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Diaries published: 29 (2 days since last diary on Wed Dec 06, 2023 at 08:03 AM PST)
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Are we letting Trump rewrite the First Amendment? By “we” I mean the country in general, not each of us individually, and by the First Amendment I refer particularly to everything following the first two clauses, which deal with religion the...
by Gil Bagnell
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on Wed Dec 06, 2023 at 08:03 AM PST
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In the NY civil fraud trial Trump’s defense has been one of “no harm, no foul” — and that does have a certain facial logic. It can be hard to accept the letter of the law when a result simply feels wrong. A recent comment in a Salon article...
by Gil Bagnell
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on Wed Nov 15, 2023 at 09:09 AM PST
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Judges, like cannons, have a lot of power, and that power should always remain firmly tethered, whether on the deck of a ship or in the halls of justice. In a recent filing, Judge Cannon declared that all of the classified documents in the MAL...
by Gil Bagnell
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on Wed Oct 18, 2023 at 08:09 AM PDT
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About�96-97 percent of federal cases end up with plea bargains and do not go to trial. �This is driven in part by the policy of federal prosecutors to decline to seek indictment until they feel they ...
by Gil Bagnell
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on Thu Jul 06, 2023 at 05:27 PM PDT
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There has been a lot of discussion about Supreme Court leaks lately, and recent reports indicate that security was lax. While at first glance this seems to be a concern, maybe more transparency would be a better idea. Consider the practice in other...
by Gil Bagnell
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on Sat Feb 04, 2023 at 07:49 AM PST
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This is of course pure speculation, but it would fit the facts. To buy a congressman, you need to accomplish two things — first, get him elected; second, pay him off. The problem is that getting him elected costs money, which increases your expenses if...
by Gil Bagnell
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on Wed Jan 25, 2023 at 02:15 PM PST
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- A Louisville Courier-Journal Op Ed piece ran the other day about how Kentucky law does not really allow victims of sexual abuse by Catholic priests to file lawsuits because of statute of limitations ...30 comments 83 Recs
- The I/P designation was used to denote Israel and Palestine. I wrote that I was not to write about this subject anymore and that still holds. There will shortly be no Palestine to write about, only separate pockets of Palestinians. The 2 state solution...84 comments 70 Recs
- Theists claim that atheism is a religion. Compare some of the key markers of religion to atheism: Religion involves worship. Atheists do not worship anything. No gods, no demons, no ancestors, no animals, no celestial objects, no kings or other humans,...758 comments 311 Recs
- A pregnant Texas woman whose fetus has a fatal diagnosis asked a court Tuesday to let her have an abortion, bringing what her attorneys say is the first lawsuit of its kind in the U.S. � since Roe v.28 comments 103 Recs
- Former Rep. George Santos may be out of the House, but he’s not going�to go away quietly. On Friday, Santos was unceremoniously expectorated from Congress �for being a liar,�fraud, and likely ...261 comments 590 Recs
- If Nikki Haley can clear the rest of the field, so that the race comes down to just her and Trump, does she have a chance to win the Republican nomination? Koch-Brother money is being invested in this Hail Mary, Last-Gasp test of the question of...9 comments 11 Recs
- Admin correction: the original title of this story, “BREAKING: NETANYAHU KNEW?,” has been edited to reflect the source New York Times reporting. According to the NYTImes, the Israeli government apparently had the full plan for the Oct 7 attack in their...294 comments 399 Recs
- This graph shows two things about our death rates. First it gets away from having to learn demography to understand it because the dots show our deaths rates as a percent of Canada’s. For example, that top dot for age group 35 through 39 is 199.55...174 comments 235 Recs
- FOUR HARD FACTS ABOUT THE ISRAEL – HAMAS CONFLICT In an increasingly polarized world it is important to understand that multiple seemingly conflicting truths can exist at the same time. Here are four hard facts that must be acknowledged by all parties....127 comments 35 Recs
- Last week, I posted a diary at DK that questioned how well this great, longstanding blog and blogging community are covering the ongoing war in Palestine and Israel. The diary ended up both engendering a lot of comments, but also a lot of provocative...1090 comments 627 Recs
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