The idea of executing child rapists, even when there in no loss of life, is making headway in the United States.
The Louisiana Supreme Court last week upheld the death sentence for a pedophile, and the governor of Texas is soon to sign into law legislation to that effect.
In 1995, Louisiana was the first state to adopt legislation authorizing the death penalty for child rapists.
Ten years later, the movement to make pedophilia punishable by death really picked up steam after nine-year-old Jessica Lunsford was raped and buried alive in Florida by a man with a prior conviction for sex crimes.
Various versions of the "Jessica Law" sprang up all over in the country, imposing in most cases a minimum 25 year jail sentence and the wearing of an ankle bracelet for life for raping a child aged 12 or younger.
But in some states, elected officials amended their versions of the "Jessica Law" by adding the possibility of condemning a pedophile to death.
They include Louisiana, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Georgia and Montana.
An overwhelming majority of lawmakers in Texas chose to join the list. Texas is responsible for a third of all executions carried out in the United ...   more »

There is no better illustration of Google's corporate immorality and avarice for personal, private information than Chief Executive Officer Eric Schmidt's latest announcement about where he wants to take the company.
He told journalists in London the company's goal is to maximize the personal information it holds on you.
"The goal is to enable Google users to be able to ask the question such as 'What shall I do tomorrow?' and 'What job shall I take?'"
I don't know about you, but I don't want any private or public entity to have that kind of private, personal information about me.
"We cannot even answer the most basic questions because we don't know enough about you," Schmidt frets. "That is the most important aspect of Google's expansion."
Google's lust for private, personal data on individual users is unsatisfied even though it currently maintains records of your Internet searches for at least two years.
Why would Google need to know every search you conducted for the last two years? What do you suppose the company might do with that information? Did you know your searches were being tracked and maintained in an electronic dossier for future use? Do you trust Google to ...   more »

Imagine an American reporter tipping off the enemy of an imminent offensive during World War II.
Imagine a U.S. news company jeopardizing the secrecy of an impending operation against Nazi Germany or Imperial Japan.
Imagine a major media outlet aiding a nation sworn to the destruction of the U.S. and Western civilization.
Sadly, tragically, shamefully, we really don't have to imagine such a scenario any longer. Something like this scenario just happened when ABC News aired a broadcast by reporter Brian Ross announcing the president has approved a covert operation to destabilize the Iranian government, attributing the discovery to anonymous sources.
It should be enough to make Americans sick to their stomachs on this solemn occasion of Memorial Day and while U.S. troops are, at this moment, under attack in Iraq from Iranian surrogates and Iranian arms.
It is more than enough to make me, as a lifelong American journalist, wonder what kind of evil motivations are behind this treasonous act by Ross and his supervisors at ABC News.
Yes, that's right, I said "treason." How else can one accurately characterize such a despicable act of cowardice and disloyalty?
Why is it cowardice?
Because Ross and ABC News know there ...   more »

ORCAS ISLAND, Wash. (AP) - Vandals burned dozens of small American flags that decorated veterans' graves for Memorial Day and replaced many of them with hand-drawn swastikas, authorities said Monday.
Forty-six flags were burned completely and another 33 were found in charred tatters Sunday in the cemetery, authorities said. Swastikas drawn on paper appeared where 14 of the flags had been.
Members of the American Legion on this island off Washington's northwest coast replaced the burned flags with new ones Sunday afternoon.
The vandals repeated the stunt on Memorial Day after a guard left at dawn, the San Juan County sheriff's office said. This time, the vandals left 33 of the hand-drawn swastikas.
"This is not an act of free speech. This is a crime," Sheriff Bill Cumming said in a statement released Monday afternoon.
Sheriff's department officials declined to comment further on Monday
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