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Give Me a Pee: Cheerleaders Busted Afer Spiking Team Drinks With Urine

Posted on April 09, 2010
Cheerleaders at the Saginaw High School in Saginaw, Texas (not the cheerleaders shown left) were busted after they allegedly served team members soda mixed with their own urine — telling them that they had added sour candy. The prank was disclosed by the perpetrators in a YouTube video — adding stupidity to depravity...

Atheist Wins Establishment Challenge to Faith-Based Treatment Program

Posted on April 09, 2010
There is an important ruling out of Redding where a federal judge has ruled that California violated the rights of Barry Hazle Jr.,40, by punishing him for refusing to participate in a religious drug treatment program. It is a rare ruling in favor of an atheist under the Establishment Clause...

Meet Al Barrette, Alaska?s Bible Preaching Wolf Skinner

Posted on April 09, 2010
Al Barrette is the newest proposed member o the Alaska Board of Game, who is facing opposition after a video shows him skinning wolves while quoting the Bible. Barrette seems to suggest that wolf killing is Biblically ordained after Adam and Eve were thrown out of the Garden of Eden...

Muslim Woman Strangled By Burkha in Australia

Posted on April 09, 2010
A young Muslim woman has become a tragic Islamic version of Isadora Duncan, the actress who was strangled by her own scarf in 1927. The young Muslim woman was strangled by her own burkha (or burqa) while driving a go-kart in Port Stephens in Australia...

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Mom?s April Fool?s Joke Results in Son Being Arrested

Posted on April 09, 2010
Michael Kelly, 31, has an interesting defense to make to charges of felony speeding and other crimes in North Carolina: he was the victim of the world’s most stupid April Fool’s joke by his mother. Kelly took police on a 120 mile an hour crash after his mother told him that his 9-year-old [...

John Paul Stevens: The Uncalled Shot

Posted on April 09, 2010
Below is today’s column on the retirement of Associate Justice John Paul Stevens. On Oct. 1, 1932, a ruby-faced 12-year-old boy sat with his father in Wrigley Field as Babe Ruth took the plate. For everyone in the stadium, it would be a defining moment of history – when Babe Ruth pointed his bat at the [...

John Paul Stevens Retires

Posted on April 09, 2010
Today John Paul Stevens officially announced that he will resign at the end of this term. As I state in today’s column in USA Today, it is the end of an era for liberals. I will be discussing his retirement tonight on Countdown. Stevens has long been a personal hero for me for obvious [...

?The Tree of Life?: Church of the Universe Fights For Recognition of Smoking Pot as a Protected Religious Rite

Posted on April 08, 2010
The Ontario Superior Court is hearing an interesting religious claim this week from the Church of the Universe. The Church is claiming the need to smoke marijuana to commune with God. Brother Peter Styrsky in Ontario Superior Court gave testimony that he was an aggressive, agitated delivery driver before turning to the Church and pot...

Pay As You Go: Ryan Air To Install Pay Toilets on Flights

Posted on April 08, 2010
It’s official. Ryanair confirmed that it is working with Boeing to reduce the bathrooms on its planes to a single bathroom and installing pay toilets on 168 planes. This is part of the brainchild of CEO Michael O’Leary who is struggling to jam more and more people into his planes...

Grade Inflation: Greenspan Insists That He Was Right 70 Percent of the Time

Posted on April 08, 2010
Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan insisted that he was “right seventy percent” of the time in his tenure leading up to the economic collapse. On most grading scales that would give him about a C — hardly the level of performance you want from an economic policy official...

Report: Fifty Percent of Households Pay No Federal Income Taxes

Posted on April 08, 2010
A recent report shows that 47 percent of U.S. households pay no federal income taxes. The Tax Policy Center found that the percent of non-paying households had risen from 38 percent in 2007 to 47 percent this year. Another interesting factoid is that households making more than $366,400 paid about 73 percent of the income [...

Yemeni Child Bride Bleeds To Death

Posted on April 08, 2010
There is a new report of an outrage involving a child bride in the Middle East. A 12-year-old Yemeni bride Elham Mahdi Shuee has reportedly died after bleeding caused by sexual intercourse. Elham died three days after her marriage to a man in his late 20s...

Wisconsin District Attorney Threatens to Prosecute Any Schools Teaching Sex Ed

Posted on April 08, 2010
Juneau County District Attorney Scott Southworth has reportedly threatened to prosecute schools if they comply with new state sex-education educational directives. He has declared that such courses encourage minors to have sex. Republican Southworth insists that the law would expose minors to the use of condoms and other contraceptives “promotes the sexualization ? and sexual [...

Prom Date and Switch? School Accused of Holding Fake Prom For Lesbian

Posted on April 08, 2010
Mississippi’s Itawamba Agricultural High School. has been roundly condemned for canceling a school prom in order to avoid have lesbian student Constance McMillen appear in a tux with her girlfriend. Now, the school is accused of an astonishing act of duplicity to add to its earlier act of discrimination...

Six Teens Charged After Bullied Girl Hangs Herself

Posted on April 07, 2010
Three Massachusetts teenagers have pleaded not guilty in the bullying of a 15-year-old girl who committed suicide after what prosecutors call months of threats and harassment. Sean Mulveyhill, 17, (shown here) with the victim Phoebe Prince is one of those charged and reportedly had a brief relationship with Prince before turning against [...

Don?t Feed The Bears (On Cable): Man Featured on Animal Planet Pleads Guilty To Feeding Wildlife

Posted on April 07, 2010
Charlie Vandergaw has discovered the perils of fame. Vandergaw was featured on Animal Planet in a segment called “Stranger Among Bears.” He has now pleaded guilty to eight counts of intentionally feeding game and given a suspended sentence and large fine...

Court: FCC Lacks Authority To Impose Net Neutrality

Posted on April 07, 2010
The Federal Communications Commission lost a major decision to Comcast when the D.C. Circuit ruled that it does not have the legal authority to slap Net neutrality regulations on Internet providers on Tuesday. The unanimous decision, authored by Judge David Tatel, rejected the FCC’s August 2008 cease and desist order against Comcast, which had taken measures to [...

The New Susan Boyle?

Posted on April 07, 2010
Lin Yu Chun is being touted as the Asian Susan Boyle after blowing away the competition at the Taiwanese singing competition Super Star Avenue with his rendition of Whitney Houston’s “I Will Always Love You.” What do you think?

West Virginia Mine Involved in Deadly Blast is a Massey Subsidiary

Posted on April 07, 2010
The West Virginia coal mine that exploded this week and killed 25 workers has a less than pleasing legal back story. Upper Big Branch mine, operated by the Performance Coal Company, is a subsidiary of Massey Energy. That should ring a bell for lawyers and academics as the company owned by [...

?Attenzione Prostitute?: Italian Road Signs Causes Driver Confusion

Posted on April 06, 2010
If the sign encouraging you to laugh out loud at drowning people was a bit confusing (here), it is the model of clarity when compared to this Italian street sign. It is not clear if the sign is alerting drivers to a driving danger or a local resource...

An Outfit to Die For: Woman Shoots Cousin After She Arrived in Casual Clothes for Easter

Posted on April 06, 2010
Evelyn Burgess, 42, in Columbus, Ohio appears to enforce a strict dress code for Easter dinner. Police say that Burgess shot her cousin, Danielle Pickens, 19, (shown left) in the head when she showed up for Easter dinner in a T-shirt and jeans. After the women fought over Pickens’ casual attire, Picken left to [...

Drowning in Laughter

Posted on April 06, 2010
The government may want to reconsider the design of this particular sign. I assume that the police want you to call them rather than laugh out loud at the sight of a drowning person.

Wikileaks Releases Alleged Video Showing Killing of Civilians and Reporter ? In Contradiction of U.S. Accounts

Posted on April 06, 2010
Wikileaks has released what it claims to be a video contradicting U.S. accounts of an attack that killed a Reuters photographer and 11 other people in Iraq in July 2007. Wikileaks says that it received the tape from a whistleblower in the military. The tape shows the crews of two American Apache attack helicopters kill [...

Vatican?s Second in Command Implicated in Abuse Scandal

Posted on April 06, 2010
Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone has been named as the person most responsible for allowing a serial child molester to remain as a priest in Wisconsin. He has been named as the party who blocked the defrocking of Reverend Lawrence Murphy...

Karzai Threatens to Join Taliban and Accuses the United States of ?Massive Fraud?

Posted on April 06, 2010
Afghan President Hamid Karzai continued his attacks on the United States and the West — not long after his high-profile event embracing Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, here. Despite demands for explanations of earlier criticism of the U...

An Uneasy Feeling: Obama?s Short List Reportedly Includes Two Controversial Possible Nominees

Posted on April 06, 2010
Many civil libertarians and liberals were critical of President Barack Obama’s selection of Sonia Sotomayor to replace David Souter. Sotomayor voted with conservatives on the Second Circuit in key police abuse and free speech cases. (here and here and here and here...

Dead Weight: Women Try to Check in Corpse on Flight to Berlin

Posted on April 06, 2010
Police in in the Liverpool John Lennon Airport have arrested two women aged 41 and 66 for the crime of trying to sneak the body of a dead relative on a flight to Berlin. They face the relatively low charge of failing to give notification of death. The women reportedly put the man in a [...

The Unhappiest Place on Earth: Paris Disney Experiences Rash of Suicides Among Complaints Over Working Conditions

Posted on April 05, 2010
Disneyland Paris is facing a possible strike over work conditions after three employees committed suicide since the first of the year. Guy-Bruno Mboe, leader of a Disneyland union, has called work conditions “brutal” and complained ?It?s all about profit, profit, profit...

Monumental Failure? Senegal Trades Land to North Korea For Massive Statute Designed By President ? Jesse Jackson Applauds Result

Posted on April 05, 2010
Senegal and North Korea have two things in common. One is abject poverty. The other is that they are now neighbors. North Korea, which is gradually starving an entire nation out of existence, bought a piece of Senegal in exchange for funding the construction of a massive statue designed by President Abdoulaye Wade...

Fifteen-Year-Old Girl Dies in Exorcism Rite

Posted on April 05, 2010
A local priest reportedly succeeded in stopping the convulsions of Sangeeta Persaud, who he accused for being filled with the devil in Guyana. The 15-year-old girl died as the priest, family, and friends worked to rid her of demonic possession. Neighbors have stated that the priest convinced them that the girl’s problems were spiritual [...

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