Political Mercury
Hawaii is Barry Obamaâs home state, Illinois is Barack Obamaâs home state, but Iowa is President Obamaâs home state.
By Douglas Burns
2/3/2021
President Joe Biden speaks in Carroll before the Iowa Caucuses. He campaigned across Iowa with Tom Vilsack, the nominee for U.S. secretary of agriculture and a Biden friend. (Photo Courtesy of Carroll Times Herald)
In incoming U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack, Iowa has not just an experienced hand leading a federal agency vital to the Hawkeye Stateâs economy, but he is a close adviser and friend of President Biden.
EVANSTON, Wyo. (KSTU) Mark Douglas Burns has been sentenced to life in prison without parole for the 2001 murder of Sue Ellen Gunderson Higgins in Evanston, Wyoming.
Earlier this year, Burns was arrested in Ogden, Utah and identified as a serial rape cold case suspect known as the Clearfield Rapist. The Clearfield Rapist was wanted for 11 sexual assaults between 1991 and 2001. The known victims ranged in age from 11 years old to 52 years old.
Burns was also ordered to pay $7,200 of restitution to Higgins family for the cost of the funeral and carpet replacement in the home.
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source or a french source or a british source, you don t think it s you think that would also be somehow an impeachment? i think that s a naive reading of what happened here. we have donald jr. getting a phone call from the russians saying we have valuable information come talk to us. anybody in the political sphere knows it is a quid pro quo there. if you don t hesitate then, you ve got some serious judgment problems. you know, douglas, we rely on foreign information and intelligence all the time, the government does, and people freely talk to all kinds of foreign nationals who are here. that s not a crime, is it? well, my colleague has decided to ratchet it up a little. let s ratchet it up a lot. okay? the disingenuousness and the double-standard is absolutely breathtaking beyond as if to say alex that this never goes on on the other side of the aisle. where? let me finish, please. where?
him back to kuwait while knowing that flight, which could have gone directly from turkey to kuwait, was going to have this stopover in jordan. perhaps everybody was colluding but for us a obvious reasons some nations don t want to be seen helping the united states. shepard: thank you. legal panel now. richard roth, former federal prosecutor, douglas burns. richard, there s a lot of people upset he is being taken to lower manhattan, but when we catch people, we normally arrest them and give. the a lawyer and try them. right? turning it into a political issue. it s new york versus guantanamo, and the bottom line is you want to nail this guy using the legal term and you want too defer other people. to nail him, if you look at the statistics, 67 cop visitations since 9/11 in the united states. and only seven in guantanamo. two of which have been overturned. you don t want to lose this