Crime

New Taser Fires Three Shots

Taser International demonstrated its new Taser X3 on July 27 at the company’s annual conference for law enforcement personnel. According to a July...

Steven J. DuBord July 29, 2009

Newark, NJ offers $1000 for tips on “illegal” guns

Patrick Krey July 29, 2009

Are you looking for a quick way to make some money in this tough economic climate? Cory Booker, the Mayor of Newark New...

Free AK-47 Comes With Purchase of Truck

Alex Newman July 27, 2009

With car sales down nearly a third from last year, retailers and businesses are coming up with ever more innovative ways to entice...

Hate-crime Laws Expand, Freedom Contracts

Selwyn Duke July 20, 2009

The Senate has just passed the greatest expansion of federal hate-crime "protections" since the legislation's inception in 1968. While the original law was...

Will Torture Probe Prosecute Peons and Protect Politicians?

Thomas R. Eddlem July 14, 2009

Attorney General Eric Holder is on the verge of appointing a special prosecutor to investigate felony torture under the Bush administration. ...

American Idle: Stopping the “Prison Rape” Epidemic

Beverly K. Eakman July 13, 2009

A rash of articles has surfaced deploring pervasive rape among inmates in U.S. jails and prisons. The July 8 opinion piece in the...

Pentagon Report Verified Detainee Torture

Thomas R. Eddlem July 6, 2009

The picture that emerges from 51 pages of recently declassified documents about detention at Guantanamo is one of persistent torture approved directly by...

ATF Surge in Texas

Alex Newman July 4, 2009

At the behest of the Mexican government, federal agents are scouring the streets of Houston in search of guns and information. The Bureau...

Guantanamo Defense Lawyers Point to “Black Site” Torture

Thomas R. Eddlem July 3, 2009

Defense lawyers for a former Guantanamo Bay detainee have won a partial victory in opening up the torture at secret CIA prisons around...

Crime and No Punishment in Massachusetts

Thomas R. Eddlem June 29, 2009

I wasn’t surprised to see one of my local newspapers, the Brockton Enterprise, publish a story about a 36-year-old career criminal being arraigned...

U.S. Attorney Tries to Kill Book Exposing Terrorism

William F. Jasper June 15, 2009

A major battle over censorship is igniting. Since October 2007, United States Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald has been trying to kill a book that...

Late-term Abortion Provider George Tiller Killed

Steven J. DuBord June 1, 2009

“George R. Tiller, the nation's most prominent provider of controversial late-term abortions, was shot and killed yesterday in the lobby of his Lutheran...