Crime - The New American

Pennsylvania Woman Charged with Terrorism Offenses

Colleen R. LaRose, a Pennsylvania woman known to authorities as “JihadJane”, has been charged with recruiting Jihadist fighters via the Internet to commit...

Raven Clabough March 10, 2010

Sex Offender Laws Called Into Question

Raven Clabough March 9, 2010

John Albert Gardner III, a registered sex offender in Escondido, a north San Diego suburb, from January 2008 to January 2010, is accused...

Communist China Caught Spying On United States, Again

Alex Newman March 4, 2010

A Federal Bureau of Investigation video was released over the weekend that exposed an American defense official with one of the nation’s top...

Why Texas Pilot Committed Suicide Against IRS

Thomas R. Eddlem February 19, 2010

Texas pilot Joe Stack, who set his house on fire and flew his airplane into an Internal Revenue Service in Austin, Texas, on...

Homeland Security Loses Nearly 300 Firearms

James Heiser February 19, 2010

According to its website, the Department of Homeland Security “has a vital mission: to secure the nation from the many threats we face....

Prof. Kills 3 at UAH, a Gun-free School Zone

Patrick Krey February 15, 2010

Professor Amy Bishop, a neurobiologist who holds a doctorate in genetics from Harvard University, moved her four children and husband from Massachusetts to...

Police Stories: A Non-“Emergency,” Helping a Hungry Family

Thomas R. Eddlem February 10, 2010

Police Chief Paula May of King, North Carolina, has been taking a lot of heat this week as a result of a “state...

Insecure Americans, Abdulmutallab, & Terrorism

Joe Wolverton, II, J.D. February 4, 2010

On January 9, 2010, an apparently fit, though slightly limping Umar Abdulmutallab entered the courtroom wearing the familiar khaki trousers, plain white t-shirt,...

Fishy Facts About Flight 253

Joe Wolverton, II, J.D. February 4, 2010

There is a long slate of oddities still inexplicable over a month after the timely thwarting of a potentially catastrophic terrorist attack over...

Conviction Comes Quickly for Killer of Abortionist

Dave Bohon February 1, 2010

It took just 37 minutes for a jury in Wichita, Kansas, to find anti-abortion activist Scott Roeder guilty of murdering later-term abortionist George...

Eight-year-old Suspected Terrorist

Rebecca Terrell January 29, 2010

Eight-year-old Mikey Hicks is a New Jersey school boy, a Cub Scout, and a suspected terrorist. His mother, Najlah Hicks, told the CBS...

Abdulmutallab’s Inept Interrogation

Joe Wolverton, II, J.D. January 28, 2010

Everyday major media outlets document the inexplicable and inexcusable dereliction of duty on the part of agencies within the U.S. government charged with...