In a trial that was not widely publicized, a Marine was tried and acquitted in a federal court for killing civilians during an incident during the cleansing of Alqaeda and the Sunni militants from Falujah.
Why is this court case important?
Well, for two reasons.
One, it is double jeopardy.
Essentially the law was established so private contractors could […]

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Tonight on The Nancy Grace Show the newest developments in the Caylee Anthony case were discussed. Aspects of the long awaited DNA test results are beginning to surface. They clearly state that the hair sample found in Casey Anthony’s car trunk were from either Caylee Anthony or her mother, Casey Anthony. The most damning aspect […]

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As I am located in Los Angeles, I try and keep up with the ins and outs of the bullying and peer abuse problem in this state. Recently, a bill entitled AB86 introduced by Assemblyman Ted Lieu of Torrance would finally crack down on the cyber bullying that so many of our young people face […]

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At a recent inquest a coroner has confirmed that a man from St Albans died as a result of exposure to asbestos, having suffered this exposure when he was at work. The man was a retired heating and plumbing engineer, and at the inquest the coroner explained that he had been exposed to brown […]

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Sometimes making peace just makes things worse, as can be seen in the Philippines.
President Arroyo has been under a lot of pressure by Muslim countries and the United States to make peace with the remaining Moro (Muslim ethnic) group in Mindanao. The MNLF made peace years ago, but the MILF only had a tentative […]

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Victoria is in Victor’s office packing her things when JT walks in. She tells him she done a better job running the company than Adam will ever be able to.
Michael tells Lauren he is sorry he didn’t go to Mexico with Paul to look for Victor. He said he has to be here today since […]

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Lexi tells Theo that Chelsea has the day off so she won’t be there with him today. She is trying to get him to go with her when John walks in asking what the hell is going on around here. She tells him to watch his language around her son. He tells her that Marlena […]

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Senator Obama’s acceptance speech this evening begins the very difficult task of transforming from a black candidate into the candidate who happens to be black, the blue collar working class democrats and independents who have yet to express support for the party nominee, are the same kind of folks who encourage their children to emulate Tiger woods’ […]

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I’ve heard it all now. While reading a popular marketing blog that I frequently read, the subject turned to politics. One person decided to name 13 reasons Obama won’t win the upcoming election. All of them were based on illogical thought processes that leaves me wondering just where people get their ideas from. Refutations aren’t […]

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The world is moving toward a one world order – of which the Book of Revelation speaks – consisting of a dangerous confluence of world power and government. This order is being facilitated by efforts to obliterate distinguishing characteristics between people while encouraging a ubiquitous oneness.
Among the contemporary casualties of such efforts – like Judaism […]

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“Sex with students is bad, but why should it be the case that for women it’s a case of ‘poor boundaries’ and for men it’s hardcore brutal predation of the most evil sort?”
Jay, a reader, recently wrote me a letter about an article in Oprah magazine on the number of female teachers caught having sex with […]

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The way back machine has spun to a stop and kicked out anotehr older review of mine. Terry orr is a very good author and if you haven’t read him yet you really should. His first in the series was “Closing Time” with this book being the second novel.
Picking up two years after events depicted […]

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Abcactionnews.com is reporting this morning that the DNA test results on the hair samples and the stain found in the trunk of Casey Anthony’s car have shown that the adorable little 3 year old Caylee Anthony is indeed dead.
 These results came in Thursday morning, the day after air sample tests results came in proving that […]

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Although Denver is not my favorite city, there are some downtown buildings that I do like. Forgive me while I channel Lileks for a moment:

Sorry about the blurry photo, the building just wouldn’t hold still.
Here’s the box it came in.

What’s far more essential to the spirit of a city than the buildings? The people, of […]

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Just when it seems like there have been one to many horror remakes, writer/director Alexandra Aja has come out with Mirrors, a remake of the Korean flick Into the Mirror. As with many recent horror remakes, reviewers have not been especially kind to this Kiefer Sutherland-led picture - in fact, it’s earned only a 15% freshness rating on […]

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Some of the protesters seemed like decent enough sorts, just trying to get their message out to a wider audience. Others were of the sort that make you despair for the future of humanity:

The banner reads “9/11 Was An Inside Job”. I asked one of the less wild-eyed in this group this question: “If George […]

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To the anguished cries of, “No!,” Hillary Clinton (D-NY) released her delegates before Wednesday afternoon’s roll call vote – deliberately timed to be well out of the prime-time spotlight.  When it was NY’s turn to announce its delegate tallies – by alphabetical order 32 other states and territories had already done so – Clinton herself […]

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The clothing vendors have complained of overselling of vendor permits and the scarcity of business, but that didn’t seem to be a problem for the food vendors. This place, on the 16th Street Mall, served the best beef brisket sandwich I’ve ever had in my life. (Take the shuttle bus up 16th to Larimer, and […]

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(Courtesy of buySAFE)
The Center for American Progress and the Center for Democracy and Technology recently released a report concluding that not enough is being done to protect the public from fraud on the Internet. “If problems such as malware, phishing, and spam are left unchecked, many consumers may lose trust and abandon e-commerce,” according to […]

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German Chancellor Angela Merkel certainly means well. But it must be tough when good intentions, especially when they come from the world’s most powerful woman, get laughed at by an autocratic puppet who really couldn’t care less.
That Russia finds Germany’s (OK, the EU’s) “tough talk” about its actions in the Caucasus amusing certainly has its […]

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The cops have been ubiquitous throughout the downtown area all week. This would probably have been a good time to make trouble somewhere else in Denver.

Mostly their attitude was friendly. (Of course it helped that I’m walking around with a press badge.) But I didn’t see any harassment of the street activists, either. Many of […]

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David Schussler
All I kept hearing was ” I did not have sex with that woman” Can anyone still believe anything that Bill Clinton says? Bill Clinton’s foreign policy sucked big time. He rode in on the wave of prosperity that was begun by the previous administration and had little to contend with that would have […]

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