11/5 Slate Magazine

Please add updates@feedmyinbox.com to your address book to make sure you receive these messages in the future. Slate Magazine Does the Constitution protect prosecutors who fabricate evidence? November 4, 2009 at 10:17 pm For you constitutional-law scholars out there with casebooks to update, you may soon have an addition to the growing chapter of cases called "It Sucks To Be You." The facts of Pottawattamie County v. McGhee, the case the Supreme Court hears today, are spectacularly awful. But they may also prove spectacularly immaterial. In the Roberts Court era, "It Sucks To Be You" is a booming industry: Instances of shocking constitutional wrongs that cannot be corrected by constitutional courts. [more ...] Supreme Court of the United States - Supreme Court - United States Constitution - United States - Law Abortion foes and Rep. Bart Stupak meddle with private health insurance. November 4, 2009 at 10:12 pm There is very little to like about private health insurance as it exists today in the United States, but it does have one advantage over health insurance funded by the federal government: You can use it to pay for an abortion. Now antiabortion groups and their allies in Congress want to whittle away at that distinction. The vehicle is the health care reform bill. [more ...] United States - Health insurance - Insurance - United States Congress - Federal government of the United States How does the U.S. make sure Afghan policemen aren't terrorists? November 4, 2009 at 9:03 pm A Taliban member who'd infiltrated the Afghan police force killed five British soldiers in Helmand Province Tuesday afternoon. A similar incident occurred last month when a policeman on patrol with U.S. troops opened fire on American soldiers, killing two. How does the United States make sure the Afghan policemen aren't really terrorists? [more ...] United States - Taliban - Helmand Province - United States Army - United States armed forces Slate's Culture Gabfest on ABC's Modern Family, Tad Friend's Cheerful Money, and 100 things restaurant staffers should never do. November 4, 2009 at 6:34 pm Listen to Gabfest No. 59 with Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens, June Thomas and Julia Turner by clicking the arrow on the audio player below: [more ...] Modern Family - American Broadcasting Company - ABC - Economic - United States The Greatest Trade Ever: A podcast with author Gregory Zuckerman. November 4, 2009 at 5:42 pm The Big Money presents Every Day I Read the Book, featuring Daniel Gross. Dan's guest is Gregory Zuckerman, author of the book The Greatest Trade Ever: The Behind-the-Scenes Story of How John Paulson Defied Wall Street and Made Financial History. [more ...] Daniel Gross - Author - Big Money - Wall Street - Arts Despite the one-child policy, millions of Chinese citizens don't know how to have sex without getting pregnant. November 4, 2009 at 4:47 pm BEIJING—The first time Hu Jing tried to have sex with her college boyfriend, there was a technical difficulty. "We knew we had to use a condom," she said. "But we didn't know how." [more ...] Condom - Birth control - Health - Reproductive health - Barrier Methods Are invasive species really that bad for the environment? November 4, 2009 at 4:30 pm Tamarisk, a Eurasian shrub, is your classic invasive species—designated one of America's "least wanted" plants by the National Parks Service. In recent decades, it has spread along Southwestern riverbanks, replacing native trees such as willows and cottonwoods. For nature lovers in the region, tamarisks (also known as saltcedars) rank somewhere between Land Rovers and James Inhofe. Measures to thwart them include burning, herbicides, and "tammy whacking" (physical removal sometimes done by freelance volunteers). A few years ago, the USDA let loose thousands of leaf-eating Asian beetles in order to sic them on tamarisks, which die from the defoliation. [more ...] Invasive species - National Park Service - United States - Land Rover - Environment "This Bitch Owns Her Own Harley" November 4, 2009 at 3:42 pm A daily video from Slate V. [more ...] Harley-Davidson - Motorcycle - Business - Makes and Models - Automotive Did Joe Harris Sullivan have a fair trial? November 4, 2009 at 3:35 pm Next week the Supreme Court will hear arguments, in Sullivan v. Florida, about whether sentencing a 13-year-old boy to prison without the possibility of parole violates the cruel-and–unusual-punishment clause of the Constitution. Joe Harris Sullivan is one of two teenagers that young currently doing life without parole for a nonhomicide offense in the United States. His lawyers are hoping that the court will extend its 2005 bar on executing criminals who committed crimes as juveniles to Sullivan's sentence. [more ...] United States - Supreme Court of the United States - Supreme Court - United States Constitution - Life imprisonment Augustus Saint-Gaudens, America's greatest public sculptor. November 4, 2009 at 10:04 am You don't see great public sculptors like Augustus Saint-Gaudens anymore. [more ...] Sculpture - Augustus Saint-Gaudens - art - Visual Arts - History Advertisement: November 4, 2009 at 10:04 am How last night's election results were bad for Obama. November 4, 2009 at 3:20 am President Obama's message of change was so powerful in 2008 that voters held on to it for an extra year. In Virginia and New Jersey they dropped the incumbent Democratic Party and went with the Republican candidates. In New Jersey, voters said change was the quality that mattered most in their vote for governor, and those voters picked Chris Christie by a margin of more than two to one. (The closely watched special election in New York's 23rd  congressional district, where independent Douglas Hoffman ran as an agent of change, was too close to call.) [more ...] New Jersey - Democratic Party - Virginia - Barack Obama - New York's 23rd congressional district   This email was sent to sati2112@gmail.com.  Create Your Account Don't want to receive this feed any longer? Unsubscribe here.