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Saturday, October 17, 2009
Friday, October 16, 2009
Interracial couple denied marriage license in La.
NEW ORLEANS – A white Louisiana justice of the peace said he refused to issue a marriage license to an interracial couple out of concern for any children the couple might have.
Keith Bardwell, justice of the peace in Tangipahoa Parish, says it is his experience that most interracial marriages do not last long.
"I'm not a racist. I just don't believe in mixing the races that way," Bardwell told the Associated Press on Thursday. "I have piles and piles of black friends. They come to my home, I marry them, they use my bathroom. I treat them just like everyone else."
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Thursday, October 15, 2009
Behind Montana Jail Fiasco: How Private Prison Developers Prey On Desperate Towns
The projects have generated multi-million dollar profits for the companies involved, but often haven't created the anticipated payoff for the communities, and have left a string of failed or failing prisons in their wake.
"They look for an impoverished town that's desperate," says Frank Smith of the Private Corrections Institute, a Florida-based group that opposes prison privatization. "They come in looking very impressive, saying, 'We'll make money rain from the skies.' In fact, they don't care whether it works or not."
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Saturday, October 3, 2009
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Sunday, August 23, 2009
Scalia says there’s nothing unconstitutional about executing the innocent
Actual quote:- This Court has never held that the Constitution forbids the execution of a convicted defendant who has had a full and fair trial but is later able to convince a habeas court that he is “actually” innocent. Quite to the contrary, we have repeatedly left that question unresolved, while expressing considerable doubt that any claim based on alleged “actual innocence” is constitutionally cognizable.
Campbell Bridges Dead: Mob Kills Famous Geologist In Kenya: Police Report
Santorum Is Dangerous - Page 1 - The Daily Beast
In the sixth in a series of posts on the 2012 landscape, former Bush and McCain strategist Mark McKinnon says that despite former Senator Rick Santorum’s actions and extreme ideology, he and his foray into Iowa should be taken seriously.
Earl Ofari Hutchinson: Why the Right is Winning Its War Against Obama
The Obama White House has given the right-wing counterinsurgency a generous boost with its fits and starts, including conciliation on health care and waffling on a total rollback of Bush policies.
China villagers storm lead plant
Hundreds of Chinese villagers break into a factory that poisoned more than 600 children, reports say.
Taser International Inc. sues Canadian government
Raw Story » Concentration of wealth in hands of rich greatest on record
Man carrying assault weapon attends Obama protest - Yahoo! News
Death penalty debate peripheral to Keller trial
In a case that has inflamed passions on both sides of the death penalty debate, Judge Sharon Keller goes on trial today on civil charges that she improperly closed the state's highest criminal court to an execution-day appeal in 2007 because the inmate's
Raw Story » Legendary civil libertarian spreads ‘death panel’ disinfo
My Bad! Woman's House Mistakenly Auctioned by Bank | NBC Miami
Talk about your housing crisis. Woman's house was on the block and she didn't even know it
Raw Story » Report: CIA hired Blackwater contractors for secret hit squad
Arms expert warns new mind drugs eyed by military | Science | Reuters
Tom Ridge on National Security After 9/11 - Washington Whispers (usnews.com)
Ridge wasn't keen on writing a tell-all, but he did.
Man carrying assault weapon attends Obama protest - Yahoo! News
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
The Health Insurers Have Already Won
Executives from UnitedHealth certainly showed no signs of worry on the mid-July day that Senate Democrats proposed to help pay for reform with a new tax on the insurance industry. Instead, UnitedHealth parked a shiny 18-wheeler outfitted with high-tech medical gear near the Capitol and invited members of Congress aboard. Inside the mobile diagnostic center, which enables doctors to examine distant patients via satellite television, Representative Jim Matheson didn't disguise his wonderment. "Fascinating, fascinating," said the Democrat from Utah. "Amazing."
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GOP Senate prospect: I would send abortion doctors to jail
Bolton Decries Release Of Euna Lee And Laura Ling
Freshman Terror
Chinese Student beaten to death at boot camp
Ben Nelson Personally Calls Nebraskan Who Ripped Him In Health Care Ad
Splits in Banking Industry Beginning to Surface
Why is the GOP blocking shareholder rights?
Bolton Decries Release Of Euna Lee And Laura Ling
Freshman Terror
Chinese Student beaten to death at boot camp
Ben Nelson Personally Calls Nebraskan Who Ripped Him In Health Care Ad
Splits in Banking Industry Beginning to Surface
Why is the GOP blocking shareholder rights?
Apple tried to silence owner of exploding iPod with gag order
...the company would offer the family a full refund only if they were willing to sign a settlement form. The proposed agreement left them open to legal action if they ever disclosed the terms of the settlement.
The case echoes previous circumstances in which Apple attempted to hush up incidents when its devices overheated.
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Thursday, August 6, 2009
Blackwater Founder Implicated in Murder
A former Blackwater employee and an ex-US Marine who has worked as a security operative for the company have made a series of explosive allegations in sworn statements filed on August 3 in federal court in Virginia. The two men claim that the company's owner, Erik Prince, may have murdered or facilitated the murder of individuals who were cooperating with federal authorities investigating the company. The former employee also alleges that Prince "views himself as a Christian crusader tasked with eliminating Muslims and the Islamic faith from the globe," and that Prince's companies "encouraged and rewarded the destruction of Iraqi life."More HERE.
Sunday, August 2, 2009
Woman wins right-to-die fight
Bank Bonuses Far Exceeded Profits
Outbreak Of Horse Slaughters Have Miami-Area Owners On Edge
Amazon sued over Kindle deletion of Orwell books
Whistleblower: Bin Laden was US proxy until 9/11
13 Congressmen control health care debate
Halliburton shareholders sue to ‘punish’ company directors
'Whites-only restroom:' Philadelphia workers file racial discrimination case
Is America building a purely military economy?
Gap, Levi factory danger to African children
Bank Bonuses Far Exceeded Profits
Outbreak Of Horse Slaughters Have Miami-Area Owners On Edge
Amazon sued over Kindle deletion of Orwell books
Whistleblower: Bin Laden was US proxy until 9/11
13 Congressmen control health care debate
Halliburton shareholders sue to ‘punish’ company directors
'Whites-only restroom:' Philadelphia workers file racial discrimination case
Is America building a purely military economy?
Gap, Levi factory danger to African children
Friday, July 31, 2009
Thursday, July 30, 2009
Crooked Cops Caught Plotting To Frame Motorist
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Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Saturday, July 25, 2009
Sen. Gregg: Force the poor to buy health insurance
Judge Orders Lawrence King's Alleged Teen Killer to Stand Trial
North Korea Executes Christian For Distributing Bible
Gates Says What A Lot of Us Are Thinking: You Prove It!
Inspector General Fired by President Obama Files Lawsuit to Be Reinstated
Taser X3 gets Media Savvy
Judge Orders Lawrence King's Alleged Teen Killer to Stand Trial
North Korea Executes Christian For Distributing Bible
Gates Says What A Lot of Us Are Thinking: You Prove It!
Inspector General Fired by President Obama Files Lawsuit to Be Reinstated
Taser X3 gets Media Savvy
Friday, July 24, 2009
Exxon faces $1 billion fine for sabotaging Texas oil wells
NY man forcibly sedated for cavity search gets $125k settlement
Rep. Blackburn: "We're Not Going To Cry 'Emergency' Every Time We Have A Katrina"
Ignoring Watchdog Report, Treasury Gives Three Major Banks Sweetheart Deals
County says war games can continue without loudspeakers
Pentagon furious over call for execution of captured soldier
Third alleged affair tied to C Street Christian dorm
NY man forcibly sedated for cavity search gets $125k settlement
Rep. Blackburn: "We're Not Going To Cry 'Emergency' Every Time We Have A Katrina"
Ignoring Watchdog Report, Treasury Gives Three Major Banks Sweetheart Deals
County says war games can continue without loudspeakers
Pentagon furious over call for execution of captured soldier
Third alleged affair tied to C Street Christian dorm
SARAH PALIN: Special Section!
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Vulnerable GOPs want Palin to stay home
Frum: ‘Divisive’ Palin has no chance of being president
Carl Bernstein: 'She's An Ignorant Demagogue'
Thursday, July 23, 2009
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Wednesday, April 1, 2009
Detainee's Harsh Treatment Foiled No Plots
News about the U.S. military from The Washington Post and washingtonpost.com. Full coverage of defense budgets,Army,Navy,Air Force,Marines and the Pentagon.
Colleges line up against allowing guns on campuses
College officials say the measure would make campuses more dangerous. A House committee is scheduled to debate the bill Monday.
Illusion of security
The US Transportation Security Administration's procedures are a joke.
Corporations_ate_my_BABY!
NFL player's police saga at Plano hospital captured on dash cam
Pakistani Taliban threatens attack on White House
Pakistan's Taliban chief claimed responsibility Tuesday for a deadly assault on a police academy, saying he wanted to retaliate for U.S. missile attacks on the militant bases on the border with Afghanistan.
Mining Companies 'Stealing Millions' from Africa
WASHINGTON, Mar 30 (OneWorld.net) - Tax evasion by international mining companies operating in countries across Africa is depriving African governments of much-needed revenues that could be used to fight poverty
Groups may sue Obama admin for 'demonizing lobbyists'
Bob Cesca: Insane Republicans Reveal An Insane Budget Plan
Thursday, March 26, 2009
Ex-Bush admin official: Many at Gitmo are innocent
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – Many detainees locked up at Guantanamo were innocent men swept up by U.S. forces unable to distinguish enemies from noncombatants, a former Bush administration official said Thursday. "There are still innocent people there," Lawrence B. Wilkerson, a Republican who was chief of staff to then-Secretary of State Colin Powell, told The Associated Press. "Some have been there six or seven years." Wilkerson, who first made the assertions in an Internet posting on Tuesday, told the AP he learned from briefings and by communicating with military commanders that the U.S. soon realized many Guantanamo detainees were innocent but nevertheless held them in hopes they could provide information for a "mosaic" of intelligence.
"It did not matter if a detainee were innocent. Indeed, because he lived in Afghanistan and was captured on or near the battle area, he must know something of importance," Wilkerson wrote in the blog. He said intelligence analysts hoped to gather "sufficient information about a village, a region, or a group of individuals, that dots could be connected and terrorists or their plots could be identified."
Wilkerson, a retired Army colonel, said vetting on the battlefield during the early stages of U.S. military operations in Afghanistan was incompetent with no meaningful attempt to discriminate "who we were transporting to Cuba for detention and interrogation."
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Texas Senate advances voter ID bill on party-line vote
The Dallas Morning News Latest News page contains stories about the Dallas-Fort Worth area and stories of broad interest to Texans.
Targeted Shootings of Gays in Jamaica
China's last eunuch spills sex secrets
Only two memories brought tears to Sun Yaoting's eyes in old age -- the day his father cut off his genitals, and the day his family threw away the pickled remains that should have made him a whole man again at death.
The BRAD BLOG : Diebold Admits Audit Logs in ALL Versions of Their Software Fail to Record Ballot Deletions
As Jurors Turn to Web, Mistrials Are Popping
The use of BlackBerrys, iPhones, Google and Twitter by jurors is wreaking havoc on trials around the country.
Historical Archives Lead to Arrest of Police Officers in Guatemalan Disappearance
Maddow: Eight go from White House to 'big house'
Paul: Bill to tax bonuses an 'outrage' and unconstitutional
Justice Too Late
DNA test -- after man's death in jail -- shows he was wrongly convicted of rape.
Republican values create child molesters
Moshe Katsav Charged With Rape
Sunday, March 22, 2009
Soccer fans rush abusive cops
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| Soccer Fans Rush The Field And Attack Abusive Riot Police |
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| This little piggy got his ass beat and that little piggy ran like a bat out of hell to get away from the mob of drunk blood thirsty soccer fans. |
Bolivia leader redistributes land
Bolvia's President Evo Morales hands over thousands of acres of land seized from large-scale owners to indigenous farmers.
IRS seeks $227 million in back taxes from Stanford
The U.S. Internal Revenue Service has asked a judge to let it to continue to seek unpaid back taxes from Allen Stanford, the billionaire Texan accused of an $8 billion fraud by U.S. regulators, court documents show.
Cheney on Limbaugh: ‘I love him.’
New Army Weapon Aims to Fry Gadgets, People
Electronics-frying e-bombs have been discussed for decades — but rarely, if ever, deployed. Knocking out computers and communications gear with electromagnetic radiation is nice, but commanders prefer the proven method:
Bill would restrict police use of Tasers
Metro police have purchased just over 1,000 Taser cameras and will begin distributing the recording devices to police on the beat in two weeks. These cameras will capture grainy footage of every electronic zap, though the fate of that footage may be up to the Legislature.
Texas Jail Was An Animal House, Authorities Say
Judge says its okay for Navy to spray recruits with banned chemical
Ex-Pa. senator convicted of 137 corruption counts
Filipino activists: US military siding with convicted rapist
MI cop shot unarmed, 20-year-old marijuana activist
Jim Cramer Uses CNBC to Manipulate Stocks
Investigative reporter describes 'executive assassination ring'
An open letter to America’s progressive billionaires
Billionaire Stanford to take the 5th in fraud case
Texas billionaire R. Allen Stanford and one of his top officials have asserted their Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination in the federal government's fraud case against them and Stanford's companies, according to court documents filed Wednesday.
The Looting of America’s Coffers
An academic paper in the early 1990s had predicted the behavior of the banks when it came to relying on the government to absorb their losses.
Raped and killed for being a lesbian: South Africa ignores 'corrective' attacks
• Women living in fear of brutal assaults by male gangs • Country's 'macho politics' lead to lack of action
Obama Justice Dept. defends Rumsfeld in torture case
Immigrant suspect says jail officials broke her arm
A suspected illegal immigrant says Maricopa County Sheriff's Office jail officials broke her arm after she refused to sign a document volunteering to be sent to Mexico.
Madoff Could Have Fleeced his Victims Legally
Cops Arrest Priest For Filming Them - CBS News
Police Report Says Priest Wielded Unknown Object; But Cop On Tape Knows It’s A Camera
Glenn Beck weeps on air
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
The Story of Deep Capture
And it all starts when Patrick Byrne gets a phone call from the Easter Bunny. Really, that’s what the guy calls himself - the Easter Bunny - and he talks like the Bee Gees on fast forward, a nasally frantic falsetto, on and on about some kind of conspiracy involving big time Wall Street operators, the Mafia, and a bunch of famous journalists. Somebody’s got to stop these people, the Bunny says, or the American financial system is going to come crashing to its knees. Also, the bad guys might put a bullet between the Easter Bunny’s ears.
Now, Patrick Byrne is just a CEO in Utah — he sells toasters. He doesn’t see what this has to do with him, and the Easter Bunny seems pretty weird, so he says, uh-huh, uh-huh, okey-dokey, and thinks maybe he’ll hang up the phone and go for a pastrami sandwich.
But the Easter Bunny persists. He says it’s a conspiracy, the biggest financial heist in history…look, he says, don’t believe it, but he’s going to make some predictions–and Patrick can see for himself whether they come true…
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