According to the BBC, Captain Ammar al Wawi has criticized the United States for failing first to train rebel troops and then to protect them. [read post]

  [42] If the action lay against the captain, [43] the liability was the same but the penalties would be less severe. [read post]

Cannon to right of them, Cannon to left of them, Cannon in front of them Volley’d & thunder’d; Storm’d at with shot and shell, Boldly they rode and well, Into the jaws of Death, Into the mouth of Hell Rode the six hundred [Blawg Review 141 was published slightly early after email exchange between myself and Ed of Blawg Review] Welcome Bienvenu Wilkommen Benvenuto Bienvenido to Blawg Review 141. [read post]

CHAMPIONS OF THE GIST (ANALYSIS) BRING ON A BIG CHILL  ON PRESS FREEDOMS IN TEXAS  Using its power to amend the "common law" the homogeneously Republican Texas Supreme Court has seen fit to exempt an entire industry (the legal profession) from the civil tort system by granting it "attorney immunity", but when it comes to a less captive audience, it's a different matter, even when the rights at issue are of constitutional dimensions. [read post]