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The Case Of The Missing Plane
The disappearance of Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 is one of the weirdest stories to surface in a long time. It sounds like a Hardy Boys mystery — one where the dust jacket says that Frank and Joe...
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Dope And Hope
The politics of marijuana are changing. As exhibit number one, consider Michelle Malkin, a reliably conservative political commentator. Yesterday she wrote about her visit to a marijuana shop in...
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Calling With A Final Update On That GM Investment
Mr. Webner, long time, no talk! It’s the federal government calling to update you on your GM investment. For the love of God! Leave me alone! We got rid of our land line so you wouldn’t bother us any...
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Chicago Gangland
What would it be like to live in an American city where shootings and gun violence are so frequent they have become routine? You can get your answer, apparently, by asking someone who lives in...
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The Terrible Costs Of Drunk Driving
Richard has a really powerful piece in today’s Pittsburgh Post-Gazette about a fatal drunk driving incident that has devastated two families. It’s a very sad story about one life cut short, another...
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God’s Boat Plan
I tend to be suspicious when people start invoking God as directing their actions. Whether it’s sports figures suggesting that God cares about the results of a silly game, or politicians suggesting...
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What Do We Do About The Creepy, Murderous Nuts In Our Midst?
Another horrific mass killing by another self-pitying, disaffected young man that has left many innocent people dead and others injured raises the inevitable question: What do we do about the creepy,...
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Protecting Cell Phone Privacy
The Supreme Court issued an important ruling yesterday. In a 9-0 decision, the Court ruled that police must obtain a warrant before they search the cellphones of people they have arrested. The ruling...
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Shooting Down A Commercial Jet Is Unforgivable
I’m not going to leap to conclusions about the terrible downing of a Malaysia Airlines jet, and I’m not going to rush to judgment about what caused the disaster. Nor am I going to heap criticism on...
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We Are Not Sheep To Be Herded
Fortunately, things seemed to calm down last night in Ferguson, Missouri, where people have been protesting the fatal shooting of an unarmed black teenager Saturday night. A change in police tactics —...
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Uncle Sam, The Scooter Sap
Over the weekend the Washington Post carried a terrific article about how fraudsters ripped off Medicare — and through Medicare, the American taxpayer — in the Great Scooter Scam. It’s another...
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Testing For Jack The Ripper
“Jack The Ripper” is arguably the most famous criminal — and certainly the most famous uncaught criminal — in world history. The Ripper was a bloody serial killer who slit the throats and then...
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Curse Of The Enablers
Ray Rice’s wife has issued a statement deploring the coverage of his suspension and suggesting that it’s somehow been cooked up to increase ratings. She’s the woman who was knocked cold in a Las Vegas...
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The Bloodied NFL Shield
The season hasn’t exactly gotten off to a roaring start for the National Football League. With the release of the infamous Ray Rice elevator video, questions about whether the NFL properly investigated...
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When Is A Beheading An Act Of Terrorism?
Last week, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, a woman working at a food distribution center was beheaded by a former co-worker. Witnesses said that the killer had been trying to convert other employees to...
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The Rapper Defense
Should the standards of what constitutes an actionable threat of physical violence be changed in the era of the internet and social media? Next week the Supreme Court will consider that question,...
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Eroding Trust On Both Sides Now
There was rioting in Ferguson, Missouri last night after a prosecuting attorney announced that a grand jury had declined to indict white police officer Darren Wilson in the shooting death of Michael...
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Trivializing The Police
In America, we’re going through an awfully rough period of relations between the police and the citizenry, culminating in the recent, terrible murders of two New York City Police Department officers....
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Jews In Europe, Again
On Saturday, a gunman in Copenhagen went on a rampage at a free speech event and then shot and killed a Jewish man guarding a synagogue before being killed by police; Danish authorities think he may...
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Fam Scam
Yesterday I got an email from Russell during the middle of the day at my work email address. Except it wasn’t really from Russell. It was a fake, undoubtedly sent by a crook somewhere out there in...
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