Category Archives: crime
Penn State
Jerry Sandusky is guilty. He created his own monument to Penn State and it isn’t pretty. For over a decade, Penn State officials did nothing to protect children from Sandusky’s pervert behavior according to a report filed by former FBI director, Louis Freeh.
“Over and over, Freeh’s damning report referred to a pervasive and damaging culture at Penn State,”
Seizure
The Secretary of Commerce suffered a seizure and was involved in 3 hit and run crashes. Dana Milbank reports on the “pileup” at the White House.
Kill List
According to the NYT, it’s no more Mr. Nice Guy for the president. On Tuesdays President Obama personally selects, from a stack of cards, a terrorist to be killed. The way the news has been this week, I guess we should be thankful he doesn’t eat the condemned. Some are fine with the killing part, not so much the hypocrisy. Others, however, don’t believe the Commander in Chief job description includes judge, jury, and executioner.
Lockerbie
Megrahi has died, three years after being released from prison in Scotland on “compassionate grounds” because he had only three months to live due to prostate cancer.
9/11 Defendants
Five 9/11 bad guys, including Sheik Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, were arraigned in a military court at Gitmo over the weekend. One of the defense attorneys wore an abaya and requested that women on the prosecution side do likewise to help her clients might avoid the occasion of sin. Another defense lawyer asked that his clients not be subject to strip search before entering the courtroom. The judge is thinking it over. As for the clients themselves? They prayed, refused to speak, and passed around a copy of The Economist magazine.
