Neil Steinberg opens our minds in The Chicago Sun-Times: Before you generalize about the major See? This rampage by Maj....
I hate that I am writing about this. This is pure venting on my part. But most the world seems...
For those unfamiliar with it, Truman Capote's In Cold Blood documents the brutal 1959 slaying of the Clutter family, a...
The caption says the cameras read about 10 million license plate numbers a day already: A national network of cameras...
Sydney Morning Herald: A flyer for a non-existent restaurant was attached by a rubber band to the handlebar of every...
In April 2007, Cho Seung-Hui went on a rampage, murdering fellow Virginia Tech classmates. He left behind extensive documentation about...
Macleans: Canadians, though, can't be smug. Really? I got a different impression, somehow. We fare no better than the U.S....
Captain Ed cites the Telegraph: "The number of young people prosecuted for firearms offences has soared by 20 per cent...
This is hilarious: Don Surber writes about Norway's punishment-optional penal system (apparently, it's not illegal to fail to show up...
I don't know for a fact that Scooter Libby is innocent. But it seems to me that, politics aside, there's...
If you haven't seen it already, Michelle Malkin has a letter from a Virginia Tech student who survived: It was...
Non Imprimatur: When Arne Hjemaas from Fauske in Norway discovered who was behind a series of burglaries in August and...
From London's The Times Online (via): Muggings and violent attacks on people soared by more than 10 per cent in...
Putting theives out of business? Low priority: I farm on the north Norfolk coast and recently had some agricultural machinery...
Putting theives out of business? Low priority: I farm on the north Norfolk coast and recently had some agricultural machinery...
With the Tookie Williams execution, the media have been abuzz with the debate over capital punishment. For me, the effect...
Well, here is one creative of way of "lowering" the crime rate: The Government is misleading the public on the...
Jeff Weise, the Minnesota high school student who went on a shooting rampage recently, provides us a window in the...
It's been interesting watching the police's changing attitude towards Terry's church. "He was upset because he was losing his job!"...
I very recently published my theory that Ratzman's killings were explained by M. Scott Peck's analysis of evil in "The...
Amateur detectives are a dime a dozen. And I'm not even one of those but an interesting idea hit me...
Jacob Hornberger: By limiting the supply of attorneys through a rigorous and expensive system involving getting into and attending law...
Stories of crime and punishment from at home and abroad, united by a common ironic theme.
Pencil Sharpeners Do! Belmont Club: Pencil sharpeners have been banned from a primary school after a pupil dismantled one and...
Theodore Dalrymple: Intellectuals propounded the idea that man should be freed from the shackles of social convention and self-control, and...
It makes the France, Germany, the UK and Canada look bad. It makes the US look good. You paid for it. But you can't read it anymore. What's going on?
"Handguns are made for killing, They ain't good for nothing else..." - Lynyrd Skynyrd, "Saturday Night Special" That's probably the...
Another day, another failed policy, another chance to blame
someone else for the our wrong ideas. Will Canada start learning from experience? Or will the chance to blame the US be more tempting than reason?
"Breaking into Prison": Nothing helps reduce the number of ex-convicts who return to prison, he says, like participating in religious...
The Sunday Herald: WHAT do you give someone who’s been proved innocent after spending the best part of their life...
Violent crime continued to increase in England in 2003. So where are the bobbies focusing their efforts?
Violent crime continues to increase in Britian with no significant improvement in crime overall. Expect hasher penalties and stricter controls on toys, airguns, guns, and alcohol consumption.
Those of you who know me know I'm not a huge gun affictionado. But I do have an interest in...
Tonight's local evening news carried the story of a man whose car was stolen near Forest Park. Later, he received...
Deb and her husband, previously terrorized by munchkins-from-hell, have decided to stay and try to fix the situation. In her...
Have UK government reports on rape been used to push an anti-marriage political agenda? Melanie Phillips of England's
Daily Mail thinks so.
Deb, the Insomnomaniac and her husband had a horrible run-in yesterday with a gang of about 30 violent 13- and...
A friend of mine used to chide the effectiveness of the unarmed British "bobbies" with the phrase above. But now...
Those of you who knew me years ago know that when a concealed carry referendum came up in St. Louis,...