It’s been 57 years since Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated for preaching a gospel of nonviolence, redemption, and mercy. Like me, he opposed the death penalty — not out of naivety, but because justice must leave room…
WASHINGTON — Luigi Mangione, the Ivy League graduate charged with fatally shooting UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson on a Manhattan sidewalk in December, has pleaded not guilty in connection with the killing. Like all defendants, Mangione enters the courtroom with the…
Oops, the FBI has been caught surreptitiously “revising” their crime statistics. The FBI’s stealth edits of their 2022 crime statistics showed that violent crime had not dropped by 2.1 percent as they originally claimed, but actually increased by 4.5 percent….
WASHINGTON — Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón is the sort of progressive prosecutor who thinks it is his job to curb mass incarceration. Last week, the L.A. D.A. announced he is reviewing the sentencing of Lyle and Erik…
“First and foremost, I avoid all confrontation,” Robert Freeman, a 47-year-old bus driver in Queens, remarked to the New York Times. “Me, I just concentrate on driving, and I don’t say nothing.” It was an apt summary of the city’s…
Scarcely more than one week after Joe Biden’s adderall-addled corpse was unceremoniously ousted from the top of the Democratic presidential ticket, a fog of gloom has begun to creep into the tone of Republican campaign apparatchiks, most of whom were…
It seems every news report we have received in the last few days has referenced the search for the unknown “motive(s)” for Thomas Crooks’ trying to assassinate former President Donald Trump, an effort which injured the former president and also…
With the election season heating up, there’s a lot of talk about reforming our criminal justice system and the role police and qualified immunity play within that system. But perhaps the biggest problem facing our criminal justice system is out-of-control…
It will be interesting to see which Joe Biden will deliver the keynote address at the National Peace Officers’ Memorial Service on May 15th. In 2021, an angry Biden delivered a bitter tongue-lashing to the officers who adhered to honor…
