April 2012

The Washington Post is reporting that as early as today the prosecutor in Florida will be charging George Zimmerman in the Trayvon Martin murder case. So far the WaPo is the only news outlet reporting this information.

Should this be the case it raises some very interesting questions, especially if you consider the timeline:

- Monday Zimmerman met with/talked to prosecutors. This was without the knowledge or consent of his former council.

- Monday Zimmerman launches a legal defense fund website.

- Tuesday Zimmerman's now former attorneys hold a press conference to announce they have lost contact with Zimmerman and would no longer represent him.

Putting all this together, it makes you wonder if Zimmerman and the attorneys didn't have some idea that charges were coming. Maybe that's why the attorneys were quick to drop him and now Zimmerman is trying to get his story out there, through his new surrogate, Sean Hannity...

The publication of conservatism has been having a race problem and they are finally taking notice:

Following the uproar over John Derbyshire’s racist rant that led to his firing last week, National Review ended its relationship with another racist writer today. Robert Weissberg, who was a contributing writer to the magazine for years, was fired for his ties to the white nationalist group American Renaissance.

“Unbeknowst to us, occasional Phi Beta Cons contributor Robert Weissberg (whose book was published a few years ago by Transaction) participated in an American Renaissance conference where he delivered a noxious talk about the future of white nationalism,” National Review editor Rich Lowry said in a post today. Though National Review may not have known, Weissberg’s involvement with the group is clearly stated on his Wikipedia page. And the fact that National Review’s vetting process is so weak that they routinely published two openly racist authors for years raises serious questions about who else they may be publishing and what ideas those writers may share.

It's interesting that this is all taking place in an election year, when the minority vote is so important. Add to that the war on women the right has been engaging in and it looks like the publication of William H. Buckley is trying to improve the image of the movement he was a fonder of.

A press conference was just held by George Zimmerman's now former attorneys. During it they said that they have not had contact with Zimmerman since Sunday, despite numerous attempts to reach out to him. During that time Zimmerman has given interviews and even launched a website, so the legal team said they can no longer represent him.

I'm not an attorney, but this really sounds like it could be a setup for Zimmerman to possibly flee if charges are filed. The attorneys did say that Zimmerman is in hiding and refused numerous times to give any details as to where he might be.

This whole case is starting to get even more curious. Zimmerman's actions today have done nothing to help his case what so ever. Now the prosecutor is probably going to push the case into higher gear.

Wingnut conspiracy alert!!!!!!!!!

Apparently President Obama has secretly declared diabetes a disability!

Here's Ed Morissey at HotAir:

That seems to be the message from the White House, which is apparently a little desperate to make the case that Barack Obama has proven his historical and diversity mettle in judicial nominations. In a new infographic for the website, the Obama administration now argues that it appointed the first confirmed Supreme Court justice “with a disability” (via Twitchy):

President Obama has only nominated two Supreme Court justices, both of whom were confirmed by the Senate — Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor. The only unusual medical or physical condition known about either of them is Sotomayor’s diabetes, which is presumably the basis for this claim. My wife had Type I diabetes for almost all of her life (until her 2007 pancreas transplant), which eventually caused her blindness and kidney failure. She is classified as disabled because of her blindness, but no one ever suggested that her diabetes was a disability — it’s a medical condition that can be managed and doesn’t physically disable anyone from anything on its own, except perhaps eating sugar.

Apparently Ed missed the ADA Amendments Act of 2008, which was so popular that it passed the Senate with unanimous consent and the House on a voice vote and was signed into law on September 28th, 2008 by then President George W. Bush. In the ADAAA Diabetes was listed as a disability.