In May, I reported that it looked like it would soon be legal in Illinois to take or possess "fur-bearing mammals found dead or unintentionally killed by a vehicle along a roadway," given that the state Senate had just passed the…
Below are some legal provisions, the first of which you may recognize if you aren't a member of the City Council of Gould, Arkansas. Congress shall make no law … abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or…
Again proving that he is generally willing to say what he really thinks as long as he's not running for office, John McCain took to the Senate floor yesterday to bash GOP lawmakers who aren't supporting the Boehner plan, and…
You've probably heard something about how the country is trillions in debt, and that because we can't control the deficit we need to raise the national debt limit again so the government can legally borrow more money. Now it looks…
Last week I wrote about how hundreds of thousands of Americans were demanding a federal law making it a felony to delay making a missing-child report, although the federal government doesn't have the authority to do that. I acknowledged that…
According to Change.org, an online-petition site, over a quarter of a million Americans signed a petition calling for a federal law that would make it a felony for a parent to fail to report a child's death or disappearance within a specified…
The headline on this New York Times item is "House Sends Obama Message With Libya Votes." That message: "we are completely ineffectual blowhards." First, the House failed to pass Joint Resolution 68, which would have authorized the use of armed force…
Well, tripartisanship, anyway. In April, deputies in Kyrgyzstan's parliament participated in a traditional ceremony in which they sacrificed seven sheep in order to drive "evil spirits" out of the chamber. It was hoped that this tradition would win out over another…
“Noodling” is also known as “handfishing,” but that still doesn’t quite convey how this works.
In a meeting Monday night, the governing committee of Hopewell Township, New Jersey, finally passed chicken legislation it had been working on for no fewer than three years. Among other things, the measure requires the chickens to practice safe sex….