Pushing Rope (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago
Karl Rove and Bill Kristol literally laugh off serious claims that the Bush administration profiled and violated the civil rights of American Muslims. Even if you agree with the Bush administration's detainment policy (which I don't), Kristol and Rove show a childish lack of sensitivity. KRISTOL: What have we done to Muslims in America? What has happened? JENKINS: Arrested them. KRISTOL: We’ve...
DVD Talk (Free subscription) | yesterday
Recommended The Documentaries In October of 1864, 2,500 Union cavalry routed 7,500 Confederates in Kansas and beat them decisively. If you knew that fact before reading it, then Secrets of the Civil War is probably the DVD collection for you. This four-disc collection is from the History Channel and consists of nine documentaries that have already aired on TV. It is an excellent collection,...
Fat Man on a Keyboard (Free subscription) | yesterday
One of the great voices of the Civil Rights Movement has died.
Empirical Legal Studies (Free subscription) | yesterday
My Cornell colleague, Ted Eisenberg, recently circulated a paper that persuasively argues for instituting a national civil justice survey (modeled after the National Crime Victimization Survey). Ted's paper, The Need for a National Civil Justice Survey of Incidence and Claiming...
Civil War Women (Free subscription) | yesterday
Civil War Civilian Of all the families in Raymond, Mississippi, during the Civil War , one of the most affected was that of Augustine and Elizabeth Dabney . Augustine Dabney was a probate judge and worked hard to support his family of ten children. His wife and daughters helped to nurse the wounded soldiers following the Battle of Raymond , which took place on May 12, 1863. The...
Shiloh Musings (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
That's just a taste, a bitter taste of what happened in Hebron yesterday, when the Israeli Government sent riot police and soldiers to drag out loyal, patriotic Jews from Beit HaShalom, The Peace House. The building was bought by Jews from an Arab, but the Israeli Government refuses to recognize the purchase, because it doesn't want to strengthen the Jewish hold on Hebron. Thousands of years ago, ever...
Opinionated Catholic (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
This is always a constant theme by some Catholics. There is a uptick in these posts around certain American Holidays like when something happens like Amy Wellborn describes here in Rome - How to get a bunch of Americans to start tearing up, immediately? Start playing America the Beautiful as your closing song at a Thanksgiving day Mass at an American-centered parish in a foreign country. Even if it’s...
Neither here nor there. (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
Is it? A group of Israelis determined to live out their lives as a Historical Recreation Society defy the state and the security services. The state struggles but can't put it down. This is the beginnings of a long period of conflict, this time between Jews. If Hamas was smart they would stop shooting and watch us fall apart all by ourselves.
Religion Clause (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
In Tae Hwa Yoon v New York Hahn Wolee Church, Inc., (NY App. Div., Nov. 25, 2008), a New York state appellate court reversed the dismissal of one claim in a lawsuit against a Yonkers (NY) church , its pastor and several of its trustees. Plaintiff, a member and former trustee of the church, alleged that defendants had diverted or misappropriated church funds. Invoking the New York Not-For-Profit Corporation...
Grouchy Old Cripple (Free subscription) | yesterday
My nephew was really surprised that when he got back from Iraq in the summer, that he had spent a year in the middle of a civil war. He was kinda wondering how being able to go around Baghdad unarmed was being "in the middle of a civil war". Compared to his previous tour, Baghdad was prolly safer than most large cities in the United States. His last few months there he was a liaison to...
Religion Clause (Free subscription) | yesterday
In Favalora v. Sidaway , (FL Ct. App., Dec. 3, 2008), a Florida state appellate court rejected a First Amendment religious autonomy challenge to civil court jurisdiction in a suit against the Catholic Archdiocese of Miami. In the case, plaintiff alleged that the Archdiocese fraudulently induced him to settle a claim by promising reforms which it never planned to implement. Plaintiff also asserted...
Hindu (Free subscription) | yesterday
A seminar on ‘Civil Services Examination’ will be conducted on Sunday. Subject experts would clarify the doubts of prospective candidates. Interested candidates can contact Lakshya Institute near RTC Complex and register their ...
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Blake Fielder-Civil, singer Amy Winehouse's husband, was ordered back to prison for violating the terms of his release according to E! Online. Fielder-Civil, 26, had agreed to check into rehab right... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 03/12/2008
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Global Voices Online (Free subscription) | 03/12/2008
Window on Eurasia writes that the Soviet citizens' “experience with Soviet lines blocks rise of civil society today.”
