2.29.2004 The Treasury Department "has warned publishers they may face grave legal consequences for editing manuscripts from Iran and other disfavored nations, on the ground that such tinkering amounts to trading with the enemy." New York Times, Adam Liptak. Pointer from Howard Bashman

2.29.2004 "DVD copiers win big in state court ruling. Encryption code said to have lost trade secret status" SFGate.com Pointer from Howard Bashman

2.28.2004 Lawyer in Two Cases Hosted Scalia Visit. Washington Post

2.27.2004 Unplublished studies from drug companies showed that "far from cutting the risk of heart disease, HRT increased it by almost 80 per cent." Pointer from Google News.

2.26.2004 A retracted study on a controversial substance raises questions about the reliability of government-sponsored research on drugs . Pointer from Mark A.R. Kleiman

2.25.2004 National Wildlife Federation Opposes Myers Circuit Court Nomination Pointer from Howard Bashman

2.25.2004 Human rights groups denied seats at tribunals Space is limited, Pentagon says, By Toni Locy, USA TODAY Pointer from Howard Bashman

2.24.2004 Senate votes today on OB/Gyn liability reform. American Medical Association

2.24.2004 Sierra Club files motion for Scalia to recuse himself from Cheney case. Washington Post LATimes.com Pointers from Howard Bashman

2.23.2004 "Special Counsel Under Scrutiny. Senators Concerned He Removed Agency's References to Sexual Orientation Bias." By Stephen Barr Washington Post. Pointer from Howard Bashman

2.23.2004 Why Christians Should Not Vote for George W. Bush by Dr. Patrick Johnston. Pointer from Timothy Noah at Slate.

2.21.2004 HARRISBURG, Pa. - The state Supreme Court on Friday reinstated 376 asbestos lawsuits against Crown Cork & Seal Co. Inc., declaring unconstitutional a 2001 state law designed to protect the Philadelphia-based manufacturer. Washington Post. Pointer from Howard Bashman

2.20.2004 Kurt has sent me several references to organicconsumers.org Lots of new things to worry about.

2.20.2004 "What we are seeing here, and we have not seen it before, is an administration that distorts the process by which it gets advice and censors the advice it gets from its own scientists," said Kurt Gottfried, emeritus professor of physics at Cornell University and chairman of the Union of Concerned Scientists." LATimes Pointer from Howard Bashman

2.19.2004 ACLU Sues to End Ban on Anti-Drug-Law Ads Pointer from Howard Bashman

2.17.2004 Prosecutor in Terror Case Sues Ashcroft Pointer from Howard Bashman

2.14.2004 The Marie Antoinette award. Bush or Scalia? Pointer from Howard Bashman

2.13.2004 The Trials of Martha Prosecutions aren't the place to write securities law. Pointer from Howard Bashman

2.12.2004 Please please go to this site and vote on this question: Should Justice Scalia recuse himself from a case involving friend Dick Cheney? Pointer from Howard Bashman

2.12.2004 Bush Family Values Pointer from Roe.

2.12.2004 Justice Department Seeks Confidential Medical Records on Banned Late-Term Abortion Procedure. Pointer from Howard Bashman

2.12.2004 Snowmobile Curb in Yellowstone Is Relaxed by a Federal Judge. Pointer from Howard Bashman

2.11.2004 The trouble with Radio Frequency Identification tags

2.11.2004 Andrew Sullivan on Gay Marriage: "The genius of federalism, after all, is that social change can be tried out in one state before it is enacted elsewhere."

2.11.2004 Scalia quoted as saying, "It did not involve a lawsuit against Dick Cheney as a private individual," he said. "This was a government issue. here Pointer from Howard Bashman

2.11.2004 LA Times article: Few Impartial on Panel Co-Chair D.C. Judge Silberman, an aggressive partisan, helped absolve the Reagan White House in an intelligence probe. Pointer from Howard Bashman

2.8.2004 Four Steps to Better Intelligence, By California Congressional Representative Jane Harman

2.7.2004 Per the Boston Globe "Finally, it is impossible to separate Scalia's duck-blind camaraderie with Cheney from Scalia's part in the Supreme Court's highly questionable 5-4 ruling in Bush v. Gore that made Cheney vice president in the first place. Scalia should leave the Cheney case to his eight fellow justices" Pointer from Howard Bashman

2.6.2004 Another reason to filibuster. Kerry enters the fray. Pointers from Howard Bashman

2.5.2004 Cheney, Scalia and the ducks: LA Times reports that Cheney provided the transportation: One jet for Cheney, Scalia and a young woman, one for entourage, two Black Hawk helicopters, a row of SUV's, and a no fly zone

2.5.2004 Rumsfeld sees "wrongdoing" in Boeing tanker talks The Boeing tankers scandal. - The Boeing, Perle connection. Regarding Perle's WSJ article. A March article, giving more background on Perle. More.The Hollinger connection.

2.5.2004 Seattle Times article on the Kennewick Man decision.

2.4.2004 Kennewick Man wins!! No immediate burial. Pointer from Howard Bashman

2.4.2004 Warning on antidepressants for kids urged by a scientist at the National Institute of Mental Health.

2.4.2004 FDA to change drug warnings "based on recent evidence on what works and what doesn't in drug promotion." Say what!?

2.4.2004 Uneven Justice - Martha Stewart and Ken Lay. Pointer from Howard Bashman

2.4.2004 Court tells EPA to do its job. Pointer from Howard Bashman

2.2.2004 Antidepressant Makers Withhold Data on Children and the FDA is amused.

2.2.2004 Regarding the Iraq intelligence disconnect.

2.1.2004 If it looks like a canard and quacks like a canard, it is a canard. Regarding Cheney/Scalia and the ducks the author of this article says that "Justice William Rehnquist has made it clear that he doesn't believe a few hours of hunting with a participant in such a volatile case constitutes an ethical gaffe." This report says that the duck hunters arrived on Monday and left on Wednesday. That would make it a sleep over party. Pointer from Howard Bashman

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