Monthly Archives: March 2005

For some fun weekend reading, check out these delightful articles — all in Colorado “bullet” Putting The Kind In Kindbud in the Boulder Weekly. A fascinating story of the the Colorado Compassion Club and Thomas and Larissa Lawrence, including how … Continue reading →

Via TalkLeft, the word is that the Supreme Court will release their decision on Raich v. Ashcroft either Tuesday or Wednesday of next week. [Note: this is not an absolute deadline, but is based on several media alerts.] Potentially huge. … Continue reading →

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government … Continue reading →

As you may know, Alaska governor Frank Murkowski has been pissed off at the Alaska Supreme Court and his own state’s constitution, because it gives its citizens the right of privacy. See, the Alaska Supreme Court has ruled that the … Continue reading →

I’d like to give a big promotion to a new Drug War blogging community — Nephalim’s Drug War Revealed. It’s just getting started, but it’s already got quite a bit of great material. Nephalim is one of the few Daily … Continue reading →

Libby at Last One Speaks reminds me about Flex Your Rights and their excellent video: “Busted: The Citizen’s Guide to Surviving Police Encounters.” I thought I was pretty well informed, but I learned a few things from the DVD (only … Continue reading →

I neglected to mention that the Becker-Posner Blog has addressed the drug war, first by Economist Gary Becker and then a response by Judge Richard Posner These are a couple of highly respected scholars, and so it’s nice to see … Continue reading →

In the Sun-Times today, the article Blagojevich focuses ire on drug-based game has some oddities: Gov. Blagojevich is using the roll-out of “Narc,” a new video game set in the drug underworld, to promote legislation that would ban the sale … Continue reading →

The Charlottesville Daily Progress has an interesting article by Liesel Nowak: Tough on crime means losing drug war, critics say Critics have said that the traditionally harsh penalties in federal court have led to jury nullification, in which jurors rule … Continue reading →

Available here: rtsp://video.c-span.org/15days/wj032105_walters.rm If the link doesn’t work for you, just type ‘Walters’ in the video search on the homepage. (Thanks to Tom Angell of SSDP, who also asked a very good question.)