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Death row inmate Scott Peterson, convicted of murdering his wife and unborn son, has sent a message to his groupies at the Canadian Coalition Against the Death Penalty. You’ll love this part of the website:
COMING SOON: Family photos; holidays
Sick.
Here’s the address the convicted killer’s fans are sharing with members:
Scott Peterson V72100
San Quentin State Prison
San Quentin, [...]

The family of Marine Staff Sgt. Joseph Goodrich accepts Lt. Gov. Catherine Baker Knoll’s apology, but hoped for more:
“We asked for an apology and that’s what we got,” said Rhonda Goodrich, Joseph Goodrich’s sister-in-law, who has been speaking on behalf of the family. She said the apology was accepted, although the family had also wanted [...]

I just got off the phone with Sal Sirabella, Lt. Gov. Catherine Baker Knoll’s chief of staff. They are in the midst of drafting a letter of apology to Marine Staff Sgt. Joseph Goodrich’s family, which I will post as soon as Sirabella faxes it over. Sirabella read parts of the letter on the phone, [...]

**updating and bumping**
The disgraceful conduct of Lt. Gov. Catherine Baker Knoll, who crashed a Marine’s funeral and poisoned the somber event with her anti-war lecturing, continues to rock Pennsylvania. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, which broke the story over the weekend, updates today:
Written apologies will be sent to a fallen Marine’s relatives angered by Lt. Gov. Catherine [...]

Milbloggers and e-mailers are buzzing about this story of how Pennsylvania’s moonbat Lieutenant Governor, Democrat Catherine Baker Knoll, reportedly showed up uninvited at a Marine’s funeral and voiced her anti-war views:
The family of a Marine who was killed in Iraq is furious with Lt. Gov. Catherine Baker Knoll for showing up uninvited at his funeral [...]

Wanna know how Washington State University teaches students to respect free speech? Mark Tapscott has the scoop.

Bruce at GayPatriot and Gryphmon give you a very good reason to stay away.
Dianne Feinstein, believe it or not, agrees: “This isn’t the San Francisco that I’ve known and loved and grew up in and was born in.”

…goes to convicted bank robber Jason Battista today, for playing the 9/11 trauma card to weasel out of a long jail sentence. Via AP:
Battista, 28, is expected to be sentenced next month for robbing 15 banks in Connecticut, New York and New Jersey. He faces nearly seven years in jail.
The former college baseball player, who [...]

Will Franklin has put together a link-filled photo album of Rabid Donkeys on the Loose.

So, I received a mass e-mail from Anne Lewis of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee on Friday. It was titled:
“Right-Wing Implosion.”
And these folks think they are members of the “reality-based community?”
Who’s imploding?
You.

Tell.
Me.

The Los Angeles Times wikitorial experiment has been shut down “because a few readers were flooding the site with inappropriate material.”
I can relate.

Ed Morrissey takes a closer look.
Update: The ever-vigilant LGF was on it.

Whee! A group called “Professionals in the City” is throwing a party at the Cuban Embassy. Val Prieto at Babalu Blog blows the whistle.
Hat tip to Bill at INDC Journal, who asks:
Would your conscience be clear to devour a lavish Hanjeongsik spread with the smiling representatives of Kim Jong Il’s terrible regime? Could you drink [...]

Tons of readers are asking me to comment on the story of Gregory Despres, the Bloody Chainsaw-Toting Freak, who crossed the Canadian-U.S. border in April carrying his entire murder kit. The Ottawa Citizen has a good overview of the story and this scary photo:

(CP PHOTO/HO/WHDH-TV) (AP)
It’s scary. It’s bizarre. Great water-cooler and cable news fodder. [...]

An absolute must-read. Mona Charen roasts the touchy-feely State Department’s “outreach” efforts in the Arab world:
“Real Men Moisturize.” So begins an article on “Sharp Dressed Men” that appeared in a State Department funded magazine aimed at youth in the Arab world. The magazine, called “Hi” is published in Arabic and English. A State Department website [...]

Looks like Brooklyn College professor Timothy Shortell is off his meds again:
A CUNY professor who called religious believers “moral retards” has gone on another Internet rant - calling himself a defiant “superman” and comparing religion to oppressive regimes.
A firestorm erupted at Brooklyn College after the views of Timothy Shortell - elected to head the sociology [...]

The NY comptroller says sex offenders are getting taxpayer-subsidized Viagra because of a federal Department of Health and Human Services directive. Sen. Chuck Schumer gets the Sherlock Holmes Award for making this observation:
“While I believe that HHS did not do this intentionally, when the government pays for Viagra for sex offenders, it could well hurt [...]

AP reports the chilling news:
The FBI on Wednesday said a grenade found amid the crowd during last week’s speech by President Bush in this former Soviet republic was capable of exploding.
The statement by agent Brian Parmen contradicted initial reports by Georgian officials that the grenade either was not in condition to explode or that it [...]

The Chicago Tribune discovers a line of man-hating clothing for children of lesbian parents born by artificial insemination.
Dawn Eden covered the story–with photos–over a year ago.

Did you hear about the lesbian Tamalpais High School student who was pelted with eggs, had her locker and car vandalized, and has been flooded with handmade hate messages? The words “Die Fag” were spray painted on her school’s wall.
The incidents sparked outrage among the school’s students, teachers, and administrators, who came together for an [...]

Jack Chin at CrimProfBlog is keeping track of fake crime claims. (Hat tip: Walter Olson at Overlawyered)
La Shawn Barber’s tracking fake hate crimes. (More here.)
Crikey. Don’t we have enough low-lifes and thugs in the world without having to make them up?

Just weird.

In the name of fighting the drug war, one public high school is teaching kids how to cook meth. (Hat tip: PunditGuy)
Caught on videotape, a deputy stirs up a pot and tells the students: “Then you’ll have a little bit down at the bottom, the white stuff, and that’s your meth.”

Source: KOMO-TV
Your tax dollars at [...]

Reader Matt Dekker points out that the Washington’s Lottery uses Pac Man and other cartoon characters to market its scratch games. The games are available in vending machines at grocery stores, where they can easily be accessed by kids.
According to a Lottery-funded study cited by the Washington State Council on Problem Gambling, thousands of Washington [...]

My new column discusses the horrifying case of a disabled girl who was the alleged victim of a brutal sexual attack at her Columbus, Ohio, public high school last month–which administrators then tried to cover up, according to witness statements and the girl’s father:
On March 9, according to press reports, a developmentally disabled girl told [...]

Jane Fonda gets spit upon by a tobacco-chewing nutball who stalked her at a book signing. Terrible move. The guy is a coward.
We should never forget the disgraceful treatment Vietnam Veterans received from Fonda’s ilk. But engaging in the same tactics to protest her treachery is inexcusable. Start a blog. Write a book. Launch a [...]

House Republicans voted last week to permanently repeal the estate tax.
This prompted the usual complaints from newspaper editorial writers about tax cuts for the super-rich. As the New York Times editorial board put it, “Repeal would shield the estates of the very wealthiest Americans from the tax…. [M]ost Americans never even have to think about [...]

A man who has repeatedly entered restricted zones at Heathrow Airport snuck onto a U.S. nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, the Isle of Wight County Press reports:
Abdoul Masmoud Yessoufou, 37, whose address was given at Portsmouth Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday as East Street, Newport, admitted entering a prohibited area at Portsmouth Docks.
The court was told that Yessoufou [...]

Someone comes forward to report that the fingertip found in a lawsuit-happy woman’s bowl of Wendy’s chili may be hers.
A woman who lost part of her finger in a leopard attack believes it was her body part that allegedly showed up a month later in a bowl of fast-food chili in California.
A lawyer for Sandy [...]

Horrid story from the Seattle Times, repeated at government child welfare agencies across the country:
At the time of their death by starvation and dehydration last November, Justice and Raiden Robinson had fallen off Child Protective Services’ (CPS) radar despite their mother being accused of child neglect at least six times.
That critical lapse, according to a [...]