Ron Johnson (R-WI) is the Wisconsin senator who downplayed the Capitol insurrection and described the rioters as “families with small children … elderly … overweight … tired or frail … pro-police” (see story here). But he’s worried about “mayhem”[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Crime’
May 18th, 2024 - 8:37 pm § in Law and Courts, Misc.
Most drivers who drag a cop get shot
Not Scottie Scheffler (photo below), top-seeded golf champion. He was released from jail in time to keep playing in the PGA championship in Louisville. Scheffler was trying to enter the golf course, but police had halted traffic because of a fatal pedestrian accident. So he drove over a curb to get [...]
May 17th, 2024 - 5:32 pm § in Law and Courts, Politics
Lefties can be angry jerks, too
A Florida man bent out of shape by a federal judge’s dismissal of an LGBQT+ challenge of that state’s anti-gay law left her vulgar and menacing voicemails, and now he’s facing the legal music. Retired teacher Stephen Jay Thorn, 66, of Pensacola, spared no language in berating the j[...]
May 7th, 2024 - 4:50 pm § in Law and Courts
Book review: “The Innocent Man”
The Innocent Man by John Grisham (Wikipedia description here; on Amazon here) is that popular author’s only nonfiction book. Grisham writes pulp fiction with legal characters and plots. I don’t care much for his novels, but I’ve read a couple as a break from serious reading. I can[...]
The strange case of Mr. Pho
Nghia Pho (photo, left), a software developer, went to work for the NSA in 2005. Mr. Pho held security clearances, and received training in the handling of classified materials. In a press release here, the Department of Justice said, “The privilege of working for the U.S. Intelligence Community r[...]
The GOP’s moral disease
A Huffington Post article on Monday, June 13, 2023 (read it here), summed it up: “Despite all the criminal accusations and investigations, Trump remains the Republican front-runner for the 2024 presidential nomination.” To be fair, Trump has only been found civilly liable for sexual assa[...]
June 10th, 2023 - 2:20 am § in Law and Courts
Near-fatal attraction
She’s not unattractive (see photo at left), but if you break up with her, she could be lethal. Melody Sasser, 47, of Knoxville, Tennessee, met a guy online. They had a shared interest in hiking. Things went south when he married someone else. Sasser allegedly told him, “I hope you fall o[...]
June 8th, 2023 - 12:47 am § in Misc.
Thieves are everywhere
Six Seattle residents were arrested and charged with stealing $3.3 million of Covid relief funds by pretending to be landlords and submitting fake leases and eviction notices to the Small Business Administration (see story here). Scammers pretending to be the Everett Animal Shelter are trolling R[...]
June 7th, 2023 - 6:51 pm § in Law and Courts
Get tough on gun crimes
Republicans are arming America, and that’s creating a false sense of security among some gun owners, because the laws of self-defense haven’t changed. Even in Florida, with its laissez-faire gun laws, you can’t just shoot people. Self-defense only applies to an imminent threat of d[...]
June 6th, 2023 - 9:24 pm § in Law and Courts
What liberal propaganda looks like
When Michael Tisius (photo, left) was 19, he participated in a jailbreak. He killed two unarmed guards, and landed on Missouri’s death row (see story here). Twenty-three years later, as his execution approached, Huffington Post ran a story (here) pleading for commutation of his death sentence.[...]