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TUCSON -- Despite a recent court ruling that the department run by Maricopa County’s top cop used racial profiling in his quest to crack down on illegal immigration, a recall effort against Sheriff Joe Arpaio has failed. On Thursday, members of Respect Arizona and...

because he wore a Yankees cap I'll go out on a limb and suggest alcohol was a contributing factor. Matthew Fortese, 25, of Hagerstown was revived by an off-duty state trooper Matt Fortese came 75 miles from Hagerstown to meet Taylor Queen at Camden Yards. She drove more than three hours...

Anti-fascist protestors arrested and packed onto London buses following violent clashes with BNP outside Parliament Far-right and opposing groups planned demonstrations for today A total of 58 arrests made in London - all anti-fascist campaigners Soldier Lee Rigby's family have appealed...

Rory Meeks, 55, of Marion, was convicted on March 8 after a three-day trial in federal court in Cedar Rapids of one count of conspiracy to manufacture marijuana. He was acquitted of one count of manufacturing marijuana in April 2011. more...

On Harbledown Island, near the entrance to remote and majestic Knight Inlet, lies the tiny village of the Tsatsisnukwomi, home to the Da’naxda’xw First Nation. In the past 12 years, federal taxpayers have put up $9.1 million to revive this abandoned village. Today, it has just 17 residents...

via sda: In The Sights: Swiss Arms Black and Green Rifle - Small Dead Animals A recent post by Alberta Tactical Rifle Supply on a Canadian firearms forum indicates the RCMP is moving to ban a previously non-restricted rifle: Swiss Arms Black and Green Rifles. These models have been...

via sda Great Moments In Socialism Last week, Emergency Manager (and bankruptcy lawyer) Kevyn Orr decided to list the holdings of the Detroit Institute of Arts among the city's assets in preparation for a possible bankruptcy. If the city goes through with it, it could be forced...

Jim Treacher ‏@jtLOL Good morning, @googlemaps. Say, which "low-level employee" labeled the AEI building "The Heart of Darkness"? http://twitpic.com/curpsy https://twitter.com/jtLOL/statuses/340850080343019520

"Michael Collins is the only human, living or dead, not contained in the frame of this picture." Michael Collins is the only human, living or dead, not contained in the frame of this picture : pics

An Alberta student stepped into a fight to save a fellow student from being stabbed; instead of praising his heroics the edu-crats punished him. story and video: Sun News : Calgary student, 12, reprimanded for stepping in and thwarting potential knife attack h/t sda

via Ace of Spades: Via Judicial Watch, Bill Killian, the US Attorney for the Eastern district of Tennessee, just wants Americans to know what the consequences for free speech might be.Special speakers for the event will be Bill Killian, U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Tennessee, and...

Ward says so... via ffof I don’t know about this “The Bomb Didn’t Beat Japan” article in Foreign Policy. Japanese culture and “European” culture are very different. Comparing how individual American presidents respond to crises with the way a group of Japanese did is comparing apples to...

that can be ‘cured’ A leading neurologist at the University of Oxford said this week that recent developments meant that science may one day be able to identify religious fundamentalism as a “mental illness” and a cure it. During a talk at the Hay Literary Festival in Wales on Wednesday...

Global Warming Alarmists Caught Doctoring '97-Percent Consensus' Claims Global warming alarmists and their allies in the liberal media have been caught doctoring the results of a widely cited paper asserting there is a 97-percent scientific consensus regarding human-caused global warming...

I'll Miss Buying BC Lumber BC rejects Northern Gateway proposal. So send it down the scenic Fraser Canyon on rail cars, I say. Ezra Levant's...

Dirtbag. The man found guilty of abducting and murdering five-year-old April Jones in a sexually motivated attack must spend the rest of his life behind bars. Mark Bridger, 47, of Ceinws, Powys, had claimed he accidentally run April over near...

UNREAL… Illegal Immigrant Mother of Seven Given Food Stamps, Meds, Housing, and Social Security – For 20 Years It’s Cloward-Piven on steroids. Illegal immigrant and mother of seven, Marita Nelson, receives $240 in food stamps, monthly medications, $700 in Social Security and a housing...

Keep in mind our little column is written by two labor puppets: Only an idiot bites the hand that feeds them. That’s just common sense unless you believe your job requires you to do it . . . if you’re, say, a parliamentary budget officer, an auditor general or a public broadcaster. Then...

Ottawa is slamming the brakes on Premier Kathleen Wynne’s plan to hike the HST to fund public transit. Late Thursday, Federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty warned Ontario Finance Minister Charles Sousa that no increase to the 13 per cent tax would be permitted. Flaherty said any scheme...

Seven Dutch teenagers and an adult man accused of kicking a football linesman to death at a junior league match have gone on trial in the Netherlands. Richard Nieuwenhuizen, a 41-year old father-of-three, was attacked by players from an Amsterdam youth football club after officiating as a...