19 September 2007

Dan Rather Strikes Back (Finally!)

USA Today’s blog “On Deadline” reports: Report: Rather files $70M lawsuit against CBS News
Which is cribbing from another newspaper, rather than bloggers, and THEREFORE, deserves attribution. It comes from a New York Times story:
Rather Files $70 Million Lawsuit Against CBS
By JACQUES STEINBERG

19 September 2007

Magna Carta? Schmagma Carta!

In 1215, King John was forced to sign the Magna Carta, the ‘great charter’ from whence, arguably, our modern sense of criminal justice, of common law, and a big chunk of our Constitution derive.
Habeas Corpus was a central portion of that document: limiting the King’s ability to simply arrest and hold his enemies indefinitely and [...]