March 29, 2007 – 7:39 am
I mentioned back last Saturday about a Bill to be introduced by Rep. Steve Pearce (R-NM) and other Republicans, and it was passed on Tuesday (from the Washington Times) House Republicans tonight surprised Democrats with a procedural vote to protect public-transportation passengers from being sued if they report suspicious activity — the first step by […]
March 21, 2007 – 4:48 pm
It just keeps getting worse and worse for Nifong (The Durham Herald Sun) The N.C. State Bar says Durham District Attorney Mike Nifong is engaging in "semantic hair-splitting" in an effort to fend off its charges against him and contends alleged misconduct like his is "seldom, if ever, excusable." When all is said and done, […]
March 13, 2007 – 1:42 pm
I haven't written much about the Duke Lacrosse case lately, because, not much is really happening. Well, today is a milestone. It is one year since the two strippers went to a house near the Duke campus to dance at a party thrown by the lacrosse players. And, at this time, the State still does […]
March 4, 2007 – 6:55 pm
It is always fun to see a grown liberal cry as he is hoist on his own petard Durham —In a letter to the North Carolina State Bar, the embattled former prosecutor in the Duke lacrosse case complains about how grassroots groups are trying to run him out of office. The Dec. 28 letter is […]
February 28, 2007 – 2:34 pm
Hmmm, what a choice: liberals support the right to die and are against execution, typically being the majority, if not all, of execution protesters RALEIGH, N.C. —A debate over how the state carries out executions has stopped the capital punishment process, but one death row inmate says he wants to be executed as scheduled next […]
February 22, 2007 – 3:35 pm
I haven't mentioned the plight of the border agents in a few days or so, and there are two video's out from Grassfire.org. This is the sixty second spot. [gv data=”hc8oCOvjyxk”][/gv] You can also watch the 30 second spot. Hopefully, President Bush will watch them, and take notice, and finally do something about this issue. […]
February 14, 2007 – 8:05 pm
This will probably only matter to those in North Carolina, but, hell, I live in North Carolina Former House Speaker Jim Black is expected to plead guilty to a public corruption charge in federal court in Raleigh on Thursday, ending the career of North Carolina's most powerful speaker of the modern political era. Under the […]
February 5, 2007 – 5:15 pm
My money is on a threatened lawsuit by Wednesday (from the Charlotte Observer) After days of public debate over the appropriateness of a Charlotte-Mecklenburg student saying the Pledge of Allegiance in Spanish, Superintendent Peter Gorman has decided it will be recited only in English at graduations and other districtwide events. "Upon further reflection, we believe […]
February 3, 2007 – 4:56 pm
From the Raleigh News and Observer Gov. Mike Easley said last month that picking Mike Nifong to be Durham's district attorney was the worst appointment of his career, and he said Nifong broke his promise not to run for the office. Easley told law students in New York that Nifong's decision to seek office in […]
January 31, 2007 – 11:39 am
Or, at least, so says the sister A man accused of decapitating his 4-year-old daughter battled paranoid schizophrenia a decade before the killing, his sister said. John Patrick Violette, 37, of Clayton, has been charged with murder for the Jan. 12 death of his daughter, Katlin. Denise Violette said her brother was diagnosed with schizophrenia […]
