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Report: Iranian Guards Routinely Force Young Girls to Marry and Then Rape Them Before Their Executions ? As Moral Measure

Posted on July 22, 2009
The Jerusalem Post is reporting a shocking interview with a member of the Iranian paramilitary Basiji militia — the group accused of some of the worst atrocities in the crackdown on protesters following the recent disputed presidential election...

California Divorce Lawyer Arrested on Suspicion of Planning to Kill His Wife ? And Then Released for Lack of Evidence

Posted on July 22, 2009
La Jolla divorce attorney Steven Liss, 53, was arrested this week on suspicion of four counts of solicitation to commit murder, false imprisonment and spousal battery. Police allege that Liss has been seeking help from various people to kill this wife Karen...

Obama Administration Misses Deadline for Report on Detainees

Posted on July 21, 2009
In yet another failure to honor its promises to civil libertarians, the Obama Administration has failed to honor its own deadline for the submission of a report on its policy for the detention of terror suspects. The report was expected to give details on Obama’s promise to shutdown the U...

Federal Court Rules CIA Committed Fraud in Federal Case

Posted on July 21, 2009
The CIA has been accused of yet another fraud. U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth had referred a CIA attorney for disciplinary action and is considering further sanctions against five current and former CIA employees, including former CIA Director George Tenet, for misleading the court in a federal case...

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Sharia Court in Malaysia Sentences Woman to Be Flogged For Drinking a Beer at a Nightclub

Posted on July 21, 2009
A Sharia court in Malaysia has sentenced part-time model Kartika Sari Dewi Shukarno, 32, to be flogged for drinking a beer at a nightclub. In Malaysia, only Muslims can be flogged for alcohol consumption and the government turns over the accused to the Sharia courts to mete out their own Islamic justice...

Transformed: Fourteen-Year-Old Boy Suffers Brain Damage After Drinking Gasoline to Be More Like Optimus Prime

Posted on July 21, 2009
Many major movies with a young audience tend to spawn cases and injuries from kids copying dangerous conduct. Indeed, some such injuries have led to lawsuits when parents blame the studios for depicting dangerous stunts. Shanghai Daily is reporting a perfectly bizarre case where a 14-year-old boy from Yibin in Sichuan, China [...

Harvard Professor Henry Louis ?Skip? Gates Arrested in Cambridge

Posted on July 21, 2009
Henry Louis “Skip” Gates, Jr., University professor and director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Studies at Harvard, has been arrested while trying to break into his own house. A concerned neighbor called police when she saw Gates, 58, “wedging his shoulder in the front door [of Gates' [...

The Primate Suspect: Monkey Caught on Videotape in Plant Caper

Posted on July 21, 2009
The owners of Plants and Planters in Richardson, Texas suspected monkey business but they hardly expected an actual monkey. When Jerry Duncan retrieved a videotape from his gardening store after a burglary, he was amazed to see what appeared to be a trained monkey stealing plants...

Suspect Bursts Into Flames After Being Tasered by Police

Posted on July 21, 2009
A 36-year-old Australian man burst into flames after being tasered by an officer with the West Australian Police. The man had doused himself with gasoline and was carrying a lighter when the police arrived in Warburton. The police were responding to a report that people were sniffing glue at the location...

Fox Analyst Suggests That Captured American Soldier Should Be Killed by Captors

Posted on July 20, 2009
Fox News Strategic Analyst Lt. Col. Ralph Peters appears to view trials as something of an unnecessary expense. Here was heard this week telling Fox News that, if captured U.S. soldier Bowe Bergdahl, did leave his post — then “the Taliban can serve us a lot of legal hassles” by killing Bergdahl...

?I?m a Cop, I Can?t Go To Jail?: Police Officer Arrested in 2007 Fatal Hit and Run

Posted on July 20, 2009
Crafton, Pa. Police Officer Donnie Breeden, 38, a 15-year veteran on the Crafton Police Force has been criminally charged with one count each of involuntary manslaughter and accidents involving death or personal injury. He was arrested after a friend implicated him in a 2007 hit and run — after which Breeden and [...

The Legacy of Feres: Negligent Military Doctors Amputate Airman?s Legs After Botching Gallbladder Surgery

Posted on July 20, 2009
We have another military medical malpractice case and another reason for Congress to legislatively negate the infamous Feres doctrine. Airman Colton Read, 20, went into the David grant Medical Center at Travis Air Force Base near Sacramento for a simple gallbladder operation — only to end up a double amputee due to malpractice...

China Raids and Confiscates Computers and Files of Leading Civil Rights Activists

Posted on July 20, 2009
A leading civil rights organization in China, the Open Constitution Initiative, was effectively shutdown last Friday by the Chinese government, which seized its computers and files — including sensitive files on the tainted milk powder scandal that killed at least six children and hurt hundreds of thousands...

Lawless Arrest: Police Officer Shown on Tape Assaulting Women Involved in Car Accident With His Son

Posted on July 20, 2009
There is a very disturbing video and story out of Philadelphia where alleged police abuse was followed by an attempted cover-up. Agnes Lawless was involved in a minor fender bender but the other driver left the scene. She assumed the matter was over when she went in Lukoil store at 3 a...

HUMANS DID THIS TO ME

Posted on July 19, 2009
Humans continue their campaign of forcing exchanges of dignity for dog bones. As Col. Kurtz explained in Apocalypse Now: I’ve seen horrors… horrors that you’ve seen. But you have no right to call me a murderer. You have a right to kill me...

West Virginia Man Charged With Dog Rape

Posted on July 19, 2009
Farmington, W. Va. (The Weekly Vice) – Christopher Bagwell, 26, is accused of a bizarre deviant offense: raping a neighbor’s dog that he had long coveted. The case shows a continuing failure of many states to have adequate laws punishing such animal cruelty...

Hard-Right Science: Tea Party Leader Explains the Basic of Global Warming

Posted on July 19, 2009
This is almost hypnotic. One of the leaders at a Tea Party event with the Citizens of Liberty holds forth on the science of global warming. [Note: there will be no academic credit awarded for this Internet learning exercise]. The site for this organization makes clear that this is about a world socialist agenda: No, [...

Retired Major General Joins Litigation Over Obama?s Birth Status

Posted on July 19, 2009
The controversy over President Barack Obama continues with an interesting twist: Maj. Gen. Carol Dean Childers (ret.) and active U.S. Air Force reservist Lt. Col. David Earl Graeff may joined the litigation. On July 8th, Maj. Stefan Frederick Cook filed the suit July 8th in federal court demanding conscientious objector status and [...

California Police Officer Pleads Guilty of Civil Rights Violation in Sexual Assault

Posted on July 18, 2009
Former California police officer Feliciano Sanchez has pleaded guilty to deprivation of right under the color of law in a case where he forced a motorist to perform an act of oral sex after pulling her over on a highway. Sanchez, 34, admitted that on, May 16, 2007, he pulled over a female driver in a [...

Live Free (With Fines) or Die (in Debt): New Hampshire Fines Injured Eagle Scout $25,000 for Mountain Rescue

Posted on July 18, 2009
Scott Mason, an eagle scout from Massachusetts, was praised in April after he spent three nights on Mount Washington in New Hampshire with a sprained ankle using his scout skills. New Hampshire officials, however, are now demanding payment of $25,000 for the rescue because he believe he was negligent in continuing on the height [...

WALTER CRONKITE DEAD AT 92

Posted on July 18, 2009
Walter Cronkite, once known as the “most trusted man in America,” is dead at 92. He passed away at a time of tremendous changes in the media, particularly at his beloved CBS. As he would say, “That?s the way it is.” Cronkite was the gold standard of the “old guard” — [...

Surgical Souvenir: Florida Surgeon Charged After Lying to Police and Palming a Slug Taken From a Suspect as a Souvenir

Posted on July 18, 2009
Dr. David J. Ciesla now know the perils of souvenir hunting in surgeries. The Florida surgeon and medical director of the trauma center at Tampa General Hospital is facing criminal charges after adding that he lied to police when he said that he could not retrieve two bullets from a suspect in a [...

Obama White House Blocks Sidney Blumenthal?s Appointment at the State Department

Posted on July 17, 2009
The White House has reportedly blocked Hillary Clinton’s effort to bring controversial columnist Sidney Blumenthal into the State Department to advise her. Blumenthal has been long seen as a polarizing and, according to some, a vicious partisan — including allegations that he spread malicious rumors about Obama during the campaign...

Michigan Appellate Court Overrules Minister?s Probation Revocation for Unleashing ?Demons? on His Trial Judge

Posted on July 17, 2009
Rev. Edward Pinkney is a minister who relishes the wrath of God — particularly as an extension of his own criminal case. Pinkney recently ordered down fire and damnation upon the head of Judge Alfred Butzbaugh. Judge Butzbaugh took the extraordinary (and abusive) step to ordering that Pinkney refrain from “defamatory and [...

NASA Photographs Apollo Landing Sites and Find Oversized Arrows

Posted on July 17, 2009
In celebration of the 40th anniversary of Apollo 11, NASA released partially restored videos of the July 20, 1969 moonwalk. It also showed new pictures of the lunar landing sites, which are intended to debunk conspiracy theories that the entire story was a hoax...

Party Police: English Police Storm Small Birthday Party in Body Armor and Protected with a Helicopter

Posted on July 17, 2009
Andrew Poole threw a 30th birthday party in England with 17 of his closest friends. He ended up hosting a company of police with four police cars, a riot van, and a helicopter. The ultimate party crashers claims that they were “concerned” that the party was a rave because it was advertised on [...

Two Former Ave Maria Law Professors Settle Lawsuit With Tenure

Posted on July 17, 2009
We have been following the lawsuit against the Ave Maria School of Law (here). Now, it appears that two out of the three professors — Ed Lyons and Phil Pucillo — have agreed to a settlement that includes tenure at the controversial school...

Something Borrowed, Something Burning: Bride?s Bouquet Crashes Aircraft

Posted on July 17, 2009
Many people are a bit fearful of that moment when a wedding bouquet is thrown with the promise of the next marriage for the lucky recipient. Isidoro Pensieri, 44, can personally attest to the dangers of that tradition. He is recovering at a hospital in Pisa with facial and head injuries and two [...

Democrats Unleash Huge Tax Proposals ? With Some Rates Threatened to Go as High as 57 percent

Posted on July 16, 2009
Many of us have expressed concern about the pork-laden appropriation bills and stimulus package this year. Just as Republicans showed little restraint in spending in the war bills, Democrats have treated the economic recovery bills as a license for unlimited spending...

Student Takes Picture of Police ? And Is Then Given a Fine By the Same Officers for Sitting in a Park

Posted on July 16, 2009
Concordia University student Brendan Colin Jones, 25, was sitting in a park when he took a picture of police confronting youths in a park. One of the officers then allegedly confronted him about the pictures and gave him a $628 ticket for sitting on park ledge...

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