The mouth that won’t stop gabbing is starting another media blitz as the Summer of Blagojevich continues. From the Chicago Tribune: Beginning a weekend media blitz, Rod Blagojevich said this morning he will not take any plea deal from prosecutors, accused them of trying to criminalize political horse-trading and emphasized repeatedly that he had not [...]
August 20th, 2010
Categories: Chicago, Chicagoland, Cook County, Crime and Punishment, Democratic News, Elections, Ethics, Humor, Illinois, Legal . Author: G . Comments: No Comments
Our national disgrace is almost over, Chicagoland. Illinois. Blago’s case is finally going to the jury. From the Sun-Times: The prosecution finishes its rebuttal and Judge Zagel adjourns court for the day. ‘Members of the jury, you’ve heard all the evidence and the arguments,” he tells them. He tells the jury it is especially important [...]
July 27th, 2010
Categories: Chicago, Chicagoland, Crime and Punishment, Ethics, Illinois, Legal, Philosophical, Rant . Author: G . Comments: No Comments
Governor Rod Blagojevich did not testify in his own defense when the Illinois Senate put him on trial and eventually threw him out of office. The man who never passed up a camera or microphone while in office decided to refrain from testifying before the Illinois Senate, and then showed up to speak before that [...]
July 21st, 2010
Categories: Chicago, Chicagoland, Cook County, Crime and Punishment, Democratic News, Ethics, Legal . Author: G . Comments: No Comments
I was so disgusted by this I just wanted to stay away. Plus, I don’t trust early news reports that attempt to sensationalize stories. Then, I read more, and finally forced myself to read Mark Williams’ letter to Abraham Lincoln, where he reveals his incredible lack of depth on race in America. To say the [...]
July 18th, 2010
Categories: Anti-Science, Barack Obama, Conservatives, Ethics, Legal, Race, Rant, Republicans . Author: G . Comments: No Comments
Yes, the dude is young, and cute. But he’s lucky to be alive. The games he was playing were all-too-real. And cute doesn’t make a difference, at all. From AOL News, Mom speaks: More than two years on the run, Colton Harris-Moore, aka the "Barefoot Bandit," was finally captured in the Bahamas, taken into custody [...]
July 12th, 2010
Categories: Crime and Punishment, Legal . Author: G . Comments: No Comments
Patti On Tape: "Tell Them To Hold Up That F***ing Cubs S***. F*** them." I don’t have a picture of Patti Blagojevich. Never met her. Met the former Gov. several times. This picture comes from one of those meetings, taken in Matteson’s Lincoln Mall so many lifetimes ago, it seems now. Actually believed in him [...]
July 10th, 2010
Categories: Chicago, Chicagoland, Cook County, Crime and Punishment, Democratic News, Illinois, Legal, Liberals, Philosophical . Author: G . Comments: No Comments
From our friends at the ACLU via ENEWSPF: In two related cases, a federal district court in Massachusetts has ruled that critical portions of the discriminatory Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) violate the federal Constitution. In striking down the section of the statute that bars federal legal protections to legally married same-sex couples, Judge Joseph [...]
July 9th, 2010
Categories: Civil Liberties, Civil Rights, Conservatives, GLBT, Legal, Liberals, Supreme Court . Author: G . Comments: No Comments
From the Sun-Times: Grumbling about a U.S. Supreme Court they say is out of touch with America’s cities, Chicago aldermen voted 45-0 today to approve a rushed-through compromise gun ban. The law, weaker than the gun ban tossed out Monday but with some even stronger new provisions, allows adults in Chicago to buy one gun [...]
July 2nd, 2010
Categories: Chicago, Crime and Punishment, Legal, Violence, gun control . Author: G . Comments: No Comments
Marijuana may not impact driving, according to a new study. From ENEWSPF: Subjects exhibit virtually identical psychomotor skills on a battery of driving simulator tests prior to and shortly after smoking marijuana, according to clinical trial data published in the March issue of the Journal of Psychoactive Drugs. Investigators from Hartford Hospital in Connecticut and [...]
May 31st, 2010
Categories: Crime and Punishment, Drugs, Legal . Author: G . Comments: No Comments
Kudos to Eric Smith for catching this headline from the American Family Association: Congress bows to gay agenda, repeals ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ Congress has given in to pressure from gay activists and the White House and voted to repeal the "don’t ask, don’t tell" ban on gays and lesbians serving openly in the military… And I’m [...]
May 28th, 2010
Categories: Barack Obama, Civil Liberties, Civil Rights, Congress, Conservatives, Democratic News, Ethics, Humor, John McCain, Legal, Military, Republicans . Author: G . Comments: No Comments