DeRosaWorld (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Thirty Days has November... and DeRosaWorld is bringing you a JFK Assassination fact for each day. "Get me one bullet in one case, just one from hundreds of thousands of cases ... that has done this. Nobody has ever produced one." - Cyril Wecht According to the single-bullet theory, a one-inch-long copper-jacketed lead-core 6.5-millimeter rifle bullet fired from the sixth floor of the...
TPMmuckraker (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
... politically motivated prosecutions against local Democrats, most notoriously in the case of Cyril Wecht, a former county coroner and Pennsylvania Democratic fundraiser, who Buchanan prosecuted for misusing his office for political gain. The jury foreman in Wecht's trial publicly called the case "politically driven," and the charges were ultimately dropped earlier this year....
WriteChic Press (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
... in the Bush Justice Department under the guidance of Rove: Carol Lam David Iglesias Don Siegelman Cyril Wecht Paul Minor The Bush Administration gave Fox News unfettered access and dictated Fox’s talking points. Dick Cheney boasted that he only watched Fox.
Pittsblog (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
... which begins in Pittsburgh with a scientist named Bennet Omalu, a blessing of sorts from his boss, Cyril Wecht, and what happened to Steelers icon "Iron Mike" Webster.
post-gazette.com (Free subscription) | 10/12/2009
... said Ms. Buchanan's actions over the last eight years, particularly the failed prosecution of Dr. Cyril H. Wecht "contributed to the deterioration of an Office which must always remain above and beyond all political reproach." Ms. Buchanan has refused to step down from her position until asked, and the search for her successor has been going on for some time . Mr. Burn's...
Froth Slosh B'Gosh (Free subscription) | 10/13/2009
... how does he propose cutting property taxes'?? The county's property tax hasn't been raised since Cyril Wecht was a commissioner in the 1980's and has been steadily cut since then, including a disastrous major slicing in the mid 1990's by Dunn and Dumber. You may recall that those two clowns won election by promising deep cuts in the property tax. What they failed to tell people (and...
Emptywheel (Free subscription) | 10/09/2009
Remember the stated reason Karl Rove gave for firing a bunch of US Attorneys? He saw these US Attorney positions as a great stepping stone for rising political stars. And now it looks like Mary Beth Buchanan, best known for her politicized prosecution of Dr. Cyril Wecht, may join Chris Christie and Tim Griffin in pursuit of elected office, in her case to run against Blue Dog Jason Altmire....
