By: Amy Miller (Diary)  |  April 9th at 08:01 AM  | 

I don’t normally stick my nose into local or district races, mostly because it conflicts with my philosophy of letting the people choose their own. damn. representatives. That being said, I do believe that the people have a right to know who they’re signing petitions against and voting for–especially when the Big Progressive Steamroller of Doom© is calling the shots. Strategically bagging elections is sort | Read More »

By: Amy Miller (Diary)  |  July 24th at 01:47 PM  | 

Today at 2:30 ET, the Senate Judiciary Committee is hosting a subcommittee hearing entitled, “Taking Back Our Democracy: Responding to Citizens United and the Rise of Super PACs.” Ilya Shapiro of the CATO Institute will be the only witness offering testimony in favor of deregulation and freedom of political speech. The other six witnesses will be shilling for the same tired “get corporate money out | Read More »

By: Amy Miller (Diary)  |  March 8th at 08:15 AM  | 

RT @lizthatch: Why do I have to buy my own tampons?!? #WarOnWomen — Sister Toldjah (@sistertoldjah) March 5, 2012 I support a woman’s right to sex. Good sex, bad sex, filthy sex, and all the sex in between. I support your right to have sex with your husband, your boyfriend, or the rando you brought home from the bar that one weekend you were bored. | Read More »

By: Amy Miller (Diary)  |  January 26th at 08:00 AM  | 

…and there was much (UNANIMOUS!) rejoicing: Justices say GPS tracker violated privacy rights: The Supreme Court on Monday unanimously ruled that the police violated the Constitution when they placed a Global Positioning System tracking device on a suspect’s car and monitored its movements for 28 days. But the justices divided 5-to-4 on the rationale for the decision, with the majority saying that the problem was | Read More »

By: Amy Miller (Diary)  |  January 4th at 08:00 AM  | 

It’s like they’re not even trying anymore: School defends ‘Occupy’ song for 8-year-olds A Virginia school district is defending a song allegedly written and performed by a group of third graders about the Occupy Wall Street movement that conservative bloggers are calling a form of indoctrination. The song, “Part of the 99,” was performed by children at Woodbrook Elementary School in Albemarle County, Virginia. A | Read More »

By: Amy Miller (Diary)  |  December 28th at 01:55 PM  | 

Since forever, I’ve existed within the realm of the Boy’s Club. To be honest, it’s really not that big of a deal. The view is very nice from where I sit–lots of powerful men in suits. I went into undergrad thinking that I was going to be an engineer; that dream was squashed by the realization that I have a personality. Maybe it was my | Read More »

By: Amy Miller (Diary)  |  December 17th at 01:13 PM  | 

I love the law. I am, above most things, an academic. I love almost everything about what I’ve spent every day of the last eight years doing; since entering law school, my appreciation for philosophy and the rule of law has only deepened, in spite of all the late nights, liberal professors, and Red Bull-induced freakouts that occasionally end with me sleeping standing up in | Read More »

By: Amy Miller (Diary)  |  October 18th at 09:00 AM  | 

When it comes to religious freedom, Americans don’t have much to worry about…yet. Even so, I’d be willing to say that anyone who has ever come out in defense of true religious freedom in the face of the rampant secularization has experienced at least substantial pushback (if not worse) against their religious beliefs. Don’t believe me? Next time you’re hanging out in a group outnumbered | Read More »

By: Amy Miller (Diary)  |  July 11th at 09:30 AM  | 

All our tubes are maybe not belong to us completely…or something: A separate internet could curb cyber threats CIVIL LIBERTARIANS, RISE! EXCELSIOR! But seriously: Several lawmakers and the current Cyber Command chief Gen. Keith Alexander are toying with the notion of creating a “.secure” domain where Fourth Amendment rights to privacy are voluntarily foregone in order to keep that corner of the Internet free of | Read More »

By: Amy Miller (Diary)  |  May 24th at 09:05 AM  | 

One of the joys of my life is reading through comment threads in search of comically inane content. You know what I’m talking about–tripe left by commenters who insist that Obama was born in Kenya during a CIA black-op on the eve of the Rapture. Or something. Internet commentary exists on a continuum, ranging anywhere from “Certifiable Insanity” to “Surprising Veracity.” Much of it exists | Read More »

By: Amy Miller (Diary)  |  May 11th at 12:15 PM  | 

NERD ALERT!!! NERD ALERT!!! NERD ALERT!!! Navy uses massive multiplayer online game to develop anti-pirate strategy To fight piracy off the coast of Africa, the U.S. Navy has deployed advanced warships, robotic drones and even elite special forces. The Navy has now added a new weapon to that fight: a “World of Warcraft”-like multiplayer game called MMOWGLI. The game brings experts from around the government | Read More »

By: Amy Miller (Diary)  |  March 21st at 12:49 PM  | 

…it’s time to rediscover the line. You know, the line that ABC has crossed by considering airing the pilot of a show called “Good Christian Bitches”: The dramedy, based on Kim Gatlin’s novel of the same name, will be brought to life by famed “Sex and the City” and “90210” executive producer Darren Star. The plot centers on the life of reformed “mean girl” Amanda, | Read More »

By: Amy Miller (Diary)  |  January 1st at 10:00 AM  | 

I wrote this a few days ago as I was suffering through a 5 hour wait at Detroit Metro. I have such an attitude problem today. Sitting in an airport at 6:13 in the morning with no wi-fi (it’s not working for some reason…default to MS Word) and a lingering hangover is just not my idea of a good time. Ever. I actually considered laying | Read More »

By: Amy Miller (Diary)  |  November 29th at 09:00 AM  | 

Daddy’s home: Confession time: I’m still looking for that special someone. That’s right, gentlemen…Amy Miller is officially on the market. Politically, that is. There’s been a lot of chatter recently about who we’d all like to take to the big dance in 2012, and honestly, I can’t bring myself to participate. I’ve got my crushes, and I don’t see those going away any time soon, | Read More »

By: Amy Miller (Diary)  |  September 30th at 04:30 PM  | 

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. That would be the First Amendment. Remember it? That little thing the Founders gave us to ensure that our speech | Read More »

By: Amy Miller (Diary)  |  August 13th at 01:18 PM  | 

[Promoted from diaries - ML] via Robert Stacy McCain, who has the exclusive. California Reporter to Republican Candidate: “We’re not interested.” A reporter for the Torrance (Calif.) Daily Breeze sent an e-mail to a political consultant saying the newspaper is “not interested” in covering Republican candidate Mattie Fein, who is challenging Democratic Rep. Jane Harman in California’s 36th District. In the e-mail sent Wednesday (see | Read More »

By: Amy Miller (Diary)  |  August 9th at 11:11 AM  | 

Busy, busy, busy: Early Struggles of Soldier Charged in Leak Case TOTALLY justify his sleazy, treasonous behavior (Okay, so that’s not the exact headline the New York Times slapped on their slobbering love letter to Bradley Manning, but it seemed close enough.) I don’t know where to begin. The only redeeming quality of this piece is that they didn’t somehow invoke the race card. (Poor, | Read More »

By: Amy Miller (Diary)  |  August 4th at 03:44 PM  | 

There’s a reason they call it “race wars”: Gunman targeted hateful, racist, managers Regard me (emphasis mine): Relatives say Thornton, 34, finally cracked after suffering racial harassment in a company where he said he was singled out for being black in a predominantly white work force. “Everybody’s got a breaking point,” said Joanne Hannah, the mother of Thornton’s longtime girlfriend. After shooting his co-workers, Thornton | Read More »

By: Amy Miller (Diary)  |  August 2nd at 11:21 AM  | 

h/t to Caleb Howe The race for Nevada’s senate seat is probably my favorite Congressional race of all–mostly because the whole thing is irritating the crap out of the progressive establishment, from the basement bloggers right on up to our friends on Capitol Hill. What once was a dead bang winner for the GOP is now anyone’s game, so say the increasingly nervous soothsayers on | Read More »

By: Amy Miller (Diary)  |  July 28th at 01:45 PM  | 

Julian Assange is at it again: Wiki-Leaked War Files Expose Identities of Afghan Informants Hundreds of Afghan lives have been put at risk by the leaking of 90,000 intelligence documents to WikiLeaks because the files identify informants working with NATO forces. In just two hours of searching the WikiLeaks archive, The Times of London found the names of dozens of Afghans credited with providing detailed | Read More »

By: Amy Miller (Diary)  |  July 21st at 10:27 AM  | 

Thus spake Luke Visconti, management consultant and Gaffemaster © at large: Luke Visconti, owner of DiversityInc, first said on CNN that Tea Party leaders are “leveraging racism” and that they have risen to power with an “anti-black Obama” message. When the anchor noted that black members are active in the conservative movement, Visconti responded: “There were Jewish concentration guard camps. Weren’t there?” Real life. It | Read More »

By: Amy Miller (Diary)  |  July 14th at 03:04 PM  | 

I mean it. This is not to be borne: NAACP accuses tea party of tolerating bigotry “We felt the time had come to stand up and say, ‘It’s time for the tea party to be responsible members of this democracy and make sure they don’t tolerate bigots or bigotry among their members,’” NAACP President Ben Jealous said ahead of the debate. “We don’t have a | Read More »

By: Amy Miller (Diary)  |  July 14th at 12:30 PM  | 

One of the greatest things about law school is all the free junk that gets thrown your way; I’ve seen a vast improvement over the free junk I got in undergrad. Not a beer coozie in sight, but here’s your free 2 GB jump drive! (INVALUABLE. LOVE. Sell my soul to Westlaw? Sign me up!) But still, it’s not really free. My tuition pays for | Read More »

By: Amy Miller (Diary)  |  June 29th at 10:00 AM  | 

First, watch this: Now, listen to this: It’s not often you see a politician show emotion while under fire; normally, that’s reserved for the activists and the pundits and the people who don’t have to worry about campaign commercials showing them sobbing into their waffles every 28 seconds. Emotional leaders make people uncomfortable–especially those people who rely solely on soundbites when forming their opinions about | Read More »

By: Amy Miller (Diary)  |  June 23rd at 11:48 AM  | 

Confession time. I am sometimes…mean…on the internet. I’m not sure I’ve ever gone more than a day without making a sarcastic comment, challenging a point, or posting an ironic LOLcat when words simply fail me. It’s just a part of the blogging culture, along with drinking enormous cups of coffee, having a love/hate relationship with Bill O’Reilly, and simultaneously shouting at the TV and tweeting | Read More »