August 4, 2007

Beach Boys Roll Over - "Californian" Arrested On Terror Charges!

Needless to say, the "Californian" turns about to be - well, read on:

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 3 — Federal authorities said Friday that a California man has been arrested on terrorism-related charges and indicted along with his Malaysian brother, a fugitive and suspected leader of Jemaah Islamiyah, the group blamed for killing 202 people in the 2002 bombing of a nightclub in Bali, Indonesia.

Drunk-Driving Killer of CHP Officer Is Sentenced

In Victorville, California, the illegal alien who pleaded guilty in the February 2006 death of Officer Gregory "John" Bailey received 10 years in prison, the maximum term possible for the charges of gross vehicular manslaughter.

In court on Thursday, the convict Domingo Esqueda also heard victims' statements about how the death he caused has left a terrible hole in the lives of John Bailey's family and friends.

Immigration Beyond Left or Right

Until last year, I worked some distance from my home and every weekend would travel on Amtrak. One weekend on my way home, I met a young woman on the train who was doing one of those jobs “no American wants to do”--she was a farmworker. Now, she didn’t exactly fit the stereotype of a farm worker. She’d been raised as a Unitarian.

Swept Away On The Slippery Slope

Eugene Volokh has a note on an article about "Slippery Slopes" here, and it reminded me that Volokh's own law review article on Slippery Slopes[Mechanisms of the Slippery Slope, Harvard Law Review, Vol. 116, February 2003(PDF) ] has one of the funnier cartoons seen in a law review article

Saturday Forum

An Alaska Reader Says the Wall Street Journal Doesn't Get It About Summer Jobs; etc.

From: Ryan Kennedy: [e-mail him]

Here's another unintentionally funny Wall Street Journal piece.