The circuit court, of Oakland County, michigan, decides people v. Kevorkian: the jury finds Jack Kevorkian, a retired pathologist, not guilty of physician assisted suicide, in the death of Merian Frederick, a 72-year-old with Lou Gehrig’s disease, and of Dr. Ali Khalili, a 61-year-old with bone cancer.  This is the second time in which he has been acquitted through Jury Nullification (the act of a fully informed Jury, empowered through self-knowledge, to judge the decrees and the evidence in question).

       [restored 8/26/2023]

       Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf, a staring guard for the National Basketball Association’s Denver Nuggets, refuses to stand for the playing of the “Star Spangled Banner,” citing the United states flag as a “a symbol of oppression, of tyranny.  This country has a long history of that.  I don’t think you can argue the facts.  You can’t be for God and for oppression.”

       NOTE: Although Abdul-Rauf uses the word “country” here, the editors believe that he meant to use the word “nation,” in which a central government, with almost limitless power, treats its constituent states as mere enclaves, provinces, or sub-divisions of its greater self; as opposed to “Union,” which is a union of sovereign States under a federal system, with a central government whose powers are strictly limited by a respected Constitution.

        [added 3/26/2023]