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Judge not, lest ye be judged. Not a bad rule of thumb. Being alive means making mistakes. Growing up means understanding that fact, and taking responsibility. Bad actors never take responsibility. Barack Obama honestly believes he's never made a mistake since getting elected; it's one of the few things I think he really means. Honestly. That's why I kind of like Herman Cain's response to the media thugs. Cain isn't playing their game. I hope he checkmates them, move after move. Never play by their rules. Always set your own rules, or they will kill you. You can see their...

“How can the government help me?” This seems to be a growing sentiment among the American middle class. “The land of opportunity” is quickly becoming the “nation of the needy.” Here’s a question I received from a reader just last week: “I am not happy with how things are going since the Bush Administration allowed tax cuts for businesses and the wealthy. These cuts were supposed to end for those who just keep earning more off the middle class. My question is: I am told that investors can invest as little as $1000.00 in real estate, and make a living...

You just can’t make this up. Oaf Joe Biden told reporters he joked with shooting victim about “cracked heads.” Vice President Joe Biden, with a big smile on his face, walked to the House floor and said, “I came to see Gabby, that’s why I’m here.” …When Biden was asked about what he spoke with Giffords about, he joked, “She’s now a member of the cracked head club like me.”

From the Norwegian Order of Freemasons (Note- GoogleTranslate machine translation) I am appalled by the terrible crime has been committed in the government quarter and the Utøya, says the Norwegian-order Masonic Grand Master, Ivar A. Skar. We think with sorrow and compassion for those who have been affected and their relatives. It has emerged in the media that the accused has been a member of the Norwegian Order of Freemasons. He is now excluded with immediate effect. Exclusion is an expression of the acts he is accused of having carried out and the values ​​that appear to have motivated them...

Casey Anthony’s six-week murder trial finally rested today as jurors were sent away to decide whether her two-year-old daughter was the victim of an accidental drowning that she covered up out of fear and grief, or was brutally murdered by a 'pathological liar' who wanted to live free and party. Judge Belvin Perry dispatched the jury in Orlando, Florida, to consider their verdict after the state delivered an emotionally stirring rebuttal to the defence’s closing arguments, telling the panel of seven men and five woman that Caylee Anthony died in June 2008 at the hands of 'the most well documented...

The hotel maid who claims former IMF boss Dominique Strauss-Kahn raped her has been accused of working as a prostitute. Allegations have emerged that the 32-year-old cleaner was was taking extra money from male guests at the hotel for sex. 'There is information... of her getting extraordinary tips, if you know what I mean. And it's not for bringing extra f**king towels,' a source close to the defence investigation told the New York Post. The woman also had 'a lot of her expenses – hair braiding, salon expenses – paid for by men not related to her,' the source added....

CHICKASHA, Okla. -- Laron Short returned to her family home in Chickasha Monday night after a five-month trip to Australia ready to tell her friends and family about her new love, a man she met while abroad. Short, 24, never got the chance. She died Tuesday when a tornado destroyed her mother's mobile home. Her death has been “shattering” to the small close-knit college in Chickasha where Short graduated in December, said J.C. Casey, a communications professor at the University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma. “I loved her very much,” said Casey, who was Short's professor, adviser and friend....

13-yr-old girl is latest victim of 'corrective rape' in South AfricaANI – Mon, May 9, 2011 Sydney, May 9 (ANI): A 13-year-old lesbian girl in South Africa has become the latest victim of 'corrective rape' - so called, when men rape a woman to try to 'fix' her homosexual orientation. "The government condemns this senseless and cowardly act of criminality," the Sydney Morning Herald quoted a department of justice spokesman, Tlali Tlali, as saying in a statement. "Gay and lesbian rights are human and constitutional rights which must be protected and respected at all times," he said, promising a police...

One of the latest four sets of remains found on a Long Island beach linked to the Craigslist Ripper belongs to a baby or child - and not a grown woman, it was revealed today. The remains were found last week among four sets of bodies several miles away from where the bodies of four prostitutes were located in December. But the victim may not be related to the other New York murders as a young person’s body ‘would not fit a serial killer’s pattern’, according to law enforcement sources.

In 1989, a jogger was beaten, raped, and left for dead in New York City’s Central Park. When she arrived at the courthouse to testify, a swarm of protesters led by Al Sharpton greeted her with shouts of “whore!” and “drug addict!” She was just a rape victim, an acceptable casualty of Sharpton’s beloved race warfare. “It’s typical of the left to make a convicted rapist a hero,” Susan Brownmiller told an interviewer in 1975. The feminist author was referring to the Left’s embrace of Eldridge Cleaver, the 1960s Black Panther radical who called his rape of white women “an...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama smiled when he said his large ears and funny name once made him a target of school-yard harassment. But he was all seriousness Thursday when he told a White House conference on bullying that torment and intimidation must not be tolerated. Some 13 million students, about a third of all those attending school, are bullied every year, the White House said. Experts say that puts them at greater risk of falling behind in their studies, abusing drugs or alcohol, or suffering mental or other health problems. Kids who are seen as different because of...

SATURDAY, Feb. 26 (HealthDay News) -- Your past record of good deeds won't help you escape blame when you do something wrong, suggests a new study. But you may get off easier if you're perceived as a victim. Click here to find out more! U.S. researchers looked at study participants' reactions to a number of fictional scenarios representing real-life transgressions, ranging from stealing money to harming another person. The results showed that, no matter how many previous good deeds a person had done, they received just as much blame -- if not more -- than people with less heroic backgrounds....

Kidnapping victim reunited with family after 23 yearsReuters Fri, Jan 21, 2011 NEW YORK, US - New York police renewed their search for the kidnapper of a woman who was abducted 23 years ago and recently reunited with her family, officials said on Thursday. Carlina White, 23, was reunited with her family this week after being kidnapped as a newborn from Harlem Hospital in 1987, police said. Unaware of her true identity, White was raised as Nejdra Nance with a family in Bridgeport, Connecticut, about 45 miles east of her biological parents' home. She became suspicious when her Connecticut family...

Tucson, Arizona -- Arizona shooting victim James Eric Fuller sent his apologies Monday for telling a Tea Party leader, "you are dead." Dorothy DeRuyter, a companion of Fuller's, provided CNN with a statement. "I would like to tender my sincerest apologies to Mr. (Trent) Humphries for my misplaced outrage on Saturday at the St. Odelia's town meeting," Fuller said in the statement. "It was not in the spirit of our allegiance and warm feelings to each other as citizens of our great country." Fuller, 63, was involuntarily committed to a county mental health facility

A group of would-be robbers apparently messed with the wrong man. Spokane police responded to North Regal Street and East Wabash Avenue about 3 p.m. Thursday for the report of a stabbing.

Customer Shoots, Kills Robber At Tanning Salon December 12, 2010 8:41 AM ORLAND PARK, Ill. (STMW) - A man died Saturday night after he was shot with his own gun while attempting to rob a tanning salon in southwest suburban Orland Park. Police received a call at 6:36 p.m. of an armed robbery occuring at L.A. Tan, 15633 S. 94th Ave, according to a release from Orland Police. Surveillance video from inside the business showed that a man entered the business, announced a robbery and pointed a handgun at a female employee, according to the release. The man then ordered...

She hoped the twisted rapist would take the bait and call her -- and cops were ready when he did. In an astounding tape-recorded telephone exchange, a gutsy Queens waitress coolly played the man who had viciously raped her, coaxing him to confess his heinous attack and wrenching out a twisted apology. "I hoped he would call so I could set him up with the police," the 5-foot-2-inch, 115-pound woman told a stunned courtroom yesterday before jurors listened in silence to the several-minute-long taped conversation with her alleged knifepoint attacker, Timothy West.

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Omar Thornton Claimed He Was Victim of Workplace RacismBy Paul Shepard on Aug 3rd 2010 6:05PM It's too early to tell what led Omar S. Thornton to go to the beer distributor warehouse outside Hartford, Conn., where he worked and to gun down nine workers before turning the rifle on himself. Initial reports from the labor union that represented Thornton, 34, which say that he was a "disciplinary problem," that he was racially harassed at work and supervisors did nothing to remedy the situation, shine a bright light on the potentially explosive situations in our modern workplaces. Thornton had been...

Now listen up, white people! You CANNOT BE A VICTIM OF RACISM, because according to Paris Lewis, the head of the Black Panther racists, black people cannot be racist. I’m not making this up…see the video. His assertion is that blacks cannot be racist because their ancestors suffered as slaves. So, by his assertion, if you are victimized by the Black Panther racists, you are not a victim. This guy Paris is a college educated lawyer. Does he know how to look up something in a dictionary? Racism has nothing to do with past experience, but rather a view of...