Jan 29, 2010 12 Comments ›› Erik Wong
FOX News: WICHITA, Kan. — Jurors swiftly convicted an abortion opponent of murder Friday for shooting to death one of the only doctors to offer late-term abortions in the U.S., a killing the gunman claimed was justified to save the lives of unborn children. The jury deliberated for just 37 minutes before finding Scott Roeder, 51, ...
Continue ReadingJan 29, 2010 2 Comments ›› Erik Wong
The Daily Mail: Scientist at the heart of the 'Climategate' email scandal broke the law when they refused to give raw data to the public, the privacy watchdog has ruled. The Information Commissioner's office said University of East Anglia researchers breached the Freedom of Information Act when handling requests from climate change sceptics. But the scientists will escape ...
Continue ReadingJan 28, 2010 23 Comments ›› Erik Wong
NY Daily News: The White House ordered the Justice Department Thursday night to consider other places to try the 9/11 terror suspects after a wave of opposition to holding the trial in lower Manhattan. The dramatic turnabout came hours after Mayor Bloomberg said he would "prefer that they did it elsewhere" and then spoke to Attorney General ...
Continue ReadingJan 28, 2010 20 Comments ›› Erik Wong
National Review Online: Tonight the president engaged in demogoguery of the worst kind, when he claimed that last week's Supreme Court decision in Citizens United v. FEC, "open[ed] the floodgates for special interests — including foreign corporations — to spend without limit in our elections. Well I don't think American elections should be bankrolled by America's ...
Continue ReadingJan 27, 2010 4 Comments ›› Erik Wong
Politico: Two Senate Democrats are pressuring the Obama administration to move Sept. 11 plotter Khalid Sheikh Mohammed’s trial out of New York City and into a military commission. Democratic Sens. Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas and Jim Webb of Virginia signed on to a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder condemning the administration’s November announcement of a criminal ...
Continue ReadingJan 25, 2010 22 Comments ›› Erik Wong
BRIDGEVIEW, Ill. (AP) -- A White House official says President Barack Obama will be skipping jury duty after being summoned in Illinois. The administration official confirmed to The Associated Press on Sunday that the president alerted the court weeks ago that he won't be able to make it. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because ...
Continue ReadingJan 25, 2010 15 Comments ›› Erik Wong
BAGHDAD (AFP) — Saddam Hussein's notorious cousin and henchman "Chemical Ali" was executed on Monday, Iraq's government said, eight days after he was sentenced to death for the 1998 gassing of thousands of Kurds. Ali Hassan al-Majid was better known by his macabre nickname and as the King of Spades in the pack of cards of ...
Continue ReadingJan 23, 2010 31 Comments ›› Erik Wong
BAGHDAD (AP) - The U.S. will appeal a court decision dismissing manslaughter charges against five Blackwater Worldwide guards involved in a deadly 2007 Baghdad shooting, U.S. Vice President Joe Biden said Saturday. Biden's announcement after a meeting with Iraqi President Jalal Talabani shows just how diplomatically sensitive the incident remains nearly three years later. A lawyer ...
Continue ReadingJan 22, 2010 38 Comments ›› Erik Wong
FOX News: Two sources tell Fox News that all charges have been withdrawn in the military commissions against the five 9/11 suspects being held at Guantanamo Bay. The charges were dropped "without prejudice," the sources told Fox News -- a procedural move that allows federal officials to transfer the men to trial in a civilian court and ...
Continue ReadingJan 22, 2010 10 Comments ›› Erik Wong
The Washington Examiner: It seems like a pretty simple question. Who made the decision to charge Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the accused terrorist arrested for trying to blow up a Northwest Airlines jet on Christmas Day, as an everyday criminal, as opposed to an enemy combatant? After all, Abdulmutallab was trained by al Qaeda, equipped with an al ...
Continue ReadingJan 20, 2010 13 Comments ›› Erik Wong
Someone missed the f-ing point... Time: The U.S. military's just-released report into the Fort Hood shootings spends 86 pages detailing various slipups by Army officers but not once mentions Major Nidal Hasan by name or even discusses whether the killings may have had anything to do with the suspect's view of his Muslim faith. And as Congress ...
Continue ReadingJan 19, 2010 1 Comment ›› Erik Wong
What's the matter Roman? Your grand villa prison cell not comfortable enough for you? LOS ANGELES (AP) - Lawyers for Roman Polanski said Tuesday he should be sentenced in absentia to time served and accused the district attorney of playing politics with the case. In a legal brief filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court, the attorneys ...
Continue ReadingJan 18, 2010 2 Comments ›› Erik Wong
The Wall Street Journal: LONDON--Two terror suspects won the right Monday to seek compensation from the British government over the restrictions imposed upon their activities since 2006. The High Court ruling delivers another blow to Britain's system of so-called "control orders," which officials say is necessary to keep tabs on terror suspects who can't be brought to ...
Continue ReadingJan 14, 2010 17 Comments ›› Erik Wong
The Washington Post: Although Democrats think their health-care legislation faces smooth sailing to implementation, there is a rock dead ahead -- a constitutional challenge to the legislation's core. Democrats who assume it is constitutional to make it mandatory for Americans to purchase health insurance should answer some questions: Would it be constitutional for the government to legislate ...
Continue ReadingJan 13, 2010 12 Comments ›› Erik Wong
The Washington Times: The Justice Department refused Tuesday to turn over most of the information and documents sought by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights explaining why a civil complaint was dismissed against members of the New Black Panther Party who disrupted a Philadelphia polling place in the November 2008 elections. In a 38-page response, the department ...
Continue ReadingJan 12, 2010 36 Comments ›› Erik Wong
Canada Free Press: Quietly—even stealthily—in the opening days of the New Year, President Barack Obama has set up a “Council of Governorsâ€. Like the 30-plus czars running America with neither the people’s nor the congress’s blessings, the Council of Governors is already a done deal. “Is this a first step towards Martial Law, or a tie to the ...
Continue ReadingJan 12, 2010 2 Comments ›› Erik Wong
CNS News: Update: As of Monday morning, January 11, the petition has garnered more than 60,000 signatures, including those of conservative author Ann Coulter and former New York Gov. George Pataki (R), the petition's organizers said. (CNSNews.com) – More than 60,000 people (new number), including members of Congress and three former presidential candidates, have signed a petition ...
Continue ReadingJan 11, 2010 8 Comments ›› Erik Wong
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) - Before the first juror is selected or witness called, a decision allowing a confessed killer to argue he believes the slaying of one of the nation's few late-term abortion providers was a justified act aimed at saving unborn children has upended what most expected to be an open-and-shut case. Abortion opponents are ...
Continue ReadingJan 11, 2010 1 Comment ›› Erik Wong
The Wall Street Journal: WASHINGTON—Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner wasn't involved in deliberations between the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and American International Group Inc. over what the insurer should disclose in regulatory filings, a top bank official said in a letter to a U.S. lawmaker. Thomas Baxter Jr., general counsel at the New York Fed, said ...
Continue ReadingJan 8, 2010 10 Comments ›› Erik Wong
This guy showed reservations for deploying to Iraq, yet he DIDN'T shoot up his entire Army base? Hmmm... He must be a terrorist! Besides, if writing a song that disagrees with the President is illegal, then why haven't the members of Greenday been jailed yet?
Continue ReadingJan 8, 2010 14 Comments ›› Erik Wong
BBC: A "not guilty" plea has been entered on behalf of the Nigerian man accused of attempting to detonate a bomb on a Detroit-bound plane on Christmas Day. The Detroit judge took the action after Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab declined to enter a plea during his first court appearance. Mr Abdulmutallab, 23, is charged with the attempted murder of ...
Continue ReadingJan 8, 2010 11 Comments ›› Erik Wong
PHOENIX (AP) — Two officials said Thursday night they have been subpoenaed to answer questions next week before a federal grand jury about a high-profile Arizona sheriff who gained attention for aggressively cracking down on illegal immigration. In statements read by a county spokesman, Maricopa County Manager David Smith and Deputy County Manager Sandi Wilson ...
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