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Tories in waiting
The US as parliamentary democracy meme insight is catching on (WaMo, Hullabaloo). But whatever happened to this (8 Aug ’08)? SUMMARY: The National Park Service (NPS) is proposing to amend regulations governing viewing of the Inaugural parade by the public, demonstrators, and the Presidential Inaugural Committee. The proposed rule would extend the duration and extent [...]
NSA conducts informal poll
The NSA has declassified Technical Journal articles ’56–’73. Of the 29 articles they’ve listed, only 7 are working links—the other 22 are 404s. Working: “About NSA,” “Antipodal Propagation,” “Did Aleksandr Popov Invent Radio?”, “Book Review: Lost Languages,” “Book Review: Lincos, Design of a Language for Cosmic Intercourse, Part 1,” “Aristocrat—An Intelligence Test for Computers,” and [...]
What comes before prior restraint?
Lederman at Balkinization pulls this quote from US District Judge John Bates’s 93-page opinion in what he calls the “Miers/Bolton contempt case”: There are powerful reasons supporting the rejection of absolute immunity as asserted by the Executive here. If the Court held otherwise, the presumptive presidential privilege could be transformed into an absolute privilege and [...]
National energy stragety
Wald, “Drop in Miles Driven Is Depleting Highway Fund,” NYT (29 July ’08): Gasoline tax revenue is falling so fast that the federal government may not be able to meet its commitments to states for road projects already under way, the secretary of transportation said Monday. The secretary, Mary E. Peters, said the short-term solution [...]
Information architecture: Cal PSC dox online
Citing the Veeck decision (7 June ’02), Carl Malamud and Public.Resource.Org have posted the building, fire, electrical, plumbing, and mechanical Public Safety Codes for the state of California. In itself, this may excite a handful of people, but the following statement makes its importance clear: The courts have long held that the law is public [...]
There is no c*b*l, version 376: the Porvoo Group
Stuart Hill, an older gent who lives in the Shetland Isles, says he’s stumbled onto “a scheme that threatens our fundamental freedoms”: “the new ‘National Entitlement Card’ that provides access to free travel for the elderly and disabled, in fact marks the introduction of ID Cards by the back door.” He’s written up his research [...]
Sex in the city in context
Times square in 1970; a Spartacus sex swingers’ club ad (n.d.); Plato’s Retreat ad (n.d.); “Leisure Spa” ads (Taj Mahal, the Retreat, etc; n.d.); Channel J excerpts (n.d.); Al Goldstein; Ugly George.
Foreclosure, expulsion
WSJ, “School Districts Get Tough as Home Foreclosures Rise“: Districts from Florida to California are hiring private investigators, creating anonymous tip lines and imposing penalties when they believe people have registered at false addresses. [...] One reason for the crackdown is the rise in home foreclosures, which may prod parents into faking addresses to keep [...]
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“America’s Covert Government Lending”