The annual “Ashli Babbitt Freedom March,” first held in 2023, is a new Memorial Day tradition in the nation’s capital. Last year the turnout was about a dozen people, judging from counting the noses in the video here. It’s not easy to find out how many people turned out today[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Crime’
Capitol rioter gets 12 years from Trump-appointed judge
Federal Judge Trevor McFadden (bio here), a Trump appointee, sentenced Christopher Quaglin (photo, left), a New Jersey electrician, to 12 years in prison for his participation in the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol insurrection. Quaglin didn’t help himself by mouthing off to the judge and expressin[...]
May 23rd, 2024 - 6:14 pm § in Donald Trump, Law and Courts
Why Trump won’t go to jail over the hush money
Even if Trump is convicted in the hush money case, and ex-FBI director James Comey thinks it’s a strong case (see story here), he’s unlikely to get prison time. Ex-Baltimore D.A. Marilyn Mosby, convicted of stealing her own money and lying about it, got a year of home detention (read sto[...]
May 21st, 2024 - 3:36 pm § in Law and Courts
Why do people shoot and kick dogs?
Gov. Kristi Noem (R-SD) says she shot her puppy in a gravel pit on her farm because it killed some chickens. I had a dog I fed chickens (although not live ones; but does it matter who kills them, the dog or poultry plant workers?). Secret Service agents saw Eric Evan Brown, 57, a Florida […][...]
May 19th, 2024 - 11:21 pm § in Hypocrisy, Republicans
Sen. Ron Johnson is against mayhem
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”[...]
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[...]