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Wednesday, March 26, 2014

Cheat Sheet - The Medal of Honor Disgrace

Today: Rescue Efforts Were Delayed Following Deadly Landslide in Washington , Judge Kills Okla. Execution Law , Latinos Are Most Convicted in U.S.
Cheat Sheet: Afternoon

March 26, 2014
HIDDEN HEROES
Why is it that the Congressional Medal of Honor has been awarded only 13 times in over a decade of two wars? Brian Van Reet writes the military's highest honor has been bestowed more infrequently for Afghanistan and Iraq than any of America's past wars. The system for military awards is broken. We have become miserly when it comes to the top valor medals, while we hand out more of other types of awards. These awards must not be given carelessly, but they must be given. There are too many deserving candidates for it to be any other way.
BOTCHED
The landslide outside Seattle has claimed at least 16 lives so far and left 176 unaccounted for. Stacey Solie reports from Washington that volunteers and National Guardsmen say the initial rescue operation was needlessly delayed. In light of the horrific disaster, it appears that not nearly enough was done to protect the people of Snohomish County. Warning signs and previous reports of the "the potential for a large catastrophic failure" were ignored. Hope is fading fast to find anyone else alive.
D.O.A.

Oklahoma's execution law is too secretive about the drugs used to kill inmates and is therefore unconstitutional, a district judge ruled Wednesday. Two prisoners on death row sued the state to disclose who was making the drugs that would kill them and determine if they were pure. The law prevents even prisoners from learning the source of the drugs. County District Judge Patricia Parrish said the secrecy is a "violation of due process because access to the courts has been denied."

Justice?

According to a new report from the Pew Research Center, Hispanics accounted for almost half of all federal convictions in the U.S. in 2012—a dramatic increase from 5 percent a decade earlier. While some of the increase is due to a surge of Latin American migrants that began in the 1980s, harsher immigration policies are the main cause. Enacted in 2005, Operation Smile required all law-enforcement agents to criminally charge unlawful border-crossers—something that was left to their discretion until then. Now, as much as 80 percent of detained illegal immigrants are tried in a single hearing and then deported. Unlawful reentries, or multiple offenders, account for 26 percent of cases. It's all estimated to cost $1 billion for taxpayers.

SEE YA LATER

Monsignor Franz-Peter Tebartz-van Elst, the German bishop who came under fire for his new $43 million residence, was permanently removed by Pope Francis on Wednesday after a Vatican inquiry into his spending. In announcing the decision, the Vatican said the pope hopes Catholics in Limburg will handle the decision with "docility and willingness to rediscover a climate of charity and reconciliation." Since taking office, Pope Francis has stressed that members of the clergy should be models of piety and sobriety for the churchgoing public.


CAUGHT
FBI Arrests Charlotte Mayor
On corruption charges.
CONVICTED
Bin Laden Son-in-Law Guilty
Of conspiring to kill Americans on 9/11.
AWFUL
Navy Football Player Dies
After collapsing during practice.
NEVER ENDING
919 More of Brotherhood on Trial
Bringing total to 2,147.
FASHION ICON
Kim Jong-un Haircuts Now Required
Dictator reportedly requires males to get similar hairdo.

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