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Down the hole with the copyright trolls?
26 Jun 2011 9:12 pm Ron Coleman

Let us reflect a little on what justice “copyright troll” Righthaven has wrought, so far. Wired weighs in on the latest Righthaven woes:

A federal judge ruled Monday that publishing an entire article without the rights holder’s authorization was a fair use of the work, in yet another blow to newspaper copyright troll Righthaven.
It’s not often that republishing an entire work without permission is deemed fair use. Fair use is an infringement defense when the defendant reproduced a copyrighted work for purposes such as criticism, commentary, teaching and research. The defense is analyzed on …

Allegations of assault in the Wisconsin Supreme Court, or: another story out of Wisconsin that could suck up my entire weekend if I (or my wife) would let it:
26 Jun 2011 2:19 pm TrogloPundit

Holy crap. Here I am, trying to enjoy a nice weekend when the sun is shining and my kids are home and there’s very little on our family calendar, when I suddenly notice this:
Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice David Prosser allegedly grabbed fellow Justice Ann Walsh Bradley around the neck in an argument in her chambers last week, according to at least three knowledgeable sources.
That paragraph continues:
But other sources have offered a conflicting account, and Prosser on Saturday declared that the claims, once investigated, will be “proven false.”
In case you …

Homeowners’ Associations Becoming Unavoidable and Quasi-Governmental
22 Jun 2011 2:26 pm Rachel Alexander

Homeowners’ Associations (“HOAs”) are losing money due to the high numbers of foreclosures and are scrambling to make up for it by assessing additional fees on the remaining homeowners. Banks are taking longer to foreclose on homes, leaving homes in limbo for months on end with no monthly fees coming in to the HOAs. 13 percent of homes nationwide are vacant, and in some states the vacancy rate is as high as 22 percent. To compensate, HOAs are acting like private investigators, even peering into homeowners’ yards daily until one weed pops …

Judge Jose Longoria Needs A Spanking
21 Jun 2011 12:20 pm John Hawkins

Liberalism is a virus that sickens and perverts everything it touches, including our legal system. Liberals have corrupted the justice system in America by filling it with tin gods in black robes who’ve replaced the law with their own personal beliefs. They’re arrogant, they care nothing about the law or the Constitution, and they produce rulings like this one.
The spanking debate is back, after a Texas woman was sentenced to five years of probation, under a plea agreement for swatting her 2-year-old on the behind. Rosalina Gonzales of Corpus Christi …

The blogger “transparency” crackup
29 May 2011 6:11 pm Ron Coleman

It’s another big moment in blogger “transparency” upon us now. The general rule is that the person who hasn’t “disclosed” enough to meet some preposterous concept of transparency is the person who the writer is jealous of, or worse. The current dart board is Tech Crunch.
I saw this coming, now didn’t I? I wrote this in 2007:
No one is free from bias of some sort or another, especially people who spend their time (paid or otherwise) writing opinions — whether in daily newspaper columns, legal newspapers or blogs, the …

Arrogance: Obama Decides HE Can Tell A Company Where They’re Allowed to Build
1 May 2011 8:49 am Warner Todd Huston

Barack Obama thinks he has the power to tell companies where they are “allowed” to build new facilities and, shock of shocks, Obama wants all those facilities to be in union controlled states.
Last week Obama’s National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) announced its plans to force Boeing to keep building its aircraft in union plagued Washington State instead of building its planned new facility in South Carolina — a right to work, union free state.
How did Obama justify this unprecedented move to stop a company from building facilities in any state …

Lawyer Sues Strip Club for Letting Him Spend His Money There
29 Apr 2011 1:17 pm Dave Blount

Lawyer Mark Gold makes a cushy living helping the irresponsible evade responsibility by defending drunk drivers. When he found he had blown $18,930 in one night bingeing at a strip club, rather than pay his bill he fell back on his jobs skills:
Now the 56-year-old attorney is taking the Gold Rush [bwahaha!] club to court, saying he was so drunk staff should have stopped serving him.
The lawsuit, filed at Miami-Dade County Court, makes no mention of how the enormous bill was racked up – or how many lap dances he …

Canadian Comic Fined for Standing Up to Obnoxious Lesbian
22 Apr 2011 1:38 pm Dave Blount

A comic’s job is to ridicule people — but not the special people:
A Canadian comic has been ordered to pay CA$15,000 (US$15,745) to a woman he taunted along with her same-sex partner during a show in a Vancouver restaurant three years ago, the Vancouver Sun reported Thursday.
Stand-up comedian Guy Earle was ordered to pay the money to Lorna Pardy, 32, while the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal also ordered the Vancouver restaurant owner, Salam Ishmail, to pay her $7,500.
Pardy was heckling Earle and threw a drink at him, but that …

A PC Slant
10 Apr 2011 6:23 pm Ron Coleman

This story in the�Northwest Asian Weekly about the trademark registration woes of a rock band called The Slants may sound familiar to people who follow such things:
The Slants, whose members are of Asian descent, have amassed fans nationwide, taking the stage at dive bars, Asian festivals, anime conventions, and even serving on panels to discuss racial stereotypes.
But behind the scenes, the band is fighting a battle with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). The office has twice denied The Slants� request to obtain federal trademark registration of its …

John Edwards Pules About Suicide
8 Apr 2011 1:39 pm Dave Blount

If it were up to Democrats, ambulance-chasing con artist John Edwards (a.k.a. Silky Pony, a.k.a. the Breck Girl) would have been Vice President of the United States. Instead, he may soon find his way to where he belongs: prison. After living the high life on $zillions stolen from doctors through the bogus malpractice lawsuits his fellow Democrats facilitate in exchange for campaign kickbacks, Silky isn’t liking his future prospects:
Disgraced politician John Edwards is said to be deeply depressed — to the point of being suicidal — over the prospect of …

Does Government Own Your Remotely Backed Up Computer Files, Your Emails, or Your Cell Phone GPS Info?
6 Apr 2011 11:31 am Warner Todd Huston

Did you know that there are no laws to prevent government agencies from raiding your computer�s remotely hosted back up files, your third party emails, your cloud computing files, or your cell phone GPS location records? Well, there aren’t. As the law stands today government can go into your private computer files or trace your cell phone location without a warrant.
As a result of this lapse in protection form unlawful search and seizure a new group of concerned parties intends to change the law with the Digital Fourth Amendment …

From Nat’l Journal, One of the Most Biased Reports Seen in Some Time
6 Apr 2011 11:30 am Warner Todd Huston

Once in a while a purported news report is so biased that it simply must be highlighted. Today’s award for the most biased report goes to National Journal for its left-slanted piece on Obama’s warning to the House GOP that he will veto any budget that cancels his FCC attempt to take control of the Internet away from private industry.
In his very first paragraph for the National Journal, Josh Smith dives straight into the left side of the pool — and in at the deep end yet — by accepting …

A Nationwide Movement To Eliminate Voter Fraud Is Born
30 Mar 2011 11:20 am Warner Todd Huston

This past weekend the first national True The Vote Summit was conducted by the folks that successfully rooted out vote fraud in Harris County, Texas during the 2010 elections. Folks from 27 different states were in attendance to learn how the Harris County effort was conducted in hopes of replicating the same back home, but with the hard lessons already learned.
On Saturday those in attendance heard from True The Vote’s wizened members and learned what the best practices were to “true” the voting process in their own areas. Along with …

Moonbat Justice: Pedophile Cannibal Murderer Michael Woodmansee to Be Freed
11 Mar 2011 12:18 pm Dave Blount

Among the many excellent reasons for capital punishment, the most compelling is that so long as a criminal or terrorist is still alive, we have no guarantee that a system run by liberals won’t set him free to inflict more mayhem — even in the case of a pedophile and alleged cannibal convicted of murdering a small boy.
Michael Woodmansee of South Kingstown, Rhode Island got 40 years for sexually assaulting, knifing to death, and defiling the corpse of 5-year-old Jason Foreman. Then authorities shaved off 12 years for good behavior. …

The God Hates F*gs Gang Wins In The Supreme Court
2 Mar 2011 2:04 pm John Hawkins

Although I’m disappointed that the Supreme Court didn’t choose to allow the $11 million verdict against Democrat Fred Phelps and his Westboro church to stand, it is at least, understandable. After all, they were at least staying within the confines of the law. They were protesting where they were supposed to protest and doing what everyone expected them to do.
It’s also hard to argue this point,
The justices by a 8-1 vote on Wednesday said members of the Westboro Baptist Church had a right to promote what they call a …

The book Americans aren’t allowed to buy
20 Feb 2011 4:08 pm Ron Coleman

Two years ago I expressed my own criticism, and later rounded up a number of other views, of the case brought by J.D. Salinger against a “sequel” to The Catcher in the Rye written by Fredrik Colting. Last year, in a guest post, Matthew David Brozik added his own thoughts on the topic — right on the eve of the Second Circuit’s stay of the lower-court order essentially barring publication of the book.
The topic came up again, in my mind, when reading this post at Volokh (via Instapundit) challenging the recent …

Like Crime, Humiliation Pays in Britain
16 Feb 2011 2:06 pm Dave Blount

Whoever said that crime doesn’t pay hasn’t been to Britain since liberalism run rampant reduced it to a bizarre bleeding heart hybrid of A Clockwork Orange and a Monty Python skit. Here‘s how it pays to sell heroin:
A convicted drug dealer who claims he was left “humiliated” after he was named and shamed on a police leaflet is to sue the police.
Luke Walsh-Pinnock, 22, claimed the document breached his human rights after it was sent to neighbours in Kilburn, north west London.
The leaflet contained a police photo and details of …

Jimmy Carter Sued Over Pro-Terrorist Lies
4 Feb 2011 2:00 pm Dave Blount

There may be a price to be paid by the execrable Jimmy Carter for the pro-terrorist lies so often spouted by the Nobel laureate:
More than four years after its publication, five disgruntled readers have filed a class-action lawsuit against President Jimmy Carter and his publisher, Simon & Schuster, alleging that his 2006 book “Palestine Peace Not Apartheid” contained “numerous false and knowingly misleading statements intended to promote the author’s agenda of anti-Israel propaganda and to deceive the reading public instead of presenting accurate information as advertised.”
The five plaintiffs named in …

New Technology Makes Abortion More Viable Issue in Congress and Courts
4 Feb 2011 6:48 am Jane Jamison

There are many, many developments in Congress and in the courts regarding abortion. This report is a summary of recent events with many links for you to research further.

Pigford Pigout Is Illegal
3 Feb 2011 3:03 pm Dave Blount

When Comrade Obama promised to “spread the wealth around,” he didn’t mean indiscriminately. The idea is to take it from those who create it, and spread it among the groups that support him most loyally, namely unions and blacks. He has to spread fast, before the country goes bankrupt. An example of how he does it is the Pigford Pigout, which as it turns out is illegal:
When Congress was stampeded to pass unprecedented legislation in 1998 to facilitate the Pigford v. Glickman suit against the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), …

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