Liberty Beat by Nat Hentoff The Most Evil Crime
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On my last visit to the Darfur area in Sudan, in June, I found a man groaning under a tree. He had been shot in the neck and jaw and left for dead in a pile of corpses.
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1. "Judge &amp; Jury" by James Patterson, Andrew Gross (Little, Brown)
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Philip Roth's The Plot Against America is an ambitious and chilling novel set in a territory familiar to Roth's readers: Jewish, working-class Newark, N.J., where Roth grew up. It's about the loss of innocence: a boy's and a nation's.
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p2pnet.net News:- An Iowa man is the first person to plead guilty to charges following the US Department of Justiceâs Operation Fastlink when FBI agents, acting as tax-payer funded corporate enforcers, raided schools in Arizona, last April, looking for
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In the autumn of 1912, when Lt. Charles Becker went on trial for the murder of Herman Rosenthal, a notorious gangster, the story held the front page of the cityâs 14 dailies for weeks on end.
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Monster, murderer and psychopath. Those are some of the descriptions the Kurds of Halabja have for Ali Majid al-Tikriti. In March 1988, Majid ordered the bombing of their town with sarin and VX nerve gases
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Losing all faith in your putter and PC And Ninthly The decadence of the new age crushed Johnny Stumpy's spirit. He'd always thought of himself as a noble vagabond, a street-licker with virtue. Then, the old man pounded him in the head with a mallet made of gold, and Johnny's dreams died. Stumpy got stumped. - The Devil Wears Sleeveless Ts by Julio Stantoreâ¦
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Tycho:  Our newest comic is available here, regarding the blogger that Nintendo fired recently.  As usual, Gabriel and I disagree absolutely on virtually every point of this discussion, my own perspective favoring greater liberty while he presents a naked defense of fascism.  The two universal axioms we were both able to agree upon were that:
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The flashy documentary âMr. Untouchableâ looks at the life of Nicky Barnes, once one of the most powerful drug dealers in Harlem.
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This account of a famous double poisoning and ensuing trial is a heady tale of sin, sex, jealousy and revenge in sepia-toned Manhattan.
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Calling the crime one of the &quot;most deplorable I&#39;ve witnessed in 15 years on the bench,&quot; US District Judge Ricardo S. Martinez sentenced a local health-care worker yesterday to 16 months in prison for stealing the identity of a cancer patient and running
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Today Jonathan Moore  and I headed over to LinuxWorld after lunch to see what kind of cool hardware and Linux hacks they had on the expo floor.  Only $15 to get in the door so I figure why not.  I'm a bit of a privacy freak.  When you're trading some security for liberty there are situations where it *might* be worth it.  In situations of extreme violence having the police by your side might be a good idea.    I think we can all agree that trading liberty for *nothing* isn't worth it. This country was *founded* on liberty after the British were abusing their colonial powers.  Every true American should cherish their liberty and think long and hard about just turning them over for no reason.  ...
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What goes around, comes around with a vengeance.
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In an effort to get movies to stop glamorizing smoking, the AMA has put out a list of the worst offenders. Watch out for those Pirates
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By Tom Angleberger   tomangleberger@yahoo.com
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A breakthrough in computer-assisted mind reading brings us closer to predicting criminality. Should the justice system adapt? Commentary by Jennifer Granick.
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Gabe: You might have seen this story on CNN about the teens that murdered a homeless guy and then equated it to the sort of thrill one might get from a violent video game. There will be plenty of articles focusing on these kids and their crime. I"d like to take a second and talk about the parents of these teenagers instead. It is the job of a parent to teach their children certain rules. Obviously the rules themselves and the emphasis each family places on them will vary, but there are certain universal constants that these parents obviously failed to pass on.