Dred Scott, Captain America

I didn't get it posted yesterday, but it was the 150th anniversary of the Dred Scott decision. In addition to the general badness of the decision, the opinion invented the "substantive due process" which is at the heart of so much liberal judicial activism today. Damn you, Roger Taney!

Marvel has killed off Captain America. Of course, that might be better than treating him like dirt. Make sure to click the second link to see what Marvel thinks America really stands for.

The web-filter SiteCoach for SiteKiosk apparently lumps together "right-wing" and pornographic content as objectionable content that needs to be filtered. They claim it's a translation error from German; I'm skeptical.

A former defense minister of Iran may be defecting to the United States. Great news, if true. It might mean actually getting some decent intelligence on Iran, what with the CIA doing everything it can to undermine itself after Iraq.