Weekly News Roundup – Week ending June 17, 2007
Summary of odd news items for the week ending June 17, 2007.
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Durham DA-May Have Announced Resignation
I only caught the tail end of the report, but it appears, based on what I was hearing on WRAL that in a statement in his State Bar hearing, Durham DA Nifong announced that he was going to step down as DA. According to the WRAL reporter, he was “nearly in tears.”
Read moreA Little Habeas for Your Corpus
Wow, the courts have sure been busy lately. They given us lots of fun stuff to cover. Let’s see what we have:
Read moreThe $54M Pants and Other News of The Week Ending June 5, 2007
This is a wrap of smaller news items for the week ending June 10, 2007.
Read moreLiberal Media Ignoring Al Qaeda Torture Manuals?
Last week the U.S. Military reported finding Al Qaeda torture manuals in a “safe house” in Iraq. The pro-torture wingnuts are all atwitter with the news, as they get out there to say, “they do it too.” As if that’s all the license the U.S. needs to condone torture.
Read moreAs If On Cue
Right on cue, the 2007 hurricane season kicked off with today with the second named storm, “Barry.” Barry is a tropical stormed that has formed out in the Gulf and is tracking north north-east. He’s pushing much needed rain into the area, and it’s a very cool 68 degrees.
Read moreThe Cure for Republican Memory Loss
This is one of the funniest things I’ve seen yet on YouTube. It’s an ad for “immunity,” the cure for republican memory loss.
Read moreThought Crimes? Oh Really
There is a story making the rounds you can expect to see the religious right latch onto in their desperate attempts to paint the pending Hate Crimes Legislation as something that will make “thoughts” illegal. They’re even calling it the “Thought Crimes” Bill. This is about the case of a 16-year-old teen in Crystal Lake, Illinois who was arrested for passing out a flyer?
Read moreBad Week for Neocon Paul Wolfowitz
First Paul Wolfowitz is forced out as head of the World Bank, and now, according the NY Post, his girl friend (the basic cause of him losing his job) dumps him.
Read moreMiracle on DOJ Street
Steve Benen, in a post at Crooks and Liars makes an excellent point about the U.S. Attorney firings. It seems that all these high ranking Justice Department officials have been asked who created the list of the U.S. Attorneys to be fired, and none of them know. I guess given Bush’s divine dispensation, it just floated down from heaven.
Read moreGood Old Fashioned Christian Morality
Campbell County authorities arrested a Liberty University student for having several homemade bombs in his car. The student, 19-year-old Mark D. Uhl of Amissville, Va., reportedly told authorities that he was making the bombs to stop protesters from disrupting the funeral service.
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