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...story from October 10, 2002 titled “What If It Were All a Lie?” explains that microwaves do not violate any sort of state or local fire code, nor—according to the Cambridge Fire Department??��s Fire Prevention Bureau—do they even constitute a particularly notable fire hazard (there are many microwaves available that are cheaper than the HSA microfridge and run on a lower wattage, low wattage being the alleged reason for the microfridge’s safe and legal status). Rather, it is the state sanitary code...
...Justice Department??��s concession appears to be at least a partial victory for Lambda, which focused on the standing issue in its January brief but did not weigh in on the merits of the Pentagon policy itself...
Bloomberg Professor of Law Martha L. Minow, who spearheaded the effort to file the HLS brief last month, agreed that the Justice Department??��s choice not to respond to the faculty’s argument indicated a substantial weakness in the government’s case...
...certainly knows how to look busy when it comes to defending the homeland, and his administration’s commitment to the War on Terror is almost never questioned. Just peruse the list: invading Afghanistan, invading Iraq, setting up military tribunals to try suspected terrorists, dramatically increasing the Justice Department??��s surveillance authority, holding suspected terrorists without charges or access to a lawyer, slowing down the process of issuing visas to students and visitors, requiring people from “problem” countries to register their pictures and fingerprints with the Department of Homeland Security...
It’s hardly the first time this administration has suffered from unease at the drop of a nipple. It was almost exactly two years ago when John Ashcroft ordered the Justice Department to cover the exposed breast of a statue in the lobby of the Department??��s Washington office building, at a cost of $8,000. At the time, some remarked on how this reminded them of other religious zealots who took offense to nudity and to statues—the Taliban came to mind, though in all fairness they preferred blowing up statues to covering...