Archive for the 'Law' Category
Thursday, November 8th, 2007
You know, if you’re in the country illegally you should probably make sure your kid isn’t taking dope to school: TUCSON, Ariz. — About a hundred students demonstrated outside a Tucson high school Tuesday, then marched five miles downtown to protest the arrest and removal to Mexico of a classmate and his family. …. School [...]
By: Nick | Category Culture War, Education, Immigration, Law | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, May 1st, 2007
In complete contrast to Dan Simpson, Texas Governor Rick Perry has actually read and comprehended the U.S. Constitution: Gov. Rick Perry said Monday that Texans who are legally licensed to carry concealed handguns should be able to take the weapons anywhere, including churches, bars, courthouses and college campuses. “I think it makes sense for Texans [...]
By: Nick | Category Guns, Law | Comments Off
Friday, December 22nd, 2006
In case you missed it, several Hispanic groups have become unhinged over the recent immigration sweeps which removed over 1,200 illegal aliens from their jobs: SAN ANTONIO, Texas (Reuters) – U.S. Hispanic groups and activists on Thursday called for a moratorium on workplace raids to round up illegal immigrants, saying they were reminiscent of Nazi [...]
By: Nick | Category Culture War, Immigration, Law, Political Correctness, Politics | Comments Off
Monday, December 4th, 2006
Well, if you are looking for a shinning example of what the Clinton Legacy will be, you need look no further than Supreme Court Justice and Clinton appointee Stephen Breyer: Justice Stephen G. Breyer says the Supreme Court must promote the political rights of minorities and look beyond the Constitution’s text when necessary to ensure [...]
By: Nick | Category Courts, Culture War, Government, Law, Politics | Comments Off
Monday, October 16th, 2006
Lynne Stewart, lawyer to blind sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman, was sentenced to only 28 months today for passing messages from the terrorist to his followers. NEW YORK – Civil rights lawyer Lynne Stewart was sentenced Monday to 28 months in prison on a terrorism charge for helping a client who plotted to blow up New York [...]
By: Nick | Category Courts, Culture War, Law, Politics, War on Terror | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, October 4th, 2006
Noted Constitutional scholar* and professor of law* Rosie O’Donnell today proclaimed on national television that the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution was “not really a right”: This quickly led to an exchange with the program’s token conservative, Elisabeth Hasselbeck, in which O’Donnell asserted that there is no right to own a gun: Hasselbeck: [...]
By: Nick | Category Government, History, Law | 1 Comment »
Thursday, May 25th, 2006
In order to protect the well-being of a 50 year old convicted child molester, a district judge has sentenced him to probation rather than the prison sentence he deserves: SIDNEY, Neb. — A judge said a 5-foot-1 man convicted of sexually assaulting a child was too small to survive in prison, and gave him 10 [...]
By: Nick | Category Courts, Human Stupidity, Law | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, May 16th, 2006
The President’s address on Immigration Reform was televised to a prime time audience last night, but as far as I could tell it was wasted time. The United States is not going to militarize the southern border. Mexico is our neighbor, and our friend. We will continue to work cooperatively to improve security on both [...]
By: Nick | Category Immigration, Law, Military, Politics, War on Terror, World Opinion | 4 Comments »
Friday, May 12th, 2006
Terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui avoided the death penalty by a single vote cast by a holdout on the jury who refused to discuss the reasons for dissenting. Only one juror stood between the death penalty and Zacarias Moussaoui and that juror frustrated his colleagues because he never explained his vote, according to the foreman of the [...]
By: Nick | Category Courts, Culture War, Law, War on Terror | 3 Comments »
Thursday, May 11th, 2006
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) rejected a proposal to create a “.xxx” top level domain for pornography web sites: NEW YORK – Faced with opposition from conservative groups and some pornography Web sites, the Internet’s key oversight agency voted Wednesday to reject a proposal to create a red-light district on the [...]
By: Nick | Category Computers, Culture War, Law | Comments Off
Wednesday, April 26th, 2006
The latest proposal for Immigration Reform that President Bush is offering to Congressional leaders falls way short of what most conservatives expected: President George W. Bush hailed progress made with members of the US Senate toward an overhaul of America’s immigration laws, and said there were broad areas of agreement on a compromise bill. “There [...]
By: Nick | Category Culture War, Immigration, Law, Politics | Comments Off
Tuesday, April 25th, 2006
In an effort to reach out to those who think that rewarding people who break the laws of the United States by giving them citizenship is the right thing to do, I am offering to support their position if they can satisfactorily answer the following: America is a nation of laws. Why should we allow [...]
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