Another DNA exoneration
DNA frees jailed man 18 years later – Crime & Punishment – MSNBC.com DALLAS – A man who spent 18 years behind bars for allegedly attacking a woman in her …
Not so mellow — Yellow
Bill in Portland Maine notes a very special anniversary It’s always yellow. Sunshine yellow. Blinding sundress yellow. Canary yellow. Yellow Elephant yellow. Or as I like to call it…pee-your-pants yellow. …
Google goes to the mat for privacy
The search results sweep by the US spy industry continues: Google to feds: Back off Google lashed out at the U.S. Justice Department on Friday, saying that a high-profile request …
A little more equal than others
Jane at FireDogLake points to a story about another Texas hunting accident. Seems the name of the hunter in this case was Hispanic, and guess what? They threw the book …
The blog business
Steve’s take on a MSM Wall-Street-themed take on blogs. You can count on him for a reality check. To the writer (of the NY Metro feature), blog readers are simply …
The New China Syndrome
Businesses have been encouraged by our government for years now to go into China, and the motivation was NOT to bring them our freedoms, but to take away their money. …
1916 murder in Waco sparked anti-lynching campaign
In searching for death penalty info in Texas, I found about about the brutal attack on Jesse Washington, a black man, possibly retarded, by whites in Waco — a story …
Don’t call them conservatives
Unclaimed Territory – by Glenn Greenwald: Do Bush followers have a political ideology? What it takes to make someone a “conservative” in Bozell’s eyes is the same as what is …
History lesson
“Let them eat cake.” “Apres moi, le deluge.”