From CBS News: With a $13 trillion debt, why is the Department of Justice spending money on parties and rollercoaster rides rather than investigating crime, drug cartels, prosecuting terrorists? Untold millions of your tax dollars are paying for recreation in
People walking the streets armed with guns must be dangerous, right? The Brady Campaign and the Violence Policy Center keep claiming that even those individuals who have legally obtained permits to carry concealed handguns are extremely dangerous. With millions of
My pal Andrew Klavan surprised me with his review of “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” and not just because everything was spelled correctly. What caught me off guard was his description of the Swedish mystery/thriller as a “bucket-load of
Lying about being a lawyer: still illegal. Last week a Federal Judge in Denver, Colorado ruled that lies are constitutionally protected. It is the first such ruling of its kind, extending to fallacious speech the same protections as say the
A few months ago, Attorney General Eric Holder took an important step in ensuring that all men are treated equally under our legal system. In a memorandum to federal prosecutors, he noted that those who commit similar crimes in different
By now, everyone knows that Michael Savage has been banned from Britain on the grounds articulated by disgraced former Home Secretary Jacqui Smith: “Considered to be engaging in unacceptable behavior by seeking to provoke others to serious criminal acts and
Nevada’s Democratic attorney general, Catherine Cortez Masto, is moving forward with a criminal prosecution of ACORN even though the financially anemic group has dissolved its national structure and reportedly slashed its workforce from 250 to four employees. Trial has been
In the Roman Polanski case, Switzerland is on the side of evil. And evil has won. One week ago today, on Monday, July 12 we learned that Switzerland would not extradite director Roman Polanski back to the United States to
What are the strategic implications of this? From Newser: “China has made astounding advances in recent decades, but a destabilizing gender imbalance threatens the country’s progress. The one-child policy combined with a marked preference for sons has led to skewed
The Philadelphia Inquirer reports that racial slurs and swastikas were spray painted on a fence in Southern New Jersey late Sunday or early Monday. The article states: Obscene references to President Obama and African Americans were scrawled in black across
Other than the Klan, is there a more useless organization in American than the NAACP? Violent crime in black urban communities remains unsettling, the learning gap between black and other students still exists, marriage is all but nonexistent among poor
”The world may never love us, they may respect us, even fear us, but they will never love us for we have too much audacity. We are a bit blind and reckless at times too, but that’s what makes us
Our Norwegian correspondent Zylark reported yesterday on the torching of an asylum center by disgruntled illegal immigrants. Today’s installment concerns last week’s arrest of three suspected Al Qaeda terrorists. And then we have the three terrorists, thwarted by some good
The NAACP, once an important Civil Rights organization, has not only forgotten its mission, but has degenerated into what it was formed to prevent, it has become a racist organization. If you go to the group’s website you can read
Norway made jihad-related news twice last week, first with the torching of an asylum center – populated mainly by illegal Muslim immigrants – and secondly with the arrest of three suspected Al Qaeda terrorists. Our Norwegian correspondent Zylark has compiled
The NAACP has apparently decided to call 20 million American patriots “racists” for advancing liberty and economic opportunity. Their evidence? Attendance at a Tea Party–anywhere, anytime. Specifically, according to the Kansas City Star (via Jim Hoft): The resolution, scheduled for
In the battle over media and communications freedom, no group poses a more serious threat to a free and independent press than the insultingly misnamed regulatory activist group Free Press. Along with their founders, the prolific neo-Marxist media theorist Robert
Recently, Bill O’Reilly interviewed John Stossel about the dangerous situation along Arizona’s porous border with Mexico. Stossel is probably my favorite reporter. I admire the way he demolishes popular myths, particularly economic myths. However, on the topic of how to
[Ed. Note: Not having seen the upcoming critically-acclaimed documentary “The Tillman Story,” and not being familiar with the story, I asked Jim Hanson of Big Peace if he would lay it out for us. Since making that request both Kurt
The Russian spy scandal, which Russian officials denounced as “absolute rubbish,” is now ending with a de facto Russian admission of guilt and an exchange with echoes of the Cold War. At stake was the fate of ten deep cover
UPDATE: The Iranian government has announced that Ashtiani will not be stoned. But they have left open the possibility that she might be executed. According to CNN, a 42-year old Iranian mother of two – Sakineh Mohammadie Ashtiani – will
General David Petraeus’ new command over the war in Afghanistan should be accompanied by a drastic change in U.S. policies that have turned this failed state into the world’s leading source of opium and Hashish. Afghans now cultivate more than
Foul! National Science Foundation and National Institutes of Health study the bias of soccer referees in calling fouls Millions of the federal dollars misspent on cars, boats and travel by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Social Security Administration overpaid
Should farmers get thrown in jail for 90 days and hit with $1,000 in fines for engaging in free trade? Unfortunately, that’s the law in Lake Elmo, Minnesota. And that is why the farmers are fighting back. Tuesday they rallied
Office of Management and Budget Director, Peter Orszag is one of the first major players of the Obama administration to call it quits. Orszag was touted as one of the most brilliant minds in number-crunching, especially by Ezra Klein, who
