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News for The Week of July 15, 2007

July 13, 2007 John 711, Bob Allen, Brevard County, Desecration, Flag, florida, Police, Titusville

This is a wrap up of some of the more interesting news items for the week ending Sunday, July 15, 2007.

Shooter

July 7, 2007March 24, 2008 John Action, Antoine Fuqua, Danny Glover, Mark Wahlberg, Mystery, Ned Beatty, Shooter, Thriller

Bob Lee Swagger, one of the world’s great marksmen and the son of a Congressional Medal of Honoree, is a loner living in the Rockies. He’s left the military, having been hung out to dry in a secret Ethiopian mission a few years before, when he’s recruited by a lisping colonel to help find a way that the President of the US might be assassinated in one of three cities in the next two weeks. He does his work, but the shot is fired notwithstanding and Bob Lee is quickly the fall guy: wounded and hunted by thousands, he goes to ground and, aided by two unlikely allies, searches for the truth and for those who double-crossed him. All roads lead back to Ethiopia.

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Sicko

July 7, 2007March 24, 2008 John Documentary, healthcare, Insurance, Michael Moore, Sicko, Universal Healthcare

Acclaimed filmmaker Michael Moore sets out to investigate the American healthcare system. Sticking to his tried-and-true one-man approach, Moore sheds light on the complicated medical affairs of individuals and local communities.

Constitution Crime Politics Society

Passengers Have Rights Too

June 19, 2007June 23, 2007 John Fourth Amendment, Justice David Souter, supreme court, Yuba City

Bruce Brendlin was arrested in 2001 for drug possession after a car in which he was a passenger was stopped by Yuba City police. The State had conceded there was no basis for the original vehicle stop, so Brendlin had argued that the drug evidence should be suppressed. The Associated Press is reporting that the Supreme Court has ruled that passengers in automobiles have the same Constitutional protections from illegal searches.

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Durham DA-May Have Announced Resignation

June 15, 2007 John Duke, Durham County, Lacrosse, Mike Nifong, North Carolina, Rape, sexual assault, State Bar Association

I only caught the tail end of the report, but it appears, based on what I was hearing on WRAL that in a statement in his State Bar hearing, Durham DA Nifong announced that he was going to step down as DA. According to the WRAL reporter, he was “nearly in tears.”