Jonathan Turley has been diligently following the disturbing rise in anti-blasphemy laws in many Islamic nations and their attempts to get these restrictions on criticizing religion expanded globally under the guise of ‘religious tolerance’. They have been somewhat successful in getting the US and European countries to consider adopting an international standard that would prosecute anti-religious speech.
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Oklahoma is the state where the botched execution of Clayton Lockett brought the issue of capital punishment back into the spotlight. It turns out that that state is the most gung-ho when it comes to killing people, having the most executions per capita in the US (although Texas which comes in second has the greatest absolute number ) and taking an almost perverse pride in doing so.
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Stephen Colbert interviews a Tea Party candidate for Congress who has a very interesting life outside of politics. These interviews where he goes off-site are some of his funniest bits.
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By now it should be no surprise that whenever the US accuses another country of doing something wrong, it is also very likely the case that they are doing the same thing. This hypocrisy has become so routine that one wonders whether one should even both to comment on it, but it is still necessary. The latest is the revelation about what the US has been doing with routers.
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All the super-patriots who rallied around Cliven Bundy to protect his god given right to not pay the grazing fees that everyone else pays because he is the reincarnation of George Washington or something are now finding out that it actually costs money even if you are just hanging around doing nothing.
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One question that has been in the minds of people following the release of the Edward Snowden documents is when the revelations will finally come to an end and whether there are any major ones among those left. There have been hints by Snowden and Glenn Greenwald that some major revelation was in the offing and in an interview with GQ magazine, Greenwald provides some specific answers.
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Glenn Greenwald has a new book No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the US Surveillance State that will be out tomorrow about his involvement with the Edward Snowden revelations. In one chapter that has been excerpted in the Guardian, he describes the hectic day that Snowden’s identity was revealed and the cat-and-mouse game they had to play to keep his location in Hong Kong secret, and the few days immediately before and after. Although I have been following this story closely, this still was a gripping read.
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The legal overturning of bans against same-sex marriage is penetrating even the deep South as a Circuit Court judge in Arkansas, in a brief but moving opinion yesterday ruled that the state’s ban passed in 2004 is unconstitutional under both the federal and state constitutions.
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According to a report of the Inter-Parliamentary Union, the nation that has the largest percentage of women in the lower or single house of the legislative system is Rwanda, where women account for 64% of the members of parliament, followed by Andorra (50%) and Cuba (49%).
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Investigative journalist Gareth Porter has come out with a new book titled Manufactured Crisis, The Untold Story of the Iran Nuclear Scare and he was interviewed about it by Andrew Cockburn for Harper’s magazine.
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