Sunday Reading
- Loretta Nall is all over the recent arrest of marijuana activist Marc Emery in Vancouver--and the U.S. attempt to make Canada the 51st state so that it can enforce its drug policy there. Here's the video of the DEA announcement of Emery's arrest.
- Flex Your Rights has the citizen's guide to refusing subway searches. (Also check out TalkLeft's new subway tote with the Fourth Amendment printed out on both sides to keep the searchers mindful of how they are violating the Constitution.)
- Grits for Breakfast on the increased use of pretext traffic stops to bring out the dogs and search for drugs
- Amnesty International now has a death penalty blog. One of the best death penalty blogs is Abolish the Death Penalty, written by David Elliot of NCADP.
- Federal Appeals Court Judge Richard Posner (himself a blogger) has an excellent essay, Bad News,in the New York Times book review section discussing among other topics, whether blogs are a threat to MSM. He comes down on the side that blogs are good, and praises their self-correcting policies.
- The American Constitution Society blog has been live-blogging its convention in D.C. It has video of Joe Biden and John Edwards' speeches. Here's the text of Edwards' speech, We Must "Expose What the Radical Right Is Attempting to Do to Our Constitution"
- Arthur at Light of Reason on the recess appointment of John Bolton:
When the administration decides that the time to attack Iran is now, Bolton’s presence at the U.N. will be indispensable to their plans.
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