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Dragging the Old Ball & Chain

Posted by Jayson Javitz · Published: May 9, 2008 · Comments (3)

Check this out: Federal sting nets 83 arrests in suspected marriage-for-citizenship scam A federal sting in Florida of four companies accused of arranging fraudulent marriages for U.S. citizenship, complete with faux wedding photos of brides in gowns and elaborate fake cakes, has netted more than 80 arrests, authorities said Friday.... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.3/5 (3 votes cast)

Law & Order Update

Posted by Jayson Javitz · Published: May 9, 2008 · Comments (0)

Click the below link if you'd like to read about some recent crime & punishment news stories: A left-wing enviro-nut getting 20 years in the clink, an Alaska Republican legislator sentenced to prison for corruption, an illegal immigrant 'coyote' receiving life imprisonment for homicide, and that ongoing late-term abortion criminal... [Full Story]

Rating: 4/5 (4 votes cast)

Business News & Review

Posted by Jayson Javitz · Published: May 8, 2008 · Comments (0)

Click the below link for synopses of the year's most noteworthy business stories to date: GDP growth, immigration reform and border control, the job markets, income growth and inflation, the stock and bond markets, Visa's IPO, the Federal Reserve and the Treasury Department, Bear Stearns, the oil and gold markets,... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.6/5 (9 votes cast)

Law & Courts Update

Posted by Jayson Javitz · Published: May 7, 2008 · Comments (0)

Here's an interesting court decision which for obvious reasons will not make the front page of USA Today: Local governments and state universities in Michigan are prohibited by a voter-approved ban on gay marriages and gay civil unions from offering health insurance to the partners of gay workers, the Michigan... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.2/5 (5 votes cast)

Appeals Court Shoots Down NYC Lawsuit Against Gun Industry

Posted by Jayson Javitz · Published: April 30, 2008 · Comments (6)

Click the below link to read about a noteworthy court decision that deals with the intertwined topics of legislated tort reforms, partisan politics, the federal judiciary and so-called "gun control."... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.7/5 (12 votes cast)

Rx For Better Healthcare

Posted by Jayson Javitz · Published: April 30, 2008 · Comments (5)

Click the below link for info and musings about the Bush administration's health savings accounts and the related issues of tax policies, the liberal media, partisan politics and legislative reforms.... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.2/5 (5 votes cast)

The Border

Posted by Jayson Javitz · Published: April 30, 2008 · Comments (7)

Here's a link to an outstanding article -- especially by media standards -- regarding the interrelated topics of immigration reform, border control, the war on terror, public policies, labor economics and partisan politics. As they say, read the whole thing. The entire article is a fountain of information and is... [Full Story]

Rating: 4/5 (10 votes cast)

Supreme Court Upholds Anti-Fraud Voter Law, colossal defeat for Democrats

Posted by Jayson Javitz · Published: April 28, 2008 · Comments (35)

What the Court did: Rejecting claims by Democrats and various leftist groups, the Court upheld Indiana's strict election law. That law mandates photo IDs to cast ballots, thereby to root out election fraud. What it means: A significant number of states will follow Indiana's lead and will adopt strict anti-fraud... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.6/5 (29 votes cast)

The Sheriff

Posted by Jayson Javitz · Published: April 25, 2008 · Comments (52)

Arizona residents, long-time conservatives, and other law & order mavens, certainly know the tall tales of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio. For those not in the know Arpaio -- the "toughest sheriff in America" -- has for almost 20 years been titillating law enforcement hawks and angering and dispiriting liberal... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.6/5 (23 votes cast)

Business/Immigration Update

Posted by Jayson Javitz · Published: April 25, 2008 · Comments (2)

Click the below link for snippets about (1) a key immigration enforcement measure and its potential costs to employers, and (2) the government's quest to hire more prosecutors to handle criminal cases -- including alien smuggling -- along the Southern border. ... [Full Story]

Rating: 3.7/5 (6 votes cast)

Congress Update

Posted by Jayson Javitz · Published: April 24, 2008 · Comments (2)

Senate Republicans on Wednesday blocked a Democrat scheme to subject the country's business community to waves of frivolous and vexatious job discrimination lawsuits. Democrat leaders pushed for a vote on the bill with full knowledge it would fail as an election year stunt that specifically was designed to rile up... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.4/5 (7 votes cast)

Supreme Court Update

Posted by Jayson Javitz · Published: April 23, 2008 · Comments (8)

-- The Virginia Car Search Case What the Court did: The Court ruled the federal Fourth Amendment does not bar police officers from searching and seizing evidence for which there is probable cause -- even in connection with arrests that violate state traffic laws. How they voted: This was a... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.9/5 (11 votes cast)

Supreme Court Update

Posted by Jayson Javitz · Published: April 16, 2008 · Comments (13)

-- Death Penalty/Lethal Injections What the Court did: The Court upheld Kentucky's lethal injection protocols. What it means: For all practical purposes the far left's 40-year crusade to abolish the death penalty nationwide itself is dead and buried. How they voted: This was a 3-2-1-1-2 plurality decision. The lead opinion... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.3/5 (26 votes cast)

The Knucklehead of the Day award

Posted by Bill Jempty · Published: April 15, 2008 · Comments (3)

Haven't given out one of these in a while. Today's winner is Judge Adelina Entrena. She gets the award for the following. MADRID, Spain: A Spanish judge has been fined €103,000 (US$162,000) and suspended for a year for allowing a man to spend 455 days in prison for a crime... [Full Story]

Rating: 2.8/5 (4 votes cast)

Eminent Domain

Posted by Jayson Javitz · Published: April 11, 2008 · Comments (5)

Check this out: A federal judge has ordered a Texas woman to allow the government to survey her land in connection with the ongoing construction of the Southern border security fence, the latest victory for the Department of Homeland Security in a series of legal skirmishes arising from construction of... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.5/5 (15 votes cast)

Supreme Court Review

Posted by Jayson Javitz · Published: April 10, 2008 · Comments (1)

The most newsworthy cases -- gun rights, death penalty, voter laws -- have yet to be decided. Click the below link, however, for synopses of the 07-08 term's most important Supreme Court rulings to date: a case involving federal securities laws, a decision involving principles of Federalism, the International Court... [Full Story]

Rating: 5/5 (5 votes cast)

The Knucklehead of the Day award

Posted by Bill Jempty · Published: April 1, 2008 · Comments (5)

Today's winner is Seminole County(Florida) Judge Ralph Eriksson. Wizbang readers may remember last Sunday's Knucklehead winner, Jennifer Latham. She kidnapped a newborn baby boy from a Central Florida hospital. Less than two hours later Ms. Latham was apprehended. You kidnap a baby, what do you think will happen to you?... [Full Story]

Rating: 3.9/5 (14 votes cast)

Build a castle in the sand, pay a fine out the butt

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: March 29, 2008 · Comments (23)

After an Isle of Palms (near Charleston, SC) patrol officer twisted his ankle on the beach one night, the morons on City Council set to work to regulate the villainous children who dig sand on the beach, leaving holes. Jessica Johnson reports for The Post and Courier: Building in the... [Full Story]

Rating: 4/5 (9 votes cast)

News that you can use IV

Posted by Bill Jempty · Published: March 14, 2008 · Comments (3)

Florida is full of crazy people and they aren't always criminals. Senate committee passes bill that requires food establishments to have 'enough' toilet paper. Please define enough. Two teenagers think it is a joke after they get arrested for attempted armed robbery. Where were they committing their dastardly deed? How... [Full Story]

Rating: 4/5 (1 votes cast)

They are just too big

Posted by Bill Jempty · Published: March 5, 2008 · Comments (14)

Being married to a Filipina and having lived and traveled in Asia, I like to keep up with news in the region. That includes the reading of blogs. Japundit is a blog I discovered less than a year ago. Its a funny blog. Good for finding all sorts of odd... [Full Story]

Rating: 3.6/5 (8 votes cast)

The Knucklehead of the Day award

Posted by Bill Jempty · Published: February 27, 2008 · Comments (0)

Today's winner is Andrew R. Mikos. He gets the award for the following. MANATEE COUNTY -- A felony prosecutor who was questioned in a criminal investigation was fired Thursday for disclosing details to his brother about a pending marijuana case, the state attorney's office said. The prosecutor, Andrew R. Mikos,... [Full Story]

Rating: 2/5 (6 votes cast)

Senate Votes to Grant Legal Immunity to Telecom Companies for Warrantless Surveillance, ACLU defeated -- again

Posted by Jayson Javitz · Published: February 12, 2008 · Comments (41)

The Senate voted 67-31 on Tuesday to grant legal immunity to telecom companies to protect them from potentially-vexatious lawsuits in connection with their cooperation with the federal government in the post-9/11 investigation of potential terrorist suspects, designed to help prevent another mass-casualties attack. The vote was a defeat for the... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.7/5 (12 votes cast)

Law & Order Update

Posted by Jayson Javitz · Published: February 11, 2008 · Comments (3)

In this update we've got musings about the upcoming military trials in Gitmo of the 9/11 planners and the Justice Department's charges of espionage against that DOD official. Click the below link to read more.... [Full Story]

Rating: 3.7/5 (3 votes cast)

Law & Order Update

Posted by Jayson Javitz · Published: February 8, 2008 · Comments (0)

In this update we've got musings on DNA technology and parole policies, a state supreme court decision regarding capital punishment, a major worksite immigraton raid, along with a veritable pot luck of recent news items on the immigration enforcement front. Click the below link if you'd like to read more.... [Full Story]

Rating: 5/5 (3 votes cast)

Judge Upholds Arizona's Strict Anti-Illegal Immigrant Hiring Law

Posted by Jayson Javitz · Published: February 7, 2008 · Comments (7)

A federal judge on Thursday for the second time upheld a law that prohibits businesses knowingly from hiring illegal immigrants and pulls the business licenses of those which do so. U.S. District Judge Neil Wake dismissed a lawsuit filed by business groups that sought to invalidate the law. The business... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.3/5 (7 votes cast)

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