Well, that's debatable, but last week the High Court handed down a decision in the case Hudson v. Michigan, which has legal scholars (and bloggers) buzzing about the implications for other 4th Amendment protections.

Some may remember back to about a year ago when a small scandal hit the airwaves when it was revealed that the Bush administration was paying journalists to plant false stories about the war effort (and America in general) over in Iraq. In other words, "propaganda."

And who is winning? The Patriot Act by a wide margin. As everyone by now knows, our National Security Agency (NSA) has been taking part in spying activities without warrants and which tend to cast a much larger net than the Bush administration originally acknowledged. The Bush administration refers to the program as "The Terrorist Surveillance Program" but the problem, legally at least, is that millions of Americans with no known or suspected ties to terrorism have been caught up in the governments vast data mining operation by using private companies like AT&T, Bell South etc. to listen in on private phone calls en masse.

As many know by now, Dick Cheney's daughter, Mary Cheney, has a new book out called 'Now It's My Turn' and it discusses, among other things, her stance on gay and lesbian civil rights and how her family reacted to her "coming out."

A trip around the blogosphere yielded some interesting finds in the world of legal blogs. First, Space Law Probe discusses a very specialized area of law- all the legal issues surrounding law in outer space. I have to admit this is something I know nothing about. And understandably it's no small matter as more and more governments are trying to create space stations and private citizens are planning trips to outer space: