California allowed armed Black Panther Party members to legally march into the state capitol in the 1960s, leading to the nation's first repeal of a state open carry law. ...
Gilberto Valle, the NYPD officer who became known as the cannibal cop, even though he never actually ate anyone, was found guilty today (Mar. 12) and faces life in prison. Has justice been done, or was Valle convicted for a thought crime? It's hard to engender much sympathy for someone who fantasized about committing the worst kinds of crimes, but the question is critical in the age of the Internet....
Ke$ha’s pop song has somehow become a lightning rod for artistic excess in the wake of the Newtown school shootings although it has nothing to do with schools, young children or murders. It doesn’t even really deal with dying, according to the lyrics. Even the artist seemed to be overreacting today when she apologized for the song....
