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Everett Homicide Suspect Admits to Shootings
Everett Police are identifying the suspect in a shooting that took two lives and left a woman hospitalized. Tye Fleischer is charged with two counts of second-degree murder and one count of first-degree assault. Killed were Kevin Odneal and Denny Halverson. The injured woman was struck in the pelvis and is expected to survive. Officers…
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Bringing Back the Firing Squad
Nevada has more than 80 prison inmates on death row, but no one’s been put to death since 2006 and no executions are scheduled. Now state prisons Chief Greg Cox wants $800,000 to build a death chamber at Ely State Prison about 35 miles west of the Utah line and another $7.6 million for a…
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Your Help is Needed After a Senseless Act of Violence
“My niece was walking out the door when the guy got out of his van and just started shooting everybody,” writes my friend, Jocelyn Warriner. “I’ve lost a wonderful person in my life. Her two daughters have lost a wonderful mom and my sister lost great daughter.” “You will be missed Denny, rest in peace,”…
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Presidents Day Weekend a Deadly One Overseas
“Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far,” Theodore Roosevelt wrote to Henry Sprague on January 26, 1900, while serving as New York’s governor. More than 115-years later, a video shows the mass beheading of Coptic Christian hostages by ISIS/ISIL in Libya. The 21 men, all in orange jumpsuits, were marched along a beach in…
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Rewarding People for Bad Behavior
Her name is Jessica Liesmann, but she’s better known as “Mama Bear,” or the woman who confronted an armed car thief after he rammed into her mini-van in Texas. And now, she’s been ‘rewarded’ with a new vehicle. “A high-speed police chase came to a dramatic end Wednesday in North Dallas when the driver rear-ended…
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Tom Golbov, 1932-2015
From time to time, I’d see him standing out on his back porch smoking a cigarette. We would wave to each other, but hardly did we ever speak other than to say a polite ‘hello’ to each other. Along with this was the fact that while this man’s home was being built, Kyle saw a…
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The Digital Dark Age
Last year I wrote about possible world-wide financial troubles in “The Coming Bubble,” which is ready to pop, sending the U.S. in a slide worse that the Great Depression of the 1930s: “USA Today published an article featuring a chart showing the internet bubble, the housing bubble, and an unnamed bubble labeled a ‘stock market bubble.’ While the article…
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The Fool in the Mirror
President Barack Obama once again prove jus’ how out of touch he is with America. Recently he was shown on Buzzfeed allowing his full narcissism to be on display via a string of selfies. The pictures (part of a video aimed to get people to sign up for Obamacare) were shot the same day the White…
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The Cowboy, the Indian and Radical Islamist
My friend Charles sent this joke to me — and while completely politically incorrect, I thought I’d share it. Three strangers strike up a conversation in the airport lounge awaiting their flights. One is an American Indian another is a cowboy. The third is a Radical Islamist. Their discussion drifts to their diverse cultures. Soon, the…
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When Artwork Makes a Difference in Life
It’s not often that I receive personal mail from the post office these days. Much of what I get comes via the Internet. So when I went to the mail box and found a small package addressed to me from Lyn and Sean Schmitt of North Las Vegas, I was excited. Once I opened it,…