The Northern Muckraker

• The President's definitely having a bad day today

  The top two headlines in today's print edition of the Arizona Republic:
  
  "GOP wins signal trouble for Dems" (New Jersey and Virginia governor races both won by Republicans)
  
  "Health reform snarled in Senate" (Senator Harry Reid announces that a bill may not be voted on until sometime next' [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 1:59pm EST
  

• Today's TASER Travesty

  "At the same time Taser International is publicly telling police to avoid aiming at a suspect's chest, the company is privately telling police officers [in conference calls closed to the public and press] that there is virtually no problem aiming at a suspect's chest."
  
  Then why [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 1:22pm EST
  

• Sickening

  Adams, Massachusetts Police Officer Alan C. Vigiard has been arrested on child-pornography possession charges. That fact is nauseating in and of itself, but the details of this particular case are truly disturbing.
  
  Vigiard is accused of not only downloading the kiddie porn from a computer in the department's' [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 10:26am EST