Feb
28
Should We Regulate Children’s Weight?
February 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment
An English family has been making headlines recently when London’s equivalent of child protective services stepped in to control the diet of Connor, and 8 year old who weighs 196 pounds. This is similar to a New Mexico case in 2000, where a 120 pound 3 year old, Anamarie was removed from her home when [...]
Feb
27
TSA Prepares to Scan Your Package
February 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) may probe more than your suitcase in the future if the government decides to install Backscatter X-ray technology throughout the nation’s airports.
According to USA TODAY, the TSA says airport screeners will delete passenger images but the process is not automatic. Backscatter X–ray screens, which reveal body parts unobscured by [...]
Feb
26
A Convenient Screening
February 26, 2007 | 3 Comments
Please join us tomorrow, Tues., Feb. 27 @ 5:15pm for a screening of the Academy Award winner for Best Documentary:
The film documents Mr. Gore’s travels around the world to present his slideshow describing the threat of global warming. A review on IMDB.com writes that, “A longtime advocate for the environment, Gore presents a wide array [...]
Feb
26
What’s the Frequency?
February 26, 2007 | 4 Comments
Virginians living near Quantico are having their buttons pushed by their military neighbors— their garage door buttons.
The frequency used by many civilian remote controlled devices, including garage doors, is in the range of about 138 to 450 megahertz. In fact, the majority of garage doors operate right around 387 MHz. The government has [...]
Feb
22
Philip Morris May Not Have Won Very Much
February 22, 2007 | 1 Comment
Despite what you may have read in the newspapers or heard on the radio, the recent Supreme Court decision may not have been much of a victory for Philip Morris. In fact, it is entirely possible that on retrial a jury would come to the very same conclusion
After his death, Jesse Williams’ widow sued Philip-Morris [...]
Feb
21
Massachusetts v. Environmental Protection Agency
February 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment
On November 29th, 2006, the Supreme Court heard Massachusetts v. EPA (Docket #05-1120), an important challenge to the Bush administration’s refusal to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from automobiles. Petitioners included eleven states, three major American cities, including New York, and several major environmental groups including Greenpeace and the Sierra Club. Spearheaded by Massachusetts Attorney General [...]
Feb
20
Mark Tushnet: “The Political Constitution of Emergency Powers”
February 20, 2007 | 3 Comments
Last Friday the WM ACS, in conjunction with the Institute for Bill of Rights Law (Student Division), hosted Prof. Mark Tushnet of Harvard Law School. The lecture, which was titled, “The Political Constitution of Emergency Powers,” centered upon structural divisions of constitutional power in an emergency situation. I was very pleased to see the turnout, given that it was [...]
Feb
20
Abortion Death Certificates
February 20, 2007 | 6 Comments
Stacey Campfield (R), a Tennessee legislator, is introducing a bill (PDF) which would require Tennessee abortion providers to file a death certificate for all aborted fetuses. The death certificates would have to be filed within 10 days of performing the procedure, with the stated purpose of the bill to “track” the number of abortions performed [...]
Feb
19
Honestly, We Don’t Care About Your Credit
February 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment
It’s been difficult to write this quick blog post about payday loans in Virginia. Every time I perform a simple web search, I’m bombarded with hundreds of links offering me quick, free, money. They “don’t care about my credit.” Luckily, I do.
On Friday, the Virginia House of Delegates passed a series of reforms targeting payday [...]
Feb
15
A Windfall Profits Tax, Take Two?
February 15, 2007 | 10 Comments
A popular buzzword(s) these days is “alternative energy.” Conservatives, like President Bush and his band of merry White House environmentalists, give it a perfunctory mention every State of the Union Address, while progressives stress the importance of energy independence and “green” technology. The problem, of course, is that while most people agree that devising new [...]
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