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(Dec. 16) -- Authorities in California are hoping the release of nearly 200 photos found in the possession of a suspected serial killer will prompt people to come forward with information. The photos are among thousands that police recovered from the home of Lonnie Franklin Jr., a 57-year-old retired auto mechanic who was arrested in July, after DNA evidence allegedly linked him to the killings of 10 women that occurred from 1985 to 1988 and from 2002 to 2007. All of the victims were black, and many were prostitutes. The victims were shot with a handgun or strangled. Their bodies were dumped ...
That is the question every scandal-plagued politician fears, mainly because it has no good answer. Once the public starts framing the inquiry that way, it generally means they don't trust the responses given so far -- as well as the person giving the answers -- and likely won't put much faith in what comes next, no matter how sincere the reassurances. That Pope Benedict XVI finds himself in this unenviable position Thursday morning is a result of both a "tsunami" of stories -- the word used by an Austrian cardinal close to the pontiff -- concerning the sexual abuse of children by clerics ...
One of the legitimate reasons for hope in the potential of the incoming Obama administration is what the election of an African-American president could mean for race relations in the United States. Obama's race is of course not in itself a qualification for office. But his election does symbolize how far America has come from its discriminatory past. Truth be told, America has been ready to elect a black man to high office for a much longer time than the left will admit. Until Obama, there simply have not been African-American candidates that have proved acceptable to the broad middle of the ...
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