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North Korea Says It Has Arrested A US Citizen For Unspecified Crimes
Today North Korea's state news agency, KNCA, issued a brief report titled "American Arrested In DPRK For Committing Crime".The US citizen reportedly arrested is named in the report as Pae Jun Ho. Pae...
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Stunning NRA Press Conference Blames Shooting On Media, Video Games, Movies...
In what was a rather stunning, half-hour press conference, the National Rifle Association called on Congress to put armed police officers in every school in America. The highly-anticipated press...
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The Problem With The NRA's Plan In One Venn Diagram
Earlier today, the NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre advocated for putting an armed police officer in every school during a rather stunning press conference.Whatever your thoughts on the merits of the NRA's idea...
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Why The US Supreme Court Struck Down The Original Gun-Free Schools Law
The NRA's Wayne LaPierre on Friday called on the U.S. to put cops in every school, and suggested killers were drawn to schools because they're "gun-free zones."In fact, gun rights advocates fought the...
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Newtown Representative: NRA Gave The 'Most Revolting, Tone Deaf Statement...
U.S. Rep. Chris Murphy, the Congressman who represents the district in Connecticut that encompasses Newtown, tweeted this after being handed a transcript from the NRA's press conference:Murphy is also...
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A Judge Ruled Only The Senate Can Stop Itself From Abusing The Filibuster
Ruling that the courts have no power to do anything about it, a federal judge on Friday threw out a claim that Senate filibusters are an unconstitutional denial of majority rule. U.S. District Judge...
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The Glaring Problem With The NRA's Cop-In-Every-School Plan
At a press conference in response to last week's tragic Sandy Hook shootings, the National Rifle Association called on Congress to put armed police officers in every school in America.The logic is...
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Right Before The NRA Speech, A Pennsylvania Shooting Left 4 Dead
Four people died Friday and several police officers were wounded in a shooting spree in rural Pennsylvania, officials said.The shootings, exactly a week after a massacre of 20 children and six adults...
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JOB OF THE WEEK: Executive Creative Services Director, Vogue
Check out the Business Insider Jobs section >>As part of our new partnership with CareerBuilder.com, each week we'll feature one of the awesome jobs advertised on the Business Insider jobs...
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Michael Bloomberg Slams The NRA's 'Paranoid, Dystopian Vision Of A More...
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who has urged for more strict gun control legislation after the tragedy in Newtown, Conn., slammed the National Rifle Association today after the organization's...
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12 Charts On Firearms In GUN NATION
After last week's horrific mass shooting left 20 first-graders and seven adults dead, everyone is taking a hard look at guns in America.Obama has called for a gun control task force. Many have called...
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The Huffington Post Makes A Bold Statement On The Cost Of Doing Nothing About...
The Huffington Post's front page is making a statement about gun control.It has 81 stories linked at the top of its site. There's no photo — just text under the headline "TO LIVE AND DIE IN...
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Congress Is Quietly Abandoning The 5th Amendment
What everyone must understand is that American politics doesn't work the way you'd think it would. Most people presume that government officials would never willfully withhold penicillin from men with...
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10 Stars Who Got Arrested But Still Pulled Off Successful Careers
For most people, getting arrested isn't a good thing.But it hasn't seemed to bother these celebrities – at least not in terms of their careers.Many celebs have been brought down by an arrest or two,...
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A Little-Known Legal Maneuver Let 3 Men Convicted Of Murder Get Out Of Jail...
Three teens were convicted in the early 90s of the sexual assault and murder of three 8-year-old boys in West Memphis, Ark.However, the teenagers always maintained their innocence and after nearly 20...
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Rupert Murdoch's New York Post Has A Brutal Cover Attacking The Head Of The NRA
Via HuffPo, here's the cover of the Murdoch-owned New York Post, attacking NRA chief Wayne LaPierre's bizarre post-Newtown press conference. Murdoch has called for stricter gun control in the wake of...
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Pennsylvania Cops Still Have No Idea Why A Guman Killed A Woman In A Church...
HOLLIDAYSBURG, Pa. (AP) — Authorities in central Pennsylvania are trying to determine why a man fatally shot three people along a rural road before being killed in a gunfight with police.Police were...
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An All-Male Court Said It's Cool For Bosses To Fire Sexually 'Irresistible'...
A dentist acted legally when he sacked his attractive assistant because he and his wife thought the woman was a threat to their marriage, the all-male Iowa State Supreme Court ruled.The court ruled...
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Walmart Sells Assault Weapons But Bans Music With Swear Words
Neil DeGrasse Tysonpoints out a bizarre dichotomy in America:Walmart sells assault weapons but bans music that contains swear words.That policy tells you a lot about this country.We can guess why...
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NRA Chief Claimed 'Massive Obama Conspiracy' To Not Regulate Guns In The...
For a little background on the political tactics and rhetoric of the NRA, check out this 6-minute speech from 2011, wherein NRA chief Wayne LaPierre claims to have the REAL reason that Obama didn't do...
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