The discussions are heating up in the blogosphere and elsewhere regarding a story printed in today’s Boston Herald regarding a Romney-appointed judge who released a convicted murder who, after serving his sentence, was issued a warrant on a violent assault charge. After appealing his bail charge, the judge released him on “personal recognizance,” only to see him turn around and commit a double murder:
Jihad Watch’s Robert Spencer analyzes the FBI’s 2006 “hate crimes” report and breaks down the stats:
Those of you who are long time readers of this blog know I have defended the the President on issues many conservatives have felt like there was no defending Bush on – most noteably, the illegal immigration issue, but there have been others, too, like the UAE port deal. On another controversial issue, the Harriet Miers Supreme Court nomination, I didn’t support the President but I didn’t come down too harshly on him, either. My view of the President has generally always been that even though he sometimes may be wrongheaded about things, I believe his heart is always in the right place – as much as it can be for a politician. I don’t look at him as being a cold and calcuating individual, as I did Bill Clinton. When he advocates for something, or lobbies against it, I believe he’s got solid reasons for doing so.
Even though he pledged back at the end of August that he would resign from the Senate, effective 9/30, and in spite of a judge’s ruling yesterday that Craig will not be allowed to withdraw his guilty plea to the charge of disorderly conduct, the Idaho Senator is now refusing to resign.
