Book review: Jake Tapper's "The Outpost," by Susan Gardner Telling teens to just say no to sex doesn't work so let's waste half a billion dollars doing that, by Kaili Joy Gray Republicans aren't shy about theirs. What could a state-based Democratic agenda look like, by Laura Clawson What do seat belts have to do with gun violence, by Greg Dworkin They sang, they motivated, and they mobilized, by Denise Oliver Velez GOP Abortion Foes Violate the Doctor-Patient Relationship, by Jon Perr Keystone XL: Will the State Department's shameful dishonesty become Obama's climate legacy, by Laurence Lewis
The Justice Department is urging a court to affirm individuals’ rights to record police under the First Amendment, filing a statement of interest in support of a journalist suing over his arrest while photographing Maryland officers. In the statement filed this week in a federal court in Maryland, the Justice Department argues that not only do individuals have a First Amendment right to record officers publicly doing their duties, they also have Fourth and 14th Amendment rights protecting them from having those recordings seized without a warrant or due process.
In the statement filed this week in a federal court in Maryland, the Justice Department argues that not only do individuals have a First Amendment right to record officers publicly doing their duties, they also have Fourth and 14th Amendment rights protecting them from having those recordings seized without a warrant or due process.
In a case of apparent plagiarism, Fox News pundit Juan Williams lifted — sometimes word for word — from a Center for American Progress report, without ever attributing the information, for a column he wrote last month for The Hill newspaper. Almost two weeks after publication, the column was quietly revised online, with many of the sections rewritten or put in quotation marks, and this time citing the CAP report. [...] In a phone interview Thursday evening, Williams pinned the blame on a researcher who he described as a “young man.”
Almost two weeks after publication, the column was quietly revised online, with many of the sections rewritten or put in quotation marks, and this time citing the CAP report. [...]
In a phone interview Thursday evening, Williams pinned the blame on a researcher who he described as a “young man.”
The hotel has entrances on two floors. I search for the lobby, find it. Travelers are milling about, but there’s no information desk, no doorman, no bellman or concierge, just two harried-looking workers at a front desk on the second level. The man who checked me in put his phones on hold when I asked for someone to accompany me upstairs. As we walked to the room I felt I should explain. I told him a trial attorney had told me a while back that there are more lawsuits involving hotels than is generally known, and more crime, so always try to have someone with you when you first go to your room. I thought the hotel clerk would pooh-pooh this. Instead he said, “That’s why we just put up mirrors at each end of the hall, so you can see if someone’s coming.” He made it sound like an amenity. “What should we do then, scream?” I asked. He laughed and shrugged: “Yeah.” Things are getting pretty bare-bones in America. Doormen, security, bellmen, people working the floor—that’s maybe a dozen jobs that should have been filled, at one little hotel on one day in one town. Everyone’s keeping costs down, not hiring. What that hotel looked like is America without its muscle, its efficiency, its old confidence.
“What should we do then, scream?” I asked. He laughed and shrugged: “Yeah.” Things are getting pretty bare-bones in America. Doormen, security, bellmen, people working the floor—that’s maybe a dozen jobs that should have been filled, at one little hotel on one day in one town. Everyone’s keeping costs down, not hiring. What that hotel looked like is America without its muscle, its efficiency, its old confidence.