Legal Commentary

Florida: No Parents Better Than Gay Parents

Posted on August 27, 2009
The state of Florida has argued that its ban on gay foster parents is based on the “fact” that gay households are often unstable and unhealthy. The law is a lingering remnant of the reprehensible national campaign by Anita Bryant against gay rights...

Florida Parents Protest Ban on Students Wearing ?Islam is of the Devil? T-Shirts

Posted on August 27, 2009
Parents of the Dove World Outreach Center recently sent their children to local public schools with their own messages of faith: t-shirts that read “ISLAM IS OF THE DEVIL.” They then protested after school officials sent their children home and are threatening possible legal action...

Client Calls: Former Client Shoots Lawyer in Chicago While Lawyer Shoots Former Client in North Carolina

Posted on August 26, 2009
We have two cases of lawyers encountering former clients in their homes in stories this week. In one case, Chicago retired attorney Carl Kuhn, 82, was allegedly killed by his former client Terry Bratcher, 43, and another man, Keith Allen, 21. In South Carolina, attorney and state senator R...

Ted Kennedy Dies at 77

Posted on August 26, 2009
The ‘Lion of the Senate” is dead. Massachusetts Sen. Edward Kennedy lost his battle with brain cancer on Tuesday and died at 77. With his death, the country lost one of the most tireless and passionate voices for the poor and powerless in our nation...

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Saudi Arabia Bans ?Evil? Summer Festivals

Posted on August 26, 2009
The morals police in Saudi Arabia has directed their attention toward the latest conspiracy to corrupt the youth and undermine Islam: summer festivals. The religious police have declared that these festivals improperly encourage the mixing of men and women and involve such evil acts as dancing and magic shows...

Indiana Deputy Sheriff Arrested For Allegedly Soliciting Women at Speedway Gas Station

Posted on August 26, 2009
Indianapolis deputy sheriff, Paul Wagner, 25, has been arrested for allegedly soliciting women for sex by offering them free sodas or candy bars while working as a security officer at a Speedway gas station. He has not only been charged with solicitation of prostitution but also official misconduct after being put under surveillance...

Oregon Police Do NOT Taser Naked Man

Posted on August 26, 2009
Raymond Lawrence Roberson, 70, first threatened to blow up his van, threatened anyone who came near him, paraded around with a rifle, and then shutdown a highway after barricading himself in his van. When he emerged, he stripped naked and was tackled by police...

Stephen Colbert: The ?Sexualized? Stalinesque Anti-Christ

Posted on August 25, 2009
The good people at Christwire have finally identified the threat to both this nation and its collective soul. It is not Al Qaeda or gay gym teachers. It is Stephen Colbert. Stephenson Billings who bills himself as an Investigative Journalist, Motivational Children’s Party Entertainer and Antique Soda Bottle Collector has written a [...

Rhode Island to Shutdown for Twelve Days

Posted on August 25, 2009
Rhode Island is the latest state government to discover that the public simply cannot afford a government — at least for twelve days. With hundreds of billions spent on Iraq and Afghanistan (with new calls for an increase in Afghanistan), it is understandably confusing for many citizens as states sell off government buildings and [...

Obama Administration Loses Bid to Keep Secret the Recipients of $2 Trillion in Stimulus Money

Posted on August 25, 2009
For months, many Democrats and civil libertarians have complained about the disconnect between what President Obama says and what he does as President. One area of the greatest criticism has been the effort of the Obama Administration to block public review of embarrassing pictures, White House logs, controversial memoranda, or disclosure of governmental actions [...

Sign of the Times

Posted on August 25, 2009
With new reports on a soaring deficit and runaway spending and debt, this sign could not be more apropos. It is part of a website showing an array of humor-based pitches for change. Find these people and give them money.

Walmart Conquers the Wilderness: Virginia Board Allows Big Box Store to Build Near Civil War Battlefield

Posted on August 25, 2009
It took almost 150 years, but Virginia has finally surrendered at the Battle for the Wilderness — without firing a shot. In a terrible blow to historians and preservationists, the Orange County Board of Supervisors caved into pressure from Walmart and business groups to allow the construction of a huge Walmart store next to [...

Judges in ?Kids for Cash? Scandal Drop Pleas and Demand Trial

Posted on August 25, 2009
The former Pennsylvania judges charged in the “kids for cash” corruption scandal — Luzerne County Judges Mark Ciavarella and Michael Conahan — have withdrawn their guilty pleas and demanded a trial. They took the step after Senior U...

Meet Meth Man and Crank Boy: Police Break Up Alleged Meth and Comics Ring

Posted on August 25, 2009
Holy Crystal Ice, Batman, those comic dealers could be meth dealers. Brothers Aaron and Alfonzo Castro are accused of running a large methamphetamine ring in the Denver area and laundering the cash through a high-end comic business, including first-edition Superman and Batman titles...

A Pence of Power and a Paucity of Sense: London Police Drop Case Against Film Maker For Stealing .003 Pence in Electricity ? After Spending $8,200

Posted on August 24, 2009
Mark Guard, 44, is a film maker and electricity thief. Arrested for stealing .003 pence of power, the police and prosecutors spent $8,200 prosecuting Guard before dropping the case and finally letting their Guard down. Guard was filming a documentary about crime and the homeless when he filmed squatters going through an open window in [...

Flip and Fall: Chicago Woman Sues Zoo for Dolphin-Induced Fall

Posted on August 24, 2009
The Dolphin did it. That is likely to be the defense of the Brookfield Zoo near Chicago, which is being sued for the 2008 fall of Allecyn Edwards. Edwards fell while walking near the exhibit of Atlantic bottlenose dolphins. The dolphins were performing and where there are dolphins performing there is usually water...

Bitter Port: Formerly Anonymous Blogger Attacks Model and Announces Lawsuit Against Google

Posted on August 24, 2009
The anonymous blogger who called model Liskula Cohen a “ho” and “skank” has been identified. According to reports, it was blogger Rosemary Port, who is now threatening a lawsuit of her own against Google. Former Vogue cover model, Cohen, 36, succeeded in her effort to find the identity of Port...

Man v. Cat: Utah Man Arrested After Shooting Bystanders in Confrontation with Feline

Posted on August 24, 2009
Besides taking one of the most memorable mug shots, Kay Fotheringham, 52, is notable as the latest victim of the cat conspiracy. We have already seen how a cat framed a man by downloading porn on his computer (here). Now, a feline felon caused Fotheringham to wound a driver’s ed instructor and student [...

Report: Justice Department To Re-Open Nearly a Dozen Prisoner-Abuse Cases

Posted on August 24, 2009
The Justice Department appears close to re-opening nearly a dozen prisoner abuse cases that were all but buried by the Bush Administration. The move comes after a recommendation of the Justice Department’s Office of Professional Responsibility...

Small Change: Man Opposes Child Support that Resulted From ?Consumer Transaction? With Prostitute

Posted on August 23, 2009
An Australian man is opposing child support on novel grounds: that payment would violate the Trade Practices Act. The man insists that he paid a prostitute for sex and that the sex was a “consumer transaction” and was confined by its terms to the sexual act...

Man Steals Painting of Virgin Mary to Pay For Abortion For an Underaged Girl He Raped

Posted on August 23, 2009
If I recall correctly from my high school preparatory seminary, there are venal sinners and mortal sinners, but we might have to find a third category for Aurelio Vallerillo-Sanchez, 39. He was convicted of stealing a 300-year-old painting of the Virgin Mary to pay for an abortion for a teenage girl who he [...

HOT DOG

Posted on August 23, 2009
During the dog days of summer, there are certain signs to look for when it is time to service the ac unit. Let it not be said that canine intelligence is wanting in any way.

Connecticut Police Officer Accused of Impersonating Brother and Raping His Girlfriend

Posted on August 23, 2009
Jared Rohrig, an Orange, Connecticut police officer was charged in a bizarre crime this week: he raped his twin brother’s girlfriend by posing as Joe Rohrig on July 19th. The likeness was so close that the girlfriend was unable to spot the trick until she noticed the telltale absence of a cowboy tatoo [...

British MP Under Attack for Walking Out of Segregated Wedding in East London

Posted on August 23, 2009
MP Jim Fitzpatrick is under fire by the large Muslim population in East London after he and his wife left a wedding party when they were told that it was segregated by gender due to the Islamic faith of the couple. Tory candidate Tim Archer attacked Fitzpatrick, saying that he “is playing a certain [...

Marriott Blames Mother Raped in One of Its Garages in Counterclaim to Tort Lawsuit

Posted on August 22, 2009
Stamford Marriott Hotel and Spa has allowed its attorneys to aggressively pursue a mother of two children who was pulled into her van and raped in front of her children in a Marriott hotel. Marriott now asserts that the 40-year-old mother was responsible in the attack, failed to “mitigate their damages,” and has sought [...

Negro Educational Emergency Drive Fires PittGirl After Learning Her Identity

Posted on August 22, 2009
The Negro Educational Emergency Drive did not take long to fire Virginia Montanez after she revealed that she was the popular — and once anonymous — blogger PittGirl. PittGirl was a favorite of readers in Pittsburgh and would dish out funny jabs against the political establishment, particularly the mayor...

Palin-Hannity in 2012 ? A DNC Fantasy Moves Closer to Reality

Posted on August 22, 2009
It is a dream of many a Democratic strategist: A Hannity-Palin Ticket or Palin-Hannity Ticket in 2012. According to one news report, Sean Hannity added fuel to the speculation this week by saying that he would not rule out a run and would await direction from the Almighty...

Taliban Cut Off Fingers of Women Voting in National Elections

Posted on August 22, 2009
The Taliban has made good on its horrific promise to cut off the fingers of people with the tell-tale dye stains on their fingers after voting in the national elections. This does not surprise me about these extremists who believe any atrocity in the name of Allah is permitted...

Shock Video: BYU Professor Tasered in Court

Posted on August 21, 2009
We have been following questionable uses of tasers by police. This video from 2004 raises some disturbing questions where a former BYU professor Tom Lowery is tasered in court during a rambling argument. It is clear that the use of the force, in my view, was unnecessary and improper — particularly in a [...

Six Police Officers Shoot Man 43 Times in Self-Defense ? Stopping to Reload in Three Volleys

Posted on August 21, 2009
Police insist that they were acting in self-defense when they shoot Alonzo Heyward in Chattanooga, Tennessee. There is no question that Heyward was carrying a rifle around his neighborhood and ranting about suicide. However, it was the response to the danger that has people demanding answers: the six officers fired 59 rounds [...

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