This sentence from an article about Debra Nelson, the judge in the George Zimmerman trial, caught my eye:

The Orlando Sentinel described Nelson’s toughness by noting that she once sentenced a robber to 27 years in prison after he rejected a 20-year deal from a prosecutor.

This is not "toughness". This is an increasingly common tactic adopted by ( Read more... )

It seems that the military-industrial complex has a problem. With all of the new communications tools that have proliferated over the past decade--Twitter, Facebook, other social networking platforms, and so forth--it is becoming increasingly difficult for the government to spy on our every move.

The logical solution is to work with the major ( Read more... )

I just finished watching The Siege, expecting nothing more than your run-of-the-mill action movie for some mindless entertainment. What I got instead was a gripping, powerful exploration of what happens to a society struggling to deal with terrorism. Considering that the film was made in 1998, it might have been taken as a chilling warning about ( Read more... )