Day: December 11, 2014

A woman charged with shooting and killing her ex-husband and stepdaughter has strong connections to groups advocating for expanding open carry gun laws in Texas. Veronica Dunnachie was arrested and charged with shooting and killing her ex-husband and step daughter. Dunnachie's Facebook page includes photos of her engaged in open carry firearm advocacy activities.

Lower gas prices and their continued fall seems to indicate that President Obama will have a much better 2015 than 2014, or so the Wall Street Journal thinks.

Low oil prices now appear likely to be with us deep into next year, at least, and they are shaping up as a win-win for the president. It’s hard to imagine a single development that carries so many upsides and so few downsides. The domestic economic benefits are obvious; more intriguing but less obvious are the ways low oil prices benefit American strategy around the world.

Perhaps the cowardly Democrats in the General Assembly can use this opportunity to fix our damn roads now. Now, someone said this upon signing the UN Convention on Torture:

“The United States participated actively and effectively in the negotiation of [this] Convention. It marks a significant step in the development during this century of international measures against torture and other inhuman treatment or punishment. Ratification of the Convention by the United States will clearly express United States opposition to torture, an abhorrent practice unfortunately still prevalent in the world today. The core provisions of the Convention establish a regime for international cooperation in the criminal prosecution of torturers relying on so-called ‘universal jurisdiction.’ Each State Party is required either to prosecute torturers who are found in its territory or to extradite them to other countries for prosecution.”

That someone was President Ronald Reagan. He says that each state party, i.e. each nation that has entered into the UN Convention Treaty on Torture, is required to either prosecute torturers or extradite them to other countries for prosecution. Thus, President Ronald Reagan has called for the prosecution of President Bush and Vice President Cheney, and if we don't do it, some other more exceptional nation than the United States must.