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Court ratchets up heat on Saudis in 9/11 victims’ case
A federal court overturned a 2005 decision that Saudi Arabia was immune from civil lawsuits arising from the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, allowing the 9/11 families and insurance companies to resume their...
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Ian Garland claims he was a scapegoat for Operation Fast and Furious
If not for Ian Garland’s appeal, he would still be sitting in prison. In what appears to be a gross injustice, Garland, who ran a gun shop near El Paso, Texas, was encouraged by ATF officials to sell...
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NSA data collection ruled unconstitutional despite precedent
Ordinarily, except for in California, federal district court judges assiduously follow Supreme Court precedent even when it is not clearly on point. But yesterday, D.C. District Court Judge Richard...
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Wilmington councilwoman says legacy of slavery is driving blacks crazy
Hanifa G.N. Shabazz Wilmington, Del., has a big problem: Large groups of black people are going crazy. And this collective “mental illness” is causing record levels of crime and gun violence in this...
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Another day, another power grab designed to salvage the badly broken health...
… and rescue the president’s bacon. “In a surprise move late Thursday,” the Washington Examiner notes, the Obama administration declared that “the millions of Americans facing insurance cancellations...
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West Bank village demands ‘honor killing’— father murders daughter
“Disgraceful and outrageous acts …” If the mother of Thamar Zeidan is to be believed, her husband’s savage murder of their daughter was carried out in response to “tremendous pressure” placed on him by...
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White perpetrator of ‘knockout’ attack charged with hate crime
Here is the result those outraged by the “game” of knockout have long awaited. A perpetrator of one of these mindless attacks, in which the goal is to render an unsuspecting passerby unconscious with a...
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Sen. Bob Menendez: ‘Let’s hold stores accountable for crimes committed...
New Jersey Democratic Sen. Robert Menendez understands crime about as well as Barack Obama understands sports other than basketball. In the wake of last week’s theft of as many as 40 million customer...
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Man, the state, and surveillance
We’ve now had federal judges come down two different ways on the question of NSA surveillance of U.S. citizens. In the most recent rulings, Richard J. Leon of the U.S. District Court for the District...
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Courts on same-sex marriage: Adieu, rule of law
Adam Smith famously said there’s a lot of ruin in a nation. America today is testing just how much there may be. How long can a center hold, in our expectations and daily interactions, when the...
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