Friday, February 07, 2003

DIFFERENT MAN, DIFFERENT MOMENT
By ADLAI E. STEVENSON III
Pundits and officials in Washington have dubbed Secretary of State Colin Powell's attempt to make a case for war against Iraq in the United Nations Security Council an "Adlai Stevenson moment." I couldn't disagree more. (NYT)

Thursday, February 06, 2003

Intelligence Break Led U.S. to Tie Envoy Killing to Iraqi Qaeda Cell
In a New York Times story about an "intelligence break" that had led to a cell of Al Qaeda operating out of Baghdad, a reporter notes that a coalition of intelligence services from the United States, Britain, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan had announced that critical information about the network had emerged from "interrogations of captured cell members conducted under unspecified circumstances of psychological pressure". Hmmm.

Wednesday, February 05, 2003

MoveOn.org:
Let the Inspections Work

A group that will compile messages urging American restraint and present them to the administration, including Secretary of State Powell, and the members of Congress and to U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan.
(Suggested by Donna Soto)
Quotations
Jurors Who Convicted Marijuana Grower Seek New Trial
Five jurors in the trial of a medicinal marijuana advocate issued a public apology to him and demanded that the judge grant him a new trial. (NYT)

Tuesday, February 04, 2003

Alabama-Cuba relations keep growing closer
A strengthening of ties: Alabama-Cuba relations keep growing closer (Anniston Star)

Monday, February 03, 2003

Marijuana 'Guru' Found Guilty by Reluctant Jury
Ed Rosenthal, the man some see as the Mother Teresa of medical marijuana, was convicted Friday of three felonies related to marijuana cultivation, a verdict that could send him to prison for the rest of his life. Supporters wept and chanted outside federal court in San Francisco while the outspoken Rosenthal indicted the federal government's pursuit of California medical marijuana dispensaries and those who support them.(From law.com)
PROFESSOR'S SNUB OF CREATIONISTS BRINGS ON DOJ PROBE!!!
Prompted by a complaint from the Liberty Legal Institute, a group of Christian lawyers, the Justice Department is investigating whether a Texas Tech biology professor discriminated against students on the basis of religion when he posted a demand on his Web site that students wanting a letter of recommendation for postgraduate studies "truthfully and forthrightly affirm a scientific answer" to the question of how the human species originated.(From NYT)

Sunday, February 02, 2003

FEEL LIKE DANCING?
Tom Daschle's anti-dancing legislation is a mean-spirited assault on youth culture, and an extreme violation of principles of federalism. (National Review Online)
WHO HAS THE HOT RODS?
The Bush administration has made fuzzy evidence against Iraq sound scarier than it is, and scary evidence against North Korea sound fuzzier than it is.(NYT)
JUST NAME YOUR PRICE, IT DOESN'T MATTER. I HAVE PLENTY WHERE THAT CAME FROM.
What prestigious criminal defense firm was paid with funny money recently for representing a client. Charge? Counterfeiting.
The Garage
was the happening place Friday as Tiffany and DJ both hit the "big 30" . Happy Birthday guys.
Kurt Vonnegut Story
The response that I got from sending my friends this story is partially responsible for me instituting this blog. I hope that I am still kicking at 80. It would be presumptuous to hope that I could be doing it was well as he.