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Former Homeland Security attorney exposes shrewd maneuver Did Barack Obama win re-election by violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act? This is the question posed by former Homeland Security attorney Stewart Baker, a blogger for The Volokh Conspiracy, a group blog organized by Eugene Volokh, a professor of American law at the UCLA School of Law. Baker’s credentials make the question a serious one. A partner in the Washington office of Steptoe & Johnson LLP, he returned to private law practice after serving for three and a half years as the assistant secretary for policy at the Department of Homeland...

United States District Court, D. Hawaii. February 21, 1979. THE HAWAII LAW ON NAMES The basic statute in Hawaii on names was adopted in 1860. Until 1967, it was required that all children born in wedlock shall have their father's name as a "family name" and ". . . a Christian name suitable to their sex."

This appears in this morning's Dallas Morning News. Have a very blessed Nativity. *** In this corner, ladies and gentlemen, we have Leonardo DiCaprio, adorable star of "Titanic," "Catch Me If You Can," and now, "The Aviator." In the other, we have - oh, pick a name. Clark Gable, Cary Grant, even Jimmy Stewart, for cryin' out loud. Notice any difference? Such comparisons are prompted by DiCaprio's newest release, "The Aviator," in which he portrays aeronautics engineer, Hollywood mogul, and big-time player Howard Hughes. As Entertainment Weekly's Owen Gleiberman puts it, DiCaprio is "a dynamo of an actor" but "at...

Hands gripping one another's shoulders, a small group of illegal immigrants shackled at the ankles shuffled down a hallway at the Northampton County Courthouse on Wednesday. Moments after they were seated in a courtroom, deputy sheriffs herded more shackled men into the room. ''We ran out of shackles,'' Sheriff Jeffrey Hawbecker said as he watched a third group of men — these linked only by handcuffs — make its way down the hall. ''We'll order more handcuffs and shackles tomorrow, in case this happens again.'' The more than two dozen men had been held in the county prison in Easton...