Two more stories in the Pensacola News Journal about Kent Hovind’s tax evasion trial: Christian College leader says taxes are part of religion Hovind argues God’s workers are exempt and Lawyer: Hovind detailed actions Evangelist said he ‘beat the system’
It’s day two of Kent Hovind’s trial for tax fraud, and still no Mike Argento or H.L. Mencken has emerged to report live the unvarnished snark. Still, the trial’s being covered by the Pensacola News Journal. It’s not much of a media feeding frenzy, but I suppose the national outlets have juicier stories to cover closer to […]
The Pensacola News Journal (”Still the only paper covering the Hovind trial!”) reports that a jury has been picked to decide whether Kent Hovind is an impoverished minister or a huckster who owes the IRS nearly half a million bucks in back taxes. I’d love to see the trial transcripts, but I haven’t found them anywhere.
* Some restrictions may apply. The definition of torture is subject to change without notice. Incarcerators’ decision may be final. So anyway, we now have a shiny new law that outlaws torture. With a few caveats. Like, the president gets to define what constitutes “torture”, so as long as he can rationalize that something is just high-spirited hijinks or […]
The Pensacola News Journal reports that jury selection for Kent Hovind’s trial begins today. If a jury is selected quickly enough, there might also be time for both sides’ opening remarks. I won’t speculate on whether this is likely, though. Hovind himself hasn’t written anything about this since Sep. 27, when he wrote As for the media, well, they […]
…thanks to Lawrence O’Donnell at HuffPo, and this tidbit in the Post: The staff member said Hastert’s chief of staff, Scott Palmer, met with the Florida Republican at the Capitol to discuss complaints about Foley’s behavior toward pages. Palmer, who shares a townhouse with Hastert when they are in town, is more powerful than all but a […]
Gil Dodgen posted the following over at Uncommon Descent: All computational evolutionary algorithms artificially isolate the effects of random mutation on the underlying machinery: the CPU instruction set, operating system, and algorithmic processes responsible for the replication process. If the blind-watchmaker thesis is correct for biological evolution, all of these artificial constraints must be eliminated. Every […]
