For IPS and Antiwar.com: "[S]ome of the neoconservatives former allies have publicly turned on them with a vengeance. Former Secretary of State Al Haig, a strong supporter of going to war in Iraq, shocked many here two weeks ago when he told a widely-viewed CNN Sunday talk show that the war had been "driven by the so-called neocons that hijacked my party." "He referred by name to Richard Perle of the American Enterprise Institute and the Pentagon's Defense Policy Board and former Deputy...

The Independent describes what America will be like soon. An Orwellian nightmare. CNBC reports that Google stores every keyword you use.

Damn German Nazis! "A human rights group campaigning for gypsies has filed a complaint against British comic Sacha Baron Cohen over his "Borat" film featuring a spoof Kazakh journalist who calls himself a former "gypsy catcher," German prosecutors said. "The state prosecutor's office in the northern city of Hamburg said the European Center for Antiziganism Research had brought the complaint accusing Cohen of slander, inciting violence against the Sinti and Roma gypsy groups and violating...

The Times: Despite Flawed Defense, a Death Sentence Stands: "Defense lawyers in capital cases are often criticized for conducting superficial investigations of their clients

I first heard the phrase used by John Ashcroft in his wild unfounded accusations against Steven Hatfill in the anthrax case and here and there a couple of times since. Now Thursday's New York Times quotes a California criminal investigator as saying that they have a "person of interest" in custody in the case of the arson fire set out there which killed some fire-fighters. When I get stuck on things like this, I usually turn to senior Stress blog legal correspondent, James Bovard. Me: James,...

It's too much to pick quotes out of, just go read Patrick Cockburn about what America has done to Iraq. Oh yeah, and here's Reagan's head of the NSA, Genera William E. "Iraq is the biggest strategic disaster in United State's history" Odom, on how to fix it.

Stress gets a mention by David T. Beito at the History News Network: "Little Green Footballs, once considered a leading warblog, has also moved on. Posts on Iraq, even of the "good news" sort, are few and far between these days. Instead, readers get a numbing update of every real or imagined "islamofascist" inroad in Paris or Minneapolis. LGF has said next to nothing, however, on the latest islamofascist inroads in the Iraqi or Afghan governments. As the warblogs have lost their nerve, the...

The Denver Post Via Ryan at the LRC blog: "A teenager carrying a Bible and shouting "I want Jesus" was shot twice with a police stun gun and later died at a St. Louis hospital, authorities said. In a statement obtained Tuesday by The Associated Press, police in Jerseyville, about 40 miles north of St. Louis, said 17-year-old Roger Holyfield would not acknowledge officers who approached him and he continued yelling, "I want Jesus." Police tried to calm the teen, but Holyfield became combative,...