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First Convictions in Voter Fraud Scandal

Today, 5 individuals were found guilty of election fraud.

As far as known, these 5 are the first charged and convicted of election fraud from the 2004 election. One of the individuals was a party poss for the area in which the fraud took place.

With all the talk of Ohio, one wonders if the Democrats will talk about their PARTY LEADERSHIP in East Saint Louis being CONVICTED of trying to rig elections. Next time a Democrat talks about stealing elections, it may be just because they know best on how to do it.

Hat Tip: Capitol Fax

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  • June 30th, 2005 Posted by John Bambenek | Illinois | one comment

    Which is it, was Outing Plame a Big Deal or Not?

    The Jailing of Judith Miller

    The NYT writes:

    The case was about the “outing” of an agent - supposedly covert, but working openly at C.I.A. headquarters - in Robert Novak’s column two years ago by unnamed administration officials angry at her husband’s prewar Iraq criticism.

    To show its purity, the Bush Justice Department appointed a special counsel to find any violation of the 1982 Intelligence Identities Protection Act. That law prohibits anyone from knowingly revealing the name of a covert agent that the C.I.A. is taking “affirmative measures” to conceal. The revelation must be, like that of the 70’s turncoat Philip Agee - “in the course of a pattern” intending to harm United States intelligence.

    Evidently no such serious crime took place. After spending two years and thousands of F.B.I. agent-hours and millions of dollars that could better have been directed against terrorism and identity theft, the prosecutor, Patrick Fitzgerald, admits his investigation has been stalled since last October. We have seen no indictment under the identities protection act.

    What evidence of serious crime does he have that makes the testimony of Judith Miller of The New York Times and Matthew Cooper of Time magazine so urgent? We don’t know - eight pages of his contempt demand are secret - but some legal minds think he is falling back on the Martha Stewart Theory of Prosecution. That is: if the underlying crime has not been committed, justify the investigation by indicting a big name for giving false information.

    However, the Democrats have a portion of their old website that was dedicated to Plamegate (the cached version is here and I’m not sure for how long). It includes several quotes from the NYT and other papers about how horrible and terrible Plamegate was. Well which is it?

    The NYT, when they didn’t think they had any skin in the game, was talking up the crisis as worse than Watergate. But when it turns out that one of their own reporters can finger the culprit, they start singing a new tune. Which part is the spin? The first part, spinning for the benefit of the Left, or the second part, spinning to cover their complicity. You make the call.

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  • June 29th, 2005 Posted by John Bambenek | National | 2 comments

    Seperation of Church and State an Invention of the KKK, not Jefferson

    Many people cite Jefferson for the “wall of seperation” doctrine regarding religious matters and its relationship to the state. This interpretation is novel and interesting, but unconvincing. (At the founding the official state church of Massachusettes was Puritanism and that was A-OK). The real development of this doctrine was in the 1940s as a part of sweeping anti-Catholic bias of the KKK (they didn’t just go after blacks, after all).

    The phrase found it’s first use in the opinion of the court written by Klansman Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black in Everson v. the Board of Education. This ruling specifically targeted Catholic schools as he was worried about a coup from Catholics.

    It is a wonder if the ACLU realizes that they generally defend a KKK invented legal doctrine that was used as a part of religious discrimination.

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  • June 29th, 2005 Posted by John Bambenek | Law / Legal Issues | one comment

    The George Ryan Defense

    George Ryan has defended his corruption with saying he commuted death sentences in Illinois so he can be tried for illegal acts…

    Apparently Judy Topinka is planning her defense of “I support GLBT, so you can’t try me”.

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  • June 29th, 2005 Posted by John Bambenek | Uncategorized | no comments

    Best Eminent Domain Suggestion Yet

    New York City should take that prime beef real-estate that the UN occupies and turn it into something useful… like a museum of all the human rights violations that members of the Human Rights Commission have committed.

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  • June 28th, 2005 Posted by John Bambenek | Law / Legal Issues | one comment

    At Least SOMEONE Is Sticking Up For the Illinois Pension System

    But, he’s leaving the job anyway

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  • June 28th, 2005 Posted by John Bambenek | Illinois | no comments

    It’s Called Karma

    Let’s see if eminent domain lasts when it’s a Supreme Court Justice’s house on the line.

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  • June 28th, 2005 Posted by John Bambenek | Law / Legal Issues | one comment