Saudi Arabia: rape victim to be whipped
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GOP-controlled House Judiciary Committee fires first shot at DOJ
And the New Black Panther case controversy is at the centerpiece of it’s first oversight letter. Right Turn’s Jennifer Rubin reports:
Obama admin preparing executive order authorizing “parole board” of sorts for Gitmo detainees
Another symbolic but for all intents and purposes meaningless gesture from Team Obama who are essentially doing the same thing candidate Obama blasted President Bush for on the issue of indefinite detention:
Her “crime” was to demand justice for her daughter
Marisela Escobedo Ortiz’s daughter Rubi was murdered last year. No, “murdered” is too clean, too antiseptic a word. Her daughter, 17, was burned to death, her corpse was cut up into chunks, and the remains were thrown into a dumpster by her cartel-member boyfriend.
Napolitano to visit Arizona – why?
The Hill reports that DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano is preparing to visit the state of Arizona in the aftermath of the recent border murder of a Border Patrol agent:
Unarmed & vulnerable: School board shooting in FL could have been much worse
I know I’m not the only one this morning who has read and watched in shock and amazement about the shooting that took place yesterday afternoon during a Panama City school board meeting in which the husband of a fired (former) school employee opened fire on school board members, missing his targets before being shot himself by a security chief – before killing himself. Mike Jones, the school district’s chief of safety, is rightly being hailed as a hero but if it weren’t for bad aim on the part of the shooter, Clay Duke, the outcome could have been much much worse. The video tells the story.