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John Oliver (The Daily Show) hosted the 23rd Annual TCA Awards, which were given out at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills on Saturday night.

After being introduced by outgoing TCA president Rob Owen of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Oliver opened the show up with (surprise!) some political humor. Pointing out that vice president Dick Cheney was fully in charge during President Bush’s colonoscopy procedure, a ranting Oliver joked, “We should be thankful that we are alive to enjoy this evening!”

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Today were thinking the day after Thanksgiving should be a little more than a shopping dayand have even found something to maybe think about.

Were taught in grade school that Thanksgiving was a celebration between Virginia settlers and American Indians after a particularly difficult winter and all. Actually, the first Thanksgiving wasnt until 1619, and it was part of the charter of what eventually would become known as Berkley Plantation. (See Here)

To further be picky, while George Washington in 1789 proclaimed October 3rd the first day of thanksgiving in the country, Lincoln and successive presidents up until 1939 were proclaiming it to be the last Thursday in November.
This is interesting, too, because Wikipedia says that in 1939, President Franklin Roosevelt declared Thanksgiving would be the second-to-last Thursday of November rather than the last. With the country still in the midst of The Great Depression, Roosevelt thought this would give merchants a longer period to sell goods before Christmas. In any event, the first time making the date of Thanksgiving a mater of federal law didnt come about until November 26, 1941.

What brought our attention to this whole thing was this article on MSNBC this morning. We thought wed follow up on it. So .

A Washington Post article back on May 9th began, Nearly 400 years to the day that English settlers first landed in Virginia, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill that would grant federal recognition & status as sovereign nations to six Indian tribes from the state.

Enter House Bill 1294, introduced in the House on March 1, 2007, passed May 8, 2007, being sent and read twice in the Senate, then referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs.

A resolution commemorating the 400th. Anniversary of the settlement of Jamestown was introduced by Rep. JoAnn Davis, of Virginia, on April 18th. It was referred to the Senate and Committee on the Judiciary on May 9th. as well.

Anyway. Have a good weekend & shop well Thanksgiving– the day after & five months before

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Egad, it’s like a real-life telenovela in Los Angeles.

Here’s what happened last month: Mirthala Salinas, a reporter for Telemundo station KVEA, Channel 52 in Los Angeles was suspended for two months after an investigation revealed she had been having an affair with Los Angeles mayor Antonio Villaraigosa. Salinas herself, previous to the affair being exposed, reported the separation of Villaraigosa and his wife on the air. She was suspended for violating “conflict of interest” policies.

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Law firm had hand in same-sex marriage ruling (Chicago Tribune)Court’s opinion reflects some of brief’s thinking Jenner & Block had a hand in Friday’s groundbreaking decision by the Connecticut Supreme Court to legalize same-sex marriage.

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We’ll have full coverage of the Emmy Award nominations tomorrow (Thursday) morning starting just before 8:30 Eastern Time. That’s 5:30am on the West Coast, where they announce the nominations. Crazy Hollywood people getting up so early.

In the meantime, head on over to AOL and pick who you think is going to be nominated tomorrow in several categories, including Best Drama, Best Comedy, Best Actor, and Best Actress. Then come back here tomorrow morning for the live blog and see how you did.

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More use of this blog for shameless self-promotion.  The Stanley Foundation of Muscatine, Iowa commissioned during this past year a series of essays on core foreign policy issues that will matter to a new administration, whether Democratic or Republican.  Each essay is co-authored by a centrist liberal/progressive and a centrist conservative, seeking common ground across the political divide.

The essays range across many things, from the legitimate use of American miltary force to the size and composition  of the US military, nation-building and democracy, the rise of China, and many other things.  The list of contributors is stellar, and include Ivo Daalder, Francis Fukuyama, Frederick Kagan, Michael O’Hanlon, Tod Lindberg, Derek Chollet, and many others. 

The essays also include one on detainee treatment at Guantanamo in the war on terror, by yours truly and Elisa Massimino, the Washington director of Human Rights First.  Ours is titled The Cost of Confusion: Resolving Ambiguities in Detainee Treatment.

The essays have now been issued as a book, Bridging the Foreign Policy Divide: Liberals and Conservatives Find Common Ground on 10 Key Global Challenges.  It is edited by Derek Chollet, Tod Lindberg, and David Shorr (who are also all contributors to the essays).  Routledge 2007, $17.00 or so.  Out just in time for the primary season - this short collection of essays is also a very useful short text for political science or related classes.  Available at Amazon, here.

Derek, Tod, Elisa, and I did a segment on the Diane Rehm show on NPR (WAMU) last Monday, December 10, 2007, discussing the book.  Here.

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The American Bar Association Tuesday posted its 27-page Concise Guide to Lawyer Specialty Certification online.

Formal ?board certifications? for lawyers is a relative new phenomena, arising out of the perceived need in decades past for a regulation of publicly-made claims by some attorneys of special competences and a ?wake of liberalized advertising rules.?

?There has long been widespread de facto specialization in the legal profession,? the ABA?s Guide comments; ?still, most state disciplinary rules prohibited lawyers from holding themselves out as specialists.?

The Guide continues to say that there were two landmarks leading to today?s environment. The first of these was Bates & O?Steen v. State Bar of Arizona in 1977, when the Supreme Court ruled that states could only regulate advertising by attorneys only to the extent necessary to prevent ?false, deceptive, or misleading communication.? Second was the decision, 17 years ago, in Peel v. Attorney Registration & Disciplinary Comm?n. of Illinois, where the Supreme Court held that states could not constitutionally impose blanket prohibitions on truthful communication by lawyers to the effect that he/she was certified by a bona fide organization as a specialist in one or another field. That decision forced many states to reevaluate their positions.

Today, there are some 15 states ? including Ohio, Indiana, and Tennessee ? that have state-sponsored board certification. Since 1993, ABA has accredited 14 certification programs conducted by seven different private organizations. (See Here) ABA Lawyer Specialization Guide

Last week I noticed that I made JDScoop’s list of 145 lawyers and legal professionals to follow on Twitter. I came in at #137 (@bobcoffield). Also making the list is my firm’s IT Director, Bill Gardner, coming in at #69 (@oncee).

The list is a great resource to find some of the leading lawyers experienced in adopting new social media tools into their practice of law. I’ve already started following a couple of colleagues who I didn’t know were twittering.

Thanks JDScoop for including me on the list of influential legal twitters (aka litters). Thanks to Steve Mathews at stem for pointing out the post. Follow The Top Lawyer Twits

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(S02E02) Gus (to Shawn): If you slur one word I’m gonna give you an Indian burn so hot your socks will catch on fire!

Well, that was much better! After last week’s funny but unusually disjointed season premiere of Psych the show got back to the normal zaniness that fans of the show fell in love with. Actually, the difference between this episode and the season premiere proved two things. One, don’t rely on your guest stars to carry the show. Two, don’t have John Landis direct anymore episodes. Seriously, the first season finale and last week’s episode were both directed by Landis and they were both a bit off kilter. Maybe it’s better to stay away from film directors and concentrate on those who continue to direct television.

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This just in: Joe Nacchio, former Qwest CEO, has been sentenced to six years in prison. The maximum he could have faced was seven years, three months. He will pay a $19 million fine in addition to a $52 million forfeiture. More to come. Nacchio Gets Six Years

The EEOC on Friday published revised regulations on age discrimination that conform with the Supreme Court’s 2004 ruling in General Dynamics Land Systems, Inc. v. Cline. Cline rejected the notion of “reverse age discrimination” and held that it is not age discrimination for an employer to favor an older employee at the expense of a younger employee, and that such disc. The EEOC’s revised regulations, available here, clarify that the ADEA does not prohibit employers from favoring older employees over younger ones when both are protected by the Act:

It is unlawful for an employer to discriminate against an individual in any aspect of employment because that individual is 40 years old or older, unless one of the statutory exceptions applies. Favoring an older individual over a younger individual because of age is not unlawful discrimination under the ADEA, even if the younger individual is at least 40 years old. However, the ADEA does not require employers to prefer older individuals and does not affect applicable state, municipal, or local laws that prohibit such preferences.

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Ohio may soon be among the growing list on the quest for ?Green Planet Earth? and renewable energy, according to articles from the Plain Dealer and Columbus Dispatch over the past weekend, but there are otherwise problems along the way.

According to those articles, the first problem is perhaps Ohio?s deregulated electric utility law, which went into effect in Jan. 2001, but even Governor Ted Strickland thinks maybe the state would?ve been better off not having done.
He doesn?t want to go down the road of re-regulating utilities, but rather looks for a ?hybrid approach while promoting renewable energy sources such as wind & solar power, upgrading energy efficiency, and modernizing the state?s electricity system.? Current regulations expire next year.

Ohio?s 2008 budget amends provisions to ORC ?5733.39, ostensibly extending the state?s tax credit an additional two years for electric companies burning Ohio coal in qualified coal-fired electric generating unit before Jan. 2010, or Jan. 2008 for corporate franchise taxes since the corporate taxable year ends in 2009; and ?5733.48, allowing a nonrefundable credit against corporate franchise taxes to retail dealers which sell alternative fuels. ( See Here )

There are also three bills currently pending in the Ohio legislature: HB 40 would establish a council on ?sustainable energy? which would monitor activity in areas of biofuel & renewable energy for any developments that may assist in the growth in of companies in the state whose business relates to biofuel & renewable energy; HB 76 would create annual renewable energy requirements for electric utilities & service companies providing electric generation service in Ohio; SB 198 would be for a nonrefundable credit for the cost of constructing, buying, or leasing and placing into service renewable energy property on qualifying real estate.

There?s supply & demand — and timing. A Wall Street Journal article yesterday said that in recent years improved technology has made it possible to build bigger, more efficient windmills, for instance, in wind-powered electrical generators. But, ?combined with surging political support for renewable energy, that?s driven up demand, and now numerous wind-powered projects from Virginia to California have been stalled due to shortages, mostly because manufacturers can?t get parts fast enough.?

And then there?s the federal government?. In 2003 Ohio power plants, cars & trucks, homes & factories dumped an estimated 287.3 million tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, according to an April Columbus Dispatch article, ranking it fourth in the nation behind Texas, California & Pennsylvania as top polluters. And that makes the state a battleground in the growing political fight as limits on carbon dioxide limits begin to be set. On June 20th., the Environmental Protection Agency issued proposed rules setting a tougher air quality standard for ozone, though not as stringent as had been advised by the agency?s Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee. The public comment period for those rules is still open, and can be made via EPA?s site here. Ohio air pollution measures

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