COVID-19 becomes political strategy for N.J. Dems | Letters
Updated Mar 03, 2021;
I believe that Democrats are using COVID-19 as a political tactic to increase government spending and government power.
The pandemic-related emergency borrowing by New Jersey state government last year turned out to be unnecessary. Also, they should have let the voters decide on this $4 billion of debt.
Now, the Democrats want to use this borrowed money that the state didn’t need, to increase government spending in the 2021-2022 state budget. They should send this money back to the lenders early without paying additional interest, but they made a deal with the lenders not to do this. State Senate President Stephen Sweeney, D-Gloucester, apparently wanted to make sure he could spend the money, no matter what.
The Craziest False Confessions In History
By Jeff Somers/Feb. 13, 2021 8:15 pm EDT/Updated: Feb. 22, 2021 9:47 pm EDT
Confession is a powerful act. It s the centerpiece of several religions, it s a key part of crime investigation and police work, and when something weighs on your conscience the relief it offers can be irresistible.
It s easy to assume that only guilty people confess to misdeeds or crimes. After all, why would you take on the consequences of something you didn t do? But as Science magazine reports, false confession is actually a lot more common than you might think. People confess to things they didn t actually do for many reasons, but it usually involves either mental illness or the extreme pressure that police and other people can bring to bear on someone suspected of a crime. Exhausted and confused after hours of interrogation that can often include outright falsehoods told by the police, people can and do come to believe things about themselves they know are
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Henry Lee Lucas is one of, if not the most, recognizable and controversial serial killers of all time. That s mostly because nobody really knows if he s a serial killer. Lucas, confessed to over 600 murders in his life, but law enforcement has only been able to confirm 3 murders (his mother early in his life and two others after he got out of prison for his mother s murder). However, his story has been the basis of several movies and documentaries including Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer and a new Netflix miniseries The Confession Killer .
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10 Creepy Unsolved Mysteries That Happened On Halloween
Halloween is the one night of the year where being scared is supposed to be good fun. However, amid all the harmless activities like trick-or-treating, sometimes genuinely frightening and disturbing things can happen. October 31 has been the date of some horrific murders and unexplained disappearances which are far more terrifying than any ghouls, goblins, or witches. Because they happened to take place on Halloween, the following mysteries have an extra aura of creepiness to them, and they remain unsolved to this day.
10 The Murders Of Ronald Sisman And Elizabeth Platzman Sometime during the early morning Halloween hours of 1981, a Manhattan couple named Ronald Sisman and Elizabeth Platzman were murdered in their apartment, which was located near Greenwich Village. The couple was severely beaten before being shot in the head, execution-style, and the apartment was completely ransacked. Sisman was rumored to be involved in d