Impeachment and more! Political links

You’ll be fascinated to know that among other things, Obama recovering that Taliban prisoner is grounds for impeachment. Of course if he hadn’t recovered the guy, I imagine that would have been grounds too.
•A new ruling on patent law from the Supreme Court, and what it might mean in practice.
•GE Capital gives back $225 million to consumers because of questionable business practices regarding fees and credit-card protection plans.
•Pick-up artists and wannabes love their evolutionary psychology.
•A woman kidnaps her two year old daughter from her ex-husband to save her from vaccination.
•The FCC is looking into data bottlenecks imposed by Internet providers on companies such as Netflix.
•There are a number of companies suing people who download bootleg porn. There are now sites fighting the more extreme “copyright trolls” and now one porn company has labelled an anti-trolling site as a hate group.
•Blogger Roy Edroso has often said that when conservatives talk about free speech they mean “why can’t I say the N-word?” And wouldn’t you know, that’s exactly what Glen Beck says the “thought police” are doing.
•No, employers cannot force employees to accept food as wages.
•Cheese frequently upsets regulators because making it involves bacteria. The FDA is concerned about bacteria on wooden boards used in cheese-making but says it’s not banning the boards.
•London is dealing with a real-estate market catering to investors rather than homebuyers. Prices are going up, but fewer people can afford to live there.
Destin Florida, where I used to work, had the same concern: Prices were so high, living in Destin was for tourists, second-home owners, rental-home owners and well-off retirees, not people who worked there. And a city where most property owners aren’t full-time residents becomes a ghost city.
•Yes, debtors prison still exists in practice.
•What does the Supreme Court’s new EPA/greenhouse gas decision mean?
•San Francisco says drivers can’t take money to save their parking spot for someone else.
•Viacom and Cablevision are going to court over the practice of content providers (Viacom in this case) requiring cable companies take several unwanted channels to get the good ones. Of course, as noted at the link, that’s no guarantee we’ll be given the same option, even if Cablevision wins.