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US Homicide Rates at 50-Year Low

US Homicide Rates at 50-Year Low

The wrenching tragedy in Connecticut last week led to much national coverage of gun violence. Not mentioned in most of the coverage is the fact that the U.S. is experiencing a 50-year-low in murders nationwide. Murder rates are measured by

Paging, Piers Morgan: Gun Violence Explodes In England

Paging, Piers Morgan: Gun Violence Explodes In England

Paging Piers Morgan… Piers Morgan to the white courtesy phone…. Gun crime has almost doubled since Labour came to power as a culture of extreme gang violence has taken hold. The latest Government figures show that the total number of

CNN Anchor on Newtown: 'Why Did God Do It?'

CNN Anchor on Newtown: 'Why Did God Do It?'

Trying to figure out how to deal with the massacre of children at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newton, Connecticut is no easy task. For reporters, “dealing” isn’t supposed to be the goal, reporting is. But for CNN’s Ashleigh Banfield, reporting

Gun At Beauty Queen Death Bought By ATF Agent

Gun At Beauty Queen Death Bought By ATF Agent

Last month Breitbart News reported Mexican beauty queen Maria Susana Flores Gomez was killed in a shootout between drug cartels and soldiers. ATF Agent George Gillet purchased one of the guns found at the scene. Agent Gillett was one of

CA School District Names School After Murderer

CA School District Names School After Murderer

The school board in Alisal Union School District in Salinas, California, is going to name a new elementary school after Tiburcio Vasquez, a man who was convicted of killing at least two people and as many as six and was

Does Promise of Media Coverage Encourage Mass Murder?

Does Promise of Media Coverage Encourage Mass Murder?

It goes against every fiber of my conservative nature to blame anyone or anything other than the evildoer for evildoing. But the media does not. Literally, within seconds of the awful Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting last Friday, the craven

Mental Illness Expert: How to Prevent Future Sandy Hook-Type Tragedies

Mental Illness Expert: How to Prevent Future Sandy Hook-Type Tragedies

While the mainstream media reflexively tries to focus all discussions about the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre around gun control, mental illness expert D.J. Jaffe, who directs the Mental Illness Policy Organization, wrote a compelling article about steps federal and state governments

One Priest for Comfort After the Incomprehensible

One Priest for Comfort After the Incomprehensible

Quite often when the mainstream media covers religion, it is designed to find flaws in those institutions. As often as not, with the Catholic Church the MSM focuses on sexual misconduct by priests. But in the aftermath of the Newtown

Bloomberg Demands More Gun Laws

Bloomberg Demands More Gun Laws

Today, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and his colleagues at Mayors Against Illegal Guns released a statement demanding that federal legislators take stringent anti-gun measures. Bloomberg said: “What happened in Newtown was an unspeakable crime – a mass murder

Michael Douglas' Son Injured in Pa. Prison

NEW YORK, Dec. 17 (UPI) — Cameron Douglas, the 34-year-old son of actor Michael Douglas, suffered a broken leg and finger in the Pennsylvania prison where he is an inmate. Cameron is serving a nearly 10-year sentence in the Loretto,