New Jersey art dealer, George Wieschenberg of Lambertville, was sentenced to six years of prison for being a marijuana “farmer.”
According to MSNBC, Wieschenberg, pleaded guilty to “operating a marijuana production facility,” in which he grew marijuana plants, said State Attorney General Anne Milgrim.
Back in October of 2007, New Jersey State Police officers saw large marijuana […]

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About every 2 weeks, somewhere in the US, a SWAT team raids the wrong home  
The Increasing Militarization of the America’s Police

“A Man’s Home is his Castle.”
–A proverbial expression that illustrates the principle of individual privacy, which is fundamental to the American system of government. In this regard, the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution […]

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February 5, 2008 may go down in political history as the day Rush Limbaugh lost his grip on Republican voters – and the day Ann Coulter may have lost her grip altogether.
Despite a concerted effort by the conservative chattering class to tar Sen. John McCain as a “liberal” or a “phony Republican,” and Fmr. Gov. […]

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Barack Obama won more than half of the 22 Super Duper Tuesday states (12 to Hillary Clinton’s  8) – but Hillary’s wins came from such delegate-rich states as her adopted home state of NY, as well as CA, MA and NJ. Overall, 49 percent of voters supported Hillary, 46 percent supported Obama.
Since none of the […]

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(London, UK) The Autism Awareness Campaign UK is urging the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rt.Rev. Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of York, Rt.Rev.Dr.John Sentamu, the Archbishop of Westminster, Cardinal Cormack Murphy O’Connor and other senior church leaders to speak out on the suffering of some parents, carers and people with autism and Asperger’s Syndrome on Autism Sunday […]

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Mitt Romney has a message for evangelicals: Your choice is between the Mormon and the “liberal” McCain. Reports the Los Angeles Times:
Evangelicals can “vote for Mike Huckabee and feel good about their vote,” the former governor of Massachusetts told a Missouri TV station. “But they’re basically saying, ‘We’re going to give the conservative vote - […]

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  ALONG THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL
Will A  Year of Firsts Yield 
More of The Same Old, Same Old?
 
January 30, 2008
 
By RB Scott
Boston, Massachusetts
 
Note:  RB Scott, a former staff writer and editor at Time, Life, People and Sports Illustrated, frequently writes about national politics.
 
As  the barrow pit alongside the campaign expressway collects more roadkill  (Chris Dodd, Bill Richardson, […]

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Ex-NBC Newsguy-turned-Journalism Professor Warns of Danger
Regulation by New Industry the Answer
Tom Paine, John Peter Zenger, Beware! 
People typing on keyboards endanger the Republic.
DAVID HAZINSKI offers humor from an expected source and tips about dealing with the “Evil Power of the Internet”.
Hilarious musings from an ex-NBC guy who had the sense to find other employment.
Supporters of “citizen […]

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Fmr. Gov. Mike Huckabee (R-AR) and Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) have taken the lead among Iowans who say they “definitely” or “probably” will attend their respective party caucuses on January 3rd, according to The Des Moines Register’s latest poll.
This is the first time Obama has beaten Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) in the Register’s poll (28 […]

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What’s Going to Happen?
Nobody Knows, Everybody’s Guessing
A state of confusion and shock in the college football world?
What could be better!
After #1 Missouri and #2 West Virginia both lost last night, who’s going to be in the title game is a guess–and there are plenty of those being made right now.
Here are some of the best […]

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Don’t Understand The Way the U.S. Tax System Works?
Simple Explanation from a University of Georgia Economics Professor
Beer Drinkers Will Easily Understand
Do your eyes glaze over thinking about taxes? X-box more important than tax talk?
This is the simplest explanation of how the U.S. tax system works. Beer drinkers and who pays the freight […]

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Acworth Ga, is a sleepy community some 30 miles from Atlanta, however it has been rudely awoken and is the centre of much media attention right now. Three young boys aged 8 and 9 are currently sitting in a juvenile detention centre facing rape charges. This stems from an alleged attack on an 11 year […]

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Written by Dave Dalton

This column also appears in the Tuesday, 30 October 2007 issue of the Sentinel student newspaper of Kennesaw State University in the Atlanta metro area.

I have never before seen an issue that would allow me to smack so many people at once! With the next 871 words I intend to […]

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Genarlow Wilson left prison a free man Friday, He was the 17 year old high school home coming King given a ten year prison sentence for having consentual sex with another teenage. He also faced life labeled a sexual predator.
The Georgia Supreme Court ordered his immediate release, But it took two appeals and a couple […]

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You think it takes a long, long time for a death sentence to be carried out? Try suing the MSM for libel and collecting.
Richard Jewell, the part-time security guard who discovered a lethal bomb at Centennial Olympic Park during the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta and helped hundreds of spectators flee from harm’s way minutes before […]

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In this interesting analysis, Legal Times senior editor Douglas McCollam explains that Atlanta Falcons QB Michael Vick got caught in the legal version of an illegal shift – an act that is technically illegal, but rarely enforced, unexpectedly becomes the focus of a media feeding frenzy that inflames public opinion and compels aggressive prosecutorial action […]

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And stop asking!
The owner of a car dealership in Georgia was so fed up with two of his employees who kept asking for a raise that he shot and killed them.
The 38-year old Lithuanian immigrant turned himself in two days later and has confessed to the slayings. He has been charged with two counts of […]

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Michael Vick was in court today (July 26, 2007) to plead not guilty to the federal charges against him in a disturbing dog fighting venture. No surprise here. And yes, due process is in action and he is innocent until proven guilty. But the evidence leaked thus far is pretty damning.
To read George Dohrmann’s special […]

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This week, a Georgia man set to be executed for the murder of a police officer was given a stay of execution the day before he was scheduled to die. Troy Davis, a 38-year-old man from Atlanta, Georgia, was convicted of the 1989 shooting and killing Mark MacPhail, a Savannah police officer. His stay of […]

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The newest media hype on the Tuberculosis  traveler, has its focus on the Center for Disease control. The patient is interviewed over and over, he is now not just a patient,  but a “Victim” The insinuation being made, that there was an error or an over reaction From the CDC.
The small print barely points out […]

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McDevit indicated that, to his knowledge, no one at W.W.E. knew of the Benoit deaths at the time of the Wikipedia posting, but that the wrestler and his wife had argued over care options for their mentally retarded son several days before the murders.

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On Tuesday, three men on death row were executed in Texas, Oklahoma, and Georgia. These cold-blooded killers each had three very different stories. None of them are likely to be remembered as famous killers.
The most public of the three was the execution of Patrick Knight. He and his friend Robert Bradfield were convicted of killing […]

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In a south Georgia county, a family mourns.  The husband & father of the family is busy fighting in the war, and now must worry for the safety of his wife and two children, as well as mourn the loss of Zoe.
Zoe was the beloved Siberian Husky, who was recently gunned down in cold blood […]

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Last week, Benoit wrestled his last match on ECW and won the opportunity to wrestle last night at WWE Vengeance.  However, he never showed up, leaving fans both present and watching at home to wonder about his whereabouts.  Commentators announced he was involved in a family emergency.  One report says that he called the company […]

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Yesterday, the EPA announced that it is considering reducing the allowable concentration of ozone pollution (smog, not to be confused with smug), a known contributor to many respiratory problems.
For many metro areas, the news is roughly equivalent to trying to get blood out of a turnip. For example, none of the Northeast Ohio counties surrounding […]

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The tag line was intriguing, and true: “Don’t spend Father’s Day with this guy, spend it with who really raised you: Star Wars.” Well of course I was going to watch it -I am the consummate sci-fi geek -but should others watch? Probably not, unless your sense of humor runs as far to the Dark […]

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In Atlanta, GA yesterday, yet another big fish has gone to Davey Jones’ Locker. According to the Atlanta Journal and Constitution report, an exhaustive eight hour necropsy has revealed no definitive cause of death for Norton, the 3,000 pound whale shark. Tissue samples have been preserved and shipped to various labs across the country for […]

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Justice Perverted.
This case is infuriating. It was infuriating when it was happening, and it’s infuriating now, when it’s back in the headlines. The Georgia State Attorney General deserves to be disbarred. He shouldn’t ever be allowed near a courtroom again (except as a defendant).
To very briefly summarize, at a New Years’ Eve party in 2003, […]

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As a certified scuba diver, I read with interest news of a failed attempt to use old tires to create an artificial reef off the coast of Florida.
The 1972 project was then-sanctioned by the Army Corps of Engineers.
That little fact, in and of itself, caught my attention. Not too many years after that, when I […]

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Ga. Gov. Sonny Perdue says he will look into a the Georgia Bureau of Investigation’s report on recent violence at several of the state’s prisons.
According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the “string of violence” — which includes three deaths — was big enough to be brought to Perdue’s attention.
“The governor is waiting to see the GBI’s […]

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