Perhaps the most interesting part was that the justices did not land on "partisan" positions in these highly important cases (Scalia, for one, voted against the government in Hamdi). Neither did they, as one could be tempted to believe from reading European media, hand the Bush administration a total, stinging defeat.
The court has spoken: Guantanamo Bay is no legal limbo.
Richard Streeter of Las Vegas is not going to forget Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 anytime soon. When leaving the theatre, he was met with some MoveOn characters handing out leaflets. When Streeter expressed the opinion that Kerry was no better than Bush or vice versa, the leftist activists spat on him and assaulted him, shoving him to the ground.
Insurance brokers Patricia and Graham Wadsworth has moved office because a judge has ruled that the neighbour's eccentric behaviour was not in violation of any court order.
The neighbour Stefan Halan embarrassed the business couple and their clients by performing in his bedroom window, pretending to have sex with a blow-up sheep or pig.
Tim Blair is back, and he linked to a very interesting (and horrible) article in Lebanon's Daily Star: To Saddam's prisoners, US abuse seems 'a joke'. The abuse described in that article, if you can stomach reading it, is certainly no joke. It is evil on an almost unprecedented scale.
It must never be forgotten that those who say that the decision to remove Saddam's regime by force was wrong, would rather have the old regime with its torture and mass murder to continue.
Taking everybody by surprise, most notably the terrorists, the US has returned sovereignity to Iraq two days ahead of schedule in a low key ceremony.
Led by Iraq's interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi, each member of the new government placed a hand on the Koran and promised to serve with sincerity and impartiality. Iraqi flags lined the wall behind them.
Allawi called national unity "a sacred duty" and called for the international community, including Arab nations, "to work together to handle problems in the area in a civilized manner."
"We will not forget who stood by and against us," Allawi said at the swearing in ceremony, a clear warning to insurgents trying to topple the government.
Software on a Nasa spacecraft was able to independently identify and make scientific observations on volcanic activity on Mt Erebus in Antarctica without human interference. Check out news on the Space Technology 6 Autonomous Sciencecraft Experiment.
