Apparently the Polk County Sherriff’s office: The deputy press secretary for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has been arrested on sex charges stemming from a Florida-based Internet sting, Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said on Tuesday. …”[Brian Doyle] was on his computer communicating with the undercover detective who he believed to be a 14-year-old …
Archives for April 2006
Under The Bus
In which post I reiterate my apparently-controversial position that Congressmen and women who break the law should go to jail. That includes William Jefferson (D-LA2) and, assuming that evidence supports an indictment, Cynthia McKinney (D-GA4). Enough of this nonsense about activist DA’s – in my opinion the only activist District Attorney is a DA who …
Moussaoui and the Death Penalty
Tim briefly mentioned my skepticism regarding all things related to the death penalty earlier, but I have a few thoughts about this case: Now that a jury has delivered a verdict that al-Qaida conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui is eligible for the death penalty, his lawyers face an uphill battle as they try to save a client …
Plame Game
While the DeLay story is sucking the wind out of EVERTYTHING in the blogosphere (my reaction- don’t let the door hit you in the ass, and pls, GOP, no more of these wingnuts leading the show), this ‘breaking’ Plame story (via Tom Maguire) is pretty interesting: The special counsel appointed in late December 2003 to …
Tom DeLay To Rediscover Family, Golf
ABC, MSNBC and CNN have confirmed that Tom DeLay will not seek reelection. This goes to show that even in DC the classical tragic flaws of hubris and greed can bring you down. You just have to get really f-cking egregious about it. Good riddance, Tom. ***Update*** Time has the rest of the story. Kevin …
Moussaui Eligible For Death
Good. Like John I’m generally skeptical about the death penalty as a government policy, but this isn’t one of those cases and I am disgusted with the federal lawyer who screwed up and even put the decision in question. The sooner I stop seeing and hearing about this bit of scum the better.
Iran: Beware The Super-Missile
I don’t think that there is any mystery why Iran would thump its chest these days: Iran said Sunday that it had test-fired what it described as a sonar-evading underwater missile just two days after it announced that it had fired a new missile that could carry multiple warheads and evade radar systems. The new …