Freedom Lawyers of America

House to vote on horse slaughter banFox News"The House is once again confronting the slaughter of horses for meat,a practice lawmakers thought they had ended last year. Congress votedin 2005 to stop horse slaughter. But they didn't ban it outright --lawmakers yanked the salaries and expenses of federal inspectors. Inresponse, the Bush administration simply started charging slaughterplants for inspections. A vote was planned Thursday on whether to putan end to horse slaughter. Critics call the industry un-American."[editor's note: Er, no ... having the government decide whichlivestock can be killed and which can only be entered in rodeos iswhat's "un-American" - TLK] (09/07/06)http://www.foxnews.com/wires/2006Sep07/0,4670,HorseSlaughter,00.html

Latest anti-porn target: Hotel room TVChristian Science Monitor"It's a business that has become quietly entrenched in America'scorporate culture: pay-per-view pornography in hotel rooms. Most largechains provide the service, along with standard-issue films. Thepay-per-view service has brought hotels millions of dollars a year.But these days, the US hotel business is also attracting moral outrageand vitriol -- on a scale that pornography insiders say amounts to oneof the largest organized assaults on the skin business in recentmemory. A consortium of 13 conservative groups has createdCleanHotels.com, a website that provides listings and reservationservices for US hotels where travelers can rest safe from taint ortemptation. The conservative groups have also run a series offull-page ads in USA Today, urging authorities to prosecute hoteliersunder federal and local obscenity statutes." [editor's note: If theonly intention is to alert folks to alternatives, there is littlewrong here; unfortunately, most of these groups tend to censorship,not choice - SAT] (09/06/06)http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0906/p03s03-ussc.html

UT: Polygamist leader appears in courtForbes"Looking pale and gaunt in a green-striped jail uniform, polygamistsect leader Warren Jeffs made his first appearance in a Utah court viaclosed-circuit TV Wednesday on charges he arranged a marriage betweenan underage girl and an older man. Jeffs, 50, is charged with twocounts of rape as an accomplice. The charges carry up to life inprison. He is being held in the Purgatory Correctional Facility innearby Hurricane." [I've heard a number of horror story's aboutJeffs's sect ... but apparently all the prosecutors could come up withwas a shaky accessory to statutory rape case. This guy was on theFBI's "most wanted" list -- but they haven't bothered to indict Osamabin Laden for 9/11 yet! - TLK] (09/06/06)http://www.forbes.com/home/feeds/ap/2006/09/06/ap2997697.html