A career criminal who stole a truck containing President Obama's audio equipment was sentenced Thursday to seven years in federal prison.
Sentencing guidelines called for a term of about three years, but Eric Brown of Richmond, Va., agreed to the longer sentence to avoid prosecution for 14 similar truck thefts in three localities. However, he could still face charges in Stafford County, which did not join Chesterfield, Hanover and Henrico counties in the agreement.
Brown pleaded guilty in January to theft of government property.
"The theft of government property is a serious offense," Assistant U.S. Attorney Roderick Young said in court. "It's all the more serious when the property belongs to the White House Communications Agency."
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"The theft of government property is a serious offense,"
However, robbing the Treasury of billions of dollars to reward your campaign funding cronies is completely legal. Obviously, this administration hates the poor and downtrodden.
HT: Weasel Zippers
"A Senate resolution to honor Lady Thatcher was supposed to pass last night. However, per well placed sources on the Hill, Democrats have a hold on the resolution."
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Well she was an unabashed anti-communist. I suppose the flag is flying at full staff as well. The WH somehow recently managed to extend this proclamation.
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Mention Reagan to a Democrat turns them into raving lunatics (well more so than usual) they foam at the mouth babble about Irangate, cry about the Iran Contra hearings, and snivel about cutting taxes. Oh and they never acknowledge the end of the Warsaw Pact or the Soviet Union is a good thing.
Lady Thatcher and Ronnie set the world straight for a while. The refusal to honor Lady Thatcher is a perfect picture of who these people are. And it is more about her friendship and partnership with Ronnie than anything else.
They just can't let go of how much they hated Ronald Reagan.
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Not always true Bill. Back when he was President I was {foolish|stupid|immature|idiotic} enough to not like 'President Ray-Gun'.
Since then I have turned completely around - partly because of the blantant and outright lying the media did during his presidency. Now I really appreciate what he (and Thatcher) done for us (and kick myself for voting against him - what a dumbass...).
So there *is* hope - but then I wasn't much of a progressive either. I was a piss-poor leftie.
When I was a child I thought childish things but when I because an adult I put childish things away. Problem is most true progs are still immature.
In the 1980s, when now- Secretary of State John Kerry was a Democratic U.S. senator from Massachusetts, he criticized the Reagan administrations plan for a missile defense system -- known as the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) -- calling it a cancer on our nations defense.
In debate, Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., called Star Wars a cancer and said what we must do is deny this program the funds that would enable this cancer on our nation's defense to grow any further, the 1986 AP report said.
One year earlier in June 1985, AP reported that Kerry was advocating the same position of limiting funding to SDI, calling it, a dream based on an illusion.
The Obama administration this week announced it would deploy a dream based on an illusion ballistic missile defense system in Guam in the coming weeks as a precaution against threats made by North Korea to utilize ballistic missiles in a war against the United States.
On Friday, the Pentagon announced it would add 14 Star Wars interceptors to the 30 already in place in California and Alaska part of a West Coast-based cancer on our nation's defense missile defense system designed to shoot down long-range missiles in flight before they could reach U.S. territory.
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He was against it before he was for it. He'll be against it again his true colors will show again any minute now...
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He may have a point. Instead of trying to intercept NORK missiles maybe we should just zap them first. You know, the best defense is a good offense.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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In the 1980s, when now- Secretary of State John Kerry was a Democratic U.S. senator from Massachusetts, he criticized the Reagan administrations plan for a missile defense system -- known as the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) -- calling it a cancer on our nations defense.
