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Israel To Seek $20 Billion More in U.S. Aid

Posted on March 10, 2011
As cities and states shutdown basic programs and sell off parks and lands due to a lack of money, Israel will ask the U.S. for $20 billion in additional military aid. This is being supported by various members of Congress and the Administration, who continue to spend wildly abroad while demanding cuts in education, the [...

Bad Hair Day: Connecticut Man Accused of Stopping in Mid-Haircut To Slash Man With Scissors

Posted on March 10, 2011
This is not only an odd mugshot of David Davis, 21, it is also evidence. Davis is accused of interrupting his haircut in Stamford, Connecticut to slash another man with scissors in the back. Davis is claiming self-defense and said the other man was threatening him...

GW Professor Gets Thrown Out of Colonial Game and Becomes Internet Sensation

Posted on March 10, 2011
A George Washington Accounting professor went to the game this week between our Colonials and Dayton to be honored for his financial contributions to the athletic department. He ended up becoming a virtual campus icon — honored for his confrontation with a referee in defense of the Colonials in a video (below) that has gone [...

New Hampshire Filmmaker Sues For Right To Be Bigfoot in State Parks

Posted on March 10, 2011
While the first amendment has been explored from virtually every possible angle, the one question that has long been unresolved since the founding of the Republic is what protection should be afforded to citizens who desire to dress as Bigfoot and scare hikers on federal lands...

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Obama Administration Pledges To Hold Gaddafi Accountable For War Crimes

Posted on March 09, 2011
In an announcement that has many civil libertarians charging hypocrisy, the Obama Administration has gone public with a commitment to hold Moammar Gaddafi accountable for war crimes. This is the same Administration that has been denounced internationally for blocking any prosecution of Bush officials, including Bush himself, for alleged torture and war crimes...

Catholic Church Suspends 21 Priests For Allegations of Child Abuse

Posted on March 09, 2011
The Archdiocese of Philadelphia has suspended 21 priests for involvement in the sexual abuse of minors. The suspensions come after a grand jury found that 37 priests in the diocese were implicated in such abuse. Cardinal Justin Rigali, previously insisted that there were no priests ?who have an admitted or established allegation of sexual abuse [...

Man Sues Former Paramedic For Stealing His Foot After Accident

Posted on March 09, 2011
We have yet another bizarre case out of St. Lucie. Karl Lambert has sued former paramedic Cynthia “Cindy” Economou for stealing his severed foot after a 2008 crash. Economou admits that she stole the foot, explaining that she wanted to use it to train her body recovery dog...

Multimillionaire Dentist Arrested For Stealing Credit Card of College Students For Pizza

Posted on March 09, 2011
Dr. Richard Lewis Ludwig, 54, of Michigan, was arrested as the surprise culprit in an alleged credit-card theft and forgery case. Ludwig is a multimillionaire dentist who allegedly found a credit card dropped by Harrun Majeed in a parking lot. Ludwig then allegedly proceeded to buy pizzas and drinks with the college student’s card...

The War on Toy Guns: Boy, Girls, and the Games They Play

Posted on March 08, 2011
Four years ago, I wrote a column on the controversy over boys and toy guns. In my column today in USA Today I return to the issue to discuss some recent research in the area. Four years ago, I was publicly identified as a danger to children. As the doting father of four, it was [...

Obama Moves Toward Intervention in Libya

Posted on March 08, 2011
Barack Obama said indicated that the United States is considering military intervention in Libya. While this may be an effort to convince Gaddafi (Qadaffi) to leave, the very thought of another military campaign by the United States is alarming. We are continuing to gush billions in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan despite rising anti-American [...

Lawyer?s Nightmare

Posted on March 08, 2011
Here is a tip for other Hollywood actors. If you want to sue a studio over breach of contract, do not go to the roof of a building with a large machete and scream “I’m free at last.” As always, my thoughts go to his lawyer . . . That was the latest scene in [...

Montana Supreme Court Stays Order To Force Woman To Have Hysterectomy

Posted on March 08, 2011
In an important case concerning personal autonomy, the Montana Supreme Court stayed an alarming order from Montana state judge for a woman to be forced to undergo an hysterectomy to save her life. Last Tuesday, Judge Karen Townsend ruled that the woman L...

Obama Orders Resumption of Military Tribunals

Posted on March 08, 2011
In yet another slap at civil liberties and civil libertarians, President Barack Obama signed an executive order Monday that will resume military tribunal proceedings at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Obama has ordered the resumption of these trials — denounced both domestically and internationally as trumped up proceedings designed to make convictions easier by omitting core constitutional [...

Virgin Blue Fires Flight Attendant For Putting 17-Month-Old Son In Overhead Compartment

Posted on March 07, 2011
Virgin Blue has fired a male flight attendant after a mother, Natalie Williamson, complained that her 17-month-old son, Riley, was put in an overhead compartment on a flight from Fij to Sydney. There is more, however, to this story than the headline. It appears that Williamson’s now estranged husband was playing peek-a-boo with Riley and [...

Saudi Interior Ministry: Free Speech Is Offense Against God

Posted on March 07, 2011
We have seen how Sharia law has been used to justify child rape, stonings, and a wide array of abuses. Now the Interior Ministry of Saudi Arabia has issued a statement that protests for greater freedom and democratic reforms is also an offense against God...

Sarah Palin: The Rose Parks of Guns?

Posted on March 07, 2011
Folks at the National Rifle Association are celebrating what some are calling the “Palin effect” — a sharp rise in female membership in the NRA and gun ownership generally due to the rise of Sarah Palin. According to the article below, the Palin effect has encouraged new design and marketing efforts by gun manufacturers vis-a-vis [...

Ashcroft v. al-Kidd

Posted on March 07, 2011
Submitted by Lawrence Rafferty, (rafflaw), Guest Blogger I have been concerned lately about the Constitutional attacks that we have discussed here on Prof. Turley?s blog. One case that I have noticed lately received very minimal main stream media attention and it concerns a vitally important issue...

?Heart Attack Grill? Spokesman Dies At 29

Posted on March 07, 2011
Heart Attack Grill, owned by Jon Basso, brags about some of the highest caloric, artery-clogging food. They even enlisted Blair River (a 572-pound obese man) as their spokesman. River, 29, has now died from pneumonia — a death connected to his obesity by critics...

Rangel Reprimanded Over Conduct at Bail Hearing

Posted on March 07, 2011
Rep. Charles Rangel just recently was reprimanded by the House of Representatives. He has now moved on to the judicial branch where Judge Edward McLaughlin reprimanded him for his conduct in the bail hearing of one of the alleged members of the 137th Street gang, a high school student named Afrika Owes...

It Came From Outer Space: NASA Scientist Reveals Fossil From Meteorite

Posted on March 07, 2011
Dr. Richard B. Hoover, an astrobiologist with NASA?s Marshall Space Flight Center, has released this picture of a fossil of a life form that came to Earth on a meteorite — as opposed to Sigourney Weaver’s stomach. In the March edition of the Journal of Cosmology, Hoover says that these fossils appear in CI1 carbonaceous [...

Carry Out Luggage: Man Uses Plane Bathroom To Rob Brink?s of Almost $240,000

Posted on March 07, 2011
Now this is a daring crime. A passenger on a flight on Air Antilles to Guadeloupe reportedly complained that he was having stomach issues and stayed in the bathroom for almost the entire flight. After the plane landed, a Brink’s security employee discovered that the $238,000 left with luggage in the hold had been taken...

Running Bear

Posted on March 06, 2011
-Submitted by David Drumm (Nal), Guest Blogger Today we present Johnny Preston, who died on Friday, in glorious STEREO!

Promises, Promises: Is the Obama DOJ Going after Whistleblowers?

Posted on March 06, 2011
Submitted by Elaine Magliaro, Guest Blogger From Change.gov (The Office of the President-Elect Barack Obama): ?Often the best source of information about waste, fraud, and abuse in government is an existing government employee committed to public integrity and willing to speak out...

Justice Thomas? Dangerous Conceit

Posted on March 06, 2011
Here is today’s column in the Los Angeles Times (Sunday) on the recent remarks from Justice Clarence following criticism for his disclosure violations and alleged conflicts of interest. Louis XIV of France was infamous for his view that there was no distinction between himself and the state, allegedly proclaiming “L’État, c’est moi” (“I am the [...

Criminalizing Prank Calls

Posted on March 06, 2011
-Submitted by David Drumm (Nal), Guest Blogger Recently, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker was the recipient of an embarrassing prank call from a blogger Ian Murphy posing as Republican billionaire David Koch. Instead of waiting until the incident blew over, two Republican Wisconsin legislators have decided now’s the time to reintroduce legislation that would make the [...

Plyler v. Doe (1982) and Jurisdiction

Posted on March 05, 2011
-Submitted by David Drumm (Nal), Guest Blogger Plyler v. Doe was a case in which the Supreme Court decided that, under the Equal Protection Clause, Texas could not deny the children of undocumented aliens access to public schools. The vote was 5-4. More interestingly, by a vote of 9-0, the court addressed the meaning of “jurisdiction” [...

No, No, No, You Silly Drunk: Drink First Then Take Field Test

Posted on March 05, 2011
Submitted By Mark Esposito, Guest Blogger Stephen Supers of  Elyria, Ohio can’t seem to get anything straight. Pulled for speeding, the 25-year-old gave the arresting officer the distinct impression  he was DUI. After failing several field sobriety tests, the alleged offender confirmed the officer’s suspicion and calmed his nerves by slamming back a beer he conveniently had [...

Alister McGrath Escapes Rationality

Posted on March 05, 2011
-Submitted by David Drumm (Nal), Guest Blogger Alister McGarth is a Christian theologian and apologist, and Professor of Theology, Ministry, and Education at King’s College, London. In his latest article, he chides the New Atheists for their adherence to the prison of mere rationality...

Wanted: Red Or Restrained

Posted on March 05, 2011
Submitted by Mark Esposito, Guest Blogger Wisconsin Republican leaders are law and order types indeed. Unhappy that fourteen Democratic state senators are boycotting Governor Scott Walker’s union busting party, they have authorized the Senate Sergeant at Arms to round-up the legislative desperadoes “with or without force...

Susie Darlin?

Posted on March 05, 2011
-Submitted by David Drumm (Nal), Guest Blogger Today we have the one hit by Robin Luke in glorious STEREO! His teen idol days didn’t last long and Robin got a Ph.D. in Business Administration and Marketing and is currently a professor and head of the Marketing Department at Missouri State University in Springfield, Missouri.

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