In the never ending list of examples of fraud and abuse in President Obama’s massive stimulus program, tens of millions of taxpayer dollars are going to large corporations with documented histories of criminal practices in one state alone. Several big—and no doubt politically connected—firms in California are raking in lucrative government stimulus contracts despite previous

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In a case that resembles many others nationwide, an illegal immigrant who recently murdered a Utah law enforcement officer has an extensive criminal record and multiple deportation orders yet remained in the U.S. undetected.  The tragic incident accentuates the lingering weaknesses in the federal immigration enforcement system and lack of collaboration by local municipalities that

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The federal judge who made headlines in 2008 for liberating more than a dozen Guantanamo Muslim terrorists in the U.S. has ordered the release of an admitted Al-Qaeda operative because the jihadist’s confessions were tainted by torture. The self-professed Yemeni terrorist, Saeed Mohammed Saleh Hatim, has been incarcerated at the Guantanamo Bay military prison since

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Officials in a crime-infested urban U.S. city are seriously considering eliminating an entrance exam for its police department in order to boost the number of ethnic minorities on the force. If the Chicago Police Department does in fact go through with its outlandish affirmative action plan, it would become the only law enforcement agency in

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Legalizing the nation’s 12 million illegal immigrants will greatly help American workers and boost the U.S. economy, according to a new report released this week by a prominent Chicano Studies professor at a major public university in California.  Unlike the existing enforcement-only strategy (referred to as a “vicious cycle”), comprehensive immigration reform will raise the

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Though she confidently vowed to remain in office after a recent embezzlement conviction, Baltimore’s famously crooked mayor resigned this week as part of a scandalously lenient plea agreement that most definitely would never be extended to the average American.  The veteran politician who stole from the poor, committed perjury, steered lucrative public contracts to relatives

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A Mississippi judge famous for convicting a white supremacist as a prosecutor just reported to jail for obstructing justice and already civil rights leaders are demanding a presidential pardon, claiming that “all he did was lie.” Robert DeLaughter, who earned acclaim for prosecuting a white supremacist in a civil rights-era murder, pleaded guilty last August

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In a surprise ruling even for a notoriously liberal federal court that frequently gets overturned, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has restored the voting rights of incarcerated felons in order to end racial discrimination of that population. The decision involves a case in Washington State, but will likely have widespread impact in the region

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A prison clerk in a U.S. border state that has long offered illegal immigrants sanctuary has been reprimanded—and may be fired—for notifying federal authorities about arrested illegal aliens brought to the facility. The records clerk (Clara Aguilar) at Valencia County Detention Center in New Mexico says her job is on the line for assisting state

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As President Obama fulfills his promise of returning America to the "moral high ground" by closing Guantanamo Bay prison, at least a dozen recently freed inmates have rejoined Al Qaeda in Yemen, the country where the Christmas Day airline bomber proudly trained.  With the January 22 deadline to shut down the facility quickly approaching, the

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