An Apology Now, Mike Huckabee?
It was exactly one year ago today that four police officers in Lakewood, Washington were murdered in cold blood while they ate at a local coffee shop.
It was exactly one year ago today that four police officers in Lakewood, Washington were murdered in cold blood while they ate at a local coffee shop.
Fred Karger | Posted 05.25.2011
Now the Republican Party has its own 21st Century George Wallace, another Southern Governor who has also run for president, Mike Huckabee of Arkansas.
Andrew Grant-Thomas, Ph.D. | Posted 05.25.2011
High-profile clemency cases like Maurice Clemmons, while tragic, are ridiculously atypical of the cases that usually come to the attention of parole boards and chief executives.
Posted 05.25.2011
On Monday night, former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee went on BIll O'Reilly's show to discuss the clemency he granted nearly a decade ago to Maurice...
Norm Stamper | Posted 05.25.2011
We should candidly look at whether Mike Huckabee is getting a raw deal for granting clemency to the man who murdered four Lakewood, Washington cops this Thanksgiving weekend.
Posted 05.25.2011
Cop killer Maurice Clemmons drove to New York in June to see local minister Bernard Jordan, claiming that he was Jesus Christ. According to the Ne...
AP/Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — As governor of Arkansas, Mike Huckabee had a hand pardoning or commuting many more prisoners than his three immediate predec...
AP | GENE JOHNSON | Posted 05.25.2011
SEATTLE — Authorities believe the man sought in the slaying of four police officers is still alive and has been aided by a network of friends an...
Christopher Brauchli | Posted 05.25.2011
If you've heard politicians discuss the danger of releasing Gitmo prisoners on the belief that they'll return to attack us once again, you'd assume that recidivism among the released would be near 100%.
Valerie Tarico | Posted 05.25.2011
Since Clemmons was pardoned by Mike Huckabee, the presidential hopeful who has made fundamentalist religion the center of his politics, I couldn't help wondering if religion played a part.
Norm Stamper | Posted 05.25.2011
Whether Clemmons was seeking cover to pull his gun and fire, or about to flee, the officer did precisely the right thing. It was not a "cold-blooded murder", it was a courageous and necessary act.
DJ Jaffe | Posted 11.17.2011
Maurice Clemmons is now dead. But treatment for his illness would have been better for all. We have to stop denying violence and start treating it.
Diane Dimond | Posted 05.25.2011
We'll never know how many other parole boards, governors, judges and -- yes -- even bail bondsmen have helped release ticking time bombs like Maurice Clemmons.
Dr. Cara Barker | Posted 11.17.2011
The question is what result does criticizing leave in its wake? Since criticizing, complaining, and gossiping are anything but solution-oriented, they bring destruction, not solution.
AP | GENE JOHNSON | Posted 05.25.2011
SEATTLE — A lone officer on patrol in the middle of the night Tuesday spotted a stolen car, its hood up and engine running, and pulled over to c...
David Vines | Posted 05.25.2011
Candidates have strong incentives to keep criminals behind bars. But when such standards trickle down to nonviolent criminals, prison populations and government debt soar, and lives are ruined.
McClatchy | Adam Lynn | Posted 05.25.2011
TACOMA, Wash. -- Maurice Clemmons threatened to kill more than just cops in the days before he massacred four police officers at a coffee shop. Scho...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011
Two possible GOP presidential candidates are using the controversy over Mike Huckabee's granting of clemency to a man suspected of killing four police...
Politico | Andy Barr | Posted 05.25.2011
The conservative blogosphere unleashed a torrent of criticism against Mike Huckabee Monday after a man whose sentence he commuted as Arkansas governor...
AP | RACHEL LA CORTE | Posted 05.25.2011
TACOMA, Wash. — About 20,000 mourners, mostly members of law enforcement from Washington state and across the country, honored four slain office...
Fred Karger | Posted 05.25.2011