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Unrequited Love: Is There Ever an Upside?

Robert Fuller | Posted 05.25.2011

Robert Fuller

No suitor wants to admit it, but those who don't return our love often give us something as valuable as those who do.

Dan Rather's $70 Million Case Against CBS Moves Forward

Reuters | Posted 05.25.2011

NEW YORK, Sept 21 (Reuters) - A New York judge on Monday rejected CBS Corp's (CBS.N) bid to dismiss former TV news anchor Dan Rather's $70 million law...

Emerging GOP Theme: Nullification

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011

Chris Weigant

The code words change over time (from "nullification" to "states' rights" to Pawlenty's "state sovereignty"), but the idea is the same -- we retain the right to ignore any laws we don't feel like following.

Homeowners: The War Games Have Begun

Iris Martin | Posted 05.25.2011

Iris Martin

Now it's time for the predatory lenders, brokers and foreclosure consultants to sweat. Here is the skinny on what to do and not do in your own mortgage war.

Women Criminals I have Known

Geri Spieler | Posted 11.17.2011

Geri Spieler

It seems it is the season for paroling women who attempt to assassinate our presidents and those who commit heinous crimes.

9 Shark Attack Victims To Testify Before Congress

Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

On Wednesday nine shark attack victims will go before congress to testify in an effort to strengthen the ban on shark finning-- slicing off a shark's ...

The JusticeBot 9000

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011

Chris Weigant

The JusticeBot 9000: You said you wanted a machine that took all the human factor out of the law, so that emotion and empathy would be forever banished from the bench.

Friday Talking Points [79] -- Judicial Activism And Bias

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011

Chris Weigant

"Judicial activism" (or, alternatively, "legislating from the bench") is defined -- no matter what your political beliefs -- as "judges not ruling the...

Judge Who Ordered Judith Miller Jailed Appointed To Spy Court

Raw Story | Posted 05.25.2011

The judge who ordered former New York Times journalist Judith Miller jailed for refusing to reveal her sources has been appointed to the Foreign Intel...

Elderly Saudi Woman Sentenced To 40 Lashes For Mingling

CNN | Mohammed Jamjoom and Saad Abedine | Posted 05.25.2011

A Saudi Arabian court has sentenced a 75-year-old Syrian woman to 40 lashes, four months imprisonment and deportation from the kingdom for having two ...

"Law & Disorder"

Jerry Zezima | Posted 05.25.2011

Jerry Zezima

I am proud and slightly flummoxed to say that I do not (as yet) have a criminal record. On the advice of my attorney, who is in jail, I can't say anything except that I am disappointed I recently wasn't chosen for jury duty.

Yet Another Reason to Fear a McCain Supreme Court

Nathan Robinson | Posted 05.25.2011

Nathan Robinson

Those who value their civil liberties have much more to fear from a McCain Court than the overturning of Roe v. Wade, as police gain greater and greater incentives to disregard our rights without consequence.

OJ Simpson's Attorney Speaks Out

Graham Bensinger | Posted 05.25.2011

Graham Bensinger

OJ Simpson is standing trial after being charged with conspiracy to commit a crime, robbery, assault, and kidnapping with a deadly weapon. Simpson's Attorney Yale Galanter spoke exclusively with me.

A McCain Court: Likely Less Than Maverick

Alexander Heffner | Posted 05.25.2011

Alexander Heffner

Presidential candidate McCain has pledged to appoint strict constructionists to the high court-- conservatives who would attack the kind of "maverick" legislation McCain has so famously backed.