WASHINGTON — After reading in Monday’s New York Times story about actor Mel Gibson’s failure to have his gun rights restored, I asked White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt at the press briefing that afternoon about the administration’s take on…
As Donald Trump prepares for his new term as president, one of his stated priorities is to stop the long and deadly trend of overdose deaths and addiction. Strengthening border security against drug cartels is important, but this is not…
Johnny Wactor, bartending in-between gigs in his high-prestige, low-pay work as an actor, died over the weekend in downtown Los Angeles when he interrupted the low-prestige work of catalytic-converter thieves laboring underneath his jacked-up vehicle. Joe Friday does not work the…
Multnomah County, Oregon, District Attorney Mike Schmidt received landslide support from voters in 2020 for his “reform-minded” promises to reduce incarceration and address racial disparities in policing and law enforcement. After Schmidt earned 77 percent of the vote in one…
SACRAMENTO — In the last year, I’ve made three driving errors that sparked the notice of the police. In my latest misstep, I carelessly rode my motorcycle 20 miles over the speed limit as I spent more time enjoying the…
In my novel King of the Jungle, which was serialized here at The American Spectator and is now available in Kindle, paperback, and hardcover format at Amazon, I noted a criminal incident with political implications that came out of Chicago….
Prisoner rape is not a pleasant subject. It seems the only time it is mentioned is as a joke on late-night TV, although it is not a joke. Sexual abuse in our prisons and jails is rampant. It is a…
America needs more housing. Pressure for reform is only growing as available homes get less and less affordable. Unfortunately, rather than addressing the root cause of high housing prices — an epidemic of local overregulation that prevents enough homes from…
The women were expendable. They were sex workers, after all. When they disappeared between 2007 and 2010, Long Island law enforcement formed no task forces. There was no huge outcry from the public. Their killer had chosen victims who could…
