Gigapan, a company which uses robotic platforms to take very high resolution digital photos has released photos from the inauguration. In the below photo, some 220 separate images were combined to make an enormous photo that contains 1,474 megapixels. Read More ...

In both a feat of linguistic talent, and a hilarious protest of American anti-intellectualism, Maureen Dowd's op-ed column in today's New York Times is written in Latin. Called by some as a response to the American obsession with parochialism, and distaste for erudition, the column is attracting attention all over the blogosphere as a sardonic diatribe on the political zeitgeist. Read More ...

Reports are coming in about Muslim children being injured in a terrorist attack at a mosque in Dayton, Ohio last Saturday. Apparently two individuals sprayed an as yet unknown gas into a section reserved for children at the Islamic Society of Greater Dayton. There were more than 300 people inside at the time, celebrating the Muslim holiday of Ramadan. Read More ...

The New York Times editorial board has written an article in today's issue calling for a no vote on California's Prop. 8. The proposition, known as the "Eliminates Right of Same-Sex Couples to Marry Act" would ban marriage equality in the state and eliminate the legal rights given to married LGBT couples under the equal protection clause of the California Constitution. Read More ...

Some photos from the DNC and RNC National Conventions are appearing online. Andrew Sullivan, a columnist with the Atlantic Monthly, highlights a photo collection by a freelance photographer on the blog, Fear and Loathing. It provides a behind-the-scenes look at the protests, and the police reaction. Read More ...

The tax law blog, TaxProf, has an interesting list of contributions made by law faculty to this year's presidential campaigns. The data was compiled from FundRace2008, which tracks campaign contributions. Read More ...

An interesting discussion on what constitutes attempted murder appears today on the blog, Volokh Conspiracy. Law professor Eugene Volokh writes about a movement within American Christian Dominionism that is calling for imprecatory prayers for John McCain so that Sarah Palin leads the Republican presidential ticket. At issue, is what constitutes "attempted murder", when the act is impossible to carry out. Read More ...

Former SCU professor, June Carbone, has written along with her colleague, Naomi Cahn an op-ed piece in the Saint Louis Post-Dispatch about the issue of teen pregnancy and the RNC Platform. Professor Carbone currently serves as a law professor at the University of Missouri-Kansas City and Professor Cahn teaches at George Washington University. Read More ...

In a rather disturbing report, Time magazine writes today about Sarah Palin, the presumptive Republican vice-presidential nominee, and her years as the mayor of smalltown Wasilla, Alaska. There are reports from Time magazine, and elsewhere, that Mayor Palin had a less than friendly relationship with her town's public librarian after she asked how to go about "banning library books". Read More ...