Daily Archives: April 14th, 2006 «

 

9th Circus: Homeless have the right to sit, lay, and sleep on public sidewalks

Posted by: ST on April 14, 2006 at 10:34 pm » 26 Comments

Via the LA Times: Los Angeles’ policy of arresting homeless people for sitting, lying or sleeping on public sidewalks as “an unavoidable consequence of being human and homeless without shelter” violates the constitutional prohibition against cruel and punishment, a federal appeals court ruled today. The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, in a 2-1 decision, [...]

 

Intolerant liberal professors news

Posted by: ST on April 14, 2006 at 9:40 pm » 41 Comments

There are two stories I want to discuss in this post, stories that add more proof in the evidence file that the term “tolerant liberal” is an oxymoron. First, from Ohio State University comes this letter written by the Alliance Defense Fund on behalf of OSU librarian Scott Savage who has been slapped with a [...]

 

Back up and running

Posted by: ST on April 14, 2006 at 2:18 pm » 16 Comments

Had some hosting issues for the last few hours and couldn’t do any blogging but it looks like we’re back up and running here now. Apologies for the downtime. I’ll have to blog this evening as I’m working under some time constraints right now … consider this an open thread. TGIF!