An Iowa jury has found former Dallas County Sheriff Brian Gilbert guilty of stealing $120,000 in cash seized as suspected drug profits. But this did nothing to stop the routine highway robbery authorized by the federal government as part of the so-calle… more »

Judging by the performance of the Bush administration, one could reasonably conclude that conservatism consists of nothing more than perpetual war, endless deficit spending, consolidation of power in the presidency, and an unflagging hostility to due pr… more »

What does it take to wind up on the Transportation Security Administration's no-fly list? Ask Walter F. Murphy, a professor emeritus at Princeton University. On March 1, Professor Murphy ? a retired Marine Colonel and Korean War veteran ? disco… more »

Four years ago today, US-led forces captured Baghdad. In the city's Fardus Square, a Marine draped an American flag over the face of a huge statue of Saddam Hussein, which was torn down amid cheers from what we were told was a huge throng of jubilant Ir… more »

By the time he was freed on April 3, 24-year-old blogger Josh Wolf had spent seven months in a California federal prison for refusing a federal subpoena. Citing the California journalist shield law, Wolf insisted that he didn't have to provide prosec… more »

If you were asked to write a script for a hostage scenario involving schoolchildren, whom would you cast as the villains? Obvious choices would include Middle Eastern radicals, urban gang-bangers, or demented misfits like the killers from Columbine, Col… more »

In his April 3 press conference, President Bush issued what has to be considered a blackmail threat against Congress in an effort to extract funding to continue the war in Iraq. Congress has passed a funding measure larger than the one Bush requeste… more »

Article 1, Section 2 of the United States Constitution authorizes the federal government to conduct an ?enumeration? of the US population every decade in order to allocate congressional seats and electoral votes. This is the only legitimate and auth… more »

As a military prosecutor at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility, Lt. Col. Stuart Couch confronted a poignant dilemma. Couch was assigned to prosecute Mohammadeou Ould Slahi, accused of organizing the hijacking of United Flight 175. That was the pl… more »

In recent years it has become common to refer to the president as ?Our Commander-in-Chief.? That description is only proper when used by active-duty military personnel who have been called into service by Congress. The designation ?Commander-i… more »