Monthly Archives: January 2010

Kelvin Kaigler St. Tammany Parish Sheriff, Rodney “Jack” Strain has had his fair share of attention from the national press in recent years.  A year after Hurricane Katrina sent thousands of desperate New Orleans residents into exile, Sheriff Jack launched into a … Continue reading →

In September, Texas Governor Rick Perry was scared to death that the Texas Forensic Science Commission was about to denounce the questionable science used to convict and execute Cameron Todd Willingham.  So the governor hastened the departure of several board members while appointing board members (like the aggressively … Continue reading →

This brief summary of the Curtis Flowers case now introduces the extended version of the story on the Friends of Justice website.  A brief introduction to the Curtis Flowers case On the morning of July 16, 1996, four people were brutally murdered at a furniture store … Continue reading →

Is there a link between Neo-Nazis, Birthers, Tea Party enthusiasts and mainstream conservatism?  The producers of this video think there is.  White Power USA was produced for Al-Jazeera English by American journalists drawing on the same sources you would expect to see in the mainstream press.  Except, … Continue reading →

 Congress, finally, has turned its attention to mortgage fraud.  According to the New York Times, The F.B.I. is presently investigating more than 2,800 mortgage fraud cases, almost five times the 534 inquiries in 2004. Attorney General, Eric Holder, feels the current … Continue reading →

Everybody knows what Harry said.  Barack Obama had a good shot at the presidency because he was ”light skinned” and spoke “with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one”.  Reid and Obama both concede the words were poorly chosen.  … Continue reading →

Law professor, Stanley Fish thinks the law is more concerned with right answers than with true answers.    To illustrate, Dr. Fish tells the story of Leonel Torres Herrera.  “Found guilty of murder, (Herrera) claimed that because new evidence proving his innocence had … Continue reading →

Hear the word “Baptist” and what words spring to mind: narrow, fundamentalist, bigoted, judgmental, moralistic? But Baptists, like every other religious group, represent a complex configuration of all things human.  Traditionally, Baptists have been America’s greatest defenders of religious liberty (yes, … Continue reading →