CIA Fake Vaccination Drive For Bin Laden DNA
So the CIA organized a fake vaccination drive in Pakistan in an attempt to get bin Laden family DNA. What could possibly go wrong?
Dominique Strauss-Kahn Released on Own Recognizance
Former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn has been released on his own recognizance and freed from house arrest after credibility issues surfaced with the woman who alleged sexual assault.
Criminal Injustice
A system designed to protect the innocent has instead become a menagerie to imprison them. A legal code designed to proscribe specific behavior has instead become a vast, vague, and unpredictable invitation to selective enforcement.
Ratko Mladic Arrested
Former Serbian commander Ratko Mladic has been arrested for alleged war crimes committed in the 1990s.
Rush Limbaugh: ‘Thank God for President Obama’
Rush Limbaugh heaps praise on President Obama for the raid that killed Osama bin Laden.
Terry Jones and What We’re Fighting For
The duty to defend “hateful, extremely disrespectful, and enormously intolerant” expression.
The “Is Economics a Science” Debate, from a Darwinian Perspective
Evolution is falsifiable and biology is a science. Economics might be.
Illinois Abolishes Death Penalty
Illinois became the 16th state to abolish capital punishment today. That’s far too few.
Classified Information and Journalistic Ethics
The two English language newspapers who have been Julian Assange’s accomplices in disseminating stolen secrets defend themselves.
DNA Test Suggests Texas May Have Executed An Innocent Man
A ten year old case out of Texas raises yet more doubts about the justice of the death penalty.
A Comparative Fact Regarding the Death Penalty that Gives One Pause
Of the five countries that use the death penalty the most, only one is a democracy.
When Innocent People Confess To Crimes They Didn’t Commit
Why do innocent people confess to crimes they didn’t commit, and what should we do about it ?
