Last week I lamented the fact the school board for one of the schools in my home state had voted to allow middle schoolers as young as 11 years old to get birth control pills without having to disclose the reason for the health visit to the parents.
There’s a new twist in the story now [...]

I wish this ruling had been made in an American court.
Schools will have to issue a warning before they show pupils Al Gore’s controversial film about global warming, a judge indicated yesterday.
The move follows a High Court action by a father who accused the Government of ‘brainwashing’ children with propaganda by showing it in [...]

I often wonder why people insist that Hillary Clinton apologize for voting to authorize the Iraq War. It wouldn’t change the record, but it seems apologies are a big deal to someone, even if they say it for political expediency.
Don’t get me wrong. I’m a true believer in apologies, but I feel they [...]

The suit filed by Staff Sgt. Frank Wuterich against Congressman John Murtha was advanced yesterday by US District Court Judge Rosemary Collyer.
WASHINGTON - A federal judge refused Friday to dismiss a defamation case against Rep. John P. Murtha and ordered the Pennsylvania Democrat to give a sworn deposition about his comments alleging “cold-blooded murder and [...]

Just 36 hours after a suicide watch was lifted on assistant US Attorney John D.R. Atchison he tried to hang himself with a sheet in his jail cell.
Atchison is the assistant prosecutor from the western district of Florida who allegedly flew to Detroit in order to have sex with a five year old girl.
One of [...]

It seems the Clinton family is having difficulty staying out of the news these days. Mrs. Clinton’s brother has made headlines this afternoon in regard to his legal difficulties stemming back to the days of the Clinton Presidency:
The SFGate reports:
A lawsuit accusing Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton’s brother of failing to repay debts [...]

Can you believe this? I wonder if she is wearing a diaper to court.
– Former astronaut Lisa Nowak, accused of attacking a romantic rival, asked a judge Friday to let her remove her electronic monitoring ankle bracelet, saying that it causes abrasions and gets in the way of her military boots laces.
She promised [...]

Congratulations, let’s throw a party.
Texas, which leads the nation in carrying out the death penalty, on Wednesday executed the 400th person since the state resumed capital punishment in 1982.
Johnny Ray Conner, 32, who was convicted in the shooting death of a convenience store owner in Houston in 1998, was the 21st man put to death [...]

If ever I wanted someone to be prosecuted to the full extent of the law, this was it.
We’ve had a few days to grow accustomed to the notion of Michael Vick going to jail, but it’s nonetheless a stunner to hear the actual admission of guilt in the form of a plea bargain. We’re now [...]

Leave them alone; they are just trying to do their job.
UK The government was last night accused of turning the clock back 25 years by introducing a law that will allow courts to imprison prostitutes who are arrested for soliciting. The move has provoked the fury of women’s support groups, who say the move will [...]

It is becoming clear that we have very few honest politicians left in Washington. These power and money hungry individuals have themselves so entrenched in their part time jobs as legislators that it seems the only way to remove some of them is through investigations by the FBI, IRS and local authorities.
While [...]

Maybe they’ll have to wait until his administration is over and then prosecute. What do you think?
Bush administration officials unveiled a bold new assertion of executive authority yesterday in the dispute over the firing of nine U.S. attorneys, saying that the Justice Department will never be allowed to pursue contempt charges initiated by Congress [...]

Perhaps we can put this baby to bed once and for all.
WASHINGTON (AP) - A federal judge dismissed former CIA operative Valerie Plame’s lawsuit against members of the Bush administration Thursday, eliminating one of the last courtroom remnants of the leak scandal.
Plame, the wife of former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, had accused Vice President Dick Cheney [...]

Speaks for it self.
An FBI analyst and former vice presidential aide was sentenced Wednesday to 10 years in prison for espionage after he admitted supplying classified documents to Philippine nationals in an effort to overthrow that country’s government, federal prosecutors said.
Leandro Aragoncillo, 48, a former U.S. Marine and Philippine native who worked as a [...]

What possesses a human to buy puppies for the sole purpose of making them mean and fighting to the death or almost death? And if they don’t perform well in “trials” they are killed by electrocution, hanging, drowning or slamming the dog to the ground.
This is what NFL quarterback for the Atlanta Falcons Michael [...]

I just finished reading this story of a man who found out long after his divorce and child support payments that his youngest “son” was not his son at all, but was the biological son of the child’s godfather.
The NJ Supreme Court unanimously rejected the divorced non-biological father’s request for a refund of his child [...]

Now this is what you call Contest of wills.
President Bush ordered former counsel Harriet Miers to defy a congressional summons, even as a second former aide told a Senate panel Wednesday she knew of no involvement by Bush in the dismissals of eight federal prosecutors. Contempt citations against both women were a possibility.
House Democrats [...]

Former Bush aides Sara Taylor and Harriet Miers have said they will not provide documents Congress is requesting unless the courts tell them they must.
President Bush’s former political director says she intends to follow his directive and not answer questions about her role in the administration’s firing of federal prosecutors — unless a court directs [...]

I wonder if this guy will get a commutation? You never know.
This was probably overshadowed by Libby.
June 26, 2007
J. Steven Griles, the former deputy secretary at the Interior Department, has been sentenced to 10 months in prison and must pay a $30,000 fine after pleading guilty to obstructing a congressional inquiry into disgraced [...]

The Appeals Court has dismissed the ACLU’s lawsuit challenging President Bush’s eavesdropping program.
From the AP via Fox News:
CINCINNATI — A federal appeals court on Friday ordered the dismissal of a lawsuit challenging President Bush’s domestic spying program, saying the plaintiffs had no standing to sue.
The 2-1 ruling by the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of [...]

Interesting facts from the past.
Vice President Dick Cheney’s chief of staff testified Thursday he believes prosecutors of billionaire financier Marc Rich “misconstrued the facts and the law” when they went after Rich on tax evasion charges.
The testimony from Lewis “Scooter” Libby, who represented Rich dating back to 1985 but stopped working for him [...]

This sums it up. It might please a few but it angers many.
President Bush commuted the sentence of I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby yesterday, sparing Vice President Cheney’s former chief of staff 2 1/2 years in prison after a federal appeals court had refused to let Libby remain free while he appeals his conviction for lying [...]

The numbers don’t look good.
A new SurveyUSA instant poll finds just 21% of Americans agree with President Bush’s decision to commute Scooter Libby’s prison sentence, 60% say Bush should have left the judge’s prison sentence in place, and 17% wanted a full pardon.
Only those familiar with the case were asked to react to the [...]

Here is one By Janet Hook, Times Staff Writer
Eddie Mahe is a happy man.
With his decision to keep I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby from going to prison, President Bush has provoked a firestorm of controversy but avoided what might have been even more damaging to his presidency: defections of Republican loyalists who are among [...]

Here is an interesting point of view by David Corn of the Nation.
Now comes the fall out.
It’s appropriate.
The president who led the nation into a disastrous war in Iraq by peddling false statements and misrepresentations has come to the rescue of a White House aide convicted of lying.
Before the ink was dry on today’s [...]

The Appeals Court has refused Scooter Libby’s request to remain free on bail while appealing his conviction.
WASHINGTON (CNN) — A federal appeals court Monday rejected former White House aide Lewis “Scooter” Libby’s request to remain free on appeal after his March conviction on federal charges stemming from the leak of a CIA agent’s identity.
Libby, once [...]

While Lewis I. “Scooter” Libby is still waiting to hear from the appeals court whether or not he can remain free on bail while awaiting his appeal the Bureau of Prisons has issued an inmate number to him.
For years he was known as chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney and assistant to President [...]

Why this case was ever heard at all is beyond me, but a man who had attained the position of a judge sued a Korean couple and their son who own a dry cleaners because they lost his pants and he wanted to wear those pants to court the day he was sworn in as [...]

Saddam Hussein’s cousin Ali Hasan al-Majid, better known to us as Chemical Ali, and two other Saddam regime members have been sentenced to death.
Saddam Hussein’s cousin, known as “Chemical Ali,” and two other regime officials were sentenced yesterday to hang for slaughtering up to 180,000 Kurdish men, women and children with chemical weapons, artillery [...]

Well folks, it looks like the White House is going to be dragged, screaming and hollering, before the Judiciary Committee in both houses.
I wonder how it’s going to turn out.
House Judiciary Committee Democrats warned yesterday they would pursue a contempt of Congress motion if the White House fails respond to subpoenas for testimony and documents [...]