SocietyCommentary
From ‘Greed and Ego’ to Prison and a Second Chance
I took a flight from Los Angeles to Minneapolis and was picked up at the airport by a black driver. His name is Davis. He… Read More
Reid’s Gun Control Bill Makes a Missing Firearm a Ticket to Five Years in Prison
Under Senator Harry Reid’s (D-NV) gun control bill (S. 649), if somebody steals your firearm or you lose it, you can go to prison for… Read More
Former U.S. Marine Arrested in Mexico for Possession of Family Heirloom
Why is the Obama Administration not doing more to free a former Marine from a Mexican prison? Twenty-seven-year-old Jon Hammar—a former Marine Lance Corporal and… Read More
Paperwork Errors Can Send You to Prison
Under a recently proposed rule, a clerical error could send someone to prison for five years. In the latest attempt to criminalize seemingly every aspect… Read More
Welfare Money Being Used to Post Bail?
Welfare cash may have been used to get a Massachusetts drug dealer “out of jail free.” The Boston Herald reports: Kimball Clark, 45, was locked… Read More
Pardon of J.S. Tissainayagam is Positive Step for Sri Lanka
Last week President Mahinda Rajapaksa of Sri Lanka issued a full pardon to J.S. Tissainayagam, a Tamil journalist who had spent 21 months in detention… Read More
