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Lets not pick on the Muslims, come on man.

Islam as we see it in the world today is more likely than most other major faiths to encourage violence against nonbelievers, at least if we focus on encouragement that actually makes the violence materially likely (which is the sort of encouragement that I suspect most people are worried about). – Eugene Volokh (source) Lets get one thing out of

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Synth Porn

By J. DeVoy Readers interested in electronic music and the technology behind it will love this: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9n7rL5SMT-E&fs=1&hl=en_US] Subconscious studios, spearheaded by Cevin Key, has been remarkably prolific.  The studio’s equipment created one of the most influential bands of the last 40 years, Skinny Puppy, and collectively is worth more than an upper-middle class home in many areas of the country.

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Blog L00T: Another Installment.

This is Chris, back again for another update of the L00T!  Our blawgers-in-crime have been posting a multitude of sensational stories, stories we’ll think you’ll enjoy reading… Some Judges Prefer Being on All Fours Rather than Sitting on the Bench Our first story comes from Above the Law, where David Lat uncovered a salacious story involving “Jungle Fever” – the

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12 People in Forrest City, Arkansas are True Patriots and True Americans – Thank You

By Marc J. Randazza In St. Francis County, Arkansas, local prosecutors are apparently the kind who think that the whole “First Amendment thing” is a bit over-blown. Despite taking oaths to uphold and defend the Constitution, they brought the owners of “Adult World” up on two felony counts of “promoting obscene material” for selling a couple of movies starring consenting

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Craig's List yields to pressure?

by Platt & Randazza The “Adult Services” listing on Craiglist was removed late Friday on its U.S.-based sites and replaced with the word “censored.” Story here. Interestingly enough, if you access Craigslist from outside the United States, the “censored” block does not appear, and you are free to access the website’s adult services section. Keep this in mind the next

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Numbers that Demonize the American People

A widely quoted Harris poll claims that 57% of sampled Republicans think that Barack Obama is a muslim. This has been a great gift for liberal commentators who are predisposed to fear and loathe the Tea Party and its supposed influence. But did this gift just materialize from dispassionate and objective data, as if by accident?

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Student Loan Slavery!

Way back when, they said “go to the best law school you can get into.” I say bullshit. You want a law degree? Go to the CHEAPEST school you can get into. Here’s an infographic on how student loans work. H/T: Above the Law

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Cheers to patriotism and logic!

By Tatiana von Tauber Georgia Republican, Jack Kingston, deserves applause.   Why?  Because Kingston is exercising logic: he supports lowering the drinking age for military service members.  “If you’re 18 years old, you can get married, you can sign a contract, buy a piece of property, you can do just about anything, except buy a beer,” said Kingston. “We’re telling young people, you can fly

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Broken Penises and the Law

By Marc J. Randazza As office workers, few attorneys have the opportunity to contemplate what workplace injuries can mean to their clients. Honestly, what’s the worst injury you can get on the job in a law office? A paper cut? Your panties in a wad? In the porn industry, like any other, workplace injuries are an issue. Normally, it is

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Do you need more proof that religion is frigging stupid?

Now, if you want to keep kosher, you have to filter your New York City water, because there are microscopic crustaceans in the water. (source) I fail to understand how Jews and Muslims can believe that an all powerful creator of heaven and earth gives a shit if you eat ham or chop off a piece of a baby boy’s

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Washington State comes down against online gambling

By J. DeVoy Today, in a unanimous decision authored by Justice Tom Chambers, the Washington Supreme Court dealt a blow to online gambling.   Internet Community & Entertainment Corporation, doing business as Betcha.com (“Betcha”), has been under the scrutiny of the  Washington State Gambling Commission since shortly after its 2007 launch.  Now, the Supreme Court has ruled that Betcha’s services

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Thank you Brent Newton – American Legal Education is Worthless

By Randazza and DeVoy Brent Newton, an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown, wrote a law review article about how professors writing law review articles is a waste of time. The article, Preaching What They Don’t Practice: Why Law Faculties’ Preoccupation with Impractical Scholarship and Devaluation of Practical Competencies Obstruct Reform in the Legal Academy, is actually worth reading … which is

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CNN: Most young christians are actually massive hypocrites

By J. DeVoy CNN has a story about the hollowness of youth spirituality that is not terribly surprising, but affirming in some aspects. The Pros: CNN notes that most young Christians are callow and spineless, claiming to believe in their religion while doing all the drugs, partaking in the materialism, and having all the premarital sex and children that their

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