifying claims (some, at least substantiated by…
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a quick hello
i have been neglecting this blog, in part because of the spam, but also because the last month or so has been crazy busy. I'm very excited to be a non-res…
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Supreme Court to Rule on Grokster!
Cert. granted by the Court. 04-480 MGM STUDIOS INC., ET AL. V. GROKSTER, LTD., ET AL. I personally would have preferred the Court to have waited longer to ent…