This column might win me no fans on college campuses but there is something that must be said. Universities across the country are unconstitutionally punishing those accused of sex-based misconduct with no regard to the civil rights guarantee of due process. They say they are acting lawfully under the so-called Title IX law of 1972.…
It has never been easier to be an undetected serial killer in the United States. That’s the opinion of two experts in the field of collecting murder data in America. And both men say that as you read this there are thousands of active serial killers roaming the U.S.. Some operate in big cities, others…
This will not start out as a good year for Professor Nick Flor of the University of New Mexico. Beginning January 1st he will be suspended from this tenured position at UNM, without pay, for a full year. He is not allowed to get another fulltime job and the multimillions of dollars in grants he…
Remember the name Ed Stack. As the CEO of Dick’s Sporting Goods, a chain of 727 stores nationwide, he has shown more leadership in trying to solve the nation’s gun violence problem than all the politicians in Washington combined. Stack, 65, is not just talking the talk, he’s walking the walk down the path of…
As odd as it might seem suicide used to be against the law in the United States. Odd because how in the world could you punish a dead person for taking that final, fatal act? Still, some states continue to have laws on the books labeling attempted suicide as a criminal act, although prosecutions have…
Imagine a day when hardly anyone is able to get away with murder. Think about that. If there were a way to almost guarantee a killer would be discovered and punished wouldn’t the murder rate go into freefall decline? Frivolous thinking, you say? Well, consider the forensic crime fighting advances that have been developed in…
Say you invented something that became so popular more than a billion people across the planet used it. Wow, you’d be famous worldwide and one of the richest people on earth! But then, say, you discovered some of your customers were criminals using your product in nefarious ways. Terrorists were using it to communicate deadly…
This is not a column about impeaching our current president. This is a column about the impeachment process and the history of the legal route our nation is obliged to follow to oust a federal official. In the 231 years since the U.S. Constitution was ratified, Congress has seriously considered impeachment only a handful of…
A famous Greek myth recounts the tale of the diabolical King Sisyphus. He was punished for his many murderous actions by being forced to roll a huge boulder up a hill. No matter what method he used, each time Sisyphus neared the top of the hill the boulder would crash back to the ground, ensuring…
We live in a remarkably over regulated world. Yet almost unbelievably there are few hard and fast laws to protect those who want to create a baby the non-traditional way. When something goes wrong following a surrogate or in vitro arrangement the aggrieved parties often finds themselves in a murky space, without a clear-cut legal…