Gun rights activists spent record amounts last year to elect Republicans, but they are not likely to get their biggest wish, nationwide concealed carry legislation, before the 2018 elections, McClatchy Newspapers reports. Activists blame the Republicans they help put in power — as well as...
The Portuguese Air Force medevaced a passenger from the AIDAblu cruise ship which was 257 kilometers from Montijo, Portugal. The rescue took place under adverse weather conditions, described as strong winds of approximately knots, and waves of eight meters. The medevac involved a a 47-year-old...
It is often said that California foretells the nation’s future. If so, we should really be worried about the cost of living. Wednesday’s New York Times ran an article about California that was candid about the high cost of living there although opaque about the...
Immigrants detained at large centers used by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in California, Georgia, New Jersey and New Mexico are subject to inhumane treatment, given insufficient hygiene supplies and medical care, and provided potentially unsafe food, says a Department of Homeland Security Inspector General’s report,...
Correctional institutions are usually well prepared to address serious emergencies like prison riots, but what happens when they encounter a crisis that staff and authorities never imagined could occur? That was the situation which confronted the Washington Department of Corrections (WDOC) when authorities learned a software...
Stewart Baker, who often writes as if he never met a bureaucrat or government program he did not trust, is at it again. He notes that a Peter Strzok text has been the object of alarmed concern on the right. The text stated: I want to believe...
In the new thriller by veteran author Nelson DeMille, there’s a part where the protagonist, a sport fisherman out of Key West, reflects on Cubans who try to escape their island prison by sailing the straits of Florida, which are well-patrolled: The Coast Guard and the...
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has started a formal inquiry into allegations that former Chief Judge Alex Kozinski sexually harassed former law clerks and externs, Law.com reports. “In the past, when incidents of alleged misconduct have been reported in an accredited...
Briefly: At Bloomberg BNA, Jordan Rubin reports that “[a] group of foreign lawyers wants the U.S. Supreme Court to look to the English roots of the Sixth Amendment and the duties of counsel in other countries today when it considers the case of an American death...
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) determined that the probable cause of the Celebrity Infinity’s allision with a dock last year in Ketchkan, Alaska was the master’s failure to plan, monitor, and execute a safe docking maneuver. You can read the NTSB report here. A photo...