Whatever you plan on doing in the summer vacation, please don’t go to Chicago: “A violent and deadly weekend continues in Chicago. At least 12 people have been shot, two of them killed, since Saturday morning. Two others were stabbed in a home invasion. This comes after at least 20 people were shot, four of them killed, from Friday night through early Saturday.” (more…)
In what will undoubtedly result in criticism from the Hillary Clinton campaign and, especially, from liberal bloggers (who support her, and perhaps even liberal pro-Obama supporters), Senator Barack Obama said that a John McCain presidency, wouldn’t be ‘as bad’ as George W. Bush’s presidency was and is. (more…)
Today I was and am light blogging: I visited my sister who lives in the south of the country, whereas I live in the northern part.
This is the very first thing I read after getting out of bed and before the coffee was ready. Needless to say, it was an eye-opener:
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In 1991, Kenneth Wayne Morris, a 9th grade dropout who is now 37, killed James Moody Adams, co-founder of the Northwest Academy while while his wife, Marcene, hid in a closet. Yesterday Morris’ attempt to have himself declared too mentally retarded to be executed was rejected by the Supreme Court. This ruling, coupled with the court’s earlier decision that lethal injection is not cruel and unusual punishment, may finally allow justice to be done in Adams’ case.
In New Hampshire, Concord High School principal Jean Barker turned the tables on a student arranging to sell drugs via text messages by setting up a mini-string operation that lead to the student’s arrest.
That’s what I call excellence in education! Unsurprisingly, there are plenty of frivolous people willing to to take the drug pusher’s side.
Watch the video:
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America’s least known holiday has arrived: Patriots Day. It’s only observed in Massachusetts and Maine, and it marks the day on which ‘Americans took up arms against their king, and bled, at the crack of terrible dawn.’ Jules Crittenden has lots of information about this holiday / that day (19 April, 1775): go read it.
‘At a small closed-door fundraiser after Super Tuesday, Sen. Hillary Clinton blamed what she called the “activist base” of the Democratic Party — and MoveOn.org in particular — for many of her electoral defeats, saying activists had “flooded” state caucuses and “intimidated” her supporters, according to an audio recording of the event obtained by The Huffington Post.’ (more…)
This should serve as a reminder to the Dutch that our troops are fighting a battle against a ferocious enemy in Afghanistan, and it should also remind Americans that they most certainly have allies in the war against terrorism. And those allies suffer. Several Dutchmen have been killed by the Taliban already, of course, but now the Taliban seem to have purposefully taken the life of the son of Dutch Military chief. (more…)
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