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Premature Legislation

Posted on January 18, 2012 by B Psycho

Found this amusing: Actors in adult movies filmed in America’s pornography capital would be required to use condoms under an ordinance granted final approval Tuesday by the Los Angeles City Council. The measure, adopted 9-1, next goes to the mayor … Continue reading →

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Some present…

Posted on December 26, 2011 by B Psycho

Scanning the headlines, spot the following — “Web gambling gets boost from Obama administration“.  Look at the actual article and see an explanation: A Justice Department opinion dated September and made public on Friday reversed decades of previous policy that … Continue reading →

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The Bradley (Non)-Effect

Posted on December 23, 2011 by B Psycho

Other events have pushed this off the front pages lately, but it speaks volumes that after all that time of alarm over Brad Manning and Wikileaks, with shrieks of horror over the grave damage given to national security, even in … Continue reading →

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Uncall My Bluff

Posted on December 10, 2011 by B Psycho

A huge defense War department spending bill talked about lately in the U.S. Senate has a provision in it which would effectively void a chunk of the 5th Amendment.  Specifically, what it would do is legalize the holding of U.S. … Continue reading →

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Unintended Consequences

Posted on December 1, 2011 by B Psycho

Multiple state legislatures have followed the lead of Arizona* and passed Juan Crow laws, making it illegal to exist in the state (even to the point of making business transactions illegal) without proof of citizenship on hand at all times.  … Continue reading →

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The finger would’ve been more accurate

Posted on October 31, 2011 by B Psycho

Remember that “We the People” project?  If not, the short of it is that people could put up petitions on the whitehouse.gov website, and anything with over 5000 signatures within 30 days would get an official response. An illustration of … Continue reading →

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This is me not being surprised

Posted on September 30, 2011 by B Psycho

Hello Mister Precedent: In a significant new blow to al-Qaeda, U.S. air strikes in Yemen on Sept. 30 killed Anwar al-Awlaki, an American militant cleric who became a prominent figure in the terrorist network’s most dangerous branch, using his fluent … Continue reading →

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Sometimes the house loses

Posted on September 20, 2011 by B Psycho

In my usual surfing, passed across this, a Forbes post about one of those online poker sites that answered why I hadn’t seen commercials for those on the tube lately* — in short, a big-ass fraud charge.  Among the details … Continue reading →

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One Wrong down, many more to go…

Posted on July 1, 2011 by B Psycho

Freakin’ wonderful news: Cory Maye, the man for whom a botched narcotics raid on the wrong residence led to a murder charge and death row, is finally, after all this time stolen from him by the state punishing an innocent … Continue reading →

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Fairness for now

Posted on June 27, 2011 by B Psycho

In a past post, I had stated a reminder that “marriage” involving a government license was not always the case, and that the anti-state view on this is (naturally) that politics have no business being involved in sanctioning or rejecting … Continue reading →

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