Your Papers, Please.
Seven peace activists were arrested and charged with a federal misdemeanor for demonstrating without a permit in front of the White House yesterday.
Standing around, chanting maybe, handing out leaflets, carrying signs.
Lacking the requisite paperwork, they were summarily divested of their First Amendment rights by U.S. Park Police and remanded to police administration for processing. […]
The Not-So-Funnies
I have had a hard time making sense of the cartoon scandal, in which people have died and the Danes have felt — so far — at least some economic blowback. Who wants the challenge of seeing one’s prophet depicted in absurd or degrading ways?
Then again, it’s comics.
A measure of clarity came […]
Mama Tried?
Vice President Dick Cheney shot a man in Texas over the weekend, giving fresh and all-too-real meaning to the term loose cannon, when he sprayed a quail hunting companion with bird shot in a hunting accident on Saturday afternoon.
Seventy-eight-year-old Texas attorney Harry Wittington was in stable condition Monday afternoon after suffering wounds to his face, […]
I’ve Seen That Movie, Too
The Senate Judiciary Committee opened hearings today into the Bush Administration’s domestic terrorist abatement initiative, with Chairman Arlen Specter telling Attorney General Alberto Gonzales in no uncertain terms he’d been called to account for the government’s refusal to abide by laws defining a “forceful and blanket prohibition against any electronic surveillance without a court order.”
This […]