Day November 17, 2006

Pelosi shoots self in foot

The liberal blogosphere has been almost delusional about Nancy Pelosi losing badly in her attempt to get Murtha as House majority chair, trying to paint it as some kind of moral victory. But it was quite the opposite of that.…

LAPD does blog searches too

Wood at The JohnHeronProject in Wales posted about the UCLA tasering, accidentally identifying the officers involved as LAPD not UCLA police. He then got email from someone at LAPD saying Hey it wasn’t us… Hmmm, I wonder, did LAPD use…

Tasered student will sue

His lawyer is Stephen Yagman, who is known and feared by local police agencies for the ferocity of his lawsuits. He will file a federal civil rights lawsuit claiming “‘brutal excessive force,’ as well as false arrest” and racial profiling.

More on UCLA tasering

The police officers who tasered a handcuffed UCLA student threatened to taser other students who asked for their badge numbers. But, it’s illegal for a police officer to do that. Such a threat of the use of force by a…

Playstations will overthrow Cuba?

A $74-million program to encourage democracy in Cuba was beset with questionable spending that included purchases of computer gaming equipment, Godiva chocolates and cashmere sweaters. Plus, 95% of the grants were awarded noncompetitively. Given such capitalist greed and incompetence, Cuba…