Crime and Punishment

Stop the Trial Lawyer Tax

Trial lawyers have been the bane of U.S. employers for many decades, sucking blood out of the economy like a swarm of mosquitos. The most famous case was back in the 1990s when ...

Epstein Cover-up in Disarray

This week, President Trump's uncanny political instincts resulted in a near-unanimous congressional resolution forcing his administration, against its collective will, to release ...

Bill Clinton, Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell at the White House, 1993.

Epstein, Maxwell and Giuffre: The Depraved Details

In Virginia's Giuffre's new book, Nobody's Girl, we first meet Jeffrey Epstein lying naked on a massage table, in a house where Ghislaine Maxwell has lured the 17-year-old ...

Winds of Change

The time is auspicious to deliver some major blows to America’s crime problem. It’s not that murder has been increasing lately—it’s been drifting downward at an ...

An Unappealing Case

It is now many years since I practiced medicine in an insalubrious part of a British city, but a case in France brought memories of that time. I am not sure that the memories of ...

The Urban Scarecrow

Wandering along the high street in an English seaside town has long been uninspiring. Shops closed or in disrepair. Dodgy barbers and candy-sellers. But now one sees something ...

How to Get Away With Murder

Today's story is about Shaurn Thomas, Innocence Project poster boy. The New York Times did not cover Thomas' 1994 conviction for second-degree murder at the time -- but ...

Alejandro Mayorkas

Mayorkas to Death Row?

Asked a few weeks ago why Alejandro Mayorkas, the former secretary of Homeland Security, hadn't been arrested yet, President Trump said, "I'll take a look at that one because what ...

Bullet Proof

In the five years after the demise of George Floyd on May 25, 2020, what did we learn from the racial reckoning? I guess we learned not to do it again. Or so I hope. Hence, ...

Criminal Offense

A British court has just made a surprising judgment. According to reports, David Spencer, a 56-year-old soccer fan, was convicted and fined £1,375 for hurling racial abuse at a ...

Requiem for the Duke Fake Rape

It was nice to see Crystal Mangum, victim of the nonexistent gang rape by Duke lacrosse players in 2006, admit last week that it was all a fake-out. Many of you were happy, though ...

FF/FX: The Floyd-Ferguson Effects

A fascinating recent example of what I call cops retreating to the doughnut shop began in July 2023 when the New Jersey State Police largely stopped issuing traffic tickets for ...

Color Blindness? No, Just Blindness

See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil. Such were the age-old policy recommendations of the Three Wise Monkeys, since adopted by the total chimps who now rule over us. I have ...

Play Time/Jail Time

What does it take for a parent to get arrested? Surprisingly little. Scott and Heather Wallace of Hewitt, Texas, encourage their three boys to play outside on their own to build ...

Central Park Reservoir, New York City

Central Park Five: Be Careful What You Sue For

I'm not sure the Central Park Five really want a civil trial on what happened the night of April 19, 1989, but by suing Donald Trump for defamation, that's what they're going to ...

AGENT 00-ZERO

After yet another assassination attempt on Donald Trump -- or as The New York Times calls it, "what the FBI is calling an assassination attempt" -- it's time for Trump to hire ...

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