Fox News: Three more weapons used in Operation Fast and Furious have been recovered at crime scenes in Mexico, Fox News confirms. CBS News first reported earlier this week that the guns had been tracked down. According to Justice Department
In response to Get In Their Faces Update: Faces Successfully Gotten Into : It occurs to me that the Family Research Council shooting, whose one-year anniversary is today, could be fit into this discussion of contempt and worship as well.
While I was a guest on Piers Morgan Live on August 13, Morgan took aim at that claim that more guns led to less crime in Virginia. He claimed Virginia had “the highest murder rate in the country” according to
Supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood and deposed Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi torched three churches in central Egypt on Wednesday as police dispersed protests in Cairo. According to a report in the Daily Star, the MENA news agency said that attackers
SACRAMENTO, Aug. 14 (UPI)–Film stars Halle Berry and Jennifer Garner are fighting for California state legislation to protect their young children from aggressive paparazzi. “I chose a public life,” E! News said Garner, the wife of actor-director Ben Affleck, told
The latest manifestation of the “living wage” movement is a union-funded (and taxpayer-subsidized) group that uses Occupy Wall Street-style tactics to pressure restaurants into paying higher wages. It’s basically organized labor without any of the rules, or elections, that keep
(AP) Booker cruises in NJ Democratic Senate primaryBy GEOFF MULVIHILL and ANGELA DELLI SANTIAssociated PressTRENTON, N.J.Cory Booker brushed off three experienced opponents in a victory in New Jersey’s special Democratic U.S. Senate primary, setting up a campaign of deep contrasts
This just in from the executive director of the San Diego Republican Party: Bob Filner will have to find somewhere else for quality chicken wings served with blue cheese and tasteful cameltoe. Well that’s just fine, but that’s just a
The City of Chicago is still racking up distressing numbers of shootings even as crime otherwise in the Windy City has gone down. On August 12, for instance, six people were shot in the space of only one hour. On
U.S. District Judge Shira Scheindlin today invalidated Mayor Mike Bloomberg’s “stop-and-frisk” policy as a violation of the U.S. Constitution’s Fourth Amendment. As Scheindlin begins the 192-page opinion: The goals of liberty and safety may be in tension, but they can
Associated Press: The New York Police Department deliberately violated the civil rights of tens of thousands of New Yorkers with its contentious stop-and-frisk policy, and an independent monitor is needed to oversee major changes, a federal judge ruled Monday in
(AP) ‘Whitey’ Bulger guilty of gangland killingsBy JAY LINDSAY and DENISE LAVOIEAssociated PressBOSTONJames “Whitey” Bulger, the feared Boston mob boss who became one of the nation’s most-wanted fugitives, was convicted Monday in a string of 11 killings and other gangland
A group of bills moving through California’s assembly and senate–including one to create a database for ammunition purchases–could create the strictest gun control laws of any state in the union. According the San Jose Mercury News, the bills being heard
Many are asking questions about the silence from civil right “leaders” such as Rev. Jesse Jackson and Rev. Al Sharpton about the recent beating of a white student by three black classmates on a Florida school bus, given their role
A month after saying New Jersey has “enough gun laws” already, Governor Chris Christie signed 10 of 13 new gun control bills into law on August 8. While many of these laws were described as “non-controversial,” they point to way
We are living in the first decade during which married couples constitute less than half of all homes, so a fake marriage proposal and rejection staged by a minor league baseball team pales in comparison to a half century of
So, the Liberal Corporate Media pretends this is a Local Crime Story, despite the fact the great majority of Filner’s victimizations did not occur during his mayoralty, but during his ten terms — 2o years! — as United States Congressman,
In an open letter to the public in late July, several retired Border Patrol agents wrote on behalf of the National Association of Former Border Patrol Officers to warn that Mexican drug cartels are actively operating inside the United States
SWAT teams and similar law enforcement tactics are an integral part of effective policing. In the battle against violence, gangs, and terrorism, they are law enforcement’s most potent weapon, and over the years have saved many innocent lives. The FBI,
Rapper Ja Rule is free after spending two years in jail for tax evasion and possessing an illegal weapon. He quickly joined the national conversation on the death of Florida teen Trayvon Martin as well as the problem of crime
In an article Aug. 4 by Brad Heath titled: “Exclusive: FBI allowed informants to commit 5,600 crimes,” USA Today mislead their readers by not revealing that the majority of those “crimes” were actually ordered by the FBI. The “crimes” the
O’Reilly Factor producer Jesse Watters sat in on the panel on Fox News’ The Five Monday and discussed Oprah Winfrey’s recent comparison of Trayvon Martin to civil rights martyr Emmett Till. Trayvon Martin, parallel to Emmett Till,” Oprah told
(AP) Teen pleads guilty in Utah soccer ref deathBy BRADY McCOMBSAssociated PressSALT LAKE CITYA teenager charged with killing a Utah soccer referee because he didn’t like the man’s call during a game pleaded guilty Monday to a charge of homicide
Syed Ghulam Nabi Fai is more than half way through serving a two year prison sentence after pleading guilty to felony charges relating to his lobbying work done secretly for the Pakistani government. But his upcoming release shouldn’t be the end
The torture and death of black teen Emmitt Till in 1955 stands as one of the most gruesome examples of racism in America. Here’s how History.com describes Till’s last hours on earth for the “crime” of flirting with a white
