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• A Christmas Message to Illegal Aliens: Feliz Navidad–Now Get Out!

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 505
  by John W. Lillpop Growing up in a Christian home, I was taught that it is especially important to be charitable and giving at Christmas in honor of the birth, life, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. However, to the best of my recollection, my parents did not advocate stupidity at Christmas, or at any other time ...
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• Taking the Tesla for a spin

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  We took a short spin in a Tesla to see what an all-electric sports car was like. The Roadster Sport wasn’t totally silent, but it wasn’t loud — and it was fast (zero to 60 miles per hour in under 4 seconds). We got lots of looks, too. Tesla calls it “performance with a clean conscience” but building the ...
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• U.S. says no to Arctic fishing

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  (Reporting by Yereth Rosen in Alaska) There is currently no commercial fishing conducted in U.S. Arctic waters, and now there won’t be: a formal ban on commercial seafood harvests in U.S. waters north of the Bering Strait went into effect on Thursday. Environmentalists and fishery managers applauded the move as a ...
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• Forest carbon schemes – new hope for the Amazon?

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  By Stuart Grudgings In the tiny settlement of Boa Frente on the banks of a tributary to the Amazon river, bright blue butterflies flitting through trees and the constant squawks of parrots add to the feeling of a paradise on earth. The poverty endured by most of its residents quickly shatters that illusion, but ...
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• What to do while the world burns

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  A firefighter puts out a fire at a village near Bangkok March 31, 2008. REUTERS/Sukree Sukplang This opinion piece by Mort Rosenblum originally appeared in GlobalPost . The views expressed are his own. For the full article, click here . PARIS, France — Back when primal-scream therapy was the rage in ...
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• Additional Coverage of the Woods Execution

  
  The StandDown Texas Project — Authority: 511
  Chris McGreal writes, " Texas executes man at centre of mental disability row ," for the Guardian.  Its datelined Washington, DC. Texas has executed a child killer at the centre of a bitter disputeover what defines legal mental impairment after several courts ruledthat he could be put to death despite a low IQ. ...
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• Huckabee Hearts Cop-Killer

  
  What Do You Believe? — Authority: 478
  Complaint regarding Huckabee’s release of numerous criminals: Huckabee’s sincere and considerate response:
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• Sailing into an icy cauldron

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  Reuters employee Pauline Askin has sailed for the Antarctic  for a six -week expedition on the icy continent where she will help restore Mawson’s huts named after Australia’s most celebrated Antarctic explorer on Commonwealth Bay, the windiest place on earth. During the expedition, Pauline will report on ...
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• Killer With Low I.Q. Executed in Texas

  
  The StandDown Texas Project — Authority: 511
  Thats the title of James McKinleys report this evening for the New York Times.  LINK Bobby Wayne Woods was executed Thursday evening in Texas after hislawyers lost a battle to persuade the courts that he was too mentallyimpaired to qualify for capital punishment. Mr. Woods, 44, was convicted of raping and ...
  4 days ago

• Mike Huckabee continues to defend his clemency actions

  
  Sentencing Law and Policy — Authority: 129
  As detailed in this new CNN piece , Mike Huckabee continues to aggressively defend his clemency decision-making in the Clemmons case despite the aggressive attacks in the wake of Clemmons horrible crimes last week.  Here is one notable quote from Huckabee after a reporter got in his face about the decision: "I ...
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• Texas Execution

  
  The StandDown Texas Project — Authority: 511
  Texas is scheduled to carry out its 24th execution of 2009, tonight inHuntsville, despite evidence that Bobby Woods has mental retardation.  In 2002, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled it unconstitutional to execute offenders with mental retardation in the case of Atkins v. Virginia . " Inmate With Low I.Q. Nears ...
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• Good news! Huckabee distances himself from Palin

  
  Texas for Sarah Palin — Authority: 592
  The Hill s Blog Briefing Room reports that Mike Huckabee, in an interview with Christianity Today magazine, is distancing himself from Sarah Palin: "Were both Republican, were both pro-life—there are a lot of similarities that way—but she has a very different political direction than I do," he said. ...
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• More On Mike Huckabee’s Willie Horton Moment

  
  Common Sense Junction — Authority: 125
  Jane Jamison @ American Thinker:Mike Huckabee should never hold an executive public office again. His self-absorbed behavior in the past forty-eight hours shows he believes his personal political aspirations are more important than a respectful mourning period for four police officers. The cops are dead in major part ...
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• Spotlighting that the Clemmons case could make clemencies even rarer

  
  Sentencing Law and Policy — Authority: 129
  This new CNN piece , which is headlined "Seattle shootings may reduce pardons and commutations," discusses the likely impact of the the controversy over Mike Huckabees clemency grant to cop killer Maurice Clemmons. Here are snippets: The ambush-style shootings of four police officers in Seattle allegedly by a ...
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• Speaking of Bobby Woods

  
  The StandDown Texas Project — Authority: 511
  The editorial noted in the preceding post referenced the case of Bobby Woods.  Yesterday afternoon, the Board of Pardons and Paroles rejected clemency in his case.  Renee Feltz has posted, " Video From Death Row: Possibly Retarded Prisoner Faces Execution ," at Huffington Post. As Texas reopens its execution ...
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• Might poor re-entry services and risk assessment tools be most to blame for the Clemmons tragedy?

  
  Sentencing Law and Policy — Authority: 129
  It is not surprising that we all want to place blame somewhere for the horrific and tragic murderous acts by cop-killer Maurice Clemmons.  And, as we have seen this week, plenty of folks are willing (and sometimes eager) to allocate blame in all sorts of direction.  But the more I think about this case and hear ...
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• Too-Secretive Process

  
  The StandDown Texas Project — Authority: 511
  Thats the title of an editorial in todays Houston Chronicle regarding Texas executive clemency process.  LINK Houstoncriminal defense attorney Patrick McCann made a persuasive argument foropening up Texas too-secretive pardons and paroles process in SundaysOutlook section (“Texans deserve public, open clemency ...
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• After 25 years impact of Bhopal leak lingers

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  Controversy still surrounds one of the worlds worst industrial accidents 25 years after an estimated 8,000 people died in the immediate aftermath of a toxic gas leak in Bhopal, India. At around midnight on December 3, 1984, a leak at a Union Carbide plant of methyl isocyanate gas -- a chemical compound used ...
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• Furlough Programs, Commutations and Pardons BACKLASH

  
  BlueBloggin — Authority: 543
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