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On a spring night in 2018, I stood on a Manhattan sidewalk with friends, reading Shakespeare aloud. We were in line to see an adaptation of Macbeth and had decided to pass the time refreshing our memories of the play’s best lines. I pulled up Lady Macbeth’s soliloquy on my iPhone. “Come, you spirits / That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here,” I read, thrilled once again by the incantatory power of the verse. I remembered where I was when I first heard those lines: in my 10th-grade English class, startled out of my adolescent stupor by this woman...

The Tweet: "SCOTUS VRA majority is four accomplices to race discrimination and one Uncle Thomas. Marriage decision may blur court's backsliding."

Meet Ryan Patrick Winkler. He's a 37-year-old liberal Minnesota state legislator with a B.A. in history from Harvard University and a J.D. from the University of Minnesota Law School. He's also a coward, a bigot, a liar and a textbook example of plantation progressivism. On Tuesday, Winkler took to Twitter to rant about the Supreme Court's decision to strike down an onerous section of the Voting Rights Act. The 5-4 ruling overturned an unconstitutional requirement that states win federal preclearance approval of any changes to their election laws and procedures. Winkler fumed: "VRA majority is four accomplices to race discrimination...

Six months from now, as the shock of the "Dark Knight" shooting fades, America will likely have no new gun-control laws to prevent such tragedies from occurring again. The credit - or blame - for that inaction will belong to the National Rifle Association, one of America's strongest political interest groups. How did the NRA gain such influence over American politics? Surprisingly, it happened overnight. The NRA was founded after the Civil War by two Union soldiers - one of whom was a reporter for a newspaper known today for its opposition to gun rights, the New York Times -...

Adam Winkler’s Gunfight is a potboiler of constitutional interpretation and is both a vital history and an intellectually satisfying, emotionally rewarding tale of a great case. The backbone of the book is District of Columbia v. Heller, a landmark gun-control case decided by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2008. Heller tested the question of whether the Second Amendment protected militias and reached individuals only derivatively or whether it guaranteed every American the right to own a firearm. No decision of the Supreme Court had ever reached the latter conclusion, and others had tipped the other way, upholding, for instance, the...

About a month ago, we discussed UCLA Constitutional law professor Adam Winkler's contention that--just as Clayton Cramer has argued for decades--the history of "gun control" is rooted in racism. The Wall Street Journal brings us this Adam Winkler quote: The KKK began as a gun-control organization. Before the Civil War, blacks were never allowed to own guns. During the Civil War, blacks kept guns for the first time – either they served in the Union army and they were allowed to keep their guns, or they buy guns on the open market where for the first time there’s hundreds of...

Now you too can jump the shark, or at least try to clear 14 garbage cans. One of the motorcycles that was used by "The Fonz" on the classic TV show “Happy Days” will be crossing the auction block at the Bonhams Classic California Sale in Los Angeles on November 12th. According to the Daily Mail, the 1949 Triumph Trophy TR5 has been sitting the garage of California motorcycle collector Marshall Ehlers since he purchased it in 1995 from famed Hollywood stuntman Bud Ekins.

A series of events continuing to unfold in a rural Texas county underscore the fact that the national healthcare reform debate has little to do with health care and even less to do with reform. Unless you have more than a passing interest in healthcare waste, fraud, and abuse, you probably missed the acquittal of a hospital administrator charged with a felony for doing her job. This case is another example that proves my belief that state and federal agencies need to enforce existing rules and regulations instead of being saddled with sweeping legislation that will not guarantee your healthcare...

Religious Liberals used to be chronic optimists who assumed that Providence at any moment was about to establish the Millennium. War, poverty, sickness and fear would all be banished from the earth, if only all God’s children would come together to build a righteous kingdom for everyone. As recently as the 1960’s, liberal religious icons such as Martin Luther King, William Sloane Coffin, and the Berrigan Brothers, even as they condemned American injustice, still assumed that justice would prevail.

<p>MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Mary Winkler, the woman convicted of voluntary manslaughter in the 2006 shooting death of her minister husband, has taken custody of her three daughters, one of her lawyers said Monday.</p> <p>Rachael Putnam, a custody attorney, said the former minister's wife picked the girls up Friday from the slain man's parents, Dan and Diane Winkler.</p>

HUNTINGDON, Tenn. -- A woman who killed her minister husband with a shotgun can begin supervised visits with her three young daughters on Sept. 29, a judge ruled Wednesday. Judge Ron Harmon said he will draw up rules and locations for the visits within a few days and Mary Winkler can phone her children every other day. The visits will be supervised because of worries about Winkler's mental health, Harmon said, and physical security for the children will also be provided if needed. Winkler, 33, was convicted of voluntary manslaughter in April for shooting husband Matthew Winkler, a Church of...

"The monster that you have painted for the world to see, I don't think that monster existed...for everything you've accused him of, there never was proof, just accusations. I think that's sad because he can't speak for himself."-- Diane Winkler, Matthew Winkler's motherMy new co-authored column, No child custody for husband-killer Mary Winkler (World Net Daily, 9/14/07), argues that Winkler got off with a slap on the wrist, is psychologically disturbed, and shouldn't be granted custody of her three children. No child custody for husband-killer Mary Winkler By Glenn Sacks and Ned Holstein, M.D. A killer shoots his spouse in...

Mary Winkler of Selmer, Tennessee was set free last week. Winkler had admitted to gunning down her husband, the popular town preacher, in March 2006 while he was in bed asleep. As he lay dying with blood foaming from his mouth, the man of the cloth incredulously asked her, "Why?" With that, Mary packed their three daughters into the car and drove down to Alabama for a beachside vacation. If Mrs. Winkler had been convicted of intentional murder, she could have been sentenced to 60 years of hard time. But all she got was 67 days in a mental health...

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SELMER, Tenn. — A woman who killed her preacher husband with a shotgun blast to the back as he lay in bed was sentenced Friday to three years in prison, but she may end up serving only 60 days in a mental hospital. Mary Winkler must serve 210 days, or about seven months, of her sentence before she can be released on probation, but she gets credit for the five months she has already spent in jail, Judge Weber McCraw said. That leaves only two months, and McCraw said up to 60 days of the sentence could be served in...

In this True Crime post some older cases get new attention. We've got some new insight into the logic of Mary Winkler's jurors. Not that the logic makes sense. Also, John Mark Karr, heh, the Jonbenet nut arrested. Also, an 11 yr old drinks and drives, a child stabs her 8 yr old brother and another horrific gang rape.

A preacher's wife who was convicted of manslaughter for shooting her husband to death left jail Wednesday for a mental health facility, where she will serve the remainder of her sentence. After spending 13 days in McNairy County jail in Selmer, Tenn., Mary Winkler was transferred to an undisclosed mental health facility, where she will receive treatment for longstanding mental health issues, including post-traumatic stress disorder, depression and a mild personality disorder. Circuit Judge Weber McCraw, who presided over Winkler's murder trial and gave her the option of serving some of her sentence in a mental health facility, signed the...

Here's a True Crime Update and it's so sad but some parents don't deserve the name. For we've a fellow attempting to kill children for their life insurance and a fine mother selling her young daughters as prostitutes. Also, plenty about Nifong as he tries to weasle out of his despicable behavior at Duke university. How about that attorney suing those poor Koreans for millions for messing up a pair of pants? Finally, he committed the murder in 1964. Last week he was finally indicted.

Mary Winkler guilty of voluntary manslaughter in the March 2006 killing of her minister husband, Matthew. Judge gives her only 60 days in mental hospital............................

Time for some True Crime and we're not done with Mary Winkler. For the woman might walk free without ever serving a day in jail and a Winkler juror tries to explain that joke of a verdict. The Phil Spector trial begins and let's catch up. A man impregnates a nine year old and an update on the Jonathan Luna case. And actress Sandra Bullock victim of True Crime.