Michael and Lindy Chamberlain Thirty two years ago Lindy Chamberlain, a twenty three year old Australian wife and mother of three on vacation with her family, left a barbeque and walked toward her tent in an Uluru campground. Another camper had alerted her that they heard her infant daughter, Azaria, crying. Half way to the […]
Mexican gang targets blacks in Los Angeles
As far back as 2005, Jim Kouri reported that a federal grand jury returned an indictment that added a fifth gang member to an indictment that had previously charged four others in connection with a six-year conspiracy to assault and murder African-Americans in the Highland Park area of Los Angeles. Now six years later another Latino gang is indicted […]
Holder backs down on trials for terrorists at Gitmo
On the same day that President Barack Obama officially announced his intention to seek re-election in 2012, his Attorney General, Eric Holder, on Monday held a brief press conference at which he announced that the terrorism cases involving Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other Guantanamo Bay detainees accused of conspiring to commit the September 11, 2001 terror attacks […]
Rep. Hastings sued by employee for sexual harassment
A lawsuit was filed yesterday (March 7, 2011) against Florida Democrat Congressman Alcee Hastings on behalf of a female employee who said she was repeatedly subjected to “unwelcome sexual advances,” “unwelcome touching” and retaliation. The complainant’s legal counsel is a successful Washington, DC-based public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, The alleged harassment and retaliation began in 2008, […]
When Needles Dislodge, Dialysis Can Turn Deadly
By Robin Fields Barbara Scott relied on dialysis to do what her damaged kidneys could not. Three times a week, a machine pumped her blood out of her body, pushed it through a specialized filter, then returned it cleansed of waste. The bright crimson circuit kept the 73-year-old retired bookkeeper alive. Until it nearly killed […]
Electronic Frontier Foundation Says Illegal Download Charges Are “Predatory”
by Matthew L. Schafer Note: This report originally appeared in the media blog Lippmann Would Roll. Today a federal judge heard evidence from the Electronic Frontier Foundation on a motion by Time Warner Cable to quash subpoenas filed against Time Warner Cable. The subpoenas would require Time Warner Cable to turn over the names […]