Archive for 'Guns & Violence' Category

My Own Examination Calls Into Question ABC’s “Enhanced” Zimmerman video showing injuries (with photos)

[PopUpFad=GROUP=widget:RANDOM=NO:SESSION=NO] On Monday, ABC News released “enhanced footage” (video available here) of the controversial “George Zimmerman arrest video”, now purporting to show “injuries” to the back of Zimmerman’s head that were not immediately evident in the original untouched video. Upon hearing the news, (on Huffington Post) the first thing I wanted was to see the photos… plural… not “photo” [...]

My Two Cents on the Trayvon Martin Case: The law that legalizes murder.

(EDITOR’S NOTE: See my analysis of the “enhanced Zimmerman arrest video” here.) One month ago (February 27th), a Florida man named George Zimmerman called 911 for the 47th time in 58 days to report “a suspicious character” inside the gated community where he lived. That “suspicious character” was the 17 year old Trayvon Martin, who had gone out that night [...]

The List II: Mitt Romney

Welcome to our first installment of “The List II”: An archive of links to comments, stated policies/agendas, misconduct, hypocrisy or just basic insincerity, made by each of the eight now seven (sans Cain) “official” GOP presidential candidates. This weeks List-o-Links are for former Massachusetts governor Willard “Mitt” Romney. Despite consistently polling in the “Top Three”, Republican [...]

Bring Back the Ban on Extended Clips.

I must have changed topics for this weeks Op/Ed four times. I started out writing about how the Republicans in Congress, who lambasted President Obama for “wasting time” on Health Care Reform last year instead of focusing on unemployment, campaigned on how they would “Repeal and Replace ObamaCare”, despite KNOWING anything they did would be [...]

Arizona shooting tells us nothing… and everything

  (Note: Apologies to subscribers that received a notification of a three year old post on the 2008 election. Notification was due to an error on my part after referencing it below. Sorry. – Mugsy)   The shooting of 19 20 people during a public appearance of Arizona Congresswoman Rep. Gabrielle Giffords by a mentally unbalanced [...]