Sunday’s shooting at Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church was an event that proves even the places that are most sacred to us are not inviolable, that we must be ever-vigilant if we’re to keep evil at bay. If only that were possible in this world. Jim David Adkisson was by several accounts an unstable individual…
Category: Crime
The Value of Media Neutrality
The news that an AP reporter traveled in company with Taliban terrorists and filmed the execution of two Afghan women indicates that it can. Many people are pretty upset about the AP reporter’s role in the murderous event and not without some justification. Journalists are supposed to tell the story without bias or agenda. Or…
Proper Crime Reporting
The city of College Station, Texas knows how to properly report a crime – with a full description of the event and the suspect: On July 09, 2008 at approximately 1654 hours, Officers from the College Station Police Department were dispatched to the intersection of the Highway 6 and William D Fitch for an aggravated…
Second-Guessing Witnesses
The SF Chronicle says: The town of Turlock and much of the rest of the nation was shocked when a 27-year-old man beat and stomped his 2-year-old son to death on a rural road. But what was nearly as stunning for many people was that none of the motorists and their passengers who stopped and…
The Forgotten War
Libby Spencer at Newshoggers and Bob Barr have something in common: both realize that America’s War on Drugs is a waste of both resources and lives. Libby brings up two facts that the feds don’t want us dwelling on: deaths attributable to the abuse of legal pharmaceutical drugs are three times greater than illegal ones,…
Why Obama is Winning
There’s no doubt that Barack Obama gives a damn fine speech when he’s had time to thoroughly prepare his remarks. But the biggest reason why he’s defeating a more experienced, more capable Hillary Clinton is that Americans believe Mrs. Clinton is a perpetual liar. Now the Washington Times, with some accidental help from the Library…
Ertman & Pena’s Killer To Finally Die
The horrifying murder of Jenny Ertman and Elizabeth Pena was my welcome home to Houston after living in Oregon for several years. I remember the case like it was yesterday because their brutal, gang-related rape and strangulation happened only a short distance from where I worked at the time. Now, after nearly 15 years of…
Texas Killer’s Death Sentence Upheld
In 1991, Kenneth Wayne Morris, a 9th grade dropout who is now 37, killed James Moody Adams, co-founder of the Northwest Academy while while his wife, Marcene, hid in a closet. Yesterday Morris’ attempt to have himself declared too mentally retarded to be executed was rejected by the Supreme Court. This ruling, coupled with the…
Principal Busts Dope Dealing Delinquent
In New Hampshire, Concord High School principal Jean Barker turned the tables on a student arranging to sell drugs via text messages by setting up a mini-string operation that lead to the student’s arrest. That’s what I call excellence in education! Unsurprisingly, there are plenty of frivolous people willing to to take the drug pusher’s…
"So you want attention, eh?"
Kids these days – it’s all fun and games until someone loses an eye. Turns out the 11-year-old boy who reported an abduction attempt in Houston earlier this week was making it all up. "He admitted that he had been missing his mother who was at work a lot and and made up the story…