July 16, 2002
Boston`s homicide rate peaked in the awful year of 1990, fell in 1991, went back up in 1992, and stayed high until the summer of 1996. It then plummeted, light-switch style. The driver...
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July 16, 2002
James Madison, "Father of the Constitution," lived in troubled times; his public life coincided with international conflict that stretched, almost without interruption, from 1776 to...
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July 16, 2002
To borrow from Winston Churchill`s gripping cadences over the Battle of Britain, never have so many misfits owed so much to the few on the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. The proof...
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July 16, 2002
The Bush administration is now to the left of Senator Barbara Boxer on arming airline pilots. The liberal California Democrat on July 10 cosponsored a bill by conservative Bob Smith...
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July 15, 2002
England and Wales now top the Western world`s crime league, according to United Nations research. The UN Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute reveals that people in England...
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July 15, 2002
"If it was ever true that June Cleaver was running around in heels, waiting for Ward to come home and kill the burglar, it`s not true anymore. There are more single women; the overwhelming...
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July 15, 2002
Kevin Kjonaas shed no tears when three masked animal-rights activists beat Brian Cass with ax handles outside Cass` home. Cass` company tests pharmaceuticals on laboratory animals....
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July 12, 2002
You can`t dial 911 at 30,000 feet. It is this fact more than any other that likely prompted the House to pass a bill on Wednesday that would allow all 70,000 U.S. commercial airline...
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July 12, 2002
Street crime in Britain (where handgun ownership is totally banned) rocketed last year with some of the most dramatic rises in London, according to Home Office statistics released today....
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July 12, 2002
President Bush is making the Democratic Senate`s refusal to vote on many of his judicial nominees a major campaign issue this fall. Eminently qualified nominees such as Miguel Estrada...
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July 11, 2002
The House yesterday overwhelmingly passed a bill that would allow airline pilots to carry guns in their cockpits, as some members said the federal government has not done enough to...
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July 11, 2002
When it comes to carrying concealed weapons, there`s not much gray area. For voters and for Missouri House and Senate candidates, legalization of concealed guns is again at issue after...
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July 11, 2002
Back in 1996 some members of Congress got the bright idea they could impose a national ID card on the American people through the backdoor by linking driver`s licenses to Social Security...
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July 11, 2002
Why is the U.S. government in as much denial about the motives and label we should apply to Hesham Mohamed Hadayet as the man`s clueless wife, who still can`t bring herself to admit...
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July 10, 2002
Two House members have asked the Internal Revenue Service to investigate the National Education Association`s political campaign expenditures. Republican Reps. Charlie Norwood of Georgia...
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July 10, 2002
What worries many of the state`s hunters and anglers is the uncertain future of the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries (VDGIF). Some Virginians already have begun to...
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July 9, 2002
Last week marked the beginning of the annual National Matches at Camp Perry. Hosted by the National Rifle Association, the National Matches are a yearly gathering of the best shooters...
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July 9, 2002
William Batterman Ruger, the founder and chairman emeritus of Sturm, Ruger & Co., a maker of rifles, handguns and shotguns, died Saturday at one of his homes in Prescott, Ariz., the...
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July 9, 2002
Texas hunters are concerned about the cost of hunting, high-fenced ranches and preserving outdoor traditions, according to the preliminary results of a survey conducted on behalf of...
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July 9, 2002
Democrat Jim Moran`s troubled and troubling career in government has gone largely unnoticed outside the Beltway. The six-term Virginia congressman, up for re-election this fall, ought...
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July 8, 2002
Maryland police union officials have angered some of their rank-and-file members by pushing organizations to endorse Lt. Gov. Kathleen Kennedy Townsend over Rep. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr....
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July 3, 2002
Red folders may seem harmless enough, but what they signify for some convicted criminals is the difference between a few years in state prison and more than a dozen in a federal lock-up.Read...
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July 3, 2002
Wal-Mart, the nation`s largest gun seller, has implemented a rule requiring customers to be approved in a background check before they can buy rifles and shotguns, in a policy that...
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July 3, 2002
Our northern neighbors are in the middle of a national nightmare; a heavy-handed government is spending hundreds of millions of dollars on a mandatory national gun registration program...
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July 2, 2002
Later this year the Supreme Court will be asked to consider the most recent attack on editorial issue advertisements that deal with the conduct of elected officials. The proponents...
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July 2, 2002
The fact that undercover agents continue to sneak dummy weapons through airport security points to a need for better training of screeners and highlights the problems of a system in...
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July 2, 2002
Campaign literature mailed by congressional candidate Mark K. Shriver to tens of thousands of voters in Maryland`s 8th District overstates the role the state delegate played in passing...
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July 1, 2002
The federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms is investigating its handling of a case involving a convicted felon who killed his pregnant stepdaughter and wounded another person...
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July 1, 2002
In a ringing 5-to-4 decision last Thursday, the Supreme Court reaffirmed the principle that elections are about ideas and that the censorship of political ideas violates the First Amendment.Read...
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July 1, 2002
Forget about soccer moms. They`re yesterday`s news. What`s hot now is "NASCAR dads," the folks who show up by the hundreds of thousands for what used to be called "stock car races."...
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June 28, 2002
The Supreme Court`s usurpation of legislative power is, in a way, the lesser of our constitutional deformations. The flip side of the Court`s usurpation of power is the other branches`...
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June 27, 2002
The widening political warfare over the McCain-Feingold campaign-finance law-known in some First Amendment circles as the Anti-Free Speech Act - has moved to the Federal Election Commission....
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