OUR LONG NATIONAL WINKLEVOSS NIGHTMARE APPEARS TO BE OVER** I’m sure it’s some kind of...
Archive - April 2011
9th Circuit Shoots Down Key Provisions of AZ’s SB 1070
A three-judge panel of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled early on Monday that U.S. District...
6 Monday Must Reads
OH, GET A GRIP, MAUREEN! Maureen Dowd wrote an exceedingly dopey column in the Sunday NY Times...
NAACP Report Calls Shift in Funding Toward Prisons ‘Alarming’
On Thursday, the NAACP released a report called Misplaced Priorities that examines America’s...
Did an LAPD Officer Get a 17-Year-Old Pregnant & Ask Her To Get Abortion?
Dennis Romero at the LA Weekly broke the story. Here’s the opening: An 18-year-old woman...
Thursday Must Reads: A Preview of New LAT Teacher Rankings…& More
LA TIMES GIVES PREVIEW OF NEXT ROUND OF TEACHER RANKINGS BUT….THIS BRINGS UP A QUESTION On...
“Cowardly, Stupid, and Tragically Wrong” – Dahlia Lithwick on Trying KSM
On Monday, the Obama administration announced that alleged 9/11 mastermind, Khalid Sheik Mohammed...
41st and Central, 1969 – The Black Panther Shootout & the birth of SWAT
On December 9, 1969, a four-hour shootout took place at the Southern California Headquarters of the...
The Fair Sentencing for Youth Act Makes Progress
The Fair Sentencing for Youth Act, SB 9, passed out of the California State Senate Public Safety...
The U.S. Supreme Court, the Power of Money and other Must Reads
In next week’s issue of the New Yorker (April 11), the magazine’s legal writer, Jeffery...