The Vast Majority Of America's Prisoners Won't Get The Mercy Obama Gave This...
The Justice Department has taken the huge step of reforming America's draconian drug sentences, but President Barack Obama has shown mercy to just one prisoner during his time in office.Obama's lone...
View ArticleAttacking Syria Would Be The Most Unpopular Intervention In The Last 20 Years...
The proposed U.S. military intervention in Syria is by far the most unpopular potential conflict of at least the past 20 years, according to a new Gallup survey.The Gallup poll found that only 36% of...
View ArticleHow I Got Through 25 Years In Federal Prison
Editor's note: This answer originally appeared in Quora, in answer to the question, "Prisons: How do you deal with the monotony of serving a long-term prison sentence?" We have republished the answer...
View ArticleThese Are The 'Horrendous' Videos The Obama Administration Is Showing...
CNN's Jake Tapper obtained on Saturday some of the videos the Obama administration has shown to the Senate Intelligence Committee in classified briefings on Syria.They are what Senate Intelligence...
View ArticleObama Is Going On A Furious Media Push To Sell A Syria Strike
President Barack Obama will embark on a furious push to sell his plan for military intervention in Syria beginning on Monday, when he will give interviews to six news networks. Obama will sit down in...
View ArticleArizona Woman Released After 2 Decades On Death Row
PHOENIX (AP) — An Arizona woman is getting her first taste of freedom in more than two decades after an appeals court overturned her murder conviction, setting the stage for a retrial as prosecutors...
View ArticleCleveland Kidnapper Ariel Castro's Suicide May Have Hurt His Victims One Last...
The shocking suicide of Cleveland kidnapper Ariel Castro sparked jubilant reactions from Twitter, but the 53-year-old's death could be a tragic development for his three victims.Castro was spared the...
View ArticleElderly Marine Veteran's Home Foreclosed Over $134 Property Tax Bill
A $134 property tax bill was all it took for an elderly Vietnam veteran to lose his home to foreclosure in Northeast Washington, D.C. two years ago.An investigation conducted by Michael Sallah, Debbie...
View ArticleHere's How You Should Be Studying For The LSAT
The October LSAT looms just a month away, so hopefully you've already started studying if you intend to apply to law school.J.Y. Ping, co-creator of 7sage LSAT Prep, has a law degree from Harvard and...
View ArticleINTELLIGENCE CHIEF: We're Not Stealing Secrets From Companies
The Director of National Intelligence released a statement Sunday in response to allegations that intelligence agencies have stolen industrial secrets and engaged in economic espionage in its mission...
View ArticleA Bunch Of People In China Might Be Going To Jail For Spreading Rumors Online
Chinese Internet users could face three years in prison for writing defamatory messages that are then re-posted 500 times under regulations announced Monday amid a broader crackdown on "online...
View ArticleASSAD WARNS: The Middle East Could Explode If The US Strikes Syria
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad warned the United States to "expect everything" if it carries out strikes against targets in Syria."Nobody could expect what will happen if U.S. attacks," Assad told...
View ArticleAMBASSADOR SAMANTHA POWER: This Is Why The US Must Attack Syria
The U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Samantha Power, gave a speech last week that lays out what is perhaps the most persuasive case calling for U.S. strikes on Syria.The gist of Power's argument...
View ArticleGOP Congressman Gives The Most Bearish Syria Vote Assessment We've Seen Yet
As President Barack Obama prepares a blitz to rally support for his plan to attack Syria, one Republican House member says he doesn't have a chance. "It's dead. Completely dead," Rep. Devin Nunes...
View ArticleAn Obscure 'Evil Genius' Engineer Was Instrumental To the NSA's Expansion
An obscure engineer named James Heath has helped shape the NSA's information empire by serving as the right-hand man of NSA chief Keith Alexander, Shane Harris of Foreign Policy reports in an extensive...
View ArticleDEM CONGRESSMAN: Obama Is Going To Struggle To Even Get 100 Syria Votes in...
Democratic Rep. Alan Grayson doesn't think that President Barack Obama will get 100 votes in favor of his plan for military strikes in Syria — even after the public-relations blitz Obama will put on...
View ArticleMan Whose Family Was Killed In Syria Chemical Attack Doesn't Think It Matters...
As the U.S. continues to debate whether the country should attack Syria to punish the Syrian government for using chemical weapons, a Palestinian man whose family was killed in the chemical attack...
View ArticleSolitary Confinement Is Especially Brutal For Teenage Inmates
While long-term isolation can even make adults lose their minds, its effects on young people can be particularly wrenching.Prisons and jails across America keep inmates under the age of 18 in solitary...
View ArticleJohn Kerry Is Getting Relentlessly Mocked For Saying Syria Strikes Will Be...
Making the case for intervention in Syria to a war-weary American public, Secretary of State John Kerry said Monday that the strike will be "unbelievably small" — a comment that has already earned him...
View ArticleWhat It Was Like To Use New Technology After 25 Years In Prison
When I went to prison, in 1987, Motorola manufactured the large, gray cellphone that I used. People referred to it as “the brick.” It had the capacity to send or receive phone calls, but there wasn’t...
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