The prison population in the United States dropped in 2012 for the third consecutive year, according to federal statistics released on Thursday, in what criminal justice experts said was the biggest decline in the nation’s recent history, signaling a shift away from an almost four-decade policy of mass imprisonment.
Authorities in eastern Turkey have cleared a small bird detained on suspicions of spying for Israel. Seriously.
If you’re a millionaire corporate bigwig your wealth to influence elections, and using your company’s clout to influence legislation, President Obama might give you a tongue-lashing. Unless you’re a fundraiser and donor for the Obama Victory Fund.
In a video created by the Disciples of Christ denomination, spokespersons affirmed homosexuality comparing it to the “radical hospitality extended by Jesus at the Lord’s table.”
The U.S. government has demanded that major Internet companies divulge users’ stored passwords, according to two industry sources familiar with these orders, which represent an escalation in surveillance techniques that has not previously been disclosed.
Anyone familiar with television crime dramas is aware that “humanizing” the inhumane long has been a tactic of fanatics seeking to keep alive murderers convicted of the worst depravity — while simultaneously sacrificing, with little concern, the lives of decent, innocent law-abiding individuals sure to be slaughtered by some of those given a “second chance.”
The data hub President Obama’s health care team is creating to exchange personal health and financial information on Obamacare users will be a ripe target for computer hackers and identity thieves, charge critics who claim it hasn’t been tested for security flaws.
George Zimmerman and another man helped rescue four people who were trapped in a Ford Explorer after it crashed on a Florida highway on Wednesday, four days after he was acquitted of murder. Read about the likely liberal reaction, per Rushbo.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is enjoying the possibility of a tea party backed challenger to Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.
Suicide bombers have freed hundreds of terrorists during a full-frontal assault on Iraq’s top-security Abu Ghraib prison.