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During the 2012 session, the Maryland State Legislature considered the abolition of the death penalty. Opponents of the practice argued that not everyone receiving the sentence actually committed the crime of which the judicial system found them guilty. However, having only carried out the practice five times since 1977, it is doubtful such miscarriages of […]
The president is taking a much needed vacation, this time to Martha’s Vineyard. So what does the Washington Post have for a headline this morning? As rebels close in on Tripoli, Obama getting updates on Martha’s Vineyard Why yes. Martha’s Vineyard isn’t exactly in the middle of nowhere, and they do have internet connections, an […]
Data for graphic drawn from “A Tale of Two Disasters”, by Paul Rubin, Wall Street Journal, June 22,2010
I was delighted to hear that Mother Angelica and Deacon Bill Steltemeier have been awarded a medal by the Vatican. She deserves it. Mother Angelica is the founder of EWTN, a Catholic network that is found on many cable systems all over the world. On the surface it sounds like a proper award. But her […]
An article on the left-leaning website Truthout announced yesterday that a “new direction in the war on terror” may result from a case that occurred in the last year of the Bush Administration. Bryant Neal Vinas, an American-born suspected terrorist who was captured in Pakistan, was given “all the rights of American criminal suspects.” The results? […]
Jumping off a sinking ship and jumping on the bandwagon are just doing what comes naturally, right? Not for Hillary Clinton’s supporters in KY, who stuck by their candidate, despite the certainty that Barack Obama’s win in OR would push him past her in pledged delegates. And as in WV and other states in which […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
(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 […]
  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 […]
A Father Resolves a Marital Dispute by Throwing Four Children to their Deaths Authorities are searching over 100-sq mile area, with waters as Deep as 80 Feet Lam Luong’s Past Drug Use Cited Were Drugs Involved? What’s the logical thing to do if you get into a dispute with your wife? If you’re Lam Luong, […]
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 […]
Joran van der Sloot Doesn’t Like it in Jail Evidence Still Under Wraps Life is hard. So is life behind bars, apparently. At least for one of the suspects in the disappearance of Natalee Holloway. He’s not happy with the conditions in the jail he’s housed in. Joran van der Sloot, a suspect in the […]
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 […]
The Carnival of Hurricane Relief has posted its 103rd edition this week, noting the two-year anniversary of the first of three big hurricanes to pound the Gulf Coast. Beyond its usual collection of links to blog posts and news stories related to Gulf Coast hurricane recovery, there are two items of special note included with […]
A coach for the Tulsa Drillers was killed by a foul ball during a minor league baseball game on Sunday night. Coach Mike Coolbaugh was hit in the head by a line drive while coaching first-base during a Texas League game with the Arkansas Travelers. The ball was hit by Tino Sanchez in the ninth […]
Two convicted shoplifters carried signs in front of an Alabama Walmart on Saturday that read, “I am a thief, I stole from Walmartâ€. Judge Kenneth Robertson, Jr. was the mastermind of this novel punishment for stealing. Judge Robertson sentenced these two thieves to wear the sign for four hours on Saturdays. Anyone who has shopped […]
 David Schussler This morning on the Rush Limbaugh radio show, Rush was railing about the visit to Selma Alabama yesterday by Hillary and Barack. He was pointing out how both of them employed colloquial southern language styles in their discourses to their audiences. The implication is that they were trying to attract black voters who […]
Fresh perspectives by: Whymrhymer Valentines Day 2007 was a day for lovers, but not all lovers. This Valentines Day the Alabama Supreme Court rendered a decision that people who’s loving relationships included “sex toys” we’re out of luck, at least in Alabama, where the law that prohibited their “commercial distribution” (i.e., sales) was allowed to […]
 By Honey Gillard So we’ve all heard of or read the infamous novel ‘To kill a Mockingbird’ – most of us ventured through the book in our high school days – but how many of us can tell the story of meeting the one-time author of the novel, Harper Lee. Not many at all. Well […]
by Allan Doherty Having fulfilled two years of a five-year contract, Nick Saban is leaving his coaching position with the Miami Dolphins. Unable to handle the difficult task of rebuilding the Dolphins, Saban is leaving Miami to coach at the University of Alabama. Saban departs with a record of 15 wins and 17 loses. The […]
Mercury in fish is now recognized as a major health threat, especially for children, but surveys show that only about two-thirds of the public know which fish are high in mercury. The EPA and FDA issued a joint advisory in 2004, warning women of childbearing age, expecting and nursing mothers and young children to not […]
The new identity theft protection and recovery service by Truston is live. The service is unique because it doesn’t require you to give up your personal information, which could be stored in a database, and used to commit identity theft if it falls into the wrong hands. In case you’ve missed the weekly stories, databases […]
I’ve had the opportunity to look at a lot of identity theft services, but until now – I’ve never run into one I considered “victim friendly.” I’ve written off most of the services I’ve seen — either because they were financial services products (created by those who had compromised victims themselves) — or they were […]
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