Habeas corpus and the innocent

Habeas corpus and the innocent

By P. Sabin Willett, from the Washington Post:

"As the Senate prepared to vote Thursday to abolish the writ of habeas corpus, Sens. Lindsey Graham and Jon Kyl were railing about lawyers like me. Filing lawsuits on behalf of the terrorists at Guantanamo Bay. Terrorists! Kyl must have said the word 30 times.

As I listened, I wished the senators could meet my client Adel.

Adel is innocent. I don't mean he claims to be. I mean the military says so.
( A bit more of a sample )

Becoming rich 101 continued

Yup. I’m back on this theme again. All of these are things you can consider, if you haven’t already. You may not become Donald Trump--but these things will help you keep from being poor.

"Most of us"..."have a shot at being millionaires. Last year the number of households worth $1 million, not counting their primary residence, grew 21% to 7.5 million, according to Chicago-based research firm Spectrem Group."

Five things the rich can teach us

Another "Gotcha!" from the Insurance industry

Did you know about the CLUE database kept on addresses all over the country?

No, I didn’t either. If you own a home, or ever plan to, read this:

http://moneycentral.msn.com/content/Insurance/Insureyourhome/P35345.asp

More on denying emergency contraceptive

This one doesn’t seem to be going away:

Target digs itself a deeper hole in emergency contraceptive scandal

http://americablog.blogspot.com/2005/11/target-digs-itself-deeper-hole-in.html

Haven't had a meme in a while...

Pinched from suricattus

If you read this, if your eyes are passing over this right now, even if we don't speak often, please post a comment with a memory of you and me. It can be anything you want, either good or bad.

When you're finished, post this little paragraph on your blog and be surprised (or mortified) about what people remember about you.

%^$(#)!_!_@)@) search engines!

Does anyone else hate the way the search engines have been changed? I am wading through PAGES of crap that is only peripherally related to what I want to find (for example, I had to go to #21 to find the first real massage therapist doing business in Austin, TX northwest...)

I knew some fine-tuning would be necessary after the big change went through, but this is ridiculous. I dislike the extra work right now for my clients--but I detest this as a consumer.

We're going to lose sales (we being anything smaller than land's end, perhaps) on this...

And the politics of women's health just gets better....

Look fast, it's the New York Times....

Report Details F.D.A. Rejection of Next-Day Pill
By GARDINER HARRIS

"WASHINGTON, Nov. 14 - Top federal drug officials decided to reject an application to allow over-the-counter sales of the morning-after pill months before a government scientific review of the application was completed, according to accounts given to Congressional investigators.

The Government Accountability Office, a nonpartisan investigative arm of Congress, concluded in a report released Monday that the Food and Drug Administration's May 2004 rejection of the morning-after pill, or emergency contraceptive, application was unusual in several respects.

Top agency officials were deeply involved in the decision, which was "very, very rare," a top F.D.A. review official told investigators. The officials' decision to ignore the recommendation of an independent advisory committee as well as the agency's own scientific review staff was unprecedented, the report found. And a top official's "novel" rationale for rejecting the application contradicted past agency practices, it concluded."

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/15/politics/15pill.html?pagewanted=print