Obama will cut social security and Medicare and the Democrats will support him.

I get it about the flu and the concussion, but it seemed odd that we had not heard anything from her for weeks. So, I have been wondering if things were more serious than we were being told. Now, it is entirely possible, and I hope this  is the case, that Hillary was acting out of an abundance of caution by actually resting and taking care of herself following her fall. And, really, after all the traveling she has done the past four, well, counting the campaign five, years, who could blame her for grabbing this chance to just kick back and maybe sleep-in?

A century and a half later, it still gives us something to think about.

Changes? I really can't imagine any right now.

What is something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue?

Answer:

Justices said a Muscatine County man who confessed to sexually abusing his girlfriend's 18-month-old son deserves a new trial because a police officer's pledge to get him treatment amounted to an inappropriate promise of leniency and could have sparked a false confession.

Robert Howard was convicted of child endangerment and second-degree sexual abuse after he took the blame for blood discovered in the child's diaper on Jan. 14, 2010.

After a doctor determined it was child abuse, a Muscatine police detective questioned Howard about what Howard believed should happen to someone who sodomized a child.

The detective and Howard both believed that such a person should be given the help he needs to overcome his urges. After discussion about Howard's desire to create a normal family, Howard ultimately confessed.

From the Des Moines Register editorial board:

In the Muscatine case, a detective implied during a recorded in-custody interrogation that if Howard told the truth about what happened he could avoid prison and instead would get mental treatment. That, the court said, crossed the line. That is a promise a police detective cannot make, of course, yet it could persuade a vulnerable defendant to lie, if only to avoid a prison sentence.

This decision follows a similar ruling from the Iowa Supreme Court in May reiterating its rule on such interrogation tactics. In that ruling, the court noted that the courts and legal commentators "have long recognized promises of leniency can induce false confessions leading to wrongful convictions of the innocent."

Both last week's and the May decisions were written by Justice Thomas Waterman. There were no dissenting opinions in either case.

The court had opportunities to reach a more popular result in the Muscatine case, including by holding that the confession was a "harmless error" not critical to the conviction. Yet, the court rightly said using the harmless error standard "would undermine the deterrent value of the exclusionary rule for confessions tainted by a promise of leniency."

Good move, Broncos.

Further, Boise's decision probably means that San Diego State will also withdraw and stay in the Mountain West, since one of the provisions of the Aztecs' agreement is that if the Broncos opt out, the Aztecs can do likewise without incurring a financial penalty.