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“I’m sorry, I didn’t know we were going to be trying the case today.” said the prosecutor in the Zimmerman bail hearing. The prosecution was startlingly unprepared for that hearing on Friday, and defense counsel used it to their advantage. Defense called the chief investigator for the state– who said, “I was not [...]  The picture above is the John Wilkes Booth bobblehead that was on sale at the park service gift center in Gettysburg until someone came to their senses. I’m guessing it would sell rather well in certain areas rife with Sons of the Confederacy members. Obviously, what the world needs next is a Ross [...] Scott Horton was not impressed with Eric Holder’s speech about drone assassinations. Slate’s explainer on the decline in number of Klan “chapters” is one of the silliest things I’ve read on Slate. Typical sentence: ”Young racists tend to think of the Klan as their grandfathers’ hate group, and of its members as rural, uneducated, [...] Barbour thinks the fight for the Republican nomination could go to the convention. Next month, the last volume of the Dictionary of American Regional English comes out. It’s volume five of a project that started in the 60s, and it ends with the word zydeco. Well, not exactly the last volume– there will [...] Dahlia Lithwick has an entertaining account of the oral argument in the medal of honor case– over whether it violates the First Amendment to make it a crime to say you won medals in the military. By her account, first the Solicitor General was pretty well beaten up during his argument but then [...] A while ago, the Daily Journal had an article about a new historical trail around Bryce’s Crossroads (NW of Tupelo) that ranges across history including the site where Chief Tishomingo lived before Chickasaw removal, history relating by churches founded by former slaves after the Civil War, and, of course, sites related to the battle [...] The Clarion Ledger ran an AP report on the Supreme Court’s decision to take the pardons case. In at least one way it’s a traditional C/L report, though: There are comments by Matt Steffey (According to the report, Steffey thought this a positive development. Interestingly, Jim Hood says that he thought so, too, [...] The picture above is Will Campbell, on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel immediately after Martin Luther King had been killed there. Life has online a sequence of previously unpublished pictures from that night. The legislature has started making its mischief. Kingfish writes about the bill designed to set limits on the attorney [...] Who won Iowa? “Look for those final results in about a week and a half” says a party official in a story out of Iowa about that fact that there might just have been a 20 or so vote discrepancy that would change the outcome of the primary there to a Santorum victory. [...] Update: The ad above may be from a Ron Paul supporter but I’m assuming is from no one connected to his campaign directly. It may even be from someone trying to injure Ron Paul. I too-quickly read James Fallows’ post about the ad and posted it here; I wonder now if both of [...] |
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