Donovan Riley - Future felon running for WI Senate

If there is one thing Donovan Riley understands about politics, it's the importance of getting votes. He's currently facing incumbent Jeff Pale in Wisconsin's Democrat primary election for Wisconsin State Senator, and is hoping to shine up his record of public service.

Unfortunately, he might be facing a criminal record, instead. Records show that on November 7, 2000 he voted in the Presidential election in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin, where his ex-wife had purchased a second home. He had registered to vote in Wisconsin the day before. He then drove back to Chicago and voted again.

His excuse is simple enough. "I made a mistake," Riley claims. Apparently he can't remember voting in one state, then driving 2 hours and voting again in another state. Or maybe his mistake was thinking that he wouldn't get caught so easily in a felony situation. Maybe he should switch his defense to "All the Democrats are doing it. What's the big deal?"

On this day in 1953

Soviets test "Layer-Cake" bomb

Less than one year after the United States tested its first hydrogen bomb, the Soviets detonate a 400-kiloton device in Kazakhstan. The explosive power was 30 times that of the U.S. atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, and the mushroom cloud produced by it stretched five miles into the sky. Known as the "Layer Cake," the bomb was fueled by layers of uranium and lithium deuteride, a hydrogen isotope. The Soviet bomb was smaller and more portable than the American hydrogen bomb, so its development once again upped the ante in the dangerous nuclear arms race between the Cold War superpowers.