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  • [Dem Sheriff] Victor Hill cleared on all counts in racketeering trial

    08/15/2013 5:02:22 PM PDT · by madprof98 · 6 replies
    A lot of evidence wasn’t presented to find him guilty,” said [Jury Foreman] Crabb, a 32-year-old rap artist. Had Hill been convicted of all 27 charges — including racketeering, theft by taking, making false statements and violating his oath of office — he could have been sentenced to 455 years in prison. **** Prosecutors presented evidence that Hill drove his county-issued cars on out-of-state vacations, taking with him female companions who also worked for him. He used his county issued credit card to buy gas while on the road, to buy electronics during his trip to south Florida the day...
  • The tragedy of America's great food stamp binge

    08/10/2013 5:58:55 AM PDT · by madprof98 · 36 replies
    Fox News ^ | August 8, 2013 | Pat Caddell
    Let me put it this way, my jaw hit the floor. Earlier this week I was able to screen a portion of this Friday’s Fox News documentary “The Great Food Stamp Binge,” hosted by Bret Baier. It airs Friday at 10 p.m. and Sunday at 9 p.m. ET on the Fox News Channel. This investigation focuses on a federal program called SNAP, or "Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program."
  • Chattanooga editor fired for ‘shove it’ headline aimed at Obama

    08/01/2013 11:30:40 AM PDT · by madprof98 · 41 replies
    Atlanta Journal-Constitution ^ | August 1, 2013 | Jim Galloway
    A Chattanooga newspaper editor has been fired for that “Take your jobs plan and shove it” headline that greeted President Barack Obama on his arrival to the city earlier this week.
  • How J.J. Redick's Abortion Contract Was Conceived

    07/25/2013 6:40:41 PM PDT · by madprof98 · 9 replies
    Deadspin ^ | 7/25/13 | Barry Petchesky
    Tuesday, we brought you a 2007 confidentiality agreement between then-rookie J.J. Redick and model ex-girlfriend Vanessa Lopez, a bizarre contract that stipulated Redick would have to fake his relationship with Lopez in exchange for her getting an abortion. Today we've obtained more emails and documents showing the behind-the-scenes negotiations—abortion contracts don't just happen, after all. *** The below Sept. 12, 2007, series of emails between Redick, his attorney Greg McNeill, and financial advisor Jeff Silverman, shows debate about the exact wording of the contract—McNeill proposed to offer Lopez two different versions, one with a relationship agreement and one without. The...
  • Airman Punished for Objecting to Gay Marriage in Military Chapel

    07/11/2013 5:29:52 PM PDT · by madprof98 · 54 replies
    Townhall.com ^ | July 11, 2013 | Todd Starnes
    A 27-year veteran of the Utah Air National Guard said he was reprimanded after he wrote a letter objecting to a gay wedding in the West Point chapel and was later told to prepare for retirement because his personal beliefs about homosexuality were not compatible with the military’s policies. “The military is trying to make examples of people who have religious beliefs that homosexual conduct in the military is wrong,” said John Wells, an attorney representing TSgt. Layne Wilson. “The end game is to force conservative Christians out of the military.” Last December Wilson wrote a letter to a person...
  • U.S. Military Holds LGBT Pride Event In Kandahar, Afghanistan (Video)

    07/04/2013 2:23:52 PM PDT · by madprof98 · 108 replies
    KPBS ^ | June 28, 2013 | Beth Ford Roth
    U.S. troops deployed to Kandahar Airfield in Afghanistan this week held the first Lesbian, Gay, Bi-Sexual, Transgender Pride event to be observed in a deployed environment. The Pentagon also held a LGBT Pride Month ceremony on Tuesday, one day before the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the Defense of Marriage Act, which defined marriage as between a heterosexual couple.
  • Furst testifies in her own defense amid accusations she sexually assaulted her stepson

    06/26/2013 7:23:25 PM PDT · by madprof98 · 17 replies
    Concord (CT) Monitor ^ | June 25, 2013 | TRICIA L. NADOLNY
    Defending herself against accusations she sexually assaulted her stepson, Deborah Furst yesterday recalled a conversation with her estranged wife shortly after she filed for divorce. Furst told jurors that her wife made a veiled threat that if she didn’t back down, there would be “a train coming down the track that no one will be able to stop.” “My emotional response in my head was, what else could you possibly do?” Furst testified during the second day of her trial at Merrimack County Superior Court. “You’ve already taken my home and my children and my dignity and my belongings. What...
  • Larry Flynt Endorses Mark Sanford

    05/01/2013 10:02:02 AM PDT · by madprof98 · 32 replies
    ABC News ^ | 5/1/13 | Chris Good
    Key passage: I want to commend the voters of the 1st Congressional District of South Carolina who support Mark Sanford. They have the courage to toss aside lifelong convictions to embrace the sex pioneer of our time. They have rejected the religious teachings of their Bible-thumping preachers and tossed the false sanctity of marriage into the trashcan. Sanford’s fellow pioneers are teaching their children the invaluable lesson that traditional values are nothing more than a scam. These voters are telling the sanctimonious, self-righteous and hypocritical opponents of Mark Sanford, “Don’t Cry for Me, Argentina.”
  • CPAC Case for De-emphasizing Abortion and Gay Marriage

    03/15/2013 8:04:15 PM PDT · by madprof98 · 60 replies
    PJ Media ^ | 3/15/13
    NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. – Charles Murray prevailed upon social conservatives within the Republican Party to de-emphasize their opposition to issues like abortion and same-sex marriage in an effort to attract younger voters. Murray, the controversial political scientist perhaps best known for his book The Bell Curve on IQ and class structure, said his experience has been that younger voters, like his four children, are reluctant to support GOP candidates even though they may agree with the party on a host of conservative issues.
  • Ga. woman arrested for spanking customer's child

    02/02/2013 12:59:32 PM PST · by madprof98 · 53 replies
    WRIGHTSVILLE, Ga. — A dollar store employee has been arrested for simple battery after whipping a customer's child with a belt. WMAZ-TV (http://on.wmaz.com/WGbiFw ) reports surveillance cameras inside a Wrightsville dollar store recorded an 8-year-old boy running around the store and eventually throwing a cookie jar at 39-year-old Emilia Graciela Bell. Authorities say Bell took off her belt, chased the boy down and spanked him behind the counter. The boy's father called police and Bell was taken into custody. Police said she was free on bond Friday.
  • Chick-fil-A keeps growing despite uproar

    01/29/2013 2:04:24 PM PST · by madprof98 · 11 replies
    Atlanta Journal-Constitution ^ | 1/29/13 | Leon Stafford
    Chick-fil-A president Dan Cathy’s controversial comments on “biblical” marriage last summer and the uproar that followed didn’t dampen the Atlanta company’s annual sales. The fast food giant, the nation’s second-largest chicken chain, ended 2012 with $4.6 billion in sales — up 14 percent from $4.1 billion a year earlier. The company also opened 96 news stores, four more than the year before. ***** Advocates of a boycott and business experts said numbers don’t show the full picture. The unseen damage, they said, was to the company’s reputation and, potentially, to its ability to grow in cities with large gay populations...
  • Same-sex couple makes ceremonial request for marriage license in Morristown

    01/09/2013 6:16:12 PM PST · by madprof98 · 7 replies
    WATE.com (Knoxville TN) ^ | 1/9/13 | Alexis Zotos
    MORRISTOWN (WATE) - A same-sex couple applied for a marriage license in Morristown Wednesday, despite a state law that won't recognize their union. It's part of an effort by a group called the Campaign for Southern Equality. In a procession surrounded by friends and family, Matt Griffin and Raymie Wolfe made their way to the county clerk's desk in a ceremonial request for a marriage license. "Based on Tennessee law, I will not be able to issue a marriage license," the clerk told the couple. It was the answer they expected, but it was still an important step for the...
  • "Pretty Resigned"

    09/28/2012 1:35:34 PM PDT · by madprof98 · 84 replies
    National Review (Corner) ^ | September 28, 2012 | Dennis Boyles
    That, apparently, is the long-held view of Mitt’s men — not and not just about the forthcoming debates, but about the whole campaign. I have this from the lips of Sam Coates, the deputy political editor of the London Times, who was on BBC Radio 4′s Broadcasting House last Sunday participating in one of those panels of pundits-looking-at-the-press. Everyone agreed that, according to the polls, the U.S. election was finally over and that Obama would be back for four more years. All the newspapers all said so. “It feels,” said Coates, “that the incumbent is pulling away.” Coates said the...
  • Intel pulls funds from Boy Scouts over policy barring gay scouts and leaders

    09/24/2012 1:09:17 PM PDT · by madprof98 · 75 replies
    ABC15.com ^ | 9/24/12 | abc15 staff
    The Boy Scouts of America has lost one of it's biggest corporate donors, Intel, who announced Sunday they will no longer fund the organization until gay Scouts and leaders are welcome within the organization. Eagle Scout Zach Wahls, founder of Scouts for Equality, launched a campaign urging Intel to pull funding from the Boy Scouts after a report revealed the company gave nearly $700,000 to the Boy Scouts in 2010. "Intel made the right decision here, in order to live up to their corporate values of diversity, equality and individual liberty," said Wahls. "Companies that support the LGBT community simply...
  • Political Insider: Dan Cathy took part in Chick-fil-A talks on gay rights

    09/22/2012 8:39:51 AM PDT · by madprof98 · 30 replies
    Atlanta Journal-Constitution ^ | 9/22/12 | Jim Galloway
    August was a busy month at Chick-fil-A headquarters in Atlanta, especially when it came to the topic of gay marriage. On Wednesday, a Chicago alderman had dropped his objections to the first standalone Chick-fil-A restaurant in his city, after the fast-food franchise persuaded him that it had withdrawn from the political battle over same-sex marriage. Several weeks of negotiations with Chick-fil-A executives had produced internal company guidelines that prohibit discrimination in hiring and customer service. Alderman Joe Moreno also said that, in August, executives of the family-held firm also opened the books of Chick-fil-A’s charitable foundation, to prove that it...
  • Chick-fil-A, Chicago alderman strike agreement [Guess Who Lost?]

    09/19/2012 2:33:05 PM PDT · by madprof98 · 41 replies
    Atlanta Journal-Constitution ^ | 9/19/12 | Leon Stafford
    A Chicago alderman who had threatened to block Chick-fil-A from opening a store in his community says he will no longer stand in the chicken chain’s way after company leaders agreed to create policies that support the gay, lesbian and transgendered community. Proco “Joe” Moreno said in a statement Tuesday that Atlanta-based Chick-fil-A has placed in a company document an agreement that directs its employees to treat people of all backgrounds with “honor, dignity and respect — regardless of their beliefs, race, creed, sexual orientation and gender.” The chain also said it would refrain from engaging in political or social...
  • Teens sentenced in sex assault-Twitter case in Ky [Savannah Dietrich]

    09/14/2012 5:40:38 PM PDT · by madprof98 · 3 replies
    Yahoo News (AP) ^ | 9/14/12 | BRETT BARROUQUERE
    LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A judge sentenced two Kentucky teenagers on Friday to community service and sex offender treatment for sexually assaulting a 17-year-old girl who later identified her attackers on Twitter. Savannah Dietrich posted the boys' names on Twitter despite a gag order because she thought the initial plea deal in June was too lenient. She said she also was unaware a deal had been reached until just before it was announced. Jefferson County District Judge Angela McCormick Bisig slightly altered the initial deal, saying the pair, now 17 years old, may seek to have the sexual assault charges...
  • Romney SHOULD be winning, but isn’t. Why is that?

    09/10/2012 12:52:53 PM PDT · by madprof98 · 142 replies
    Atlanta Journal-Constitution ^ | 9/10/12 | Jay Bookman
    With unemployment still over 8 percent, household income continuing to fall and trillion-dollar deficits stretching out as far as the eye can see, the 2012 presidential race shouldn’t even be close. In fact, economic-based political models suggest that Mitt Romney ought to be strolling to an easy victory. And yet Romney is losing. When your campaign pollster is forced to release an “OK, Nobody Panic!” memo, as Neil Newhouse did today, it’s never a good sign. The same is true of the race to control the U.S. Senate. Of the 33 seats being contested this year, only 10 are held...
  • Democrats call for marriage equality

    09/04/2012 5:31:56 PM PDT · by madprof98 · 20 replies
    Atlanta Journal-Constitution ^ | 9/4/12 | Lynn Hulsey
    For the first time in history, a major political party is formally supporting gay marriage, as Democrats approved a platform Tuesday that includes a “marriage equality” plank, setting the party in clear contrast to Republicans. Democratic officials say the vote puts the party squarely in the “individual rights” camp and that it will use the platform to lead the country to acceptance of what supporters say is a basic right. The move comes just a week after Republicans, at their national convention in Tampa, approved a platform that specifically calls for a federal constitutional amendment banning gay marriage ***** Nationally,...
  • Teacher gets 5 years for sex with teen students [motive unveiled]

    08/20/2012 6:14:26 PM PDT · by madprof98 · 32 replies
    MyFoxAtlanta ^ | 8/17/12 | Alice Wolke
    Her husband took the stand during the punishment phase of the trial and asked the jury to give his wife probation for the sake of their children. He said he was very angry and hurt by his wife's actions, but admitted the two of them have had group sex with other consenting adults in the past. He also said people who call him an idiot for wanting to remain married to her just don't understand.