While Obama administration officials insist that the video of Marine snipers urinating on the bodies of dead Afghan fighters is an isolated outrage, some Afghan civilians claim that the corpse desecration incident is the sort of thing that “happens all the time.” Reports the McClatchy News Service: In the [...]

Canton, Ohio Patrol Officer Daniel Harless, the snarling psychotic immortalized in a viral video showing him threatening to murder a terrified man during a traffic stop, has been fired. Police union spokesman Bill Adams told the Canton Repository that Harless – who had racked up 18 internal affairs complaints since 2000 – was fired by [...]

Once considered a temporary anomaly, the U.S. military detention facility in Cuba now known as “Gitmo,” which marks its tenth anniversary today, was a forerunner of a doctrine of permanent military detention that has conquered America. Ten years ago today, “the first prisoners from the Bush Administration’s `War on Terror’ were landed at the Guantánamo [...]

Offering the common-sense observation that repeatedly assaulting a handcuffed woman with pepper spray and urinating on her serves “no legitimate law enforcement purpose,” U.S. District Judge Gary L. Lancaster has rejected a claim of “sovereign immunity presented by three Pennsylvania State Troopers  accused of torturing Derena Marie Madison following a traffic stop roughly a year [...]

As former Navy SEAL sniper Chris Kyle tells the story, he sucker-punched 55-year-old Jesse Ventura in a bar in September 2006 and then ran away – but Ventura, an honorably discharged Vietnam veteran who completed SEAL training himself,* insists the criminal assault “never happened,” and he’s willing to clear Kyle’s name. “If a former governor [...]

The University of Arizona in Tucson was the site of an event to commemorate the January 8 anniversary of  the hideous “Safeway Massacre,” during which Democratic Representative Gabrielle Giffords was shot in the head. Six people — including nine-year-old Christina Taylor-Green — were killed in the attack; seven others were wounded. In the immediate aftermath [...]