California Voters Exercise Their Power–and That’s the Problem (Links)

This entry was posted by harry s truman on Sunday, May 24th, 2009 at 10:53 am.

California Voters Exercise Their Power–and That’s the Problem Residents relish their role in the lawmaking process, but they share the blame for the state’s severe dysfunction. ‘Hyperlocal’ Web Sites Deliver News Without Newspapers If your local newspaper shuts down, what will take the place of its coverage? Law Students Teach Scalia About Privacy and the Web Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia was not amused when he became the subject of a law professor’s classroom assignment on how much private information on individuals is available online. Nothing To (S)Coff At Why the two biggest U.S. tobacco companies are fighting each other. Boy Scouts Train in Post-9/11 Law Enforcement Methods Ten minutes into arrant mayhem in this town near the Mexican border, and the gunman, a disgruntled Iraq war veteran, has already taken out two people, one slumped in his desk, the other covered in blood on the floor. Cheney’s Outspokenness Correlated to Potential Book Deal The former vice president’s blitz of appearances have made him a leading conservative voice as he shops his memoirs. Fact-Checking Cheney McClatchy has turned in another commendable example of skeptical political reporting.  Dick Just Wants To Be Loved Cheney’s attempts at public redemption have a logical root in his Cold War experience.  Accused Palin Hacker Says Stolen E-Mails Were Public Record A surprise legal maneuver by the defense in the Sarah Palin hacking case could undermine key charges carrying the stiffest potential penalties.  Why Republicans Make the Rest of Us Miserable When They Lose Out of power, they’re bigger babies than Democrats. Here’s why. If Gay Marriage Isn’t a Big Deal Anymore, Maybe The Religious Right Isn’t Either If a state legalizes gay marriage and nobody notices, can gay people still get married? What if four states do it in six weeks? Right Wing Talk Show Host Gets Waterboarded, Says It’s Absolutely Torture ‘It is way worse than I thought it would be, and that’s no joke…It is such an odd feeling to have water poured down your nose with your head back…It was instantaneous…and I don’t want to say this: absolutely torture…They cut off our heads, we put water on their face…I really thought ‘I’m going to laugh this off.’