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Oct 7, 2011

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Wisconsin Constitution: The Right to Vote

"... The Wisconsin Constitution vests and warrants the right [to vote] at the time of election. Every one having the constitutional qualifications then, may to go the polls, vested with this franchise, of which no statutory condition precedent can deprive him, because the [Wisconsin] constitution makes him, by force of his present qualifications, a qualified voter at such election" [Wis. Const, art III, section 1] Wood v. Baker, 38 Wis. 71: (August 1875)] Wisc. - Wisconsin Supreme Court

Walker-Koch Tapes and Text

- Walker-Koch Tapes
- Walker-Koch Text

Recalling Scott Walker, Wisconsin Governor

The recall drive was officially begun on Tuesday, November 15 at 12:01 A.M. The recall Scott Walker movement had to gather 540,208 signatures and formally submit them to the Wisconsin Government Accountability Board (GAB) on Tuesday, January 17th. United Wisconsin and Recall Walker announced: - OVER ONE MILLION SIGNATURES GATHERED IN HISTORIC EFFORT! -

Wisconsin Journals/Blogs

- Walker Investigation
- Walker Gate Files
- The Progressive
- Wheeler Report
- United Wisconsin to Recall Scott Walker
- Recall Scott Walker
- Ruff Talk
- Blogging Blue
- Dane 101
- WISN TV
- Politiscoop
- #!/OccupyWalker
- WalkerGate
- Democurmudgeon
- Paul Ryan Watch
- Wisconsin Supreme Court
- ACLU Madison
- Blue Cheddar
- AFL-CIO Blog
- One Wisconsin Now
- The Political Environment
- The Daily Page - Isthmus
- Caffeinated Politics
- WisOpinion
- Uppity Wisconsin
- WisconsinEye
- Waxing America
- Lost Albatross in Hintersconsin
- Wisconsin LGBT News
- Milwaukee Shepherd-Express

News Wire

Sea of individual rights

"When conservatives like [Robert] Bork treat rights as islands surrounded by a sea of government powers, they precisely reverse the view of the Founders as enshrined in the Constitution, wherein government powers are limited and specified and rendered as islands surrounded by a sea of individual rights." - Stephen Macedo in The New Right v. the Constitution

News Updates

Gothamist

Last Night's Action: 2-0
RT

In America, TV watches you: CIA to spy on people through household items
Wired Top Stories

A Google-a-Day Puzzle for Mar. 17
WISN - Milwaukee

Driver Attempts To Steal ATM From Store
Democratic Underground

Al Qaeda To Osama Bin Laden: Fox News 'Lacks Objectivity'
Firedoglake

Late Night FDL: The Cognitive Dissonance of Puppets
PolitiScoop

Lena Taylor - Victim of a Hate Crime or Harassment?
ENENEWS.COM

Kyodo: U.S. eyed blasting hole in Fukushima reactor with military explosives — Reflected sense of alarm within gov’t over cooling failure
Americablog News

The GOP 'War on the 20th Century'
Talking Points Memo

Mitt Romney, Fair and Balanced Edition
ThinkProgress

North Carolina Governor Tweets Opposition To Discriminatory Amendment
Wonk Room

North Carolina Governor Tweets Opposition To Discriminatory Amendment
2011 Political Animal

Day's End and Weekend Watch
Blogging Blue in Wisconsin

Debates: Zielinksi and Pierce, Dimitrijevic and an empty chair?
Democratic Strategist

Brownstein: Obama Gaining Cred with Public
Paul Krugman

Friday Night Music: More Sarah Jarosz
VAntage Point - DVA Blog

Intel Report, March 16
Technology and Marketing Law

Facebook's "Browsewrap" Enforced Against Kids--EKD v. Facebook
Democurmudgeon

Justice Abuser David Prosser alleged to have violated 3 Provisions of Ethics Code. Rep. Vos accuses Wis. Judicial Commission of Partisan Mission.
The BRAD BLOG

WI GOP Loses State Senate Majority as Republican Senator Resigns Before Recall
Teamster Nation

Union thug George Clooney arrested today
EFF.org Updates

Sunshine Week: Forecast Looks Cloudy for PATRIOT Act Transparency
No More Mister Nice Blog
Veterans News Now

Top 10 News For Veterans- March 16,2012
Norman G. Finkelstein

Serious Danger to Health of Administrative Detainee Hana Shalabi, on Day 27 of Her Hunger Strike
Religion Dispatches

Church’s Lawyers Have SNAP in Their Sights
Inside Scoop

Former UW football player accuses Chadima of sexual impropriety
Military Religious Freedom Foundation

HUFFINGTON POST – How a Christian Fighter Pilot and FOX News Tried to Stop Fort Bragg Atheist Festival (And Failed)
The Paul Ryan Watch

Penny-pinching Ryan spends your tax money on self-promotional budget video
The Smirking Chimp

If everyone reading this headline donated $5 right now, our fundraiser would be over before lunch*.
Democracy Now!

Paula Lerner Remembered: Emmy Award-Winning Photographer of Afghan Women
Glenn Greenwald

NPR and NYT on Americans v. Afghans
Occupy Wall Street News

Weekly Marches on Wall Street Start Today! 2PM LIBERTY SQUARE
Stephen M. Walt

Robert Kaplan to the rescue?
In These Times

The Banality of Corporate Evil
My Catbird Seat

Former Bush official warns against Iran attack
FightingBob.com

All tied--bottom of the 8th.
DoD News and Contracts

Afghan Mission Maintains Momentum, Spokesman Says
The Texas Observer

'We Have No Choice': One Woman's Ordeal with Texas' New Sonogram Law
TomDispatch

Tomgram: Barbara Ehrenreich, American Poverty, 50 Years Later
We Are the 99 Percent

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Crime and Federalism

Marc Randazza, First Amendment Lawyer, on the Rush Limbaugh Fiasco
Madison NORML

Madison NORML Examiner: Recall elections set for Wisconsin State Senators who opposed medical marijuana
Center for Constitutional Rights

Ugandan LGBT Activists File Case Against Anti-Gay U.S. Evangelical in Federal Court
Richard Falk's blog

Afghanistan: The War Turns Pathological—Withdraw!
Righthaven Victims

Judge Orders Righthaven to Forfeit 'All' Copyrights; New Auction Coming Soon
The Law Med Blog

Breaking Healthcare News March 13, 2012
VA Benefits Blog

Veterans Upward Bound Program – Help Improve Your Academic Skills
Wisconsin Gazette

Two fathers, two sons in an 'orthodox' tale
A Tiny Revolution

Mad
Pam's House Blend

By: Punditus Maximus
The Legal Satyricon

UMass Profile
Mesothelioma and Asbestos News

Montreal Hospital Loses Green Status Over Asbestos Use

Scott Walker's toxic brand of political fundamentalism

"The recall is not about public employees nor is it about politics as usual. It is about Walker's toxic brand of political fundamentalism -- heartless and historically unprecedented -- that should repel fair-minded, mainstream voters everywhere."
- Paul Fanlund in the Capital Times

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Civil Rights in the Political Culture

- WhiteHouse.Gov
- The Truth about Voter Fraud, a GOP Lie
- Prop 8 Trial Tracker
- Targeting Black Milwaukee Voters, and Black Voters Across the Nation (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Employment and Training Institute)
- Milwaukee County Dumpster May Hold Key to WalkerGate
- Open Secrets, The Center for Responsive Politics
- Wisconsin Vietnam Stories
- Brennan Center for Justice
- The ADL and its Marriage to the Enemies of Tolerance, Pluralism and Civil Rights
- SNAP, Survivors' Network of those Abused by Priests
- C-SPAN Video Library
- Scalia, Thomas: "'actual innocence' is [not] constitutionally Cognizable"
- Harper's on innocent, jailed Wisconsin veteran

Politics Coverage

East Bay, Cali News - Veracity Voice - New York Mag - Blue Collarmamma - Democratic Underground - MoveOn - Crytogon - The New York Review of Books - The New Yorker - After Downing Street - McClatchy News - Huffington Post - J-Street - God's Own Party - Center for Media and Democracy - Smirking Chimp - AlterNet - Criminal State - Jewish Voice for Peace - Wonkette - The Advocate - Democracy, Journal of Ideas - Michael Moore - Salon - Uri Avnery - RebelReports - TomDispatch - FireDogLake - The Electronic Intifada - Democracy Now - Foreign Policy in Focus - Harper’s - CounterPunch - Juan Cole, Informed Comment - The Brad Blog - Pdxjustice Media Productions - The Nation - Noam Chomsky - Uppity Wisconsin - AmericaBlog - Washington Independent - Z-Net - Consortium News - Common Dreams - Truth Dig - TruthOut - SCOTUSBlog - Senate Guru - Election Law at Moritz - Supreme Court Opinions at Cornell Law School

President Theodore Roosevelt on Veterans

"A man who is good enough to shed his blood for his country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards. More than that no man is entitled, and less than that no man shall have." - President Theodore Roosevelt. Speech to veterans, Springfield, IL, July 4, 1903

Americans opposing Gov. Scott Walker - March 12, Madison, Wisconsin [Photo: Leon]

Paul Ryan and his Ayn Rand-worshipping colleagues are after your Social Security and Medicare

I left as an act of rational self-interest. Having gutted private-sector pensions and health benefits as a result of their embrace of outsourcing, union busting and 'shareholder value' the GOP now thinks it is only fair that public-sector workers give up their pensions and benefits, too. Hence the intensification of the GOP's decades-long campaign of scorn against government workers. Under the circumstances, it is simply safer to be a current retiree rather than a prospective one.

If you think Paul Ryan and his Ayn Rand-worshipping colleagues aren't after your Social Security and Medicare, I am here to disabuse you of your naiveté. They will move heaven and earth to force through tax cuts that will so starve the government of revenue that they will be 'forced' to make 'hard choices' - and that doesn't mean repealing those very same tax cuts, it means cutting the benefits for which you worked.
- Mike Lofgren, who retired on June 17 after 28 years as a Republican Congressional staffer. TruthOut, Saturday September 3, 2011

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American prison system

"The .... current American prison system, is a leviathan unmatched in human history,"
- Glenn C. Loury in Boston Review.

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Veterans' News/Resources

Veterans for Change - Veterans' Attorney, Robert Walsh -- Veterans for Common Sense - Asbestos & Mesothelioma News - Take Action: AGILE - Actionable Gulf War Illness Education - YankeeMedicRecords - Study Suggests 20-25% of All Mesothelioma Cases Unreported - Half the Afghanistan and Iraq Veterans Treated by VA Receive Mental Health Care - GOP and Tea Party Slash Veterans' Right to Attorneys - Stardust Radio - Veterans' Suicide Prevention Hotline [1-800-273-8255, Veterans Press 1] - Operation Firing for Effect - Fix the VA Movement - Wisconsin Vietnam War Stories - 91Outcomes - Blaming the Veteran: The Politics of PTSD (Ford, Huber, and Meagher) - PTSD Combat: Winning the War Within - Nam Guardian Angel PTSD Shield - Military Connections/Resources - Veterans' Attorney, Robert Walsh - Veterans for Common Sense - Veterans for Politics - Economic Costs of the Military-Industrial Complex - Vietnam War Resources - Vietnam Center and Archive - Veterans' Post - Vets for Justice - The Veteran Voice - VA Watchdog - IAVA - Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America - Relieving Stress - Post's PTSD Primer - The American Vets and Servicemembers Survival Guide - Vote Vets - Military Veterans' Vital Phone Numbers

100,000 people in the street - Feb 26, 2011

Partisan Politics

- Larry J. Saboto's Crystal Ball - TNR - Politics Daily - Political Wire - Daily Beast - Daily Kos - MyDD - The Hotline - Real Clear Politics - The Note - Talking Points Memo - 538.com - Pollster.com - The Page - Washington Wire - Politico - Roll Call - The Hill - Washington Whispers

120,000-plus people in the street - March 12, 2011

The Wisconsin Values Budget - A Balanced Approach

Economic Coverage

Insights on the Crisis

- Baseline Scenario
- Naked Capitalism
- Paul Krugman's Blog (NYT)
- Henry Blodget (The Business Insider)
- Financial News - Tech Ticker
- Nouriel Roubini's Global EconoMonitor
- MunKnee.com
- Brad DeLong's Grasping Reality with Both Hands
- Joseph E. Stiglitz on the Financial Crisis
- Nation Magazine Financial Meltdown 101
- Robert Shiller's Homepage
- Robert Reich's blog
- Robert Kuttner
- The Atlantic: The Quiet Coup (May 2009)

Radar Map

- Weather Radar - [Point and Click.]

National Weather Sites

- America's Weather -
- Severe Weather Map -

The Kincannon Firm Launches Class Action Suit Against Righthaven

Former or current Righthaven defendant, settled, litigating? Join the Kincannon Firm Class Action Suit Against Righthaven

Righthaven Victims and Legal Copyright Sites

- Righthaven Victims - Legal Copyright Cases Filed (Justia.com) - Randazza Legal Group - Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) - Santangelo Law Offices, PC - Citizen Media Law Project - Vegas Inc Righthaven Coverage

Human Rights, Civil Rights

- Brennan Center for Justice
- Hector Jordan, Trail-blazing Latino Hero
- Universal Declaration of Human Rights
- Fourth Geneva Convention (full text)
- Innocence Project, Wisconsin-Madison Law School
- Military Religious Freedom Foundation
- Center for Constitutional Rights
- Amnesty International
- Southern Poverty Law Center
- Cultures of Resistance
- Witness Gaza
- Association for Civil Rights in Israel
- B'TSELEM - The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories
- Palestinian Center for Human Rights
- Rachel Corrie Foundation for Peace and Justice
- Free Gaza Mission
- NAACP Legal Defense Fund
- Guantanamo: Beyond the Law
- National Committee to Free the Cuban Five
- ACLU
- Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law
- Boumediene v. Bush/Al Odah v. US, opinion preserving habeas corpus -
- United States Constitution
- Mordechai Vanunu Site
- National Council of La Raza
- Anti-Defamation League
- Bill of Rights Defense Committee
- Human Rights First
- Council on American-Islamic Relations
- American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee

Fourth Amendment

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

Robert H. Jackson on the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg

“That four great nations, flushed with victory and stung with injury stay the hand of vengeance and voluntarily submit their captive enemies to the judgment of the law is one of the most significant tributes that Power has ever paid to Reason.”
— Opening Statement before the International Military Tribunal; November 21, 1945, in the Palace of Justice at Nuremberg, Germany. Justice Robert H. Jackson, Chief of Counsel for the United States, made his opening statement to the International Military Tribunal in Case No. 1, The United States of America, the French Republic, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics v. Hermann Wilhelm Göring, et al.

- Advice for Prosecutors from a Brilliant Jurist -

"Any prosecutor who risks his day-to-day professional name for fair dealing to build up statistics of success has a perverted sense of practical values, as well as defects of character. Whether one seeks promotion to a judgeship, as many prosecutors rightly do, or whether he returns to private practice, he can have no better asset than to have his profession recognize that his attitude toward those who feel his power has been dispassionate, reasonable and just." - Attorney General Robert H. Jackson, April 1, 1940.

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Legal Cases

- Perry, Stier, Katami and Zarrillo v. Schwarzenegger, filed by the American Foundation for Equal Rights

Nam Guardian Angel Sites

- Veterans Today
- Death Because They Served Video
- PTSD, When the War Comes Home
- Iraq and Vietnam: PTSD

Superb Children's Books

Children's Books

Media on Airman Jailed Vet Keith Roberts (1968-71)

- VA Document Contradicts US Atty in Jailed Vet Case
- Harper's Mag. Scott Horton: US Attorneys' scandal - US Atty Stephen Biskupic (September 7, 2007)

Public Health Resources

- Wisconsin Department of Health Services
- Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene (WSLH)—[Updated resources for Wisconsin laboratories, testing sites, and health care facilities]
- U.S. CDC H1N1 Flu (Swine Flu) Info
- WHO (World Health Organization)

When the Earth Moves Again

(A)nd if you care to see the future; look into the eyes of your young and dancing children…

- Paul Kantner, Jefferson Airplane (1971)

Robert Jackson's "The Federal Prosecutor"

- [Jackson should be required reading for all U.S. Attys and prosecutors.]

Bertrand Russell

"Those whose lives are fruitful to themselves, totheir friends, or to the world are inspired by hope and sustained by joy: they see in imagination the things that might be and the way in which they are to be brought into existence. In their private relations they are not pre-occupied with anxiety lest they should lose such affection and respect as they receive: they are engaged in giving affection and respect freely, and the reward comes ofitself without their seeking. In their work they are not haunted by jealousy of competitors, but concerned with the actual matter that has to be done. In politics, they do not spend time and passion defending unjust privileges of their class or nation, but they aim at making the world as a whole happier, less cruel, less full of conflict between rival greeds, and more full of human beings whose growth has not been dwarfed and stunted by oppression."

- Bertrand Russell
Proposed Roads To Freedom
(1918, Cornwall Press, Inc, Cornwall NY)

U.S. Supreme Court Decisions

- Michigan Dept of State Police v. Sitz (1988); Rehnquist Court allows police roadblocks; Brennan-Marshall-Stevens dissent

U.S. Senate and House Members

- U.S. Senate Members
- U.S. House Members

Michael Leon

MAL: Michael Leon is a writer living in Madison, Wisconsin. His writing has appeared nationally in The Progressive, The Advocate, In These Times and CounterPunch, and locally in the Isthmus and the Capital Times. Leon works as a writer, editor, veterans' advocate, and public relations consultant.

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