The high-tech Brownshirts on the left have now “swatted” Eric Erickson. Two things are certain. First, the United States Department of Justice could stop this behavior quickly because it almost certainly constitutes a federal crime. And second, the use of term “Brownshirt” to describe
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. International Monetary Fund to Greece: Drop Dead! IMF’s Lagarde softens her remarks about Greece after backlash UK to block immigration into UK if Greece leaves euro Israel’s attitude towards West Bank becomes increasingly nationalistic
(AP) By MAGGIE MICHAELAssociated PressCAIROThe two surviving candidates in Egypt’s presidential election appealed Saturday for support from voters who rejected them as polarizing extremists in the first round even as they faced a new challenge from the third runner-up who contested
(AP) Dozens of children killed in new Syria attackBy BEN HUBBARDAssociated PressBEIRUTGruesome video Saturday showed rows of dead Syrian children lying in a mosque in bloody shorts and T-shirts with gaping head wounds, haunting images of what activists called one
(AP) Mexican boy’s eyes gouged out in apparent ritualBy MARK STEVENSONAssociated PressMEXICO CITYPolice in a Mexico City suburb arrested a mother and several relatives Thursday for allegedly gouging out the eyes of her 5-year-old son in what authorities said appeared
Tom Barrett isn’t just Wisconsin’s worst jobs mayor, he’s apparently the worst on crimes, as well. So bad, in fact, that he’s resorted to campaigning on what seem to be cooked crime statistics. In his February 2012 State of the City
(AP) Fitzgerald stepping down as US attorney in ChicagoBy DON BABWIN and TAMMY WEBBERAssociated PressCHICAGOIn a city and state known for tenacious corruption, U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald became known as a man who was just as tenacious in going after
The fallout of the Obama campaign’s attacks on Bain Capital has led to a series of blue-on-blue attacks from the Democratic far left on the so-called “Clinton Wing” of the party. As pointed out by Ben Howe at Redstate, not
By GEOFF MULVIHILLAssociated PressNEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. A former Rutgers University student who used a webcam to spy on his gay roommate was sentenced Monday to 30 days in jail, just a fraction of the maximum, in a case that focused
(AP) Jacques Audiard praises B movies at CannesBy JILL LAWLESSAssociated PressCANNES, FranceJacques Audiard is on a quest to revive the B movie. The French director has won a prize at the Cannes Film Festival and been nominated for an Academy
ABC: A lesbian couple who claimed they were victims of a hate crime have been arrested after police determined they staged the incidents. On Oct. 28, Aimee Whitchurch, 37, and Christel Conklin, 29, called police and reported the words “Kill
The European Union has been asked to intervene in order to stop the Palestinian Authority from executing a man who sold the Bait HaMachpela (House of the Patriarchs) to Jewish families in Hebron. The chairman of the EU Committee for
Treating terrorism like a crime instead of an act of war is not a good idea, and the public knows it. Thus, when Attorney General Eric Holder wanted to treat it like crime and try KSM in New York, the
These people really are totalitarian thugs. In the wake of the high-profile announcement that Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin is renouncing his US citizenship in advance of the company’s potentially record-breaking IPO, leftist Senators Chuck Shumer and Bob Casey have announced
The federal judge overseeing John Edwards criminal trial is sharply curtailing the testimony of a key defense witness. The former chair of the FEC was prepared to raise doubts about whether a crime was committed.
(AP) RI considers ‘Homeless Bill of Rights’By DAVID KLEPPERAssociated PressPROVIDENCE, R.I.Eddie Vega has been homeless for a year. He was waiting for a bus one day last week when a police officer rolled up to ask what he was doing
Yesterday, Hilary Rosen, who was last seen criticizing Ann Romney for supposedly never having worked “a day in her life,” has surfaced again – this time, to talk about how traditional marriage can be cured by allowing women to marry
Time doesn’t heal for Dominique Strauss-Kahn. Things only get worse. On Monday, exactly a year will have passed since his arrest on charges of trying to rape a maid in a luxury New York hotel room. Those charges were dropped
By PORFIRIO IBARRA RAMIREZAssociated PressMONTERREY, MexicoForty-nine decapitated and mutilated bodies were found Sunday dumped on a highway connecting the northern Mexican metropolis of Monterrey to the U.S. border in what appears to be the latest blow in an escalating war
(AP) Jury: Hudson stardom no factor in murders verdict By MICHAEL TARM Associated Press CHICAGO Jurors shrugged off Jennifer Hudson’s star status and insisted it played no role in their decision to convict her former brother-in-law for slaying the Oscar
US authorities have seized $1.5 million worth of proceeds from counterfeit goods made in China and sold online in the United States, Justice Department officials said Friday. The probe seized funds from interbank accounts and six money service business accounts,
(AP) Hudson family slayings suspect convicted of murderBy MICHAEL TARMAssociated PressCHICAGOA Chicago jury on Friday convicted Oscar-winner Jennifer Hudson’s former brother-in-law of murdering her mother, brother and 7-year-old nephew in what prosecutors’ described as an act of vengeance by a
New Yorkers, who have regarded the vast swath of America beyond the Hudson River with disdain for its lack of sophistication and its middle-class morality, can rest assured they are far too cultured for the rest of the country: the
Queen Elizabeth II voiced the ruling coalition’s bid to offer economic hope and win back voters after its worst few weeks yet in her annual address to the British parliament. New laws in the coming year would focus on “economic
After issuing the Obama administration’s mandate that Catholic Church-affiliated organizations, charities, hospitals, and schools must provide free contraceptives, sterilization procedures, and abortion-inducing drugs to their employees, Kathleen Sebelius, secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has been invited to
