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Lindsay Lohan Sentenced to 90 Days in Jail, 90 Days of Rehab

ABC News: “Bawling and broken, Lindsay Lohan learned today that she’s going back to jail. Beverly Hills judge Marsha Revel declared the 24-year-old starlet in violation of probation for her 2007 DUI conviction for failing to attend court-ordered alcohol education classes. Revel sentenced Lohan to 90 days in jail followed by 90 days in-patient rehab.”

Is this wrong? ABC News has a story called “Lindsay Lohan’s Secret ‘F**k U’ in Courtroom“

“During Tear-Filled Plea About Respect and Responsibility, Lohan Conveys Explicit Message in Fingernails”

For a close up of the disrespectful digits, see “Lindsay Lohan Says F-U in Court.” See also the LA Times story “Judge sentences Lindsay Lohan to jail” and the New York Post’s “No, Lindsay, it’s time you ‘F’ yourself.”

All-American Light Bulb Dims as Freedom Flickers

Real Clear Politics has an article called “All-American Light Bulb Dims as Freedom Flickers” that discusses the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007, the law that outlaws the the incandescent light bulb in favor of the dangerous compact fluorescent lights “CFCs) that contain highly toxic mercury and that must be discarded at recycling centers because of the their hazardous content.

“EISA establishes performance criteria that Edisonian bulbs cannot meet. As the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) explains: ‘These standards, which begin in 2012, will eliminate low efficiency incandescent light bulbs from the market”.”

Gun License Fees and the Right to Keep and Bear Arms for Self-Defense

The Volokh Conspiracy: “After McDonald, and the newly enacted Chicago handgun ordinance, people are again turning to whether and when gun license fees are unconstitutional. I’ve heard some argue that under existing constitutional rules applicable to other rights — especially the First Amendment — any fee for the exercise of a constitutional right is per se unconstitutional. But rightly or wrongly, that turns out not to be the case. Here’s an excerpt from my Implementing the Right to Keep and Bear Arms in Self-Defense article.”

Iraq Veteran in Grad School at Harvard Eloquently Explains Why Kagan Should be Rejected for the Supreme Court

We normally don’t get involved in political things like the Elena Kagan confirmation to the U.S. Supreme Court, but I watched and listened to a YouTube video of testimony given by Army Captain Pete Hegseth in the Elena Kagan confirmation hearing in the U.S. Senate that convinced me that the Senate should reject her nomination to the court. The Captain’s statements really hit home with me as a military veteran.

Captain Hegseth is a graduate of Princeton University and is pursuing a masters degree at Harvard University. He is an Iraq war veteran now serving as an infantry officer in the Massachusetts Army National Guard. Please watch the video. The crux of the Captain’s argument against Elena Hagan is:

The U.S. is a nation at war.
Our enemy wants to destroy us.
Kagan’s actions with respect to banning military recruiters at Harvard were unbecoming a civic leader and a nominee for the Supreme Court.
Kagan refused to allow military recruiters to recruit at Harvard because of the military’s don’t ask, don’t tell policy.
Kagan’s action “prevented the military from having equal access to top notch recruits during a time of war.”
“We’re nominating someone who unapologetically obstructed the military in a time of war?”
She impeded, rather than empowered “the warriors who have fought and fallen for this county?
Although Kagan talks nice about the military, “actions always speak louder than words.”
“Miss Kagan’s actions toward recruiters with wars raging overseas undercut the military’s ability to fight and win wars and they trump her rhetorical explanation.”
“In 2004 . . . Miss Kagan took the law into her own hands blocking military recruiters in direct violation of law.”
Kagan said she opposes the military’s discriminatory recruitment policy, “but as a legal scholar she know better. She knows the policy she abhors is not the military’s policy, but a policy enacted by Congress and imposed on the military.”
While at Harvard Kagan invited and met with numerous members of Congress who voted for the don’t ask, don’t tell law.
Harvard law school has three chairs endowed by Saudi Arabia which executes gays.

“The real moral injustice in granting a lifetime appointment is someone who when it matters most, treated military recruiters as like second class citizens.”

Litigating the Number of Men vs. Women in College Sports: The Ongoing Folly of Title IX

Minding the Campus: “Connecticut’s Quinnipiac College, best known for its political polling, is now at the center of the newest round in the controversy over Title IX and women’s sports. In a trial that opened last week, a federal judge must decide whether competitive cheerleading should count as a sport for gender equity purposes. The case illustrates the complexities — and some would say, the inanities — of the debate over gender and college athletics.”

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