Dawning awareness?

Americans may not be terribly aware of the trial of Kermit Gosnell,  but they are aware of who to blame for their ignorance. Gallup’s latest survey shows that only 25% of the public are following the trial somewhat or very closely, and only 33% of self-identified pro-life adults.  Fifty-five percent of adults aren’t following the case at [...]

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Tech smart, street dumb.

And you didn’t lose a dime — unless you are an investor in the banks, of course.  The heists took place in December and February but just now became public, thanks to an indictment filed yesterday in New York.  The gang raided accounts used by banks to backstop rechargeable pre-paid debit cards rather than attack [...]

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Facts.

Behold the power of this fully armed and operational propaganda machine. First, from the Bureau of Justice Statistics: Firearm-related homicides declined 39 percent and nonfatal firearm crimes declined 69 percent from 1993 to 2011, the Justice Department’s Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) announced today. Firearm-related homicides dropped from 18,253 homicides in 1993 to 11,101 in [...]

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Police find two more, all still alive.

Meet Cleveland’s newest hero, Charles Ramsey, who saw a young woman in trouble and acted to rescue her. In fact, Ramsey’s quick action ended up rescuing three women missing for years — two more than a decade — in a bizarre but happy end to three mysteries: “This girl is kicking the door and screaming,” [...]

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"You can use a 12-gauge shotgun" to defend yourself from terrorists, you know.

Well, get a load of this. On Sunday, Sen. Dianne Feinstein appeared on Fox News to discuss last week’s attack in Boston and terrorism in general, and Chris Wallace wondered whether the people in locked-down Boston last week, with concerns that “this fellow might be on the loose, might break into their house, might take [...]

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Plus, the many trophies of Kermit Gosnell.

Or perhaps more to the point, there has been a media blackout on the atrocities placed in evidence at the trial of accused serial killer Kermit Gosnell.  Is that term too strong?  Before we get to Kirsten Powers, let’s check in with the latest from the trial testimony, brought to us by LifeNews.  Yesterday, the jury [...]

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Kirsten Powers: We've forgotten why we have a Page One.

The national media aren’t interested in telling the story of a man accused of butchering women and slaughtering babies, but at least local news outlets are still in the news-reporting business. Delaware Online has a reporter assigned to the trial of Kermit Gosnell, and Sean O’Sullivan of the News Journal provided this low-budget video wrap-up [...]

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“I only do what I’m told to do.”

Allahpundit posted yesterday on the trial of Kermit Gosnell and the testimony of the other monsters who worked in his charnel house — excuse me, family-planning clinic.  With Gosnell on trial for eight counts of murder thanks to the deliberate execution of newborns that managed to survive the savagery of Gosnell’s late-term abortions, the trial [...]

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Chicken or Egg?

As much as I try to keep up with events at the Supreme Court, there always seem to be some that slip past me. Such was the case with this week’s ruling regarding drug sniffing dogs and random traffic stops. The high court ruled unanimously that a Florida police officer’s use of a drug-sniffing dog [...]

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Waiting on identification.

After a couple of false alarms, San Bernardino County law enforcement believed they found the most-wanted man in America — the cop-turned-serial-killer Christopher Dorner.  After a traffic stop turned into a gunfight, the suspect retreated into a cabin in Big Bear, a remote resort town in the mountains that is known for its winter sports [...]

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Lame.

2012 was a violent year for the city of Chicago, with more than 500 homicides on the books — and the incoming statistics for January are not indicating any type of positive trend, reports the AP: A bloody weekend in which seven people were killed and six wounded has put an abrupt end – at [...]

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...Seriously?

Via Politico… just wow. Welcome to Chicago, I suppose: Emanuel is sending letters to two major financial institutions, TD Bank and Bank of America, which offer lines of credit to gun makers suggesting that they stop lending money to the manufacturers if they don’t come out for new gun restrictions. “TD Bank currently aids the [...]

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Like two peas in a pod.

The United States might not have a strong organized-crime culture comparable to Italy’s (that I know of…?), but it most certainly does have a robustly organized rent-seeking culture which, in terms of opportunities foregone, has plenty of the same detrimental net economic effects. The Washington Post just reported on a story that all too clearly [...]

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Irresponsible journalism.

The timing is certainly suspicious, to say the least. Just days after a local newspaper published an interactive map showing the location of people who have handgun permits in two New York counties, burglars broke into one of the houses revealed by the map.  Coincidence?  Not exactly — the burglars went straight for the gun [...]

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On the job

It looks like there might be one bit of good news from yesterday, if such is even possible. Police in Oklahoma are indicating that there was a second mass shooting in a school planned there for the same day, but sharp police work thwarted it before it got off the ground. BARTLESVILLE, Okla. – A [...]

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Conflicts of interest.

Who says you have to wait for election season to get truly ignorant political commentary?  Sportswriter Jason Whitlock, who inspired Bob Costas’ rant on NBC’s Sunday Night Football that blamed guns for the murder-suicide committed by Kansas City Chiefs player Jovan Belcher, told Roland Martin that not only are guns to blame for the crimes, [...]

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Shortfall.

The bankrupt city of San Bernardino, CA voted last week to slash its fiscal-year budget by $26 million, to close up a $52.4 million shortfall.  No, $26 million isn’t enough, and we’ll get to that in a minute.  But the $26 million will have a significant impact on the operating budget for police and fire, [...]

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Money for nothing

Another convoluted tale comes our way which could be straight out of the pages of a script for a grainy, film noir classic. It involves millions of taxpayer dollars wasted or worse. A definite odor of corruption permeates the air. Money is handed out in unaccountable ways to dubious destinations and bureaucratic waste is on [...]

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Pew-ni-tive

I keep seeing these stories from time to time where judges hand down “creative” sentences to criminals. These cases seem intended to either prove a point, instill some sort of additional lesson – either to the convict or the public – or simply avoid locking up as many people. This story from Oklahoma may raise [...]

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extraordinarily dangerous

At first glance it looks like something out of an Orwellian horror film. Police with high power weapons and riot shields shutting down an intersection on a busy city street, rousting families out of cars, handcuffing them all and lining them up on the pavement. But in this case, there was a method to the [...]

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Not just a trim

A trial in Ohio which has been drawing quite a bit of attention has gone to the jury and is now on hold until Tuesday. It deals with a subject which is still rather murky to many Americans, since it involves the closed society of the Amish. In a rural area of the Buckeye State, [...]

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We don't need no stinking tax stamps

Those Mexican crime syndicates certainly find their way into the news a lot, don’t they? When they’re not running guns from American government sources, kidnapping children for prostitution or shipping tons of cocaine and marijuana through tunnels they’re busy corrupting the government. But it seems that now they’ve found yet another avenue of profit, and [...]

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Disgruntled former employee?

A man described provisionally as a “disgruntled employee” killed one other person at the Empire State Building this morning and shot several others, before being killed himself. The news broke over an hour ago, but as is usual in cases like these, the details are shifting and contradictory: Police say two people, including the gunman, [...]

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21 years for 77 dead.

In 2011, Anders Brevik set off a bomb outside a government building in Norway and then slaughtered dozens of unarmed people on a retreat, methodically picking them off as they tried to escape from an island.  Seventy-seven people died in Brevik’s murder spree, and the unrepentant killer gave an unemotional description of his actions in [...]

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"We've got 50 states in this country, and each of them has an Attorney General."

Has Jon Corzine escaped justice after MF Global fleeced customers of more than a billion dollars?  On CNBC, Rick Santelli and James Koutoulas say … maybe not.  If the Obama administration’s Department of Justice won’t prosecute Corzine, who not coincidentally is a big Obama bundler and a former Democratic Governor and Senator from New Jersey, [...]

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