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Testimony on New Federal Restitution Law

Posted on April 03, 2008
Today, I testified in the House Judiciary Committee (Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security), on the new proposed changes to the rules governing federal restitution. They are quite extreme. I. INTRODUCTION Chairman Scott, Ranking Member Gohmert, members of the Subcommittee, it is an honor to appear before you today to discuss the important question of the [...

Torture Memo Released: Yoo Argues Self-Defense in Cases of Interrogation Deaths or Injuries

Posted on April 02, 2008
The White House finally released some of the torture memos to Congress — justifications of coercive methods by Professor John Yoo. What is most striking is the rather low-grade effort to justify torture — citing a type of self-defense theory for why an isolated detainee might have died or been injured during rough interrogation...

Wal-Mart Backs Down in its Litigation Against Brain Damaged Former Employee

Posted on April 02, 2008
It appears that the national outcry over Wal-Mart’s litigation against Deborah Shank — a brain-damaged former employee — has forced the giant corporation to back off. It will no longer try to collect $400,000 from Shank and her cancer-victim husband...

Leading English Muslim Endorses the Killing and Raping of Non-Muslims

Posted on April 02, 2008
In a startling disclosure from an exchange at an East London mosque, Imam Abdul Makin and a leading Muslim lawyer have supported the killing and raping of non-Muslim, declaring all non-Muslims as guilty and subject to lethal abuse. As the videos show below, moderate Muslims have a considerable fight on their hands to rid [...

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Trooper Appeals Termination for Off Duty Political Activities

Posted on April 02, 2008
An 18-year Nebraska state trooper is appealing his termination due to his political association with a group affiliated with the Ku Klux Klan. Robert E. Henderson was fired after he disclosed his association with the Knights Party, a group led by racist David Hale...

Police Arrest Couple Behind Craigslist Ransacking Hoax

Posted on April 02, 2008
It took only a week. Police have arrested a couple who allegedly posted the Craigslist ad offering the contents of Robert Salisbury’s home. They are Brandon and Amber Herbert and ideally they will not be the last people to be charged. There is a fascinating case emerging from Oregon...

Sen. Debbie Stabenow?s Husband Implicated in Prostitution Arrest

Posted on April 02, 2008
Yet, another prostitution scandal was triggered today with the disclosure that the husband of U.S. Sen. Debbie Stabenow, Thomas Athans, allegedly admitted to police that he used the Internet to arrange for a prostitute to come to his hotel and paid for services...

Islamic ?Court? Stones Couple to Death for Adultery

Posted on April 02, 2008
A couple was the latest to be put to face Rajam (stoning to death) for the crime of adultery after a sentencing by Pakistan’s Mohmand tribal agency. The couple was found guilty by a “qazi court” in Fata in a case reportedly over-seen by the Taliban...

Los Angeles Debates a 40-Hour Moratorium on Killings

Posted on April 02, 2008
The Los Angeles City Council appears to be dropping the proposed 40-hour moratorium on killings that was supposed to start on Friday. The tabling of this proposal by advocates like Councilman Tony Cardenas should clear the way for other possible alternatives like requiring Los Angeles residents with even numbered license plates to kill only [...

Parachute Evidence Confirms Ron Paul is D.B. Cooper; Paul Vows to Continue Race

Posted on April 01, 2008
In a startling development, the FBI announced on April 1st that it has finally analyzed the recently discovered parachute in Washington and found DNA evidence establishing the identity of the famed D.B. Cooper. To the astonishment of many (except readers of this blog), the DNA matches Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul, who has vowed [...

Supreme Court Takes New Ten Commandments Case

Posted on April 01, 2008
In what could be a major new religion clause case, the Supreme Court has taken a case involving a Ten Commandments monument in a public park in Utah. The Tenth Circuit ruled with little known church that the city it must allow followers of the Summum religion to erect a similar monument displaying [...

Big Box, Small Heart: Wal-Mart Sued By U..S. Over Termination of Veteran

Posted on April 01, 2008
With the various legal controversies involving Wal-Mart, one would think that its legal department would seek to avoid another lawsuit. Yet, Wal-Mart’s hard-nosed approach to legal disputes appears to be again getting the store into hot water — this time with the U...

Hooked on Hamontics: Hamas Television Shows Puppet Killing Bush

Posted on April 01, 2008
Hamas has long adopted a slightly different approach to the education of children. First there was the homicidal Hamas Mickey Mouse. Now the geniuses at Hamas production have come up with the charming Hamas killer puppet. The video is shown below in case your children have not run off to school yet...

Max Mosley Shown on Video in Five Hour Sado-Masochistic Nazi Orgy

Posted on March 31, 2008
Max Mosley, President of the Fédération Internationale de l?Automobile (FIA), is at the center of scandal that makes ex-Gov. Eliot Spitzer look like a junior leaguer. Mosley is reportedly shown in a video engaged in a five hour orgy with five prostitutes dressed as Nazi guards — a particularly embarrassing performance given the fact [...

Building Envy: Saudi Prince Announces Building That Will Be Twice As Big as Nearest Rival

Posted on March 31, 2008
One can only imagine what Freud would do with this. Prince al-Walid bin Talal has announced the construction of a mile-high tower in the Saudi Arabian desert. At 5,250ft, the £5billion project, will dwarf all competitors and establish the greatest phallic symbol in the universe...

Supreme Court Denies Review in the Jefferson Case

Posted on March 31, 2008
In yet another loss for the Bush Administration in the case of accused Rep. William Jefferson, the United States Supreme Court today denied its appeal on the issue of the constitutionality of its raid of a congressional office. The Court?s denial of review in U...

Texans Seek to Strip Scientology of Religious Designation

Posted on March 31, 2008
There is a growing clamor on the Internet over an effort by some Texans to strip Scientology of its status as a religion — a move that would expose the Church of Scientology to both taxes and greater regulation. This move occurs as various countries continue to move against the Church and the Church [...

Iowa Governor?s Mansion Found Hazardous ?Sick Building?

Posted on March 31, 2008
While after today some may complain about chronic indictment outbreaks at the Bush White House, here, service in Iowa’s Democratic Governor’s mansion may actually be a risk to your health. Officials now believe that a rare lung disease found among various employees is linked to bird or bat droppings at the mansion [...

All the President?s Men: HUD Secretary Latest to Resign Amid Criminal Investigation

Posted on March 31, 2008
It is beginning to look like all new hires in the Bush Administration receive with an office, security pass, and list of available criminal defense counsel. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Alphonso Jackson resigned today in the midst of a criminal investigation into favoritism in government contracts...

Little Girl Dies After Getting Last Wish to See Prisoner-Father

Posted on March 31, 2008
10-year-old Nebraska girl Jayci Yaeger died not long after she was given her last wish: to see her father Jason Yaeger who is serving time on a drug offense. There remain questions about why federal officials in Yankton, S.D. fought any extended furlough for so long and only relented after a national outcry [...

Leading Saudi Cleric Calls for the Death of Two Journalists ? Unless They Repent

Posted on March 31, 2008
The struggle between reformers and religious fanatics in Saudi Arabia continues. Leading Wahhabi cleric Sheihk Abdurrahman al-Baraak called for the deaths of journalists Abdullah bin Bijad Al-Otaibi and Yusuf Abu al-Khayl after they published articles in Al-Riyadh newspaper, questioning the view that Christians and Jews are unbelievers...

Doomsday Lawsuit: Dr. Stranglet Files for Injunction to Save World

Posted on March 30, 2008
Walter L. Wagner and Luis Sancho have literally filed to save the world in a federal court in Hawaii. The men claim that a giant particle accelerator called the Large Hadron Collider (located outside of Geneva) will produce a little black hole or even a “stranglet” that will destroy not just the [...

Brothers File Against City in San Francisco Zoo Attack

Posted on March 30, 2008
The litigation against the city of San Francisco began this week over the Christmas Day Tiger attack with papers filed by brothers, Kulbir and Paul Dhaliwal. As the claim below indicates, they are contesting claims of contributory negligence ad assumption based on their own conduct, contending that the 243-pound Siberian tiger named Tatiana [...

Judge Accused of Ordering Whites Out of Courtroom to Lecture Blacks

Posted on March 30, 2008
Georgia Judge Marvin Arrington is accused of telling white lawyers to leave his courtroom and then lecturing young black defendants. Arrington does not deny separating white lawyers and black defendants to engage in some cathartic criticism. He told a local television station: “I came out and saw the defendants, about 99...

Faith-Healing Parents in Oregon Charged With Death of Daughter

Posted on March 30, 2008
Parents of a 15-month-old baby have been criminally charged in her death after they allegedly refused to get medical assistance due to their faith-healing religions. Carl Worthington, 28, and Raylene Worthington, 25, have been charged in the death of their daughter, Ava, on March 2...

Tired of Waiting: Russian Christian Doomsday Cult Members Emerge From Cave (Democrats Continue Refuse to End Primary)

Posted on March 29, 2008
Seven women who belong to a bizarre Christian Doomsday cult called the True Russian Orthodox Church emerged from their cave on Saturday — apparently tired of waiting for the end of the world after months. They may have hope, however, a filing in federal court asks for an injunction of a Department of Energy-funded [...

One Free Bite vs. Duty to Rescue: Texas Supreme Court Expands Liability in Dog Attacks

Posted on March 29, 2008
The Texas Supreme Court has issued an very interesting and important new tort ruling: the state’s “first free bite” rule does not excuse an owner of the duty to intervene and render aide once an attack begins. The ruling for dog-bite victim Genevia Bushnell not only alters the understanding of the one-free-bite rule but [...

Olson and Tribe Argue that McCain is Natural Born

Posted on March 29, 2008
As this this column discusses, there is a serious question over whether McCain truly qualifies as “natural born.” I am still trying to locate a copy of that report. Clearly, there is support for each side in such a debate. If it is treated as a territorial (rather than a parentage) question [...

Woman Arrested After Attempting to Kidnap One Baby and Then Succeeding in Taking Another Baby from Hospital

Posted on March 29, 2008
Jennifer Latham was arrested yesterday is an extraordinary crime in Florida. After parents allegedly stopped her from stealing their baby while pretending to be a nurse, she simply grabbed another baby and walked out of the hospital. She was caught later and the baby returned...

?Un-Islamic? Radio Station Burned to the Ground Near Kabul

Posted on March 29, 2008
Another story out of Afghanistan reinforces the view that the Taliban and extremists are reasserting their authority –even in or near the capitol. Radio Zafar near Kabul was burned to the ground for being “un-Islamic” due to its programming and “morally corrupt” practices — which appears to include the hiring of women and playing [...

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