Crime

“In the United States, there are now more than 318,000 people behind bars for violations of drug prohibition, more than the number of persons incarcerated for all crimes in the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy and Spain combined,” writes Jeffrey A....

Although Brown v. Board of Education dealt with race and with schools, its judicial philosophy spread rapidly to issues having nothing to do with race or schools. In the half century since Brown, judges at all levels have become unelected legislators imposing the...

The United Nations threatens to chip yet again from America’s Constitution and its system of individual rights, as a 2000 treaty aimed at combating crime on the global level has reared its menacing head in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. The U.N....

Leaders from both parties–Republican Senator Orrin Hatch and Democrat Ted Kennedy–have vowed to push through a new, wide-reaching federal “hate crimes” bill before the end of the current session. A “hate crimes” law would make...

Do you believe that a “post-September 11 backlash” has resulted in a nationwide wave of violence and bigotry against Muslims in America? The hype artists and book-cookers at the Arab-American Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) want you to think so. The...

In the midst of a bipartisan stampede toward “prescription drug benefits for the elderly,” someone needs to ask the question: Why should seniors be singled out to be subsidized by the taxpayers, except that their votes are being sought by both parties? We...

Baghdad has fallen. The war is nearly over now and the time will soon come to assess the actions of Iraq’s former leaders. Coalition forces reportedly carry a “deck of cards” with the pictures of 55 Iraqi leaders of the regime and orders to pursue,...

Last month, the Canadian government detained several newsletters from the Ayn Rand Institute (ARI) defending “Israel’s moral right to exist” out of concern that “they may constitute obscenity or hate propaganda.” Although the government...

If the Ninth Circuit has become a haven for rogue anti-patriotic judges, as many politicians claim, than the Seventh Circuit has become the refuge of the business-hating justices. Last month the Chicago-based Seventh Circuit found that companies could be found guilty...

A tourist in New York’s Greenwich Village had his portrait sketched by a sidewalk artist, who charged him $100. “That’s expensive,” the tourist said. “But it’s a great sketch, so I’ll pay it. But, really, it took you just five...

One of the clues in the Chandra Levy case that may have been dismissed too quickly was a call to the police on the morning of her disappearance, reporting a woman’s scream heard in the building where she lived. This seems to have been disregarded as an unrelated...

“America’s Greatest Problem: Not Crime, Racism or Bad Schools — It’s Illegitimacy,” reads Chapter 5 from my book, “The Ten Things You Can’t Say in America.” Absentee, non-involved fathers are the primary reason behind...

President Clinton should pardon Michael Milken, said Yaron Brook, the executive director of the Ayn Rand Institute. “It would be an act of justice–one of the few of the Clinton administration–if Clinton pardoned the man truly responsible for the...

Here in the land of pontificators and tolerance preachers, a hateful crime goes unpunished. President Clinton, our lame duck lip-biter, is nowhere to be found. Neither are the chest-beaters at the New York Times. And the rainbow coalition of loud-mouthed minority...

The war against crime is getting out of hand and needs to be reassessed before the Constitution is torn to shreds. Both lawmakers and law enforcers have forgotten that the ends don’t justify the means. In the determination to pursue crime — drug-related...

On August 22, 1999, Tony Martin of Emneth, Norfolk, England, killed one burglar and wounded a second. In April, 2000, he was convicted and is now serving a life term. How did it become a crime to defend one’s own life in the once-great British Empire? How did it...

Two hundred eighty-six million dollars last year. This year, $1.6 billion goes from the United States to Colombia to fight the “war on drugs.” “Clinton spent more federal money in the war on drugs in his first four years than was spent during...

Forget the Lindbergh Kidnapping. The Crime of the Century is Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson’s Finding of “Fact” against Microsoft. The 207 page condemnation of Microsoft as a “monopoly” that “hurts consumers,” is one of the...