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Date: April 25th, 2008

Lawyers for DC sniper still trying to blame someone else

25 April, 2008 (22:32) | Crime & Punishment, Human Interest, Law | By: ricjames

It was 6 years ago that John Allen Muhammad and his teen sidekick Lee Boyd Malvo roamed the streets in their rolling sniper blind and picked off random innocents at long range. It was just over 4 years ago that a Virginia jury convicted Muhammad of capital murder and sentenced him to death. Two years [...]

LoudounExtra.com’s Community Guide

25 April, 2008 (07:49) | Human Interest | By: ricjames

Thanks to a reference on The Loudoun Scoop, I found this little gem over at LoudounExtra.com: The Guide 2008: Where We Live. There are stories about local flavor, guides to all manner of community services, and explanations about how some processes work. Case in point is this story on “Deciphering the Code for Land Development [...]

ABC story on guns so badly wrong it’s hard to conclude it’s not a willful lie

25 April, 2008 (07:36) | 2nd Amendment, Politics, The Media | By: ricjames

Bob Owens over at Confederate Yankee has a long history of pointing out 1) misinformation regarding firearms and 2) media incompetence or deception. He hits a two-fer in this story about a recent ABC news article on guns in use by Mexican drug cartels. He highlights the deceptions, both visual and textual, in the story [...]