March 31, 2004

  1. If John Ashcroft Doesn’t Get You, Don Cooney Will

    One of the most active left wing folks around my part of the world is Kalamazoo City Commissioner Don Cooney. Cooney’s sort of a left wing institution around here and when he was elected to the city commission several years ago, the local paper quoted a local Republican official as saying something to the effect…

  2. SARS Con Man Get Scammed

    According to this Boston Herald story, 38-year-old Weldong Xu scammed friends and co-workers out of more than $600,000. He claimed he was raising the money to help launch a SARS research institute in China, but he allegedly pocketed the money. Well, not quite. According to police, Xu decided to parlay his scam into big winnings…