By proving contraries, truth is made manifest.

Something fishy is going on in San Angelo, Texas. The San Angelo Standard Times reported Tuesday night that Teresa Jeffs’ increasingly strident attorney, Natalie Malonis, filed earlier in the day a second, “emergency motion” to seal the report on her client filed last Friday by Court Appointed Special Advocates Connie Gauwain and Shirley Davis: [Read more →]

Cuba — as we outlined in La Manzana de Havana — always plays an outsized role in U.S. presidential politics. What better time than now, as November looms, for Russia to once again deploy nuclear bombers to Cuba? The Russians just love these kinds of games. What with the Russian and U.S. economies respectively booming and busting (and U.S. missiles deploying to the Czech Republic) . . . they’re back!

Breitbart reports.

Brooke Adams reports two interesting tidbits on the days’ events in San Angelo. First, Teresa Jeffs’ defense attorney, Alan Futrell, filed a motion to replace Natalie Malonis. [Read more →]

. . . I don’t want to hear any Texan claim that marriage of 15-year-olds is immoral. Suddenly illegal, maybe. Immoral, no. Until 2005 — when Harvey Hilderbran and Governor Perry (pic right) ramped up State-sponsored discrimination against the FLDS — the Texas age of consent was 14.

The reason Texas changed the age of consent to 17 (from 14) was not because Texans suddenly got religion or found the younger age immoral. Quite the opposite. It was for the far more immoral and unconstitutional purpose of driving a religious minority out of their State. When huffy, moralizing Texas prosecutors get all in a wad over FLDS “under-aged” marriages, remember the words of Paul: “Thou whited wall.” [Read more →]

It’s pretty clear that Natalie Malonis was behind last Friday’s leak of the CASA report (actually filed by the Jeffs’ guardian ad litem) that allegedly discloses Jeffs’ personal diary entries and photos reporting on her “marriage” to Ray Jessop. Malonis, after (apparently) approving of the leak to serve her own political objectives, suddenly moved Monday to “seal” the leaked CASA report. Deseret News reports this morning (July 22):

On Monday [July 21], Malonis filed papers seeking to have the report prepared by the Court-Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) sealed, saying, “The report and attachments contain sensitive information pertaining to allegations of sex abuse of a minor.”

Malonis acknowledged that the timing was a little late but said she was trying to protect her client. “It would prevent any further dissemination, at least from the court,” she [said] Monday night.

“Trying to protect her client”? A “little late”? “Further dissemination at least from the court?” What’s really going on here?

It’s all part of a cynical, illegal plan, coordinated by the State of Texas, aided and abetted by a nationwide crime syndicate that Georgia State Senator Nancy Schaefer calls an Empire Built on Taking Children. Their immediate objectives? Salvage the power of Texas CPS, defend the child-snatching industry, get rid of pesky Jeffs’ defense attorney Alan Futrell, and run the FLDS out of the State by inflaming the public with sensationalistic slices of data no matter how unreliable. This has been the CPS pattern from the beginning.

But why, if you want the public to see all this stuff, would you move to seal it after first revealing it? Because, arguably, the leak was illegal and violated Malonis’ duties to represent the best interests of Teresa Jeffs. By moving belatedly to seal it, Malonis gives the CPS-collaborator Texas courts an excuse to let Malonis off her own legal hook. More on the hook, below. [Read more →]

Natalie Malonis has filed a motion to seal the report filed last Friday by Teresa Jeffs’ CASA . . . Malonis says, in motion, that it’s in Teresa’s best interests — now that it has already been fully disclosed in the major press — to cover it up. Jockeying for position with grand jury tomorrow? What’s Malonis up to? Why leave the report wide open to be picked over on the weekend only to seal it now?

Click on the graphic to access a full copy of Malonis’ motion.

Al Gore — great, white compulsive CO2 opportunist — can’t stop bloviating on global warming.  If we could just stick Gore’s own carbon footprint in his super-sized mouth, we might save an endangered iceberg or two.  National Post reports: [Read more →]

For voters sitting on the fence, John McCain’s appearance last Friday on Conan O’Brien is a worth a look.  Click here (or the pic below) to access the video, wait through the ad for whatever, then move the timer-slide thingy (yeah, I’m hi-tech!) to the 15:00 point and enjoy.  McCain comes across as funny, down-to-earth and worthy of the nation’s trust.

Never thought I’d say this, by the way, having expressed as recently as last fall the inclination to vote for . . . gasp . . . Barack Obama.

Freedom and Liberty Defenders Society Petition

On July 24, 2008 the United States Senate is holding a hearing in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee regarding the FLDS Church and the polygamist lifestyle. In order for this hearing to be fair, we, as petitioners, feel that it is absolutely essential that members of the FLDS Church and those favorable to their cause be invited to testify to give a fair balance of the facts before that committee. [Read more →]

The 50,000-strong American Physical Society this week re-opened, then not-so-smoothly tried to shut down, debate over whether evidence for anthropogenic global warming — “Thropo Glo Wo” to conserve syllables — really is “incontrovertible” as the APS has previously claimed.

In the June 2008 edition of APS’ newsletter Physics & Society, the Editor wrote:

There is a considerable presence within the scientific community of people who do not agree with the IPCC conclusion that anthropogenic CO₂ emissions are very likely to be primarily responsible for the global warming that has occurred since the Industrial Revolution.”

The newsletter is posted on the APS website, but the APS quickly tried to hide this all-to-obvious family disagreement, posting the note (above) on its homepage. Funny that the APS would raise the “non-peer-reviewed” status of its own newsletter to refute the easily- and widely-verified assertion that real scientists (as opposed to Al Gore) disagree over how much “thropo” there is in “glo wo.” We’re glad to see this scientific iceberg begin to melt. [Read more →]