The article, itself, states: The decision to launch the dna appeal came after De Vries in May broadcast information about a Playboy cigarette lighter found in Vaatstra's bag which contains dna traces that match the traces found on the schoolgirl's body.

It was more than a lighter exchange. Matching DNA was found on both the lighter and on the girl's body. That led to the DNA-dragnet. Apparently, the suspect's DNA matched the samples from her body and the lighter.

It's unfortunate that the "they-pay-nothing" argument is made by so many, including a presidential candidate. This statement is false.

Even the bottom 20% pays an average of 17.4% of their income in taxes. It is absurd for anyone to say that some group "pays nothing." It is grossly absurd for a well-educated, former governor and many supposedly informed supporters, including a member of the House Budget Committee, to say "they don't pay anything."

Here is one summary of the overall tax burden as a % of income in 2011:
17.4% - Lowest 20% (Avg cash income: $13,000)
21.2% - Second 20% ($26,100)
25.2% - Third 20% ($42,000)
28.3% - Fourth 20% ($68,700)
29.5% - Next 10% ($105,000)
20.3% - Next 5% ($147,000)
30.4% - Next 4% ($254,000)
29.0% - Top 1% ($1,371,000)

Source (pdf): http://www.ctj.org/pdf/taxday2012.pdf

There are so many people who start from the premise that there is no problem. Why does it take anything more than common sense to determine that it is bad for the planet to burn, in a year, many billions of tons of coal and many billions of barrels of oil?

I'd bet that most climate evangelists would be more than happy if people would simply use common sense & agree that there is a problem - with the expectation that agreeing that there is a problem would allow the focus to shift to solving it.

Carbon tax, or whatever, isn't going to make your ice cream melt slower today. Unfortunately, too many people jump from that point to ignoring/denying the problem, then burn some more stuff to make the air around their ice cream colder. Then, their great, great grandchildren can burn even more stuff to keep their ice cream cold.

Yeah, everyone knows that God was smart enough to create the Earth with a feature to counteract the effect of a few billion people burning stuff all day long.

This reminds me of the dubious decision to hide file name extensions in Windows Explorer by default - you know, since users don't really need that information.

Facebook should get a pass for the same reason that "are you homosexual or heterosexual", "what church do you attend" and "how often do you masturbate" get a pass.

A while back, I created an account on ESPN and used "Miguel" instead of my real name - leading to ads in Spanish.

In this case, the employer's policy is to also obtain the FB password to re-certify existing employees. So, those employees should lose their jobs unless they give up their FB password?

Also, viewing the FB account of a job seeker very likely gives the employer access to information that cannot be legally asked in an interview.

Recently passed House Bill 976 says that the statutes will be available online by Jan 1, 2008.