Walking out the door, my to-be husband whispered to me that she wouldn’t have done that if he hadn’t been standing behind me. He truly believed that the only reason she asked for my ID was because I was with a minority. Nothing could have been further from the truth.

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Now, I understand that Professor Gates had just returned from a long trip. I know that when I come home from a long trip, I am tired and crabby. It had to further aggravate him that when trying to get into his home to finally kick his shoes off and rest, the door was jammed. Topping off a long and tiring day, the police showed up and began questioning him. All he wanted to do was take a hot shower and go to bed, right? That’s all understandable. But none of it was Crowley’s fault and there is no indication that racial profiling occurred.

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I once was wending my way home after a midnight flight when I saw the blue lights of a cop car telling me to pull over.
Now, I was tired (coming back from a weekend ER shift in another state) and cranky. And, I was alone on a stretch of lonely rural road where two women […]

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I wasn’t too surprised that Proposition 8,which defended traditional marriage, passed in California because of the large number of Black and Hispanic Democrats who voted against it.
Their votes were actually about how people traditionally live together, and the place of marriage in society, but fifty years after the sexual revolution, one doubts that the mainstream […]

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A few days ago, a sister forwarded a plea that I join thousands of Mormons like us in protesting this Sunday’s segment of Big Love, which will include a portrayal of the temple rites practiced and held sacred by faithful members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Instead of training my keyboard […]

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“That we allow defense attorneys to obfuscate and eroticize rape trials as a way of distorting the truth to produce an unfair result only adds insult to injury.” I guess the accuser’s story is always “the truth” and giving consideration to the accused’s explanations–”the sex was consensual,” etc.–is just “indulging male entitlement over women’s freedom.”
From […]

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Isn’t this rich? At a rally in Sarasota, FL, yesterday Barack Obama said:  
The reason that we want to do this, change our tax code, is not because I have anything against the rich. I love rich people! I want all of you to be rich. Go for it. That’s the America dream, that’s the American […]

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Caylee Anthony has been missing since mid June and now everyone except for the Anthony’s are saying the little girl is dead. Her mother, Casey Anthony has been named as a suspect now in Caylee’s disappearance. Casey refuses to talk to authorities and won’t tell anyone the truth about what happened to her daughter which […]

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Giovanni Gonzalez’s mother Daisy Colon of East Boston dropped him off to spend the weekend with his father, Ernesto L. Gonzalez on the weekend of August 15. When she returned to get him that Sunday night the child was not there.
The father of the boy insisted that he didn’t have the boy that weekend but […]

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By Cynthia Ruccia, Special to The Stiletto Blog
Wow … flying to St. Paul, MN, for the Republican National Convention. I still feel like I’ve fallen down that rabbit hole in “Alice in Wonderland” and the world is upside down.
Honestly, when 2008 started, I had a whole set of New Year’s resolutions just like everyone […]

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(Since some other BNN writers have offered their opinion on Caylee Anthony and Giovanni Gonzalez I thought I would offer mine as well)
There’s been a story in the news lately, you may have hard about it. A small child is missing. The child’s parent is in jail on child endangerment charges and refuses to give […]

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On August 17 a 5 year old boy, Giovanni Gonzalez was reported missing after his mother, Daisy Colon from East Boston tried to pick him up from a scheduled visit with his father. She became concerned when the father didn’t answer the door. Police were notified and they made their way inside the home and […]

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 … But he’s going to make the media and punditocracy wait until he declares his choice via  text message on Saturday, after which he plans a joint appearance with his running mate at the Old State Capitol in Springfield, IL, where he announced he would run for president. [Update: It’s Sen. Joe Biden (D-DE), according […]

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The man accused of kidnapping his 7 year daughter, Reigh Rockefeller and led police on a week long manhunt is to be interviewed by Los Angeles police that are investigating the disappearance of a Los Angeles couple more than 20 years ago. The question is that the same man that claims to be Clark Rockefeller seems […]

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Finally after searching for 7 year old Reigh Rockefeller for six days, she has been found. Her father, Clark Rockefeller has been arrested after police busted him in Baltimore. He now faces charges of felony kidnapping, assault and battery and battery with a dangerous weapon according to baltimoresun.com.
Rockefeller, 48 was arrested at 3:25 pm Saturday […]

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 UPDATE Included
For the second time in four days in Massachusetts an Amber alert has been issued by the police. Ryan, 3, Lyndsey, 2, Lauren, 22 months, and Roddick, 11 months, have allegedly been kidnapped along with their mother by their father, Rodlyn Petitbois.
The children were last seen at 1 am at the scene of a […]

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Robert Novak touched off a frenzy of speculation with his scoop that “[s]ources close to Sen. John McCain’s presidential campaign are suggesting he will reveal the name of his vice presidential selection this week while Sen. Barack Obama is getting the headlines on his foreign trip.” Some of the chatter naturally focused on the identity […]

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After trailing by a season-high five games, the Boston Red Sox reclaimed their top spot after beating the Orioles 2-1 today.
And the best news of all for the team and for Red Sox Nation? David Ortiz will be back on the field after spending 39 games as a spectator after he suffered a wrist injury.
“I’m […]

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I once was asked by a friend to clean up his computer.
He had antiviral software, but never bothered to update it, or run scans. As a result, whenever he would open his browser, he found the homepage had been reset to a pornography site.
No big deal. I updated his viruses, ran the scans, removed the […]

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You may have heard this tear-jerker on this morning’s news or read about it:
Dateline, Andover, Massachusetts: Sarah Pearson is two credits short of the requirements for graduating with the rest of her Andover High School senior class — she knows this and doesn’t debate that fact. The reason she is short on her credits is […]

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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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It took some 20 years, but finally Rev. Jeremiah Wright said something that got Barack Obama’s goat: Wright called him a politician. That was the last straw.
Obama was moved to take Wright to task for his lost week-end (rather, the week-end Wright probably destroyed his chances of becoming president) spent dissing all those white voters in MA and […]

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In Colombia, the narco “insurgent” group FARC is being decimated by a “carrot-stick” approach by the Colombian President Uribe.
After years of a “talk nice and let’s negotiate” President, where FARC used truces and safe zones to regroup and fight again rather than to negotiate, the present government is hitting hard, but offering amnesty to those […]

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When Hillary lies, does she know she is lying? Is she a reflexive liar, a compulsive liar, or a pathological liar? Does the staggering number of lies she has told during this campaign make her morally unfit for the office she seeks? Do the things about which she lied make her psychologically unfit?
Consider these questions […]

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Gary Zerola, Professional Victim
Boston attorney Gary Zerola was acquitted today in his 2nd rape charge trial in a Boston courtroom of multiple charges of rape and supplying alcohol to a minor, the second such trial this year with almost the exact same charges and counter charges, that it was the 30-something Zerola who was the […]

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A legal opinion issued Thursday in Connecticut may allow lawmakers to extend a state smoking ban to the American-Indian casinos, which claim that smoking restrictions would be a threat to tribal sovereignty.
Lawmakers in Pennsylvania have debated this week to make casinos completely smoke-free or limit smoking to 25 percent of the gaming floor which is […]

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Scanning the news, I came across this small item:

Coma Girl may Testify about Alleged Attacker.
And therein lies a story that cautions those who would stop treatment should at least hesitate a moment and humbly admit that sometimes they are wrong.
You see, Haleigh was a child from a dysfunctional family, taken from her mother by the […]

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After being let go, a man returns to the scene of the crime
A Persistent Perp
One More Heroin User Succumbs to an Urban Legend

If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again.
A Massachusetts man got off for slashing a woman’s tires, then returned 20 minutes later and was arrested for pouring sugar into her gas tank.
James […]

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Phillip James, the chairman of the International Obesity Taskforce, Calls for Action
Wants a Global Pact “like the Climate change plan” 
Obesity is an “Epidemic” that requires Government Action–Now 
Will Big Food join Big Oil and Big Tobacco in a New Axis of Evil? 
First, drugs. Then, smoking.
A Call for More Government Control for the Overweight
Health groups, or Health […]

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Equinox Fitness Club’s new print advertising campaign depicts four nuns - wearing habits and rosary beads around their necks - sketching the figure of a nude man. Actually two of the nuns are sketching, the other two are gawking. One of the nuns, who is seated, has her skirt hiked high enough up her thigh […]

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