Crime

AG Holder May Be Held in Contempt for “Fast & Furious” Cover-up

Attorney General Eric Holder faced tough questions about the “Fast and Furious” gun-trafficking scandal from outraged members of Congress during a Thursday hearing,...

Alex Newman February 4, 2012

TSA Agent Caught Stealing $5,000 from Passenger at JFK Airport

Michael Tennant February 4, 2012

Another day, another sticky-fingered Transportation Security Administration agent caught stealing from airline passengers: According to the Associated Press, 31-year-old Alexandra Schmid, a TSA...

Tennessee Lawmaker Writes a Law, Then Breaks It

Bob Adelmann January 31, 2012

When Curry Todd was arrested last October for driving under the influence, he unknowingly set off a string of consequences, some predictable, that...

Hidden Camera Reveals How Easy It Is for Phantom Voters to Vote

Kurt Hyde January 23, 2012

James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas sent investigative reporters to the polls during the New Hampshire presidential primary on January 10. The goal was to...

Top “Fast & Furious” Official Pleads the Fifth; Refuses to Testify

Alex Newman January 21, 2012

A senior official with the U.S. Department of Justice involved in the growing “Fast and Furious” federal gun-trafficking scandal told Congress that he...

Steal $40K, Get 6 Months in Jail — If You’re a TSA Worker

Michael Tennant January 20, 2012

Steal $40,000 from a bank, and you’ll spend a decade or two in prison. Steal $40,000 from an airplane passenger’s luggage and you’ll...

Justice Department Expands Federal Definition of Rape

Dave Bohon January 11, 2012

The Obama administration’s Justice Department has announced that it is expanding what it said is an outdated definition of rape found in the...

A Headless Body in Arizona, More Severed Heads in Mexico

William F. Jasper January 10, 2012

Is the latest decapitated body found in the Arizona desert near Tucson another example of Mexico’s drug war violence spreading across the border?...

Did Police Overreact in Shooting of Texas Teen?

Dave Bohon January 6, 2012

As hundreds of family members, friends, and fellow students attended a wake for the Brownsville, Texas, teen shot down by police January 4...

ATF’s Private Letter Rulings Indicative of Its Arrogance

Bob Adelmann January 4, 2012

Robert E. Sanders, a former official of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (still known as ATF) for 24 years and...

Late-Term Abortionists Charged with Murder in Maryland

Dave Bohon January 2, 2012

Two doctors who traveled to Maryland to perform late-term abortions have been arrested on multiple murder counts, in what the Associated Press called...

Birmingham, Alabama’s Bankruptcy: the Fraud That Will Not Go Away

Bob Adelmann December 27, 2011

Mike Shedlock, who has been watching the Jefferson County, Alabama, municipal bond bankruptcy and default closely, has turned up some more fraud. It appears...