The federal Judge's ruling in Michigan yesterday invalidating the National Security Agency's eavesdropping program will likely be overturned rapidly, before another federal Judge's ruling from Arkansas is tested. That ruling, as commented on in the August 3, 2006 edition of The Waterbury (Connecticut) Republican-American is equally noteworthy and should be itself controversial, however:
The ivory-billed woodpecker went the way of the dodo in the 1940s. But in 2004, a kayaker claimed he saw one not far from where the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers was about to begin the irrigation project. The sighting has never been confirmed or repeated, but that didn't stop environmental groups from suing to stop the corps from cutting down trees in which the woodpecker might have lived were it not extinct.
U.S. District Judge William Wilson, a Clinton appointee, has sided with the greens, essentially saying the extinct woodpecker enjoys the protections of the Endangered Species Act. His ruling came despite a costly, taxpayer-funded study that determined the project would not cause significant damage to the extinct bird's habitat.
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Posted by: Christian Louboutin UK | March 28, 2013 at 01:17 AM
Jon, I'm glad you linked to the Andrew Sullivan post on Facebook today beusace I had no idea you guys were back. I've been checking the original URL every day since the old site finally went down for good thinking maybe a redirect would be set up. I even had a dream the blog was back once. Glad to see it's finally reality. I've really missed it.Seems I've got some catching up to do.
Posted by: Nooh | March 03, 2013 at 11:09 AM
A friend of mine just emailed me one of your articles from a while back. you read that one a few more.
Please email me if you are interested
Ciao
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