Tag Archives: crime

Amsterdam’s Fading Red Light

In a blow to social libertarians, the prodigal country of Holland is finally taking steps to scrap legal prostitution and drug sales, citing widespred social decay and crime.

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Medifraud

Michael F. Cannon at Cato blogs about a NYTimes article on the rife fraud found and covered up at Medicare. A confidential draft of a federal inspector general’s report claimed that the behavior they found at the Medicare Administration was … Continue reading

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Arkansas Democratic Party Chairman Has Been Shot

Arkansas Blog has the updates on this horrible tragedy. Arkansas State Democratic Party Chair Bill Gwatney was shot and critically wounded at State Democratic Party Headquarters on Capitol Avenue about 11:50 a.m. today, witnesses at the scene said. Police were … Continue reading

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Free Will

As a philosophy student, issues of free will were some of the most complex and intriguing that I studied. Is free will real or a chimera? If real, is it always applicable? How do we judge such questions? At one … Continue reading

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Into the Fair Tax Black Market

photo: Simón Pais-Thomas Toronto police recently seized shipments of 10,320,000 counterfeit cigarettes from China (PRC authorities themselves intercepted nine billion in 2007). Chinese made counterfeits bearing fake American branding such as Marlboro, are produced “in underground operations, caves and old … Continue reading

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Home & Land Defense

There’s a moment in Mark Steyn’s book America Alone, where he relates the truism that we’ve all experienced conversations with a mild-mannered, educated and seemingly rational person from the Arab world, where quite unexpectedly they say something nutty in the … Continue reading

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The Cruelest Recruiting Prank of All Time

Here’s a truly incredible story from the college football recruiting trail. Kevin Hart, an unheralded OG from Fernly High in Nevada, held a press conference to announce that he had accepted a scholarship offer from Jeff Tedford to play for … Continue reading

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A Witness in Mauritania

Israel Matzav has a video clip of a report on the Al Qaeda attack on the Israeli embassy in Nouakchott, Mauritania. You have to lament for the investigation when your eye witness refers to the scene of the attack as … Continue reading

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No Marine Left Behind

Peg Kaplan brings us the story of an ex-Marine judge and the pissant he sentenced.

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Tiger Update

Flopping Aces catches us up to speed on the SanFran tiger mauling affair. Apparently the two Dhaliwal brothers were begging for trouble…and for some reason the San Francisco police want to drop the case.

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Fighting the Mafia with Social Networking

In a bottom-up rebellion in Sicily, a group of Palermo youths have started a social networking site called Addiopizzo, which provides public attention and mutual support for Sicilian businesses which publicly refuse to pay the mafia “protection” money. Evidently it’s … Continue reading

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