Angela Corey, the special prosecutor appointed by Florida Gov. Rick Scott (R) to investigate the death of Trayvon Martin, and who charged George Zimmerman (now acquitted) with second-degree murder, fired a whistleblower Friday who revealed that prosecutors had not turned
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) sent a message to supporters after George Zimmerman was acquitted of murder and manslaughter Saturday evening, asking them to sign a petition urging the Department of Justice to initiate a
Sunny Hostin, a legal analyst who backed the prosecution during CNN’s coverage of the George Zimmerman trial, told viewers Saturday night that the trial had been good because it forced Americans to talk about race. “One of the good things
The jury in the trial of George Zimmerman is evidently weighing the evidence carefully. After roughly two hours of deliberation, it asked Judge Debra Nelson its first question–namely, for a list of the exhibits of evidence introduced in the trial.
It is a measure of how far U.S. foreign policy has fallen under President Barack Obama that our relations with Egypt–one of the top recipients of U.S. foreign aid–depend entirely on a lunch in April. That fortuitous meal was shared
The most dramatic moment yet of the George Zimmerman trial yet occurred during the defense’s closing argument Friday morning, when attorney Mark O’Mara paused for four minutes to illustrate a long gap in the prosecution’s timeline of events. The television
As it prepares to give its closing arguments in the trial of George Zimmerman on Friday, the defense has a simple–but challenging–task: it must explain what the prosecution would have been required to prove, and that it has failed to
Forget murder. The prosecution has failed to prove the elements of the crime. So it comes down to manslaughter–and a specific kind of manslaughter, one that lawyers call “imperfect self-defense.” If George Zimmerman over-reacted to the danger he was in–if,
Conservatives have long derided Democrats as the “party of government,” noting the party’s enthusiasm for government spending and programs. In recent years, campaign finance disclosures have shown that employees of every federal department, including Defense, give overwhelmingly to Democratic candidates.
The recent coup in Egypt has highlighted the fact that Palestinians are not ready for peace with each other, much less Israel. Last week, the Fatah movement that controls the West Bank and the Palestinian Authority executive called for Palestinians
Michael McConnell’s excellent op-ed Tuesday in the Wall Street Journal about Obama’s refusal to enforce or defend laws he does not like reminds us how much Obama’s rhetoric has changed since the 2008 campaign, when he styled himself as a constitutional authority
The Wall Street Journal editorial page Wednesday urged Republicans, once again, to pass an immigration reform bill. The Journal has backed off its initial demand that Republicans “improve” the bill, and now asks only that they “pass the parts that are pro-growth.”
As House Republicans gather to discuss the Senate’s “Gang of Eight” immigration reform bill, which is likely to be rejected, supporters of the legislation have pinned their hopes to an unlikely state: California. Though only fifteen of the state’s fifty-three
The following is adapted from an unpublished manuscript I wrote about my experiences as a freelance writer in Cape Town, South Africa, which included living for two years with a Muslim family in the industrial neighborhood of Salt River. Both
Former New York Governor and Attorney General Eliot Spitzer is now running for New York City Comptroller in the Democratic primary as he, like former and current mayoral candidate Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY), strives to put a sex scandal behind
The debate around the Egypt coup–including whether there was a coup at all–can be illuminated with a thought experiment: what if the latest coup in Africa had not occurred in Egypt, but in Zimbabwe? Zimbabwe has been run as a
Al Jazeera has obtained the full text of the secret report of Pakistan’s Abbottabad Commission, which investigated how Osama bin Laden was able to hide in the country for nearly a decade–and how Pakistan’s defense forces had failed to detect
A massive fire on Saturday that destroyed a large portion of a Canadian town and may have killed as many as forty people has also ignited debate about the wisdom of shipping crude oil by rail rather than pipeline. The
A tipster wrote to us today to note the striking similarity between the Obama 2008 campaign logo and a logo that featured in a 2002 video game, Tom Clancy’s Sleeper Cell. The logo (above) represented Displace International, a private military
The Egyptian military opened fire on a crowd of unruly Muslim Brotherhood demonstrators who had staged a protest outside a military headquarters Monday, killing at least forty and wounding many others. In response, the country’s other major Islamic party, Nour,
Daryl Impey of South Africa, who became the first African cyclist to earn the yellow jersey at the Tour de France after the race’s sixth stage, yielded the lead to another African-born rider after Satruday’s eighth stage–Chris Froome of the
A veteran airline pilot with thirty-five years of experience, including many flights into San Francisco International Airport (SFO), has told Breitbart News that “wake turbulence,” in combination with pilot error, could have caused Asiana Airlines Flight 214 to crash on
