“History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.” Martin Luther King Jr. *********** “The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Leonardo DiCaprio, star of the controversial film “J. Edgar”, lost out Sunday night for a Golden Globe Award to George Clooney, who starred in the movie “The Descendants.” The category was “Best Performance by an actor in a motion picture-drama. ” Besides Clooney, DiCaprio was up against Michael Fassbender in “Shame”,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Kareem Ibrahim, an Imam, will have to communicate to the person up above, behind bars, for the rest of his life. Brooklyn U.S. District Judge Dora L. Irizarry on Friday sentenced Ibrahim to life in prison for conspiring to commit a terrorist attack at John F. Kennedy International Airport in Queens…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Ex-presidential hopeful John Edwards has found a way to delay his pending federal trial on alleged campaign violations. The Associated Press reports that a North Carolina fed judge on Friday delayed his January trial date until at least March 26 after his cardiologist sent two letters to the judge citing Edward’s…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com A New York cop plans on pleading guilty to charges relating to allegations that he falsely arrested an innocent black man and later made racist remarks about the incident, reports the New York Post. Michael Daragjati was arrested by the FBI this fall on civil rights violations. He has been in…
Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com An FBI agent testified in federal court Thursday in New York that she deleted several months of potentially sensitive emails during a terror investigation, the Associated Press reported. Defense attorneys want to examine the emails to see if agents skirted rules while interrogating Eritrean terror suspect Mohamed Ibrahim Ahmed, reports the Associated…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com It appears that members of Congress have found a new ATF operation to scrutinize. But unlike Fast and Furious, the operation–code-named White Gun–has been defended by the agency as a “well-managed investigation” which resulted in the arrest and conviction of three individuals, reports LA Times. Still, critics are skeptical. “Apparently guns got…
