Brickbats.

• Author: Oliver, Charles
• Position: Khaleed al Masri; James Cook University's Peter Ridd; Derrick Deanda

Pastor James Marino says officials in San Diego have told him to stop feeding the homeless during July, when Major League Baseball's All-Star Game comes to town.

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Shortly after Khaleed al Masri arrived at a CIA prison in Afghanistan, officials figured out they had the wrong man. In fact, al Masri--a German citizen who had been kidnapped forthe CIA by the Macedonian police--didn't appearto have any connections to terrorism. But agents continued to hold and question him for months. A recently released report says the CIA refused to release him because it couldn't figure out a way to do so without admitting its mistake.

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James Cook University, a public institution in Australia, has censured marine scientist Peter Ridd for "failing to act in a collegial way and in the academic spirit of the university." Ridd's offense? He questioned photos that the Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies and the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority claim show the health of the reef is deteriorating.

When Derrick Deanda spotted a family trapped in an overturned SUV in California, he stopped his own vehicle, got out, smashed a window on the SUV, and helped the occupants to safety. When paramedics later arrived, they checked Deanda's blood pressure and gave him a bottle of water. He later received a $143 bill from the Cosumnes Community Services District for those services.

A Georgia newspaper publisher and the newspaper's attorney were arrested after filing an open records request seeking three years' worth of canceled checks from Pickens County to two Superior Court judges. The indictment accuses them of trying to "unlawfully appropriate" a...