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Real Hate Crime

Posted on July 23, 2007July 23, 2007 by marc

Is there any crime more heinous than radical Muslims’ hatred of women?  I doubt that Banaz Mahmod would think so – if she were still alive.  20 years old, beautiful, the victim of a deplorable arranged marriage, and a woman in love with the wrong man, Banaz was raped repeatedly by two Muslim men, one her…

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Unreformed

Posted on July 18, 2007July 18, 2007 by marc

Evidently Harrel Braddy wasn’t reformed by his 13 year sentence for attempted murder, judging from the fact that, after being released early for good behavior, he kidnapped a woman and her child and deliberately left the little girl to be eaten by alligators. Braddy had befriended Shandelle Maycock and her daughter Quatisha. Maycock testified that…

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No God of Mine

Posted on July 16, 2007July 16, 2007 by marc

Speaking about the murder of Kenneth Cummings, the killer, Terry Mark Mangum of Cypress, Texas says: “I believe I’m Elijah, called by God to be a prophet,” said 26-year-old Terry Mark Mangum, charged with murder June 11. ” … I believe with all my heart that I was doing the right thing.” … Mangum —…

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Spring Victim’s Suicide

Posted on July 6, 2007July 6, 2007 by marc

David Ritcheson, the young man from my former home town who was brutalized by a pair of Nazi wannabes last year, has killed himself. According to Fox News: Ritcheson, a small and quiet youth, once lamented being known as “that kid” who survived the party attack. He rarely discussed his feelings and declined to get…

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No Story Here

Posted on May 25, 2007May 29, 2007 by marc

I read quite a few news sites and blogs and never ran across the case of Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom until David Broussard began to wonder why the case, one of the most horrific that I’ve ever read about, wasn’t getting any attention from the mainstream media. David says: There are those that say…

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Death Penalty Blues

Posted on April 28, 2007April 28, 2007 by marc

Earlier this week the Supreme Court, hot on the heels of a long-overdue decision in against partial birth abortions, took a step backwards by overturning the death penalty sentences in three Texas murder cases. The rulings in the cases of LaRoyce Smith, Brent Brewer and Jalil Abdul-Kabir said the New Orleans-based U.S. 5th Circuit Court…

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HPD Loses Guns, Evidence

Posted on April 27, 2007 by marc

Earlier this week the Houston Police Department admitted that 21 guns were missing from their property room, two of which surfaced again in the hands of criminals. This is not good news for a department that recently received one heck of a stinger of a black eye when faulty DNA testing procedures tainted hundreds, possibly…

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Virginia Tech

Posted on April 16, 2007April 16, 2007 by marc

I was going to write about an unpleasant article I saw in the Houston Chronicle recently in which Harris Country prosecutors said that they’re seeing evidence of a dramatic increase in the number of juvenile criminals who attack their own parents. I do some theories about why that’s happening but I can’t discuss them now….

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Moral Judgments

Posted on April 3, 2007April 4, 2007 by marc

One of the fundamental pillars of American liberalism is that we should not make moral judgments about the worth of others or the worth of their actions. We’re all more or less the same according to liberal dogma. The death penalty is the ultimate moral judgment and the forbidden nature of moral judgment is, in…

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Drunk + Illegal = Murder

Posted on March 28, 2007March 29, 2007 by marc

Check out the Texas Rainmaker’s post on the recent drunk driving crash in North Houston that killed two women. Turns out the driver was an illegal alien who had 3 prior DUI convictions. TTR says: Is anyone in immigration and law enforcement awake anymore? Consider the deaths of these three innocent people yet another tragic…

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