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August 2015

August 12, 2015

Why there is heroin in the heartland

Heroin used to be a plague in the big cities, but today heroin addiction is...

June 2015

June 25, 2015

‘Free range’ parents beat the rap

In a story we have been following, those parents who were prosecuted for letting their...

June 19, 2015

Nine killed in Charleston church shooting

A young man who had been attending a Bible study for an hour suddenly began...

June 17, 2015

Airport insecurity

In a recent test of airport security measures, 70 attempts were made to smuggle weapons...

June 05, 2015

Prosecuting global warming skeptics

Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) says that some global warming sceptics should be prosecuted under RICO ...

June 02, 2015

Crime Wave

The decades-long decline in crime rates may be over. Murders are up 180% in Milwaukee. ...

May 2015

May 26, 2015

Bikers declare war against police

A motorcycle gang involved with the Waco shootout, at which 9 bikers were killed and...

May 20, 2015

Why the biker gangs fought each other

A meeting called to discuss motorcycle safety, held in a shopping mall restaurant in Waco,...

May 18, 2015

War on terrorism updates

There have been several developments in the on going and possibly never ending war on...

May 05, 2015

Islamic terrorists attack Muhammad cartoons in Texas

A free speech group sponsored an exhibit of cartoons depicting the prophet Muhammad in Garland,...

April 2015

April 29, 2015

Professional ball game closed to the public

Imagine two professional baseball teams playing each other but not letting any fans watch the...

April 23, 2015

Support for gun rights grows

Reversing the trends of the last few decades, a majority of Americans (52%) now say...

April 21, 2015

Today is the safest time to be a kid?

We've blogged about the Maryland parents who have been charged with child neglect for letting...

April 21, 2015

FBI’s bogus forensics

The public loves the television cop shows about crime-solving by means of forensic science. But...

April 15, 2015

Readiness for 1st grade then and now

In a column on the cops busting the parents for letting their 10 and 6...

April 14, 2015

“Free range” kids temporarily taken away from parents

We blogged about the parents in Maryland who got in trouble for letting their six...

February 2015

February 26, 2015

ISIS comes to America

New York City police arrested three men in connection with a plot to join ISIS...

February 23, 2015

In Europe, only outlaws have guns

In Europe, owning a firearm is pretty much illegal. But a huge black market has...

January 2015

January 16, 2015

The Conflict of Iconoclasts

France is holding huge rallies for free speech after the Charlie Hebdo murders, but they...

January 08, 2015

The Dalton gang meets the Second Amendment

In the course of a discussion on the importance of an armed citizenry, Michael Walsh...

January 06, 2015

Sea of Blue

Nationwide, "hands up" and "I can't breathe" protesters have been demonstrating against police brutality. But...

December 2014

December 26, 2014

From January 24, 2014, the fourth most-viewed post on this blog for the year: Ranking...

December 22, 2014

Two cops murdered as protest

The protests against the killings of Michael Brown in Ferguson, MO, and Eric Garner in...

December 18, 2014

North Korean hackers win

We blogged about the hack of Sony pictures, apparently by North Koreans angry about "The...

December 12, 2014

Overcriminalization

It has been estimated that 70% of Americans have inadvertently done something that would send...

December 05, 2014

Cops kill a man for violating the cigarette tax

We've talked a great deal about the death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, at...

December 04, 2014

In Defense of Looting

Willie Osterweil (a white punk rocker) has written a defense of the looting in Ferguson,...

December 04, 2014

The corruption index

An agency has compiled a list that ranks the world's nations according to how corrupt...

November 2014

November 28, 2014

Party riots

An essay in the Washington Post about the non-spontaneous riots in Ferguson, Missouri, included a...

November 26, 2014

Postmodern riots

Back in August, a police officer shot a black teenager in Ferguson, Missouri. According to...