Obama Deliberates Sparing the Turkey

Hours before Thanksgiving arrives, President Obama is still deliberating whether or not to spare the male turkey being held in a pen outside the White House kitchen. This year, the turkey’s name is Harry, after...

No pardon for Amnesty

This is todays editorial from the Jerusalem Post regarding Amnesty International. " Yesterday, Amnesty International, the world's premier "human rights" brand, called for the destruction of Israel. We're overdramatizing? Were AI to get its way, the UN Security Council would...

Bush Commutes Sentences of Border Patrol Agents (Updated)

Fox News just announced that President George W. Bush has commuted the sentences of — but not pardoned — two unjustly-convicted U.S. Border Patrol agents, Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean.According to an Associated Press report citing a senior administration official, Bush...

Bush Commutes Prison Sentences of Border Agents

President Bush commutes prison sentences of two former border patrol agents convicted of shooting drug smuggler.Reuters"President George W. Bush, in one of his last official acts in office, commuted the prison...

1-19-09: The Day Bush Pardons All 'Terror Warriors' and Himself?

• Monday after next is 1-19.  Eight years since the year of 9-11.  • 19 - 11 = 8 (years since the year of 9-11).  Also, Bush’s last (scheduled full) day in office.  M.L. King Day, too.  • “The Day George W. Bush Declares War on...

Bush Pulls Pardon on Christmas Eve

A day after pardoning a developer who sold shoddy homes to buyers in poor neighbourhoods, President George W. Bush has pulled the pardon.  According the New York Times, the White House is claiming that...

Former Sun and Province Publisher Released From Prison

Luckily for David Radler, the National Parole Board says it doesn't really know what to do about the former newspaper executive's basic problem:"Your greed has resulted in this sentence and the Correctional Service...

Cole Calls on Bush to Pardon Border Partrol Agents

Rep. Tom Cole (R-Okla.) sent a letter to President George W. Bush late yesterday asking him to commute the sentences and issue pardons for Border Patrol agents Jose Compean and Ignacio Ramos.In October 2006, Ramos and Compean were each sentenced to more than a decade in...

Junk-bond king, American Taliban among those seeking Bush pardon

I believe that if you do the crime you need to do the time.  Why should these people be pardoned?  If you or I had used out power or influence to effect money markets or influence government or even lie...

Bush Pardons 14 and Commutes 2 Prison Sentences; More Expected

George Bush announced the pardons of 14 individuals and commuted 2 prison sentences today, and many more are expected to receive the same breaks before the president concludes his term on January...

Pushing the Limits of Presidential Power: The Bush Legacy

Those who organized and implemented the brutal and inhumane torture techniques for use in the "global war on terror", including techniques for "brainwashing" and "waterboarding" (simulated drowning) could escape...

107-Year-Old Man Leads High School Alumni Parade

He's 107 years old, and leading the Phillips Academy parade in his golf cart. Let's hear it for C. Yardley Chittick, who was a schoolboy with Humphrey Bogart."C. Yardley Chittick sneaked off school grounds with...

Blogger Launches ‘Pardon Peter Lynch’ Effort

By Bob McCarty at BobMcCarty.com“I don’t feel welcome in this state anymore, and I feel really bad about that. It’s a beautiful state here. After my six months of probation is completed with no...

The people Bush pardoned

"""Among all of the more pressing cases of people sitting on death row, our president pardons mostly drug dealers, an arms dealer, and an embezzler and fraudster, all of whom spent little to no time in prison to begin with, 20+ years ago at that. What, there were no better...

Facebook Spoofer Pardoned in Morocco

Fouad Mourtada, the young programmer jailed for creating a fake facebook page for Morocco's prince, has received a royal pardon and is now out of jail." He said at his trial: "I admire him, I like him a lot and...

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