Recovering Private Jessica Lynch is not too busy to write a book or be interviewed by Diane Sawyer. But she's too busy to meet the Iraqi lawyer who helped save her life --even when he visits her home town.

The Iraqi lawyer who helped U.S. forces locate Jessica Lynch paid a visit Monday to her home town, where he was showered with affection, gifts and awards. But he was unable to meet the former prisoner of war, who was too busy with other commitments, according to her spokesman.

We'll probably be too busy to read her book or watch her interview.

Recovering Private Jessica Lynch is not too busy to write a book or be interviewed by Diane Sawyer. But she's too busy to meet the Iraqi lawyer who helped save her life --even when he visits her home town.

The Iraqi lawyer who helped U.S. forces locate Jessica Lynch paid a visit Monday to her home town, where he was showered with affection, gifts and awards. But he was unable to meet the former prisoner of war, who was too busy with other commitments, according to her spokesman.

We'll probably be too busy to read her book or watch her interview.

ABC News declares that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in killing President John F. Kennedy.

ABC News has conducted an exhaustive investigation of the Kennedy assassination, complete with a computer-generated reconstruction, which irrefutably confirms that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone, the network said Monday.

A two-hour special on the event is scheduled to air Nov. 20, two days before the 40th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy's killing. "It leaves no room for doubt," said Tom Yellin, executive producer of the special, narrated by Peter Jennings. He called the results of ABC's study "enormously powerful. It's irrefutable."

ABC News declares that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in killing President John F. Kennedy.

ABC News has conducted an exhaustive investigation of the Kennedy assassination, complete with a computer-generated reconstruction, which irrefutably confirms that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone, the network said Monday.

A two-hour special on the event is scheduled to air Nov. 20, two days before the 40th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy's killing. "It leaves no room for doubt," said Tom Yellin, executive producer of the special, narrated by Peter Jennings. He called the results of ABC's study "enormously powerful. It's irrefutable."

The Claremont Eagle Times of New Hampshire has published an editorial saying that John Edwards should be smiling about the newest poll results in New Hampshire. He is in third position, behind Dean and Kerry. Why is that good news? Because, the editorial predicts, the race will ultimately be a two man race between Dean and Edwards. Here's the analysis:

The Claremont Eagle Times of New Hampshire has published an editorial saying that John Edwards should be smiling about the newest poll results in New Hampshire. He is in third position, behind Dean and Kerry. Why is that good news? Because, the editorial predicts, the race will ultimately be a two man race between Dean and Edwards. Here's the analysis:

This was posted in the comments section to an earlier piece we wrote on Tommy Chong, who is now serving his federal prison sentence. We verified the information through the Bureau of Prisons lnmate Locator webpage.

Anyone wishing to write to tommy chong may do so through this address:
Address letters to:

Thomas Kin Chong
07798-068
Taft CI
UNIT A, #4B
PO Box 7001
1500 Cadet Road
Taft, CA 93268

send him your love and let him know you care and that we are doing all we can. Thanks AMERICA

You might also want to send him some magazine subscriptions. He's not scheduled for release until July, 2004, and last time we checked, federal prisons don't allow inmates to receive hardcover books.

This was posted in the comments section to an earlier piece we wrote on Tommy Chong, who is now serving his federal prison sentence. We verified the information through the Bureau of Prisons lnmate Locator webpage.

Anyone wishing to write to tommy chong may do so through this address:
Address letters to:

Thomas Kin Chong
07798-068
Taft CI
UNIT A, #4B
PO Box 7001
1500 Cadet Road
Taft, CA 93268

send him your love and let him know you care and that we are doing all we can. Thanks AMERICA

You might also want to send him some magazine subscriptions. He's not scheduled for release until July, 2004, and last time we checked, federal prisons don't allow inmates to receive hardcover books.

No less an authority than Sam Dash, chief counsel of the Senate Watergate Committee in 1973-74 and a Georgetown University Law Professor, says the leak of CIA operative Valerie Plame's identity may violate the Patriot Act. Dash says the leak constitutes an act of domestic terrorism as defined in the legislation. He also questions whether the Justice Department will conduct the same kind of investigation it does in other suspected domestic terrorism cases. Here's just a portion of his article. We recommend you read the whole thing.

If, as now seems likely, top White House aides leaked the identity of an American undercover agent, they may have committed an act of domestic terrorism as defined by the dragnet language of the Patriot Act their boss wanted so much to help him catch terrorists.

No less an authority than Sam Dash, chief counsel of the Senate Watergate Committee in 1973-74 and a Georgetown University Law Professor, says the leak of CIA operative Valerie Plame's identity may violate the Patriot Act. Dash says the leak constitutes an act of domestic terrorism as defined in the legislation. He also questions whether the Justice Department will conduct the same kind of investigation it does in other suspected domestic terrorism cases. Here's just a portion of his article. We recommend you read the whole thing.

If, as now seems likely, top White House aides leaked the identity of an American undercover agent, they may have committed an act of domestic terrorism as defined by the dragnet language of the Patriot Act their boss wanted so much to help him catch terrorists.

Cathy Young's Boston Globe column today, Those accused of rape have rights, too, explains the importance of the rights of the accused in a sexual assault case--and using recent high-profile cases as examples, shows how overbroad application of rape shield laws are unjust.

Rape is a despicable crime, and an accusation of rape should be taken very seriously -- but the rights of the accused should be rigorously protected. After the 1997 trial of sportscaster Marv Albert, defending the judge's decision to admit compromising information about Albert's sexual past but not about his accuser's, feminist attorney Gloria Allred decried "the notion that there's some sort of moral equivalency between the defendant and the victim." Yet as long as the defendant hasn't been convicted, he and the victim are indeed moral equals in the eyes of the law.

It's frightening to put oneself in the place of a sexual assault victim who finds the intimate details of her life paraded in public. But it's at least as terrifying to imagine that you, or your husband or brother or son, could be accused of sexual assault and denied access to relevant information that could make the difference between guilt and innocence.

Cathy Young's Boston Globe column today, Those accused of rape have rights, too, explains the importance of the rights of the accused in a sexual assault case--and using recent high-profile cases as examples, shows how overbroad application of rape shield laws are unjust.

Rape is a despicable crime, and an accusation of rape should be taken very seriously -- but the rights of the accused should be rigorously protected. After the 1997 trial of sportscaster Marv Albert, defending the judge's decision to admit compromising information about Albert's sexual past but not about his accuser's, feminist attorney Gloria Allred decried "the notion that there's some sort of moral equivalency between the defendant and the victim." Yet as long as the defendant hasn't been convicted, he and the victim are indeed moral equals in the eyes of the law.

It's frightening to put oneself in the place of a sexual assault victim who finds the intimate details of her life paraded in public. But it's at least as terrifying to imagine that you, or your husband or brother or son, could be accused of sexual assault and denied access to relevant information that could make the difference between guilt and innocence.