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Excerpted from Daily Caller: When Wayne LaPierre, executive vice president of the National Rifle Association (NRA), spoke at CPAC on February 10th, he predicted that if Barack Obama wins a second term it will usher in an all-out attack on the Second Amendment. In so many words, he said the same people who brought us [...]

(Reuters) – A man from Uzbekistan living illegally in the United States pleaded guilty on Friday to terrorism and weapons charges involving a plot to kill President Barack Obama. According to court evidence, defendant Ulugbek Kodirov believed he was acting on behalf of an Islamist militant group in his homeland and was plotting to shoot [...]

Associated Press: The Supreme Court‘s midwinter break is often used by justices to fly off to sunny vacation spots or European capitals where they address an audience or two on someone else’s tab. But this year, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is on a different sort of visit to two North African countries where popular uprisings [...]

WND.com: The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ordered a trial at the district level for a graduate level counseling student who was dismissed from her program for asking that a client with “gay” issues be referred to another counselor because as a Christian she could not affirm that lifestyle choice. Officials at Eastern [...]

World Net Daily: A Georgia judge has refused a demand from Barack Obama to quash a subpoena to appear at a series of administration hearings Jan. 26 at which residents of the state are challenging, as allowed under a state law, his name on the 2012 presidential ballot. WND reported this week when Obama outlined [...]

Los Angeles Times: The court-martial of Staff Sgt. Frank Wuterich in the killing of 24 Iraqis in 2005 is set to resume Thursday afternoon at Camp Pendleton amid indications prosecutors and defense lawyers may negotiate a plea bargain. The military judge, Lt. Col. David Jones, abruptly recessed the trial Wednesday afternoon, telling the lawyers to [...]

Haley Barbour Proves He’s An Idiot:<b> I Let These Murderers Babysit My Grandchildren</b>

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Joran Van Der Sloot Gets 28 Years In Peru Prison For Murder

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Mississippi AG Wants Manhunt To Track Pardoned Murderers

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The Hill: The Department of Justice offered a defense Thursday for President Obama’s controversial decision to make several recess appointments while Congress was holding pro forma sessions. In a memo, Justice argued the pro forma sessions held every third day in the Senate do not constitute a functioning body that can render advice and consent [...]

Joran Van Der Sloot Pleads Guilty To Murder In Hopes Of Getting Lighter Sentence

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JACKSON, Miss. (AP) – A Mississippi judge has temporarily blocked the release of 21 inmates who’d been given pardons or medical release by Republican Haley Barbour in one of his final acts as governor. Circuit Judge Tomie Green issued an injunction late Wednesday at the request of Democratic Attorney General Jim Hood. Hood says he [...]

CAIR Oklahoma holds victorious press conference CAIR boasts about decision repeatedly on their Twitter feed. (CNN) — A federal appeals court has blocked an Oklahoma voter-approved measure barring state judges from considering Islamic and international law in their decisions. The three-judge panel at the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld an earlier injunction preventing [...]

“Among those getting full pardons was brother of former New York Jets quarterback Brett Favre” NYDailyNews: Bitter family members angrily blasted Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour after his 11th-hour pardons freed four murderers who savagely killed their loved ones. “I’m totally disgusted,” said Glenda Walker, whose son was shot to death in 1993 by ex-inmate David [...]

(LifeNews) — A federal appeals court has upheld a pro-life law in Texas allowing women a chance to see an ultrasound of their unborn child prior to an abortion. During the recent 82nd Texas Legislative Session, the Sonogram Bill (House Bill 15) was passed and signed into law by Governor Rick Perry. This historic law [...]

Haley Barbour Angers Victims’ Families By Pardoning Killers

“Two Broke Girls” Washington Post: LOS ANGELES — Researchers at the Parents Television Council have helpful drop-down menus on their computers loaded with just about every profanity and dirty slang term imaginable. They are handy shortcuts — there are additional ones for violent and sexual content — as the nonprofit group’s headphone-wearing analysts monitor every [...]

Los Angeles Times: A father who threw his 7-year-old son off a harbor cruise boat into Newport Harbor was convicted Monday of felony child abuse and a misdemeanor count of resisting an officer. Sloan Briles, 35, pleaded guilty to throwing his son into the busy harbor waters on Aug. 28, an incident that drew widespread [...]

Now tell us what you did to Natalee Holloway. BBC: Dutchman Joran Van der Sloot, 24, has confessed to a court in Peru that he killed 21-year-old business student Stephany Flores in Lima in 2010 He offered a “sincere confession”, which could carry a lesser prison sentence than an outright guilty plea. Mr Van der [...]