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A recent episode of the television animated comedy "South Park" mocked Tom Cruise -- suggesting that he is homosexual, and lying to hide that fact. Could Cruise bring a defamation suit against the show?

<p>Stanislaus County Superior Court judges acted improperly when, at the request of law enforcement, they sealed search warrants in two Modesto investigations, one of those judges ruled Friday.</p> <p>"The law says what the law says," declared Judge Roger M. Beauchesne, who had sealed one of the warrants. "The court erred in not providing proper notice to the public with regard to the sealing of all of the search warrants in both of these matters."</p>

TONY BLAIR has fought two wars, one as the ally of President Clinton, the other of President Bush. His first war was fought, with European support, against Serbia. The second, with European opposition, against Iraq. Both ended in victory. Both were fought against aggressive dictators. The first war had the sympathy of the Left; the second has faced the Left’s hostility. Was either of them lawful, and, if so, on what ground? The Kosovo case was taken by Yugoslavia to the International Court of Justice in the Hague; Britain argued on a technical point that it fell outside the court’s...

WELCOME TO SODOM AND GOMORRAH, U.S.A. (UPDATED) by Timothy Rollins, Editor and Publisher March 18, 2004 The homosexual lobby can say what they like, but the fact remains these so-called 'gay marriages' are neither legitimate nor lawful, despite what San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom or New Paltz, New York Mayor Jason West may think. Newsom cites the equal protection under the laws clause of the California State Constitution as his justification for violating Proposition 22, the ballot initiative overwhelmingly passed by California voters in 2002 that specifically prohibits marriage between two persons of the same gender.I recently spoke with an...

A pattern of aggression Iraq was not the first illegal US-led attack on a sovereign state in recent times. The precedent was set in 1999 in Yugoslavia writes Kate Hudson Thursday August 14, 2003 The Guardian The legality of the war against Iraq remains the focus of intense debate - as is the challenge it poses to the post-second-world-war order, based on the inviolability of sovereign states. That challenge, however, is not a new one. The precursor is without doubt Nato's 1999 attack on Yugoslavia, also carried out without UN support. Look again at how the US and its allies...

BRUSSELS, Belgium - The European Union (news - web sites) said Wednesday it would examine whether the United States violates world trade rules with its decision to bar countries that opposed its war in Iraq (news - web sites) from bidding for $18.6 billion worth reconstruction contracts. AP Photo   France, Germany and other U.S. allies were angered and surprised by the Pentagon (news - web sites) decision — which forbids bids by countries with no troops in Iraq — seen as a slap after efforts to patch up the trans-Atlantic divisions over the Iraq war. Canada suggested it might...

By Gail ApplesonNEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals judge said on Monday that allowing the president unchecked power to jail Americans indefinitely as part of the war on terrorism could have an "unprecedented" impact on Americans' legal rights.   U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Barrington Parker Jr. made his comments during arguments in the case of "dirty bomb" suspect Jose Padilla, 33, a U.S. citizen held incommunicado as an enemy combatant for the past 18 months. Padilla, a New Yorker, has not been charged with any crime and is barred from communicating with lawyers. Padilla is a...

<p>NEW YORK — When news surfaced that Harvey Milk High School (search), a fully accredited public school for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered students, would expand its programs to become a fully-fledged high school next month, many education experts were surprised to learn that classrooms could be legally segregated based on sexual orientation.</p>

MOSCOW (AFP) - Russia and other countries will ask the United Nations (news - web sites) to rule whether the US-led war on Iraq (news - web sites) is legal, Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov revealed. "With other states, we will put this question before the UN's legal department. It is very important that these arguments (about the legality of US actions) are confirmed," he told the State Duma lower house of parliament. "This is the only way that we can use them as a strong weapon," Ivanov added. "If the UN Security Council describes the US actions as an...

Our U.S. Constitution is an agreement between We the People and our public servants. It is the rules of the game agreed upon before the Senate, house, executive and judicial branch of government were set into motion. It is the document that allows them to exist at all. In this legal document of ours we set down specific duties to be performed by the various branches we brought into existance. We also set limits to the power they could wield and expressley forbade them others. Article I section 9: "No capitation, or other direct tax shall be laid unless in...