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U.S. District Court Judge Robert Chatigny, who seems to be more sympathetic with murderers and other predators than with the public he is hired to protect, has been nominated by President Obama for an appeals court position. Read more »

These are the best of the best at Dakota Voice last week, including: Legalize Marijuana? That’s Crazy!; Al Gore: King of Lie-Lie Land; Lord Monckton to Al Gore: I’m Coming for You; Global Warming Hysteria: Following the Green Money; Global Warming Fanatics Shoot Children, Themselves in Attempt to Save Earth; Kopp vs. Zimmerman: Science Versus Hysteria; MSNBC meltdown: Tea Party racists, anti-semite murderers; and more! Read more »

Clayton E. Cramer has a good article at Pajamas Media on why he no longer supports the decriminalization of marijuana. While Cramer’s piece concentrates on the mental health problems associated with drug use, there are a multitude of reasons not to legalize pot. Read more »

I’ve often remarked that while some of the more extreme environmental wackos (like President Obama’s “science” advisor John Holdren) actually view humanity as an evil parasite that must be eradicated to save Mother Earth, few if any of them are lining up to lead by example. Unfortunately a murder-suicide pact in Argentina shows that a few really are willing to take their ideas to the mat…and to the grave. Read more »

Jim Allen, one of the eight American volunteers freed from jail in Haiti, said he believed the team had all the paperwork necessary to take Haitian children to an orphanage in the Dominican Republic. Read more »

Eight of the ten American volunteers detained in Haiti for the past three weeks on suspicion of child abduction were finally released and arrived in Miami early Thursday morning. Read more »

I was recently interviewed by KOTA regarding two bills in the South Dakota legislature dealing with the release of information from bloggers to aid in the investigation of libelous comments made by anonymous commenters. The bills have raised quite a stir in the South Dakota blogosphere. Read more »

ome of the American Baptist volunteers faced with charges of child kidnapping may be freed as early as Thursday, sources say. The Haitian judge overseeing the case is expected to rule soon on whether to release the ten Americans who attempted to transport 33 Haitian children to the Dominican Republic without permission. Read more »

Two churches in East Texas that were damaged by fires this week were the victims of arson, authorities said Thursday. That makes Dover Baptist Church and Clear Spring Missionary Church near Tyler, Texas, the ninth and tenth churches to have been deliberately burned this year in the Lone Star State. Read more »

Five of the ten U.S. missionaries who were detained for taking children out of Haiti were questioned by a judge Tuesday. Rather than wait for a permanent facility to be built, the team felt “God … laid upon our hearts the need to go now.” They leased a 45-room hotel at Cabarete, Dominican Republic, to serve as a temporary orphanage. Read more »

A Baptist church in Idaho whose members were detained in Haiti for attempting to move children to the Dominican Republic said Sunday that its team was “falsely arrested” and it is working to “clear up the misunderstanding.” Read more »

The 51-year-old man who admitted to killing late-term abortion doctor George Tiller was found guilty of first-degree murder on Friday. The jury reached the verdict against Scott Roeder after only 37 minutes of deliberation. Read more »

Scott Roeder on Thursday admitted before a jury to shooting and killing a late-term abortion doctor. He justified his action, stating that he needed to protect the children. Roeder is seeking to convince jurors to convict him of voluntary manslaughter. Read more »

Pastor Mark Driscoll of Mars Hill Church in Seattle landed in “hell” this week where he witnessed a teenage boy shot in the head and a girl sold to an older man. He was in the collapsed city of Port-au-Prince where rubble from former buildings and streets piled with corpses give the impression of an aftermath of a war zone. Read more »

President Obama has launched a new initiative to crack down on capitalist tax cheats…even though Obama did his very best to fill his administration with every tax cheat he could find. Read more »

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Prosecutors against the accused killer of abortion provider Dr. George Tiller filed on Monday a motion in an attempt to keep abortion out of the trial. Prosecutors filed the motion after Sedgwick County Judge Warren Wilbert said he would consider giving the jury the option of convicting Roeder on voluntary manslaughter. Read more »

The high rate of sexual abuse of juveniles in U.S. prisons is unacceptable, declared the ministry Prison Fellowship in response to a government report released this week. According to the report “Sexual Victimization of Youth Facilities Reported by Juvenile Offenders, 2008-09” more than one in ten youths in prison reported a sexual assault in the past year, with the majority of incidents involving sexual abuse by staff. Read more »

Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR) says Democrats are stripping approved amendments from their socialized health care bill after the amendments were voted on and approved in committee. Read more »

What would you think if a long-time gun control advocate ended up shooting someone? Might the word “hypocrite” come to mind? That’s what happened when North Carolina state senator R.C. Soles shot an intruder in his home. Interestingly, the man he shot was a client of his law firm. Soles is now being criminally charged in the matter. Read more »

The Greenpeace protesters who illegally climbed onto Mount Rushmore and unfurled a global warming propaganda poster have received a slap on the wrist for their slap in the face of American freedom and democracy. With a monument superintendent who thinks “the system worked,” and a judicial system that doesn’t see this as any big deal, we can probably expect future–perhaps more destructive–assaults on our symbols of freedom. Read more »