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Shawn Kemp, who was one of the most popular athletes in Seattle in the 1990s when he played for the Sonics, was sentenced Friday in Pierce County Superior Court to 30 days of electronic home monitoring for second-degree assault. Kemp must submit to home monitoring within two weeks and will also serve one year of community custody and complete 240 hours of community service. Under state sentencing guidelines for second-degree assault, Kemp faced a standard range between three and nine months in jail. Judge Michael Schwartz found that the circumstances surrounding the crime warranted an “exceptional sentence” downward, allowing Kemp...

I hope the atheists of America took great comfort from remarks last week by Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn., who told said: "You'll always find this Muslim standing up for your right to be atheists." Gullibility comes in all shapes, sizes, colors – and apparently religions, judging from the applause that followed. Ellison was in the middle of a brief interlude from one of his frequent tirades against his own country, suggesting, once again, the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, were staged by President Bush, much like Adolf Hitler burned down the Reichstag in 1933 to expand his control over the...