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Lockerbie Bomber Freed: Is Showing Compassion Ethical?
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Padmini Mangunta
Compassion and ethics. Can they co-exist? I say yes, though certainly not in every situation. Take this one, for example: Today, Scottish authorities released Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, the convicted Libyan “Lockerbie bomber” on compassionate grounds. Al-Megrahi was sentenced in 2001 for his part in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 on Dec. 21, 1988,…
Tasered Mom Sues Cop–I Should Hope So!
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hfields
According to this MSNBC article, Audra Harmon, a 38-year-old mother of three, was stopped, Tasered, handcuffed, and arrested while her kids were left frightened and unattended in her minivan for something like 40 minutes. The incident began like this, Harmon told the Today Show’s Meredith Vieira: “I was driving with my hand on my cheek, and I…
Rwandan Genocide Leaders Get a Whopping Sentence in Court…
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Padmini Mangunta
Not. On Tuesday, the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda sentenced a former governor of Rwanda to life imprisonment for his role in the 1994 genocide. This is the third such ruling this year; previous convictions by the U.N. court include 25 years in prison for a military chaplain convicted of genocide and crimes against humanity,…
Soldier Refuses to Deploy; Says Obama Isn’t President
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Padmini Mangunta
I love a good conspiracy theory. U.S. Army Maj. Stefan Frederick Cook is refusing to deploy to Afghanistan because he doesn’t acknowledge President Obama as the rightful president of the United States. Cook is being represented by Orly Taitz, who is also arguing Alan Keyes’ birth certificate case against Obama’s presidency. Birth certificate conspiracies…
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