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She Asked For It? Another Woman Stoned to Death Under Sharia Law in Somalia

Posted on October 29, 2008
Another woman has been stoned to death for adultery — this time in Somalia. In Mogadishu, thousands of people gathered to watch 50 men stone Aisho Ibrahim Dhuhulow to death according to the sentence of an Islamic court imposing Sharia law. Local Islamist leader Sheikh Hayakallah said the woman wanted the punishment...

Doctor Moreau?s Island Paradise: Hawaiian Tenants Claims Landlord Used Them For Medical Experiments

Posted on October 29, 2008
And you think your landlord is the pits. In Kalihi, Hawaii, officials shutdown a collapsing building only to hear from tenants that they were allegedly subjected to medical experiments by their landlord, ex-licensed chiropractor Daniel Cunningham. Cunningham has accumulated thousands in building fines, but still protested when his building was being closed and object that [...

Busted at the Fill-A-Buster: State Senator Arrested After Videotaped Stuffing Payoff into Bra

Posted on October 29, 2008
I am not sure which is worse, the criminal charge or the video for Democratic State Senator Dianne Wilkerson. In a video to be shown at her trial for bribery, Wilkerson is shown allegedly stuffing a $1,000 cash payoff into her bra during a meeting at an aptly named restaurant — the Fill-A-Buster...

Ex-Judge Apologizes for E-Mail Comparing Obama?s Election to Holocaust

Posted on October 29, 2008
An ex-judge has apologized after the McCain campaign and Republicans denounced her email sent to Jewish voters in Pennsylvania suggesting that presidential candidate Barack Obama taught members of a community group “to commit voter registration fraud...

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North Carolina Officer Fired and Charged with Bigamy

Posted on October 29, 2008
A Monroe, N.C. police officer Darryl Howard had one wife too many. He has been fired and is facing bigamy charges after one of his wives filed a criminal charges with his colleagues. Howard joined the Monroe Police Department in Sept. 29, 2002 and is now charged with a felony after his second wife came [...

Missouri Deputy Pleads Guilty to Assaulting Motorist and Then Trying to Destroy the Evidence on His Dash Camera

Posted on October 28, 2008
A former Missouri deputy has pleaded guilty to federal charges of using excessive force and obstructing justice during a traffic stop. Donald A. Devens of Smithville admitted that he not only assaulted motorist Wesley A. Lewis in August 2005 (by kicking him in the groin and punching him in the throat when he [...

Video: Family Denounces Obama as Children Make Monkey Sounds

Posted on October 28, 2008
If you wonder how this country still raises guys like the two neo-Nazis who wanted to kill Obama (while living with their grandparents and reading Guns-n-Ammo), take a look at this video. Here we have a family chanting “No ‘Bama” while the children make monkey sounds...

Police Arrest Two Neo-Nazis Planning Assassination of Barack Obama

Posted on October 28, 2008
Two men have been charged with threatening Barack Obama and planning his assassination. allegedly also planned to kill 102 black people. The two suspects two suspects?Daniel Cowart, 20, of Bells, Tenn., and Paul Schlesselman 18, of Helena-West Helena, Ark...

JPMorgan Chase Executive Admits that Bailout Will Be Used Not To Make New Loans But to Buy Other Companies

Posted on October 28, 2008
For those who opposed the massive bailout, a report in the New York Times may be little surprise.  A reporter was able to get into a telephone conference call with JPMorgan Chase to hear executives discuss the $25 billion it received from Congress.  Just four days after the bailout, JPMorgan Chase?s chief executive, Jamie Dimon [...

Drunkenstein?s Demise: Arizona Man Who Planned Super Bowl Massacre Gets 357 days in Prison

Posted on October 28, 2008
Kurt William Havelock, 36, was sentenced this week to a year and a day for his plot to massacre people at the Super Bowl football game in Glendale, Arizona. He was bringing a semiautomatic rifle and 200 rounds of ammunition to a parking lot near University of Phoenix Stadium and sent letters to media [...

Kentucky Restaurant Owner Criminally Charged Over Halloween Prank

Posted on October 28, 2008
Police have charged the manager of a chicken restaurant of making a false report after an employee panicked during a Halloween prank. Joe Watkins of the Chicken Ranch restaurant in Paris, Kentucky thought it was funny to lie in a pool of blood on the floor...

Federal Jury Awards $3 Million to Woman Wrongly Identified as Shoplifter and Counterfeiter

Posted on October 27, 2008
Target was hit with a sizable $3 million award to Rita Cantrell of Greenville, South Carolina. The award included punitive damages after Target sent out an email to businesses stating that Cantrell was a shoplifter trying to pass counterfeit cash. Cantrell went to two Target stores in the Greenville area in Feb...

Family Affairs: Catholic Church Throws $130,000 Party for Pope?s Brother as Schuller Dumps His Son

Posted on October 27, 2008
It appears that a vow of poverty does not stand in the way of a good Birthday bash. A Catholic diocese in southern Germany plans to spend 100,000 euros (130,000 dollars) on a birthday bash at the Vatican for the Pope Benedict XVI’s elder brother, Georg Ratzinger...

Grand Slam: Sen. Ted Stevens Found Guilty on All Seven Counts

Posted on October 27, 2008
In a major victory against congressional corruption, Sen. Ted Stevens of Alaska has been found guilty on all seven counts in his federal trial. Despite numerous blunders by the prosecution, the evidence proved too strong for Senator No who has been an infamous figure for congressional ethics advocates for years...

Comedy of Errors: Stevens Jurors Find Prosecutorial Error in Indictment

Posted on October 27, 2008
If Sen. Ted Stevens is not acquitted in his corruption trial, it is not for a lack of effort by the prosecutors who have again been accused of fumbling. This time the prosecutorial error was found not by the court or the defense, but the jurors themselves...

Trokosi: Girls Mades ?Slaves to the Gods? In Ghana

Posted on October 27, 2008
In one of the world’s most disgraceful religious practices, girls (some younger than ten years old) continue to be made “slaves to the Gods” by priests in Ghana who abuse and sexually assault the girls — serving as surrogates for the Gods...

The Great American Pumpkin Shoot: Eight-Year-Old In Massachusetts Shoots Himself in the Head with Fully Automatic Uzi

Posted on October 27, 2008
An 8-year-old boy, Christopher Bizilj (Bah-SEAL) of Ashford, Conn., died after he accidentally shot himself in the head at a gun club during the annual “Great New England Pumpkin Shoot”, which features automatic weapons. It appears that organizers (or the boy’s parents) see no problem is handing an eight-year-old a fully loaded, fully [...

Muslim Cleric Marries Twelve-Year-Old Girl

Posted on October 27, 2008
In the latest outrage involving an under-aged bride, Muslim cleric Pujianto Cahyo Widianto married a 12-year-old girl in the Semarang, Indonesia. Widianto reportedly selected the girl from a pool of 20 girls and took her to Singapore as his new bride with his first wife...

Run to the Border: Couple Finds Bag of Pot in Taco

Posted on October 26, 2008
A Colorado couple objected to the topping on one of their tacos at a Del Taco restaurant when they were served a bag of pot. While waiter Dennis Klermund, 26, initially denied that the pot was his, more pot was found in his locker and he now faces charges of possession of marijuana and [...

Jordan?s Grand Mufti Issues Fatwa Against Poet Who is Then Arrested and Criminally Charged for Insulting Islam

Posted on October 26, 2008
Journalists and artists in Jordan have rallied around poet Islam Samhan who was indicted for the crime of incorporating verses of the Holy Koran into his poetry about love. This followed a fatwa issued by the country’s mufti who declared him an infidel and his poetry to be blasphemy...

Obama Campaign Worker Attacked in Wisconsin

Posted on October 26, 2008
Despite the enormous attention given to false allegations of an attack on a McCain supporter in Pennsylvania, there has been virtually no attention of the well-supported allegation of an Obama worker being attacked in Racine, Wisconsin. Nancy Takehara tells WISN-TV she drove from Chicago to help canvass a neighborhood and got into a heated [...

Blacklist: Obama Campaign Punishes Station for Tough Questions of Biden

Posted on October 26, 2008
Florida WFTV-Channel 9’s Barbara West thought that she was using her five minutes with Sen. Joe Biden to get at the toughest questions being raised by critics of the campaign. None of the usual softball, scripted questions. The choice reportedly resulted in the campaign canceling future interviews with the station...

Catholic Bishop Suspended After Adopting 26-Year-Old Woman

Posted on October 26, 2008
Bishop John Thattungal, 58, raised a few eyebrows when he announced that he had decided to adopt in the Catholic church where celibate priests are married to the bride of the Church. Parishioners in India were even more surprised when they adopted child turned out to be a 26-year-old woman...

Cannibal Mother Who Skinned Son and Forced Him to Eat His Own Flesh is Given Nine Years

Posted on October 25, 2008
Ok, I am a bit confused. Klara Mauerova, 31, is a member of a cannibal cult in teh Czech Republic who ortured her son in a locked cellar while relatives skinned him and forced him to eat his own flesh. The sentence: nine years. That is less than a tax evasion sentence...

Florida Throws Out False Light Verdict

Posted on October 25, 2008
In a major victory for the media, the Florida Supreme Court throw out a lawsuit where the Pensacola News Journal was successfully sued for false light of road-building contractor Joe Anderson. Anderson sued over a series of articles in 1998 about environmental issues surrounding the paving company he founded, Anderson Columbia...

Nebraska Supreme Overturns Child Assault Conviction

Posted on October 25, 2008
Steven Parker, 42, has received a new trial by unanimous vote after his 2006 conviction for child sexual assault on a 11-year-old child was thrown out due to the placement of a screen around him at trial so his alleged victim could not see him. The use of such screens are highly prejudicial for a defendant [...

Lipstick on a Pac: Palin Spent $32,800 on Hair and Make-Up

Posted on October 25, 2008
New reports show that “Hockey Mom” Sarah Palin spent $32,800 on hair and make-up in just two weeks. At that rate, you buy and could lipstick over 64,000 pigs. You could also pay the annual salary and medical expenses for one average citizen for what Palin spent on hair and make-up in two weeks...

Video: Oklahoma Police Officer Shoots Dog and Then Allegedly Lies

Posted on October 24, 2008
Tammy Christopher is suing Grady County Oklahoma after Deputy Sean Kinght shot her dog. While the police officer told her that the dog charged at him when he stopped for direction while serving tax warrants, the video appears to contradict that claim and show Knight...

Ha, Ha, Thump: GOP Election Officer Distributes Letter Calling Obama ?Black Hitler?

Posted on October 24, 2008
Johnson County Clerk Jill Jackson in Franklin, Indiana waited until after hours to put copies of a chain letter on the desks of employees that called Sen. Barack Obama a “young, black Adolf Hitler” and discussed the absence of white pride...

Chicago?s New Gay High School

Posted on October 24, 2008
Chicago is set for a vote on the new high school targeting gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transsexual students on November 19th. Below is today’s column on the school, which I reluctantly oppose as I did the Harvey Milk high school. Yielding to bias; Segregating kids removes the victims, not their tormentors BYLINE: By Jonathan Turley BODY: With a vote scheduled [...

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