Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries ….
- It’s only national security
- Boykin Terrifies Dobson With Dire Warnings Of America’s Pending Islamification – Eek! Eeeeeek! EEEEEEEEEEK!!!
- Harshest Critic Of DADT Repeal: No Indication Of Troops Leaving Services Over Policy Change – Changing hearts and minds?
- While Brewer Gives Corporations A Tax Cut, Another Arizonan Joins The 98 Waiting For Transplant Funding – “Sad but necessary.” Stay class, Jan!
- Does Darrell Issa Want To Repeal The Bush Tax Cuts And End The War In Afghanistan? – Heh.
- Joe Scarborough: Wisconsin Public Unions Are ‘Greedy’ Free Riders – Maybe the issue, Joe, isn’t that the Wisconsin workers are asking for something extra, but that other workers should have what they’ve been able to bargain for.
- Rep. Chris Murphy Announces Bill To End Supreme Court Immunity To Judicial Ethics Law – Certainly should be the case. Of course, I’d feel even better about this if Congress didn’t keep exempting itself from a variety of employment laws, too.
- A conspiracy of average pople: digby
- Daily Kos: How regulation came to be: Filling it up with Ethyl – “And that, dear Kossacks, is where regulation comes from — not from bored bureaucrats sitting in an office in Washington trying to think up ways to make life miserable and expensive for some innocent and unsuspecting businessman, but from real human suffering and tragedy brought about, all too often, by people who shirk what should be obvious responsibilities, who neglect basic diligence, who sacrifice safety for profit. They bring suffering on those who trust them and their products, and society adopts measures to make sure it never happens again. We have to force them, through regulation, to behave as they should have been behaving all along. That’s how regulation came to be.”
- [Pharyngula] – “This is what we can expect from these lunatics in the Republican party — years and years of destructive policy-making, in which they’ll rip out the infrastructure of the country, demolish the social safety net, and criminalize everyone who isn’t a wealthy white man.” That certainly seems to be where the GOP-controlled House (and too many statehouses) are going.
- Atlanta to Allow Videotaping Police [Dispatches from the Culture Wars] – You know all those people who talk about how innocent people have nothing to hide from the police? It’s funny how many of them are also the ones arguing that police should not be videotaped …
- Daily Kos: UPDATED: The HB Gary Email That Should Concern Us All – On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog. Or a corporate shill.
- Why innocent suspects may confess to a crime – Summary answer from the study: the short-term gain from definitely ending an interrogation outweighs in their minds at that point the long-term possible consequence of the confession. Police, of course, are aware of this (though they would see it more as getting intransigent guilty people to confess).
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