Did you know the Justice Department threatened several universities with legal action because they took part in an experimental program to allow students to use the Amazon Kindle for textbooks?
Last year, the schools -- among them Princeton, Arizona State and Case Western Reserve -- wanted to know if e-book readers would be more convenient and less costly than traditional textbooks. The environmentally conscious educators also wanted to reduce the huge amount of paper students use to print files from their laptops.
It seemed like a promising idea until the universities got a letter from the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division, now under an aggressive new chief, Thomas Perez, telling them they were under investigation for possible violations of the Americans With Disabilities Act.
This may be yet another symptom of the new Giant Sucking Sound: the nation’s wealth rushing to the seat of government power in the wake of the Bush Bailouts and Obama’s spectacular increase of government’s role in the economy.
A federal judge denied the federal government’s motion to dismiss Virginia’s lawsuit over the federal health care overhaul on Monday.
Va. Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli sued the federal government immediately after President Obama signed the law in March, on the grounds that the law’s individual mandate to purchase health insurance is outside the bounds the Commerce Clause of the U.S. Constitution.
While the U.S. military has developed a first-strike plan to take out Iranian nuclear facilities, the political and security consequences of taking that step make it an unlikely option, analysts said.
But the wild card in the deck remains Israel, and there is a growing sense among experts that the Jewish state make act first, and explain later, if the threat of a nuclear strike from Tehran continues to grow.
With the Obama eager to justify the GM bailout by pushing Chevy’s new “electric lemon,” Walter Olson at the indispensable Overlawyered blog discusses whether that the White House is sitting on a report that clears Toyota in the sudden acceleration fracas:
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