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Tom DeLay, former U.S. House leader, sentenced to 3 years in prison
Washington Post - 9 days agoAustin - Former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, the brash Texan who helped build and tightly control a Republican majority in his chamber until resigning in 2005, was sentenced by a state judge on Monday to three years in Prison for illegally p…
Read more >>No prison time sought in Anna Nicole Smith case
The Daily Caller - 5th Jan 2011LOS ANGELES (AP) — Prosecutors are urging a judge to forgo Prison terms and sentence Anna Nicole Smith’s Psychiatrist and lawyer-boyfriend to felony Probation, Community Service and fines. The suggestion is in a sentencing memorandum f…
Read more >>Mexico and the Drug War
National Review Online - 4th Jan 2011The war on Drugs did terrible damage to America’s struggle against the Taliban, but its noxious side-effects are not confined to Afghanistan. As has been evident for some time now, Mexico must be included in the list of …
Read more >>Mexico & The Drug War
National Review Online - 4th Jan 2011Mexico’s drug violence in 2010 was striking not only for its scale but also for its brutality.In the northern city of Santiago, the mayor’s body was found with the eyes gouged out. In the picturesque town of Cuernavaca, four decapitate…
Read more >>Shirley Sagawa: A Civic Marshall Plan for a Grad Nation: A Role for Volunteers?
The Huffington Post - 1st Dec 2010It's a Scandal that in America today so many Young People leave High School never to return and that about half of these kids are concentrated in a small fraction of public high schools. So I was thrilled to see that a report just released by Am…
Read more >>Jim Worth: Skewering The Pig
The Huffington Post - 24th Nov 2010
Lawmakers are locked in a battle over Pork futures. Pet projects of lawmakers' in both halls of Congress, lovingly called pork, have long been derided as government waste. That is only partially true. There's more to pork than meets the eye. Ove…
Read more >>Ex-aide to Rep. Young gets 12 weekends in jail
The Daily Caller - 22nd Nov 2010WASHINGTON (AP) — A former congressional aide who golfed in Scotland at Lobbyist Jack Abramoff’s expense is being ordered to spend 12 weekends in jail. Mark Zachares (zak-AHR-iss), former aide to Alaska Republican Rep. Don Young, also …
Read more >>Another glowing probation report for Chris Brown
The Daily Caller - 18th Nov 2010LOS Angeles (AP) — A judge commended Chris Brown Thursday for working hard to complete his Probation for last year’s attack on then-girlfriend Rihanna. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Patricia Schnegg said the R&B singer has compl…
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