And the wingnuts all get it wrong. It wasn’t some “leftist plot” or outsiders involved: A volunteer with Rand Paul’s Senate campaign has admitted to placing his shoe firmly on the face of a MoveOn.org volunteer outside a Senate debate on Monday night, but insisted that the camera angle of the footage that captured the […]
Last week I posted about Anthony Graber. He’s a Maryland man who videotaped the police pulling him over and posted the video on YouTube. Graber was arrested after posting the video for violating Maryland’s wiretapping laws. Now the Maryland Attorney Generals office has issued an opinion saying that this law doesn’t really apply to these […]
About damn time: A team of top federal prosecutors and investigators has taken the first steps toward a formal criminal investigation into oil giant BP’s actions before and after the drilling rig disaster off Louisiana. The investigators, who have been quietly gathering evidence in Louisiana over the last three weeks, are focusing on whether BP […]
It’s about time: Federal prosecutors said Friday they are investigating whether there was “willful criminal activity” by the company that operates the West Virginia coal mine where 29 workers died in an accident last month. The U.S. attorney’s office for the Southern District of West Virginia said in a letter that investigators are looking into […]
The story of the White House party crashers is apparently the only thing that has happened over the extended weekend if you listen to MSNBC, so let me take a moment and bring up my thoughts. There is a lot of finger pointing going on with this. Some are blaming the Secret Service, while others […]
Image by Getty Images via Daylife A South Carolina House panel is holding a hearing today on the pending impeachment of Mark Sanford. So far not much has come out of it, but I did just get this in my inbox: COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) Embattled SC Gov. Mark Sanford faces 37 ethics charges he broke […]
Sure the laws against things like marijuana add to it and should be changed, but we also got schools using the courts as a form of discipline now. Here’s a story from a local district here in Ohio: Two Mason juveniles have been charged for their involvement in sending and possessing nude photos over their […]
The employer of Phil Gramm, the very man who championed to get rid of banking regulations and served as an economic adviser to the McCain Campaign, has been busted: UBS AG, Switzerland’s largest bank, will pay $780 million to avoid U.S. prosecution and settle regulatory claims that it helped thousands of wealthy Americans use Swiss […]
Now that Baghdad is asserting their sovereignty and will be able to prosecute contractors who violate the law, Blackwater is looking towards new business opportunities: The private security firm Blackwater is planning to offer a new service to make money: protection from the pirate-infested waters off the coast of East Africa. “Blackwater’s push to land […]
There has been a lot of confusion since the Ohio Primary. Some people have labeled it as an “open primary”. As a former precinct captain, I can tell you that is not necessarily the case. While you are allowed to change parties when voting in the primary, you are required to sign a form stating […]