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Thursday, August 13, 2009 - 09:43:08

Criminal Behavior or Witchhunt ?

Betsy Wright, formerly Bill Clinton's Chief of Staff when he was governor, has been charged with 51 counts of providing contraband items to a death-row inmate in the Varner Unit in Jefferson County. The criminal case summary can be found here. She claimed that she found a package of Doritos in the bottom of the machine and had idea a knife and tattoo needles were inside the package. It actually sounds very plausible to me, but who knows. I do know that she has irritated officials at the ADC in the past. She has complained about the costs inmates' friends and families are charged to talk to inmates on secured phone calls and the lack of quality of those phone calls. In any event, she has focused on treatment of death-row inmates for several years and I have no doubt some officials at ADC would not mind seeing her inmate visitation privileges revoked because of this incident.

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Tuesday, August 11, 2009 - 10:28:51

I Know Court Can Be Boring - Just Don't Let The Judge Know

A man gets six months in jail for - yawning in court. Outrageous.

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Thursday, August 06, 2009 - 15:15:47

Sotomayor wins confirmation !

Sotomayor wins confirmation 68-31. Of course Obama made this process easy by chosing a moderate.

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Sad day for democracy

I love town hall meetings. In theory, they are a bedrock of our democratic system. Common citizens get to ask questions and express their opinion to the elected politicians. In theory it is about an exchange of ideas, including expressing displeasure and dissent. But, when radicals of the left or right decide it is more important to be disruptive, they become anti-democratic. No politician is going to want to have a town hall meeting if the participants can't be heard because of shouting, booing, and general boorish behavior. The should be able to shout all they want - outside of the meeting - in front of the politicians' offices but not in an event where communication is the key.

Of course, what they are really hoping for is a youtube moment - even better - they want a politician to be seen on camera while a protester gets hit with a taser. So please, don't make martyrs our of the teabaggers.

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