News coverage of the assassinations of Kaufman County, TX Assistant District Attorney Mark Hasse, District Attorney Mike McLelland, and McLelland’s wife Cynthia has turned to the alleged involvement of a group named the Aryan Brotherhood (AB). Considering McLelland was part of a task
The day’s top stories in social media and technology for 4/3 include: Aaron Swartz prosecutors are receiving graphic threats and one has had his Facebook hacked, Embassy Cairo shuts down its Twitter feed after Muslim Brotherhood spat, a Facebook group
The Purge shows us the kind of real hope and change voters had in mind circa 2008. The upcoming thriller reveals an America where the unemployment rate is a skimpy one percent and crime is down to historic lows. How
Even as the Obama White House prepares for a star-studded White House concert featuring Queen Latifah, Cyndi Lauper, and Justin Timberlake, figures from the U.S. Census Bureau reveal that roughly 50 million Americans–one in six–now live below the poverty line.
A Rasmussen poll released on April 2 shows that 51% of Americans believe expanding background checks won’t do anything to curb gun violence. In fact, six percent of those polled believe expanding background checks could contribute to increased gun violence.
On April 1st, Connecticut lawmakers agreed on a gun control package that widens that state’s “assault weapons” ban, requires universal background checks on all gun sales, and requires citizens to obtain eligibility certificates before purchasing a rifle, shotgun, or handgun.
The Armed Citizen Project (ACP), which began by giving away firearms for self-defense to law-abiding citizens in Houston, is now raising money to distribute weapons to citizens in Dallas. ACP provides a single-shot shotgun to families or single women living
An assistant U.S. Attorney is Houston has withdrawn from a major prosecution against the Aryan Brotherhood. The prosecutor, Jay Hileman, sent an email to one of the Brotherhood’s defense attorneys, informing him that he was no longer on the case.
By IAN DEITCHAssociated PressJERUSALEMIsraeli warplanes struck targets early Wednesday in the Gaza Strip in response to rocket fire toward southern Israel, the first air strikes launched by Israel since an informal cease-fire ended eight days of cross-border fighting between Israel
Evan Spencer Ebel, the now deceased suspect in the March 19 murder of Colorado Corrections Chief Tom Clements, was let out of a Colorado state prison four years early, Colorado authorities acknowledged on Monday. Ebel was released on January 28, 2013, rather than
Today, the U.N. General Assembly overwhelmingly approved the U.N. Arms Trade Treaty by a vote of 154 to 3 with 23 abstentions. The treaty would regulate multibillion-dollar international arms trade with thegoal of keeping illicit weapons out of thehands of
On April 2, the NRA will unveil a report reiterating their calls for placing armed guards in schools to prevent a repeat of the kind of crime that happened at Sandy Hook Elementary. The report will be framed around the
(AP) AP IMPACT: Cartels dispatch agents deep inside USBy MICHAEL TARMAssociated PressCHICAGOMexican drug cartels whose operatives once rarely ventured beyond the U.S. border are dispatching some of their most trusted agents to live and work deep inside the United States
(AP) Mayor: Deaths of Texas DA, wife ‘not a random act’By NOMAAN MERCHANTAssociated PressKAUFMAN, Texas Two months after one of his assistant prosecutors was gunned down, a north Texas district attorney and his wife were found killed in their home,
The Des Moines Register courted controversy on Wednesday by posting an interactive map online featuring the locations of Iowa schools that didn’t have security guards. After a wave of criticism, the newspaper pulled the map down only hours later and reworked
While there are much more serious issues to deal with, like the state’s financial crisis and Chicago’s exploding crime wave, Illinois legislators have decided to focus on the burning issue of driving with dogs. Proposed legislation would make it illegal
(AP) NEW YORK–Martin Scorsese is developing a TV series based on his 2002 film “Gangs of New York.” The director is partnering with Miramax, which released the Oscar-nominated film starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Daniel Day-Lewis. The planned show doesn’t yet
Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) is calling out Hollywood celebrities who live their lives surrounded by armed guards yet campaign to have the guns of the citizenry at large taken away. Paul said this double-standard represents “a certain degree of hypocrisy”
1,500 ordinary Mexicans fed up with the local government’s inaction in dealing with the drug cartels terrorizing the country have taken the law into their own hands, controlling the town of Tierra Colorado. The vigilante force was organized after the
During his March 28 comments on “gun violence,” President Obama once again claimed that 40% of gun purchases take place without a background check. The claim is meant to apply to new gun sales and is patently false, as Breitbart
(AP) SAfrica: Mandela in hospital with lung infectionBy CHRISTOPHER TORCHIAAssociated PressJOHANNESBURG Nelson Mandela, the anti-apartheid leader who became South Africa’s first black president, has been admitted to a hospital with a recurring lung infection, South Africa said Thursday. Mandela, 94,
On March 27 President Barack Obama met with Newtown, Conn. families and members of law enforcement for an event focused on the push for more gun control. The event marked the 100th day since the heinous crime at Sandy Hook
This is the non-ironic title of an op-ed in Sunday’s New York Times. Sarah Conly, author of a book with an even dumber title, “Against Autonomy: Justifying Coercive Paternalism” wrote: The crucial point is that in some situations it’s just
Amanda Knox, the American student in Italy, who in 2009, was convicted of the murder of Meredith Kercher, and later acquitted, has been ordered to return to Italy to face a retrial. In a stunning development, the Court of Cassation,
(AP) – Italy’s highest criminal court on Tuesday overturned Amanda Knox’s acquittal in the slaying of her British roommate and ordered a new trial, prolonging a case that has become a cause celebre in the United States. Knox called the
