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Law Professor Charged With Tax Violations and Claims an A.D.D. Defense

Posted on September 10, 2009
Minnesota prosecutors have charged Hamline University professor Robin Magee with 11 felony counts for failing to file tax returns and filing false returns. In addition to to criminal law, tax law is one of Magee’s specialties and she also practices as a tax lawyer...

Getting Scratch For Crack: Florida Man Arrested in Alleged Flea-to-Crack Scheme

Posted on September 10, 2009
Jeffie Dewitt Morris, 36, in Fort Walton Beach, Florida is not your typical addict looking for a fix. Morris came up with the idea of shoplifting flea and tick medication to pay for crack. Morris was stopped at a Wal-Mart with hot flea and tick medication that he hoped to sell for drugs...

California Assemblyman Michael Duvall Resigns After Boasting of How He Sleeps With Lobbyists

Posted on September 10, 2009
Republican California Assemblyman Michael D. Duvall has resigned shortly after the release of the video below where he brags in disgusting and graphic detail about sleeping with lobbyists in his office. The conservative politicians who was known for campaigning on family and Christian values may now return to selling insurance with his partner [...

GOP Rep. Joe Wilson Calls the President a Liar During Address to Congress

Posted on September 10, 2009
In one of the most extraordinary breaches of congressional etiquette in the history of presidential addresses to Congress, Rep. Joe Wilson (R., S.C.) screamed at President Barack Obama last night “You lie” during his speech on health care...

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SPACE BUTTERFLY

Posted on September 10, 2009
I give you the space butterfly. This was taken by the Hubble telescope. It is believed to dwarf Rex Harrison’s Giant Lunar Moth. For collectors, the problem is not the size of the net, but the speed of the insect. This particular specimen of lepidoptera racing at over 600,000 mph from a dying star...

British Express Anger Over Deaths in Rescue of New York Times Reporter Who Ignored Repeated Warnings Not to Go Into Taliban Stronghold

Posted on September 10, 2009
New York Times reporter and blogger Stephen Farrell is being criticized in the wake of his rescue by British commandos, a rescue that claimed the lives of a woman, child, and a British soldier. Commanders are expressing anger that Farrell not only ignored repeated warnings not to go to the site in hostile territory, [...

ACORNs in the Fire: Video Allegedly Shows Employees Advising a (Faux) Pimp and Prostitute on How To Lie to the Government and Seek Support

Posted on September 10, 2009
ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now) has long been a target for conservative organizations and one such organization has released this video purportedly shown ACORN’s Baltimore office assisting two investigators posing as a prostitute and a pimp in getting federal assistance for a brothel...

Assault with a Slimey Weapon: Florida Man Accused of Attacking People With Jellyfish

Posted on September 10, 2009
I am pretty sure that this is a unique crime. Keith Edward Marriott, 41, is charged with repeatedly pretending to drown in Madeira Beach, Florida and then throwing jellyfish at people who came to help him. Marriott is accused of pretending to drown and then floating back to the top of the water to [...

Now Playing at the Supremes: Hillary the Movie (The Sequel)

Posted on September 09, 2009
Most of us despise sequels, but the Supreme Court has a hankering to rehear the case of Hillary: the Movie. Today, the Supreme Court will be taking up the case for a second time — and its ultimate reviews could hold great significance for campaign financing...

Video: Ohio Congresswoman Tells Supporter that Obama is Not a Citizen and Can?t Be President

Posted on September 09, 2009
Republicans may want to just keep away from open mikes for a while. After a ranking Republican in California was caught describing in disgusting detail sex with a lobbyist, Republican Rep. Jean Schmidt (R-Ohio) was caught whispering to a constituent that she agrees that President Obama is not a legitimate president due to [...

Shock Video: California Legislator Caught on Tape Graphically Describing Sex With Lobbyist in Office

Posted on September 09, 2009
Republican California Assemblyman Michael D. Duvall appears to like to brag about his sexual conquests. The problem is that he did so next to a live mike, in a state legislative room . . . and the woman was a lobbyist who he said had sex with him in his office...

Ninth Circuit: California Judge Improperly Influenced Jury to Convict Defendant

Posted on September 09, 2009
Sacramento Superior Court Judge Michael Virga improperly influenced a jury to find a defendant guilty in a sexual assault case. The actions of the former prosecutor have resulted in a new trial being ordered by the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit...

Former Prosecutor Suspended for Shoplifting

Posted on September 09, 2009
Former prosecutor and criminal defense attorney Dennis Fisher has been barred from practicing law for another year as punishment for stealing two knives. He was accused of not only stealing the knives but resisting employees who tried to stop him. He was fired as a prosecutor after his arrest for thefts from stores in Grand [...

The Ultimate Pick Up Line: Robber Allegedly Returns to Ask Victim Out on a Date

Posted on September 09, 2009
If Stephfon Bennett, 20, thought that “Hey, I’m the guy who robbed you, wanna go out?” is a good pick up line, he was right. The Columbia police picked him up after Bennett allegedly returned to the home of a woman he robbed to ask her on a date...

Putting Customers in the Big Box: Wal-Mart Employees Beat Shoplifter to Death

Posted on September 09, 2009
Wal-Mart in China appears to take shoplifting pretty seriously. Wal-Mart employees found a woman shoplifting and, despite efforts of witnesses to stop them, beat her to death. The matter is now being handled as a murder rather than shoplifting case...

Constitutional Illiteracy: Texas Orders All Schools To Teach ?Bible Literacy?

Posted on September 08, 2009
Texas legislators have continued their battle to add religious training in public schools. The state has a new law that requires that Texas public schools incorporate Bible literacy into the curriculum — though it offers no guidelines or instructions in how to do so...

Be Prepared, But No Packing: English Scouts Told Not To Carry Penknives to End ?Knife Culture?

Posted on September 08, 2009
Scouts in England have been told that they are no longer allowed to carry their classic penknives in a move against a “knife culture” by English officials. Both scouts and their parents are asked not to carry knives so not to foster criminal images...

Taliban Call For An Investigation of a Bombing ? By Someone Else

Posted on September 08, 2009
There must have been a bit of confusion in the German military headquarters. The Taliban has called for an investigation into a bombing ordered by the German commander in Afghanistan. That’s right, the Taliban who routinely bomb civilians, throw acid on little girls, and commit acts of terrorism as a matter of religion...

Making Sarkozy?s Short List: French President Seeks Citizens Who Can Measure Up

Posted on September 08, 2009
It is well-known that French President Nicolas Sarkozy is a bit sensitive about being 5′ 5” tall. He often stands on his toes for pictures or uses a box. He has, however, come up with a new idea. If you can make yourself taller, you can make the world smaller...

Off Key: Piper Calls on City Employees To Oppose Obama?s ?Muslim? Stamp

Posted on September 08, 2009
Clarksville Tennessee Mayor Johnny Piper has achieved his own degree of infamy for himself and his town. Piper forwarded an email to every City Council member, department head, many city employees, friends and family to raise the alarm over President Barack Obama’s decision to release a stamp to honor Muslims...

Legal Question of the Day: Did He Win?

Posted on September 08, 2009
You be the judge . . . This is reportedly from the Soundpony Street Sprints held in Tulsa, Oklahoma. You certainly have to give him credit for competitive spirit. However, does the bike and rider have to cross together to win?

Bad Hair Day: Florida Prisoner Escapes in Boxers and Eludes Police

Posted on September 08, 2009
Reed Ashton Hair, 20, has achieved something of a feat. He escaped in handcuffs wearing only boxer shorts. Yet, he remains at large. Hair was arrested for stolen property when he bolted into the dark and not a hair was found. In case you see a 6′1” man in boxers and cuffs, please call the [...

Iowa School Accused of Strip Searching Teenage Girls in Search of Stolen Money

Posted on September 07, 2009
School officials in at Atlantic High School (”Home of the Trojans & Trojanns“) in Des Moines, Iowa are facing questions of why five teenage girls were forced to take off their clothing for a search after a classmate reported $100 missing from her purse...

Things That Tick Me Off: The History Channel

Posted on September 07, 2009
As a history nut, one of the most annoying contradictions in life is the fact that the History Channel continues to use history in its title after abandoning such programming in a mindless rush for ratings. Just as you rarely hear music on MTV, you rarely see history on the History Channel...

HAPPY LABOR DAY!!!

Posted on September 07, 2009
Happy Labor Day to everyone. We are setting up for our traditional grilling experience with neighbors and friends, though it is pretty overcast in Virginia. The kids are grumbling about school starting tomorrow and the end of summer, but they have one last hurrah before hitting the books...

Faithful Rally Around Paster Anderson as ?Caring Human Being? as Anderson Reaffirms His Desire to See Obama Die

Posted on September 07, 2009
The members of the Faithful Word Baptist Church have gathered to affirm their support for their pastor, Steven L. Anderson, who has called for the death of President Barack Obama and “melted like a snail.” Anderson went out of his way to reaffirm his desire to see Obama die...

Really, Really Cold Case: New York Detectives Re-Open the 400-Year-Old Unsolved Murder of John Colman

Posted on September 07, 2009
The murder of John Colman is not exactly a cold case, it is positively glacial. New York detectives have taken up the case 400 years after the English seaman was found murdered and buried in a shallow grave. No weapon, no motive. The culprit, however, is believed to be out of the [...

Evolution Claims Another Victim: Evangelical Motorcyclist Injured While Jumping Giant Creationist Crab

Posted on September 06, 2009
Freedom Worship Baptist Church in Blanchester, Ohio wanted to demonstrate the fallacy of evolution of the human species and appears to have succeeded. The Church arranged forStunt driver Louis Re of New York to jump in a motocycle over a giant horseshoe crab — an example often cited by creationists to show creatures have [...

Dutch Prosecutors Charge Arab Group With Hate Speech Over Cartoon

Posted on September 06, 2009
We have been following the trend among Western countries in rolling back on free speech with different forms of blasphemy laws, here. Much of this attack on free speech began after the controversy over the publication of cartoons depicting Muhammad. Now, Dutch prosecutors are charging an Arab group for publishing cartoons questioning the [...

Former Business Dean at Illinois College of Law Charged With Theft and Forgery

Posted on September 06, 2009
The University of Illinois College of Law has already had a bad year with allegations of less qualified students being given entrance into the school as favors for politicians. Now, Dean Ming Liu Bengtsson, 38, the assistant business dean at the law school has been arrested for allegedly stealing $20,000 at her previous job [...

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