Lead poisoning blinds Justice
It’s 44 years later, and the bullets Lee Harvey Oswald fired at President Kennedy are still claiming victims. During its investigation of the Kennedy assassination, the FBI introduced a new forensic tool: comparative bullet-lead analysis. But the FBI’s tool, which has been used in an estimated 2,500 cases, is as fictional as [...]

A subpoena for the Secretary of State
Normally she spends her days presiding over foreign messes, but now Condoleezza Rice has a mess wholly contained within the Washington D.C. metro area on her hands. If nothing else, it should make for a nice change of pace.

The Consumer Product Safety Commission Road Show
Turns out that Santa isn’t the only one who combines toys and traveling. Nancy A. Nord, head of the Consumer Product Safety Commission, has been traveling the world on the dime of toy makers and other manufacturers she’s supposed to be regulating. Looks like someone might end up on [...]

Or pornographers with no pornography
During its Tuesday session, several justices of the US Supreme Court “seemed to be looking for ways to save” the latest anti-kiddie porn law passed by Congress, according to the Washington Post. A federal appeals court has already struck down the law for being overly broad.
How broad is it?