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Local Louisianna DA Says No Charges Needed in Shooting Death of Marquise Hudspeth by Cops

Dollars for Dismissals


Read how prosecutor Fitzgerald also fumbled in the hunt for Osama Bin Laden in a new book, Triple Cross.

Another Top Ten List of Worst Prosecutors


-The Center for Deliberative Democracy at Stanford Univ.

Letter of Apology

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Interview with author Susan Bradford - on July 29th - reveals explosive new information on how the infamous lobbyist Jack Abramoff may have been framed and the corruption behind lobbyist who fight for lucrative contracts with American Indian Tribes.

 

Rural USDA Leader in Georgia resigns after racially fueled speech at NAACP Banquet
Read her statements here.

Great - Just what we need. Now we are getting the internet regulated and monitored for Targeting...
READ: Nepalitano calls for internet monitoring

 

ALERT
Texans Preparing for Border Breakdown, Cartel Showdown


Several cases of police abuse in Prince William County, Virginia

 


Prince William County, VA Police beat, pepper spray
legal immigrant for being unable to read citation

Virginia's reported rate of misconduct by police is 565.99 per 100,000 people.
Washington, DC happens to rank the highest abuse rate in the country.
(NPMSRP 2009 Police Misconduct Statistical Report)


Sessions Says Kagan Broke Law at Harvard

 



Republican Policy Chairman McCotter denies that Republicans
are the party of NO -publishes new booklet
saying why

The House Republican Policy Committee has published a booklet laying out what Republicans support and that they are NOT the party of No. The Democrats have been shamelessly trying to claim that while their healthcare bill is not perfect, the Republicans have had no plan of their own and they just keep saying "no" to the Democrats all the time but without any alternative.

Well that simply has not been true. There have been numerous proposals, amendments, entire bills proposed by the Republicans but it is in fact the Democrats who wouldn't even let it be read in committee let alone it get to the House floor.

So Rep. Thaddeus McCotter, one of my favorite members of Congress and a true intellectual, is Chairman of the House Republican Policy Committee. They have published a booklet outlining exactly what they are FOR and that this is a great time for renewal. It lays it out pretty well. By clicking on the link below you may sign up to get a free hard copy of the booklet or you can download a pdf. I highly suggest you read this 18-page booklet. Click here to choose a hard copy or the PDF:

http://republicanhousepolicy.com/we-people-wide-awake



Want to see something really disturbing? This a SCHOOL PLAY OF SCARFACE - 1ST GRADERS
- from Ilinois!

 

 

Surprise announcements from Democrats who will not run for election in 2010

- Senator Chris Dodd (CT)
(Chairman of the Senate banking committee
)
- Governor Bill Ritter (CO)
- Senator Byron Dorgan (ND)
- Lt. Gov. John Cherry (MI)

(Considered front runnner for Governor's race)


Alaskan businessmen who are angry with Al Gore's Global Warming diatribe, build ice sculpture of Gore's likeness in record cold tempuratures



More Acorn Scandal: California Document Dump

Documents relevant to the investigation into an ACORN division in California, who were caught on camera giving advice on how to set up an outlet for underage prostitution, were found and recovered in a San Diego dumbster. Read story from Breibart.


Major scandal in global warming scientific community

Scientists, lied, covered up findings to propel Global Warming MYTH

Climategate: the final nail in the coffin
of 'Anthropogenic Global Warming'?

If you own any shares in alternative energy companies I should start dumping them NOW. The conspiracy behind the Anthropogenic Global Warming myth (aka AGW; aka ManBearPig) has been suddenly, brutally and quite deliciously exposed after a hacker broke into the computers at the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit (aka CRU) and released 61 megabytes of confidential files onto the internet. (Hat tip: Watts Up With That) Read more from the Telegraph.

 

**OBAMA ALERT**

White House Communications Director and chief strategist in President Obama's inner circle -- Anita Dunn - says her "favorite philosopher" and someone she looks up to most is none other than Mao Tse Tung who killed over 20 million of his own people. See it in her own words!

UPDATE: DUNN resigned from the White House effective December.

 

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An excellent piece by John Stossell about how Obama's healthcare reform will create waiting lists and less innovation.

 

We had a very good radio show today (09/03/09). Especially moving the last 6 minutes, I highly recommend you listen to this broadcast. Our topics were on healthcare, the war in Afghaniistan
and recognizing our fallen soldiers.

 

 

SMOKING GUN? Group Suing to get the release of Obama's birth certificate finds Obama birth certificate from Kenya

Click here: Is this really smoking gun of Obama's Kenyan birth?

VIDEO- Congressman Thaddeus McCotter says it's a dangerous precedent to be set for the President of the United States to inject himself in a local police incident with "bias" and a lack of all the facts impuning the legal status and reputation of a private citizen.

 

 

Economy Unsustainable, Obama Nationalized Healthcare Plan will not Save Money but Will Raise Taxes, Says CBO

- Deficit Hits Over $1 Trillion for First Time Ever
- Unemployment Rate at 9.8% and Rising

WAKE UP AMERICA!

(If you have trouble playing the video click here.)


NOT SURPRISING: CBO report says Preident Obama's plan to nationalize healthcare would not save money but only increase costs and raise taxes. Read the details.

 

From the Freedom of Speech Aliance:Democrats shut down Republican's attempt to bring Broadcaster Freedom Act (BFA) to floor vote. More.

SHOCKING! Banks, credit card issuers track individual's purchases, purchase locations to determine credit limits, credit reductions.

Buying retread tires or second-hand clothing
can determine card holders as high risk

Read shocking report

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Not Surprising -- Supreme Court overturns Sotomayor's intellectually-void and constitutionally-lacking decision in CT firefighter descrination case. More.


Very interesting
-- DA political rival arrested in Austin:

Prominent Austin Attorney Arrested For Public Intoxication
keyetv.com producer: John Bumgardner
Email: jbbumgardner@keyetv.com
Last Update: 6/10 5:57 pm


Austin Attorney arrested for public intoxication

Former Travis County District Attorney candidate Mindy Montford is charged with public intoxication. (APD)
Former Travis County District Attorney hopeful Mindy Montford was arrested when the car she was a passenger in was pulled over early Saturday morning.

It happened shortly after 2:00a.m. in the 600 block of San Jacinto St. Police charged Montford with public intoxication after her friend who was driving was pulled over. When Montford offered legal advice to the driver police instructed her to return to the vehicle.

Police arrested the driver then Montford. The judge never signed the arrest warrant citing no probable cause for the stop. Montford was released from jail early that morning.

Montford was a finalist for the Travis County District Attorney seat but was defeated by Rosemary Lehmberg.

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*BREAKING -- WHAT WILL YOU DO OBAMA, HILARY?
June 8 - SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea's state news agency says the country's top court has convicted two U.S. journalists and sentenced them to
12 years in labor prison
- more nuke tests coming

Why is the United States government allowing North Korea, a rogue state to imprison these two journalists without even knowing the full story. There are reports that these journalists were in China and were taken by force to North Korea and then offically arrested. Who in this adminstration is going to put an end to the military threat from NK with their nuclear and missile tests as well as this obamination of sending these two journalists to labor camp for 12 years?? Where is the outrage??


OUTRAGE OF THE DAY:

TUESDAY 6/16/09
City Fines Parking in Own Driveways
AP

TOLEDO, Ohio (June 16) -- Residents of Toledo, Ohio, are complaining that they received $25 tickets for parking their vehicles in their own driveways. Read complete story.



EVERGLADES LEGAL FOUNDATION FILES LAWSUIT CHALLENGING CONSTITUTIONALITY OF TEXAS PUBLIC INTEGRITY UNIT

Complaint Demonstrates Disenfranchisement of Non-Travis County Voters by Questionable Political Office


(DALLAS) -- The Everglades Legal Foundation (www.evergladeslegal.org), after numerous Open Records requests ignored by the Texas Public Integrity Unit (TPIU), has filed a lawsuit in federal court challenging the constitutionality and standing of the TPIU as said office is currently funded by the Texas Legislature. The lawsuit, filed in Dallas on behalf of plaintiff Cathie Adams, a Texas resident, makes a strong case that the TPIU as currently constituted violates both the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment and the Texas Constitution. Read complete news release.

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Former Travis County District Attorney Ronnie Earle's Texas Public Integrity Unit loses to Texas' Highest Court on the Yogurt Shop Murders for the THIRD time -- after the defendants being sent to Death Row. Read full story.

PoliticallyCharged.org founder, Melissa Hopkins testifies before Texas House State Affairs Committee about prosecutorial abuses and possible corruption in the Public Integrity Unit and why oversight and complete transparency is needed.
Watch the video testimony

- click on the April 14th link then forward to the 5:35 mark.
Click here for statement transcript.


Prosecutorial misconduct, move to disband (former DA) Ronnie Earles' Texas Public Integrity Unit. Read here about testimony from the Everglades Legal Foundation before the Texas House.

Read more about outrageous prosecutorial misconduct cases - an excellent article in great detail about some of the most high profile cases.

New book from radio broadcast veteran Brian Jennings
the first book published of its kind on the push from the left to censor conservative talk radio

Forward by Sean Hannity


Ted Stevens' charges dismissed as judge excoriates prosecutors


Susan Walsh / Associated Press

Former Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens, accompanied by daughters Beth, Lily and Susan, from left, and wife Catherine, right rear, leaves federal court in Washington, where a federal judge dismissed the criminal charges against him.

'I've never seen anything approaching the misdeeds and the misconduct' in this case, federal Judge Emmet Sullivan says. The corruption conviction of Stevens, a former Alaska senator, is set aside.


By James Oliphant, LA Times
April 7, 2009


Reporting from Washington -- A federal judge dismissed the criminal charges against former Sen. Ted Stevens today while strongly criticizing the Justice Department lawyers who prosecuted the Alaskan stalwart for their actions in the case.

"In nearly 25 years on the bench, I've never seen anything approaching the misdeeds and the misconduct I have seen in this case," U.S. District Court Judge Emmet Sullivan told a packed courtroom.

Read more from the LA Times story.


More excellent updates on the prosecutorial misconduct in the Ted Stevens case

Stevens Prosecution Overview

April 6, 2009 in DOJ Issues, DOJ Scandal, Prosecutorial Misconduct, Public Corruption by Solomon Wisenberg

Law.com here carries a Legal Times piece by Mike Scarcella and Joe Palazollo on the series of errors that dogged the Stevens prosecution team. According to the story, Public Integrity’s Deputy Chief Brenda Morris wasn’t assigned to the case until days before the indictment. Though the article fails to mention it, this presumably means that Morris did not participate in the April 15, 2008, interview with Bill Allen and may not have ever known about it.

Most commentators are assuming that Judge Sullivan will quickly grant the Government’s Motion to Set Aside and Dismiss, but Sullivan could wait awhile in order to fully satisfy himself concerning the Government’s conduct in the case and to better exert the Court’s own disciplinary authority. It may be harder for him to do this as a practical matter if he immediately grants the Motion to Set Aside and Dismiss.

More at Letter of Apology

 

Former mobster says Obama administration, George Soros, Mafia-like

Third Court of Appeals in Texas refuses to rehear same motion in the Tom DeLay case. New Travis County DA Rsoemary Lehmberg may appeal to highest Appeals Court which has already refused to hear a similar motion in the same case.

Who is "Client #6" in the Ilinois Governor arrest case? Presidential advisor Axelrod says Obama had contacted the Governor, Obama said he had no contact with Governor Blagojevich. Plame case Prosecutor Fitzgerald says "The breadth of corruption laid out in these charges is staggering," Read the breaking news.

VP Dick Cheney and former AG Alberto Gonzales indicted in small Texas County -- UPDATE
Finally, some sanity and reason -- judge in Texas throws out all indictments against Cheney, Gonzalez.

EXCLUSIVE: No Audit of Obama Fundraising

October 30th -- Democratic Presidential nominee Barack Obama reversed his pledge to take public financing for his campaign to become the first ever federal candidate in a general election to reject public matching funds. Why did he do this? One, there is no spending cap. If he took the public money he would have been limited to spending only $84 million like Senator John McCain chose to do. He also may have done so because of the way the Federal Election Commission (FEC) rules are constructed. If a candidate does take public matching funds, there are mandatory audits of contributions and expenditures. If a candidate refuses public funds, there is no automatic audit. Read complete exclusive PoliticallyCharged.org article.

4090 educators sign petition of support for domestic terrorist Bill Ayers.

Interview with Weather Underground member and FBI informant Larry Grathwohl -- gives inside account of meetings with domestic terrorist Bill Ayers saying Ayers had former plans to kill 25 million people

By a chance meeting back in 1969, Larry Grathwohl, a military veteran was invited to join Weather Underground, a domestic terrorist group that bombed the Pentagon and the US Capitol led by Barack Obama's colleague, Bill Ayers. Pajamas Media recently interviewed Mr. Grathwohl about becoming an FBI informant and his days with Ayers saying Ayers wanted to overthrow the U.S. government and kill 25 million Americans who "refused to embrace communism." READ COMPLETE INTERVIEW.

Also -- see video about Ayers' radical views:

 

Michelle Obama quoted Saul Alinsky's neo-Marxist book "Rules for Radicals" in DNC speech. Obama taught these "rules" as a community organizer in Chicago. THIS IS A MUST READ!

In an explosive article today in the "American Thinker", writer James Lewis explores Barack Obama's political philosophy as based on the writings of Saul Alinski. Saul Alinsky was a radical neo-marxist, COMMUNITY ORGANIZER in Chicago in the early 20th century. Terrorist Bill Ayers and Barack Obama followed and taught these tactics as community organizers. Alinsky hated capitalism and the American middle class but thought they were a neccessary tool to be manipulated and eventually overthrown. Here is to whom Alinsky dedicated "Rules for Radicals" ,

"... to the very first radical . . . who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his own kingdom - Lucifer."

Obama also worked directly for an Alinksy protege. More here.

In her speech at the DNC Michelle Obama referred to specific phrases written by Alinksy in "Rules":

" 'Barack stood up that day,' talking about a visit to Chicago neighborhoods, 'and spoke words that have stayed with me ever since. He talked about 'The world as it is' and 'The world as it should be…' And, 'All of us driven by a simple belief that the world as it is just won't do – that we have an obligation to, fight for the world as it should be."

Obama in his own words.

Senator Steven's legal team writes U.S. Attorney General requesting an investigation into prosecutors

Fox News is reporting that:

(Brendan) Sullivan's letter notes that several times during the trial, Judge Emmet G. Sullivan criticized the federal Office of Public Integrity and "specifically found that the government had engaged in intentional misconduct."

THIS JUST IN - Reporters from three newspapers who's editorial boards have endorsed John McCain, have been kicked off the Obama campaign airplane. Read this breaking news.

ABC News is withholding release of a video tape of Senator Obama partying with Yasser Arafat spokesman

Obama campaign accepting contributions that cannot be traced, have no cross check system to verify credit cards.

Senator Biden bans another TV station for tough questions.

Indiana official asks for federal probe of ACORN voter registration fraud

Obama donors oversee voter fraud complaints

"Van-loads of non-citizens are showing up" at early voting polls in Tennessee.

Senator Stevens found guilty on seven counts. Read reactions.

Texas' Travis County DA Ronnie Earle fails to get felony convictions in TAB case

Texas' Travis County DA Ronnie Earle fails to get felony convictions against Texas Association of Business (TAB), makes a misdemeanor plea deal on a charge of a campaign expenditure reporting error. The agreement also comes with a $10,000 fine. The investigation took six years and cost taxpayers millions of dollars. Read complete PoliticallyCharged article here.

Jurors in Stevens' trial deliberations errupt

Jurors in Stevens' trial deliberations errupt. Jury tries to get one juror excused for 'violent outbursts'. More.

Sen. Stevens felony trial heads into third and final week.

Sen. Stevens felony trial heads into third and final week. Government prosecutors under fire for careless mistakes, witholding information that would benefit the Senator's claim of innocence. More.

Florida Congressman now being investigated by the FBI

Florida Congressman now being investigated by the FBI for affair with campaign worker. It seems the Feds are most interested in the $121,000 hush money the Congressman paid his mistress. No word yet if the Fedswill beinvestigating Congressman Rengel of New York for under paying his taxes and not reporting income from rental properties. The House Ethics Committee has launched a probe but no criminal investigation is underway.

State elections official requests investigation into voter fraud and ACORN

State elections official requests investigation into voter fraud and ACORN in Indiana. Get a complete picture of ACORN and what they do here.

Texas Democrat staffer gets sweetheart plea deal

Texas Democrat staffer gets sweetheart plea deal from Ronnie Earle, would he have done the same if she were Republican?

Congressman Barney Frank's live-in lover was an executive for Fannie Mae

Where is the investigation of Congressman Barney Frank, Chairman of the House Banking Committee and his live-in lover, a former executive of Fannie Mae who directly benefited from Frank's votes? More. -And more.

Judge in Stevens case says prosecution's evidence not true

Judge said government prosecution "presented evidence the government knew was not true,” in the case against Alaska Senator Ted Stevens.

Free speech at risk in Misssouri

Free speech at risk in Misssouri - Obama's campaign threatens TV stations and others with legal action.

Judge "peeved" in Steven's case

Judge "peeved" at Government in Sen. Steven's case, yet case not dismissed.

REPORT: Alabama Congressional candidate underdosed his cancer patients

Alabama Congressional candidate under fire for underdosing his cancer patients.

EXCLUSIVE: Ronnie Earle’s $8 Million

PoliticallyCharged.org
Some believe that Travis County (TX) District Attorney Ronnie Earle is about to become very rich. Could Earle who took down former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay with a rather questionable legal indictment be reaping the financial rewards of seeds sown long ago?  We may soon know the answer.
Read complete article.

 

Congressman Murtha sued by Marine for defamation after not gulty verdict

Congressman Murtha sued by Marine for permanent, damaging remarks.

Prosecutors begin outline of how Senator Stevens broke the law

Prosecutors begin their outline of how they believe Senator Ted Stevens evaded the law.

Earle calls Third Apellate Court corrupt

Texas DA Ronnie Earle Claims Third Appellate Court is Corrupt, Asks for Rehearing of DeLay Associates' Habeas Corpus Motion

RONNIE EARLE QUOTE: "the law does not define justice"

DA Ronnie Earle says that "the law does not define justice" and that he makes up justice his own way. Listen here.

Trial of Senator Stevens begins

List of potential witnesses in the Sen. Stevens trial published. DOJ orders for Steven's defence documents to be posted online.

Democrat Congressman Charlie Rangel fails to report income on taxes, no charges filed

Democrat Congressman Charlie Rangel, Chairman of the powerful Ways and Means Committee, fails to report real estate income to Congress, still remains Chairman. Republican Senator Ted Stevens charged with a felony in Federal Court for not filling out his report to Congress correctly. Read more.

Governor Spitzer flack contradicts Spitzer

The communications director for disgraced prostitute-buying New York Governor Elliot Spitzer contradicted his boss before integrity committee
http://capitalnews9.com/content/politics/119364/notes-on-a-scandal/Default.aspx

Bronx DA Subpoenas, threatens Blogger

Bronx DA Subpoenas, threatens Blogger then looses in court
http://www.r8ny.com/blog/admin/room_eight_fights_bronx_subpoena_wins.html

New DOJ policy: stop the shakedown cash

New DOJ policy for pet project prosecutors -- STOP the shakedowns for cash

Sue Reisinger from the Web site, Corporate Counsel writes about how the Department of Justice has told government prosecutors to no longer shake down corporations for donations to their favorite pet projects.

This all stems from a U.S. Attorney from New Jersey, Christopher Christie who while prosecuting Bristol-Myers Squibb Company required them to pay for a new ethics chair position at his old law school. A memo was sent out by Deputy Attorney General Mark Filip saying that government attorneys could no longer require a defendant to make these kind of payments to a third party.

In Sue Reisinger's story, she writes:

"The policy change affects plea agreements as well as deferred and nonprosecution agreements. Such agreements should not, the new policy states, require 'the defendant to pay funds to a charitable, educational, community, or other organization or individual that is not a victim of the criminal activity or is not providing services to redress the harm caused by the defendant's criminal conduct."'

Ronnie Earle in Texas better think twice when shaking more corporations down for "Dollars for Dismissals"

A new book about Eliot Spitzer to be released
Read More

Another corporation shaken down for cash by DA Ronnie Earle
Read More

See comments from Congressman John Carter (R-TX31) about the pattern of criminal witchhunts by Ronnie Earle.

The duplicitous Mr. Hulshof wants to be Missouri Governor

Kenny Hulshof is a non-descript congressman from Columbia, Missouri who thinks he has what it takes to be Governor.  One reason, he tells Show Me State audiences, is that he is of high ethical character because he “stood up” to former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay from his post on the House Committee on Official Standards (Ethics). Read complete story.

Rep. Oberstar under fire for political contributions, Rail Injury Hearing

U.S. House of Representatives’ Transportation and Infrastructure (T & I) Committee Chairman, Rep. James Oberstar (D-MN) is coming under fire from a congressional watchdog group which is openly questioning whether or not there was any connection between an October 25, 2007 hearing held by the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee on rail safety and contributions made to a political committee controlled by Oberstar.The story, on the website MajorityAP.com, is written by Michael Brady, a former Republican congressional staffer who is the site’s co-founder. Read more.

 

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