You expect tabloid journalism from a tabloid paper, but this Daily Mail headline … “Elon Musk wins court case against Democrats over $1million daily handouts to voters” … is an outright lie. The story itself clarifies that … “Judge Angelo Foglietta moved the case [...]
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October 30th, 2024 - 5:01 pm § in Law and Courts
Whose baseball is this?
Or more precisely, which fan is entitled to the $4,392,000 a collector paid for it? With stakes that high, a judge will decide. On September 19, 2024, L.A. Dodgers player Shohei Ohtani became the first player to hit 50 home runs and steal 50 bases in a season, becoming the inaugural member of the &#[...]
October 29th, 2024 - 4:20 pm § in Law and Courts, Politics
Paul Pelosi attacker gets life without parole
David DePape, the deranged freak who broke into Nancy Pelosi’s San Francisco home and broke her elderly husband’s skull with a hammer, will never get out of prison. DePape previously was sentenced to 30 years for the federal crime of attacking a federal official or family member. Now he&[...]
October 29th, 2024 - 3:30 pm § in Law and Courts, Politics
Do you recognize this car?
It’s a 2001 to 2004 Volvo S60 sedan, black or dark colored, with dark-colored upholstery. It likely has Oregon or Washington plates, to be inconspicuous. Police and the FBI want to talk with whoever was driving it past ballot drop boxes that went up in flames in the wee hours last weekend. If [...]
October 28th, 2024 - 10:29 pm § in Law and Courts
Is this Seattle’s most dangerous man?
Police describe him as someone with “a consistent history of unprovoked attacks on unsuspecting strangers.” Even elderly people aren’t safe in his presence. The accusations against him include: February 5, 2024: Assaulting a grocery store customer April 9, 2024: Assaulting guests a[...]
October 28th, 2024 - 9:32 pm § in Donald Trump, Law and Courts
Sycophant judges audition for the Supreme Court
Federal judges are political appointees, so in federal courts some ideological lean has to be expected. But when ambitious Trump appointees cast eyes on bigger prizes, the rule of law goes completely out the window. We saw that with rogue district court judge Aileen Cannon in Florida, who has sucked[...]
October 24th, 2024 - 8:03 pm § in Law and Courts, Politics
Voting residence: Horse or cart?
Rep. Emilia Sykes (D-Ohio; photo, left), 38, is a first-term member of Congress, having been initially elected in 2022. She is running for re-election. Sykes comes from an Akron political family (see her bio here), and has lived in Akron since childhood, except when away attending college. Before Co[...]
Will Hunter Biden be pardoned?
As the Biden administration winds down, many people will start wondering if the president’s son, convicted of multiple felonies, will escape prison time by being let off the hook. Not necessarily by who you think, though. Biden has publicly said he won’t pardon his son (see story here). [...]
October 23rd, 2024 - 4:44 pm § in Law and Courts
This wasn’t voting fraud
But she spent four months in jail, anyway, because Idaho is a lousy rotten state. Laurie Erickson of Boise, Idaho, is an ex-convict. When she was released in 2018, the department of corrections didn’t tell her she couldn’t vote. While she was still on probation in 2020, the secretary of [...]
October 21st, 2024 - 8:04 pm § in America, Biden, Christianity, Democrats, Donald Trump, Law and Courts, Politics, Racism, Republicans, Schools & Colleges
The tides of political change
Tides flow and ebb, and so does America’s political center. From 1980 to 2005, the progressive left “was mostly irrelevant to national politics,” a Vox article says (here). “The Cold War was over, and capitalism reigned ascendant.” The parties shifted — the GOP to[...]