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Here Comes the Bookmobile With Hot, New Summer Pages!

CitizenSugar — Thu, 29 May 2008 15:45:18 -0700

What to read, what to read? With serious beach towel time or an empty nightstand, you might just be looking for a new book. Here are some brand spanking new releases that I'm checking out right now.

Goodnight Bush
With lyrical rhymes and Where's Waldo? detail, this parody of the childhood bedtime favorite Goodnight Moon bids farewell to the Bush administration. Here's a little sample:

Goodnight Constitution and goodnight evolution. Goodnight
democracy and goodnight privacy. Goodnight old growth trees, goodnight detainees. Goodnight allies, goodnight Abu Ghraib 'Cheese!'

OK, I might not be ordering that one, but there's more - polygamy! Fascism! Oh, my! For more Citizen-approved books, piquing my interest read more.

Stolen Innocence: My Story of Growing Up in a Polygamous Sect, Becoming a Teenage Bride, and Breaking Free of Warren Jeffs

A memoir by the 21-year-old star witness in polygamist Warren Jeffs' 2007 trial. Elissa Wall tells all about her forced marriage, the impenetrable mindset of the FLDS, and her long-awaited escape.

Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning

Today "fascist" is usually an insult slung at conservatives. National
Review editor Jonah Goldberg reminds us that history's great fascists were first socialists (liberal is pushing it). Look for controversial connections between fascist themes and American pop culture.

Final Salute: A Story of Unfinished Lives

Imagine having the job of knocking on doors to tell mothers and fathers their child was dead. Pulitzer prize-winning journalist Jim Sheeler did. He spent two years shadowing the marine in charge of casualty notification to give us vignettes of insight.

What's on your reading list this summer?

Happy Caturday!

GiggleSugar — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 04:00:00 -0800

Watch this brazen robbery, which occurred in broad daylight and was captured for an upcoming segment of Cops: Feline Edition. One cat quietly eats his meal while an interloper watches, waiting for the moment when he can swoop in and steal the innocent kitty's food. Instead of struggling with the perp, the cat helplessly watches as his meal is stolen from under his furry little face. It's every cat for himself, people. And here's proof.

Texas Releases Man After 27 Wrongful Years in Prison

LibertySugar — Tue, 06 May 2008 12:15:00 -0700

Texas released James Lee Woodard from prison, after he served 27 years for the murder of a young girl in 1981. Hold your outrage for one second - Woodard wasn't released because the state was facing a budget crisis like we discussed earlier. Instead, DNA evidence proved that Woodard was wrongly convicted. He served almost three decades behind bars for a murder he did not commit.

Faulty evidence put Woodard in jail for the rape and murder of his girlfriend. As Woodard recounts his conviction, he was sure that he would soon be released once the police properly investigated. He had an alibi - he had been cheating on his girlfriend and was at the other woman's house the night of the murder. Even so, infidelity is more forgivable than murder.

The tough on crime mentality has helped America obtain 25 percent of the world's prisoners, even though it only has two percent of the total global population. It appears that such a political climate has also resulted in wrongful convictions.

DNA has exonerated 17 men from Dallas, almost all black. To find out what Dallas's new District Attorney thinks about this, read more.

District Attorney Craig Watkins is the first black DA in Texas. He is changing the face of Texas justice, trying to eradicate dangerous prosecutorial abuse. This Thursday, the state is holding a Summit on Wrongful Convictions in Texas.

Does this case make you worry about other innocent people sitting in prison? Can society ever compensate someone like James Lee Woodard for the years that were stolen from him? Are we destined to have a criminal justice system that makes some serious errors, or is that why we have reasonable doubt?

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