(Denver Post) A jury on Thursday found James Holmes guilty of murder for the Aurora movie theater attack, one of the worst mass shootings in American history. The jury of nine women and three men delivered the verdict at 4:15 p.m., after deliberating for about 12 hours over two days. In doing so, they rejected…
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The Spy in Your Pocket
By Joseph S. Diedrich, Nicole Kardell Does the government need a search warrant to know where you’ve been? Not if your cell phone provider knows. If you don’t like how that sounds, there may be ways to change it. Take the case of Quartavious Davis, a Florida man convicted of robbing at gunpoint a pizzeria,…
Coach jumps nude in 13-year-old’s bed, has sex
(MINNEAPOLIS STAR TRIBUNE) — The head coach of the girls soccer team at Champlin Park High School has been charged with having sex with a 13-year-old in the boy’s north metro bedroom. Rebecca Lee Noonan, 31, of Minneapolis, appeared in court Tuesday on charges of third-degree and fifth-degree criminal sexual conduct and was released on…
Americaâs First Feminist Was a Radical Libertarian
By Lawrence W. Reed Each week, Mr. Reed will relate the stories of people whose choices and actions make them heroes. See the table of contents for previous installments. Opinions of Anne Hutchinson have, shall we say, covered the waterfront. In his masterful tome, Conceived in Liberty, 20th-century economist and libertarian historian Murray Rothbard cast her as a…
Lessons from the Richest Duck in the World
By Robert Anthony Peters Scrooge is an unlikely name for a hero. Since Dickens’s A Christmas Carol, it has elicited thoughts of disagreeable skinflints. That all changed with Scrooge McDuck. At first, Donald Duck’s Uncle Scrooge was quite Dickensian in character, but creator Carl Barks knew that a churlish miser would not sustain an audience’s…