Melania Trump has not been seen in public since May 10. The White House said on 14th that she’d undergone surgery for a “benign” kidney issue, but, according to doctors who have been interviewed in the press, the kind of procedure she’s said to have had wouldn’t have required such a lengthy recovery period. So, […]
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On the 23rd day with no Melania, I can’t help but be reminded of the troubling story of Martha Mitchell’s forced imprisonment at the hands of the Nixon administration
Posted in Politics, Uncategorized Also tagged 1972, ambassador, Attorney General, Be Best, Birthers, conspiracy theories, Czech Republic, Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, John Mitchell, kidneys, Martha Mitchell, Melania Trump, murder, plastic surgery, podcasts, Richard Nixon, Slow Burn, spousal abuse, Stephen King, The Martha Mitchell Effect, Watergate 32 Comments
Senate to vote on giving President authority to indefinitely imprison American citizens, and others, without charge or trial
At the risk of being called fear monger, it looks as though our Senator, Carl Levin, has drafted language within the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012… which is likely to be voted on tomorrow… that would give Obama, and the presidents to follow him, the power to, among other things, deploy our […]
Posted in Civil Liberties, Politics Also tagged abuse of power, call to action, Carl Levin, John McCain, Kelly Ayotte, Lindsey Graham, Mark Udall, National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012, NDAA, police state, prisoner rights, Ron Paul, Senate, Unitary Executive, worldwide military battlefield 29 Comments
The strange case of Davontae Sanford
We haven’t seen her here on the site for the better part of a year, but, for a quite a while, we were getting regular updates from a woman by the name of Taminko Sanford on the fate of her son, Davontae, a prisoner in the Michigan correctional system. Davontae, who was found guilty of […]
Posted in Civil Liberties, Detroit, Other, Uncategorized Also tagged 2007, bad police work, Cheryl Sanford, coerced confessions, crime, David Cobb, Davontae Sanford, Detroit corruption, Detroit Police, Detroit police crime lab, Diane Bukowski, drug gangs, Ernest Davis, Gerald Williams, hit men, homicide, Ira Todd, James Davis, Kwame Kilpatrick, Kym Worthy, LaTonya Brooks, Michael Stefani, Mitchell Foster, murder, murder for hire, murder mystery, organized crime, police investigations, Rose Cobb, Runyon Street, Russell Marcilis Sr., Taminko Sanford, Vincent Smothers, Violent Crimes Task Force, Voice of Detroit, William Rice, wrongly accused 136 Comments