For the second year in a row, the U.S. military has lost more troops to suicide than it has to combat in Iraq and Afghanistan.Sad that we're losing troops to [...]

Reports are that military authorities are keeping Manning in "solitary confinement." There are further indications that these same authorities are taking some extraordinary steps to interfere with what little visitation [...]

Color me as skeptical as the Appellate Court in this case. I never had as suspicious a case in my short defense counsel days, but I definitely dealt with a [...]

I'm catching up on some older posts in my RSS feed. Here's Kevin Drum chiming in on George Packer's bit in the New Yorker.Drum says it better than I: The [...]

Here's the other NPR story I heard this morning. Interesting audio piece about the joking that goes on in oral arguments at the Supreme Court. The author of the piece [...]

Listening to NPR this morning and heard a good story about how the sloppy paperwork in many mortgages across the country is slowing down foreclosure actions. Certainly this issue can [...]

It was a nice long weekend full of basketball (Kentucky Wildcats won, but the LJ Wildcats got stomped). Woke up on Tuesday to a coating of ice throughout the area. [...]

From the article by Andrew Sullivan cited in the previous post:I am horrified because it is horrifying, because for years now, this kind of thing has become commonplace at the [...]

Here's a good piece from the Economist which is generally in support of my theory. They say: What's scary about extreme right-wing rhetoric, to a great extent, is the way [...]

I love this post from the Liberal Curmudgeon. A good arument in support of my theory.You have to go back to the 1960s to find any even remotely comparable legitimization [...]