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Saturday, October 28, 2006

“Treason: Who Decides? The Military Commissions Act of 2006 subverts who we are as Americans. Beware.” Nat Hentoff has this essay in the current issue of The Village Voice.

Posted at 11:04 PM by Howard Bashman



“America’s abortion battlefield: Things may not be perfect in Britain, but they are far worse in the US; Suzanne Goldenberg reports from the front line in South Dakota.” Yesterday’s edition of The Guardian (UK) contained this article.

Posted at 9:03 PM by Howard Bashman



“Furor Over Cheney Remark on Tactics for Terror Suspects”: Neil A. Lewis has this article today in The New York Times.

The Washington Post reports today that “Cheney Defends ‘Dunk in the Water’ Remark; Addressing Alarm Over the Comment, Vice President Says He Was Not Referring to Waterboarding.”

And The Los Angeles Times reports that “Cheney calls dunking of terror suspects a ‘no-brainer’; Vice president later says: ‘I didn’t say anything about water-boarding.’

Posted at 11:00 AM by Howard Bashman



“Supreme Court race gets political; Supporters of Owens and Johnson fall along party lines”: The Seattle Post-Intelligencer contains this article today.

Posted at 10:57 AM by Howard Bashman



“With Rolling’s execution, vindication seemed out of grasp; A lawyer spent 16 years living under a shadow of suspicion”: This article appears today in The St. Petersburg Times.

Posted at 10:54 AM by Howard Bashman



“Banner in honor of Picagli hung near home”: The New Haven Register today contains an article that begins, “Daniel P. Picagli grew up in Fair Haven, not far from where police erected a banner Friday to remember the fallen officer, struck and killed by an SUV earlier this month.”

Posted at 10:50 AM by Howard Bashman



“Panel wants lawyers disbarred; 2 accused of extortion in Demoulas battle”: The Boston Globe today contains an article that begins, “The state Board of Bar Overseers has recommended that the Supreme Judicial Court disbar two lawyers accused of using extortion and intimidation in an attempt to discredit a judge, who had ruled against their client in a family feud over assets of the Demoulas Supermarkets chain. The board recommended the suspension of a third lawyer.”

My earlier coverage of this matter, from May 2005, appears at this link.

Posted at 10:45 AM by Howard Bashman