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Scott Lee Cohen has decided to give up his bid for office less than a week after he won the Democratic Party’s nomination for the Illinois Lt. Governor’s office. The Dem Illinois Lt. Governor candidate quits the race amid a domestic-abuse scandal that came to light after the nomination. Cohen is accused of abusing his ex-wife and has also been accused of threatening an ex-girlfriend, who has previously been charged with prostitution, by holding a knife to her neck. Cohen has also admitted to steroid use in the past.

Cohen announced that he was dropping out of the race at a Chicago bar during halftime of the Super Bowl. Cohen is the owner of a cleaning supplies business as well as a pawnbroker from the South Side of Chicago. His potential running mate, Governor Pat Quinn, as well as Senator Dick Durbin and Rep. Danny Davis had all urged Cohen to drop out. Read more about Scott Lee Cohen’s colorful past, see a video where Cohen addresses the allegations against him and leave your thoughts about the decision to drop out of the race for the Illinois Lt. Governor’s office.

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Joshua Tabor, 27, a U.S. Army soldier stationed at the Lewis-McChord base in Tacoma, Wash., was arrested last Sunday, January 31, 2010 and charged with second degree assault of a child.

After recently gaining custody of his four year old daughter, Joshua Tabor allegedly admitted to police that he used the ‘waterboarding’ technique on her. Tabor apparently became angry when his daughter wouldn’t recite her ABC’s.
Court documents state that Tabor, with the help of his girlfriend “held her down on the counter and submerged her head into the water three or four times until the water came around her forehead and jawline.”

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Todd Brown, the 14-year-old Ninth-Grader, shot and killed in Alabama Middle School on Friday, was killed by a classmate during a break to change classes. The school was put on lock-down and parents were not able to pick up their children from the school until the lock-down was lifted. Police are not identifying the shooter, but have stated that it was a classmate of Brown. The suspected shooter has been arrested and is in custody.

Todd Brown died at the hospital where he was taken after the shooting occurred. No motive for the shooting was given, and authorities are not releasing information due to the ongoing nature of the investigation. You can read more about the story and see a video report about the tragic shooting at Discovery Middle School in Madison, Alabama, below.

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This is a developing story and will be updated.

There has been a massive explosion at the Kleen Power Plant in Middletown, Ct. The plant is about two miles east of downtown Middletown, Connecticut. At this time there are two known fatalities and massive casualties.

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Even in the friendly and quiet confines of Casper, Wyoming, shocking and deviant crimes take place. Jebidiah Stipe arranged his ex-girlfriends rape via Craigslist and is now sitting in the Natrona County jail along with the alleged assailant Ty McDowell. Stipe placed an ad under the name ‘Sarah’ saying that he was looking for a “real aggressive man” who would rape her inside of her home.

Ty McDowell, 26, answered the ad, and on December 11th he broke into the woman’s home, tied her up and raped her. The only problem was it wasn’t “Sarah” he was raping; at least not the “Sarah” who had placed the ad. He was actually assaulting the ex-girlfriend of Jebidiah Stipe who in some sick way was acting out a fantasy.

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By know most of you have heard the story of the US Missionaries charged with kidnapping Haitian orphans. What you probably didn’t know is that the U.S. State Department doesn’t help these U.S. citizens being detained in Haiti and charged with kidnapping beyond monitoring the situation. Beyond consular access the State Department has not asked the Haitian government for the release of the jailed Americans.

Haiti’s prime minister, Jean-Max Bellerive has stated that the Haitian government may be willing to transfer the case to the United States, but has not received such a request which would need to come from the State Department. Read more about this controversial case, and see a video about the case below.

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Today, Right Juris brings you yet another example of liberal lunacy and lack of common sense regarding children, schools, teachers, police, crime and punishment.

Were you aware that if your child doodles on his / her desk, even in erasable marker…that said child could be handcuffed, arrested and hauled off to the police station?
Well, now you know.

Alexa Gonzalez, arrested for doodling, is only twelve ( 12 ) years old. The Queens’, N.Y. student was a little bored waiting on her teacher to pass out homework and had the audacity to do what gazillions of other student’s have done since the very first school ever opened.
She doodled! Gasp! Oh the horror of it all! Are citizens now forever scarred by this wanton, willful and malicious, albeit temporary defacing of a desk ? What did she doodle! Are we all gonna die?

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Dr. Conrad Murray, Michael Jackson’s doctor at the time of his death is to surrender Friday to authorities and will face charges in the death of Michael Jackson. The terms of the surrender have not been worked out, but they are being negotiated between Dr. Murray’s attorneys and the Los Angeles County District Attorney. The exact charge have not been disclosed, but most likely Murray will be charged with negligent homicide, or involuntary manslaughter.

You can read more about this story and find out more about the surrender of Dr. Conrad Murray below. You can also see a video where Michael Jackson’s sister blames Dr. Murray for the singer’s death.

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Now for another dose of liberal lunacy and lack of common sense, this time brought to you by the fine folks of the Staten Island educational system. Patrick Timoney, no, not an individual on the terrorist watch list, but a 4th grader suspended for playing with Lego toys because the figure he happened to be playing with was holding a machine gun.

It seems young Patrick Timoney made the ill conceived decision (sarcasm) to carry some Lego toys to school to play with his friends at lunch. For me it was G.I. Joe’s, but that’s another story. As Patrick and his friends were playing with their Lego’s at PS 52 during lunch period, the principal, ever the defender of the people and keeper of the gate, took the 9 year old into her office because he had on his possession a 2 inch toy gun.

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Oscar the ‘death cat’ first caught our attention in 2007 when Steere House Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Providence, Rhode Island announced that Oscar had accurately predicted the death of twenty five ( 25 ) patients. That number has about doubled to fifty ( 50 ) now.

Oscar the cat was adopted as a kitten in 2005 by the third floor staff of Steere Nursing Home. That floor specializes in caring for people with severe dementia.
Oscar started displaying his uncanny ability to predict death when he was about six months old.
See the video and read more about Oscar’s death predicting ability after the jump.
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