Did Recording the McConnell Meeting Violate State Law?

Orin Kerr The Volokh Conspiracy 4/12/2013

I blogged below about whether recording the McConnell meeting violated federal law; in this post I’ll offer some thoughts on whether it violated state law. With the caveat that I had never looked at Kentucky’s surveillance statutes until an hour ago, my sense is the answer is pretty unclear [...]

Senate Dems Block Resolution Honoring Margaret Thatcher

Duane Lester Liberty News 4/11/2013

Sixteen Republicans tripped over each other to help pass gun control legislation today, while the Democrats they joined blocked a resolution honoring The Iron Lady:

A Senate resolution to honor Lady Thatcher was supposed to pass last night. However, per well placed sources on the Hill, Democrats have a hold [...]

How 1960s Radicals Ended Up Teaching Your Kids

Last week NYU Law announced that former Weather Underground member and convicted murderer Kathy Boudin would be a scholar-in-residence. She’s the latest in a series of former left-wing radicals with cozy university appointments. Michael Moynihan on how left-wing criminals ended up lecturing America’s college students.

Michael Moynihan The Daily Beast 4/10/2013

…take former Black Panther [...]

Lady Thatcher, Britain’s first female prime minister, has died

Andrew Sparrow Politics Blog The Guardian [UK] 8 Apr 2013

 

 

 

12.58pm BST [7:58 am EDT] The Press Association has filed an obituary from Chris Moncrieff, its former political editor. Here is how it starts.

Margaret Thatcher was the woman who, virtually single-handed and in the space of one tumultuous decade, [...]

All Your Kids Are Belong to Us

Ken Shepherd MRCTV 4/4/2013

MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry lamenting how we don’t think of kids as public property.

[Lean Forward spot aired shortly before 11 a.m. Eastern on April 4, 2013 on MSNBC]

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H/T The Virginian

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Kathy Boudin, Columbia Professor: The Whole Story

Ace Ace of Spades HQ 4/4/2013

And it’s a very ugly story.

The Days of Rage scared off much of the mainstream support for the SDS, leaving only the most radical. In December of 1969, the SDS War Council was held in Flint, Michigan. Largely led by members of the Weather Underground, what came to [...]

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