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DETECTIVES: Chris Jenkins murder connects dozens around country Could there be a calculated, cross-country plot to kill young college men, including some in Minnesota? It seems a little hard to believe, but two New York detectives say they can prove it. Now, they are revealing years of their evidence for the first time to 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS... GO DEEPER INTO THE INVESTIGATION:

S.J. OFFICER'S RUSE BECAME EVIDENCE By Leslie Griffy Mercury News Article Launched: 12/16/2007 01:37:24 AM PST There was one major problem with the Santa Clara County crime lab report that implicated a San Jose man of sexual assault: It wasn't true. The document was a fake, created by a San Jose police detective. The crime lab analyst who purportedly prepared the document doesn't exist. The number used to identify it was false. Even so, detective Matthew Christian testified as though the phony report were authentic. The case unraveled when the defense attorney sought the résumé of the lab analyst, only...

Liberty outraged over grave desecration Police seek suspects for the damage done at Marine's plot By CINDY HORSWELL Copyright 2007 Houston Chronicle LIBERTY — To Jeremy Burris the word "liberty" was more than the name of his hometown. It was something worth fighting for. An all-American kid from a little all-American town, the 22-year-old Marine lance corporal died heroically in Iraq. More than a thousand people turned out Wednesday as a white hearse carried his body to burial in the historic 1800s Cooke Memorial Cemetery. Within hours, the grave was desecrated. About 30 sprays of flowers were ripped apart, petals...

Feminist 'Justice' at Duke by Stephen Baskerville (more by this author) Posted 10/18/2007 ET The falsely-accused Duke University lacrosse players are suing the city of Durham and prosecutor Michael Nifong for malicious prosecution, claiming “one of the most chilling episodes of premeditated police, prosecutorial, and scientific misconduct in modern American history.” In fact, their ordeal was nothing out of the ordinary. Few Americans realize how extensively our criminal justice system has been corrupted by leftist ideology. It has now reached the point where the criminals are prosecuting law-abiding citizens. Conservatives who rightly decry judicial activism in constitutional law have trouble...

Jim Peterson Unveiling the Secretive OVW at the DOJ: Feminist Run "Office on Violence Against Women" October 12, 2007 at 1:16 pm · Filed under Vox Populi I just spoke with Jordan Talge of Minnesota Senator Norm Coleman's office (202-224-5641 and Jordan_Talge@coleman.senate.gov) as part of the admittedly quixotic emergency drive to stop the vote on the CJS Act Monday morning that will give $430 Million to radical feminist groups (who don't vote Republican). This young man helpfully provided me with the information that Republican Senators apparently view something called the OVW at the DOJ as untouchable and never question its...

Cheerleading for Divorce The Decline of Marriage: An Inexorable Force of Nature or a Carefully Constructed Movement? National Review On-line January 23, 2007 The New York Times recently published an article touting that women are happier and have more freedom when divorced. The writer of this article obviously didn't do enough homework. “51% of Women Are Now Living Without Spouse,” the New York Times trumpeted. Is this something to celebrate, as the New York Times seems to do? And more importantly, is it even true? While admitting that there is a trend away from marriage, I must say that the...

Duke University said Wednesday that two of the lacrosse players charged with sexually assaulting a stripper have been invited to return to school while they await trial and are eligible to rejoin the team. Collin Finnerty and Reade Seligmann had been barred from attending class during the fall semester while their case made its way through court. A third player, Dave Evans, graduated in May, the day before he was charged. Lawyers for Seligmann and Finnerty said their clients were still making up their minds about whether to return. The spring semester begins next week; the lacrosse season opens in...

Looking back, it’s hard to imagine a more inept political strategy. First, ignore and insult your base. Next, dream up a campaign theme of gender “empowerment” that falls flat with the three-quarters of American women who abhor the feminist agenda. Then top it off with a fem-fest at the White House in honor of International Women’s Day. [www.intellectualconservative.com/2006/how-the-grand-old-party-lost-its-mojo] To borrow one of my mother’s favorite lines, “What were you thinking?” I’ve spoken with lots of Republican women over the years – young and young-at-heart, married and single, Black and White. Whether they are driving their kids to a soccer game...

t's hard to write this without sounding like a prig. But it's just as hard to erase the images that planted the idea for this essay, so here goes. They writhe and strut, shake their bottoms, splay their legs, thrust their chests out and in and out again. Some straddle empty chairs, like lap dancers without laps. They don't smile much. Their faces are locked from grim exertion, from all that leaping up and lying down without poles to hold onto. "Don't stop don't stop," sings Janet Jackson, all whispery. "Jerk it like you're making it choke. Ohh. I'm so...

Differences [between men and women], including the products of social inequality, make unequal treatment not unequal at all. —Catharine MacKinnon, “Reflections on Sex Equality Under Law,” Yale Law Journal, 1991 This most illiberal Court . . . has embarked on a course of inscribing one after another of the current preferences of the society (and in some cases only the countermajoritarian preferences of the society’s law-trained elite) into our Basic Law. —Justice Antonin Scalia, dissenting, United States v. Virginia (1996) Do you think judges should be able to write freely about the law? Do you think that judges should sound...

This week, the Duke lacrosse team is back in the news because Durham District Attorney Mike Nifong has finally decided to drop charges of rape against three lacrosse players in the face of increasing evidence of both the players’ innocence and his own prosecutorial misconduct. He has yet to drop charges of sexual offense and kidnapping, but experts expect him to do so shortly, since the accuser in the case can no longer even remember if she was penetrated on the night of the alleged attack. When you’ve heard about Duke lacrosse for the past 9 months, you’ve heard all...

Clarice Feldman First the North Carolina Bar Association filed an unprecedented 17 page complaint against Nifong charging him with multiple violations of the rules of ethics. The yesterday yet another precedent against the prosecutor. From Durham in Wonderland: In yet another extraordinary development, the North Carolina Conference of District Attorneys has issued a public letter to Mike Nifong, demanding that he recuse himself from the lacrosse case: It is in the interest of justice and the effective administration of criminal justice that Mr. Nifong immediately withdraw and recuse himself from the prosecution of these cases and request the cases be...

Carey Roberts December 19, 2006 On November 7, American voters took the GOP to the woodshed and gave them a licking they won't forget for a good long time. Congressman Mike Pence concluded solemnly, "I believe we did not just lose our Majority, we lost our way. I believe this happened to us because somewhere along the way we lost our willingness to fight for limited government, fiscal discipline, traditional values and reform." So how did the GOP fall off the wagon? Six years ago the GOP brain-trust decided to get serious about closing the gender gap. At the 2000...

The babies who are murdered to order By MATTHEW HILL The plastic bag looks as if it contains meat. But then a right leg is taken from it and placed surgically on the morgue table, followed by the left one. Then the torso. The head follows, a gaping cavity where the brain used to be. But it is only when the gloved hand of the pathologist examines the tiny fingers of a baby aged about 30 weeks that the full horror of what I am witnessing sinks in. This shocking scene was captured on video at post-mortem examinations carried out...

By Megan Twohey Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (MCT) MADISON, Wis. - "No matter how hard you hit someone with this flogger, it will not hurt," said Ann Slabosky, a senior at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, as she unleashed a black leather whip on the forearm of her partner. The duo was leading a workshop on sexual pleasure for nearly 15 classmates in the lounge of a residence hall. They had started with a discussion of body parts and were now on the subject of sex toys. The toys were being removed from a large red toolbox and passed around with glee....

DAYTON, Ohio (AP) -- A woman suspected of killing her month-old daughter by putting her in a microwave oven was indicted on a charge of aggravated murder Thursday, and the prosecutor said he would seek the death penalty. The indictment against China Arnold, 26, does not provide details on the death of Paris Talley. Investigators have said evidence that includes high-heat internal injuries and the absence of external burn marks on the baby were consistent with a microwave oven. The baby died on August 30, 2005. Her mother was arrested last week. "The Montgomery County coroner came to the conclusion...

The Republican landslide of 1994 was powered by the “Contract for America”, which contained a clear “family values” agenda designed to end welfare and restore marriage as being the “normal” socioeconomic institution in America. Articles such as Barbara Dafoe Whitehead’s pre-eminent article “Dan Quayle Was Right” were the cutting edge of the Contract for America. After the elections in 1994, pundits said the victory came about because Republicans took the majority of both male and female votes. Mainstream voters of both sexes realized that marriage was better than big anti-family government, and sent Republicans to Washington to fix the system....

The GOP's betrayal of the pro-family agenda Carey Roberts Carey Roberts December 5, 2006 I wish I had a dime in my pocket for every time I heard a Republican politician stand up and proclaim his support for "family values." When we survey the current state of the family, we see that Americans are half as likely to wed compared to a generation ago, mostly due to a growing shortage of marriage-minded men. [www.therealitycheck.org/StaffWriter/croberts112906.htm] How did all this happen? Over the past 40 years, the Sisters of Spinsterhood have cranked out the message that men are not needed or wanted....

MENINISM is the catchcry of a movement of males who will storm the streets and burn their ties, rallying against the "all men are bastards" image that has an entire sex pigeonholed as violent, heartless and untrustworthy. This is according to a new study saying there is a competing interest to the feminist struggle for equality; men and boys are now the target of negative stereotypes. The research shows almost 70 per cent of social commentary on the male gender is unfavourable – portraying men as violent, sexually abusive, unable to be trusted with children, "deadbeat dads" and commitment-phobic. In...

By Carey Roberts Am I the only one who is worried about the collapse of the traditional American family right before our very eyes? Census Bureau bureaucrats are not in the habit of making apocalyptic pronouncements, but last year Mark Mather reported that the “dramatic decline” in the married population is “one of the biggest demographic stories of the past several decades.” Now, married couples now account for a minority – 49.7% to be exact – of all U.S. households. The cause of this extraordinary demographic shift is two-fold. First, Americans are getting married only half as often as we...