“[…An] appeals court has interrupted the work of the famed Condom Judge of Brooklyn,” the New York Post’s Andrea Peyser reports. Supreme Court Justice Gustin Reichbach earned that nickname a decade ago, when he handed out condoms to hookers and addicts from his bench in Criminal Court. But it is Reichbach’s continued sensitivity toward more violent sorts that drives prosecutors to the Maalox and honest citizens to their homes. And

Breaking: “Kennedy Cousin” Michael Skakel found guilty in the 1975 murder of Martha Moxley. Skakel, now 41, was convicted largely on circumstantial evidence. “He hung himself by his own petard,” prosecutor Jonathan Benedict told reporters outside of the Connecticut courthouse, referring to Skakel’s own admissions over the years. More here. Well, somebody killed Ms. Moxley. Was it Skakel? Dunno. Did he cover his tracks alone? Doubtful. But it’s all academic,

Another reason to keep strong our resolve to combat terrorism wherever and whenever it rears it’s filthy, murderous head… “A Filipina nurse and a U.S. missionary held hostage by

“A bus plunged through the stone wall of a bridge Thursday and fell 28 feet, crashing through the roof of a building used to store mattresses,” KMOV in Missouri reports. “Seven people were hurt in the accident, only one seriously enough to be admitted to a hospital, said Carthage Police Sgt. Doug Dickey.” ‘God’s watching out for these people,’ he said. Ken Smith ran to the scene to help after

H.D. Miller of Travelling Shoes offers his “Unified Field Theory of Entertainment,” under which theory both French cinema (rightfully) and the European fascination with soccer (blessedly) take well-deserved beatings from their American entertainment counterparts: One of the best examples of the superiority of American cinematic art is that the French think of Gerard Depardieu as a romantic lead, while at best, we consider him (big-nosed, lumpy, and pockmarked) a suitable

H.D. Miller of Travelling Shoes offers his “Unified Field Theory of Entertainment,” under which theory both French cinema (rightfully) and the European fascination with soccer (blessedly) take well-deserved beatings from their American entertainment counterparts: One of the best examples of the superiority of American cinematic art is that the French think of Gerard Depardieu as a romantic lead, while at best, we consider him (big-nosed, lumpy, and pockmarked) a suitable

Writing for The American Prowler, R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. takes on those he calls “Gaudy Grandstanders“: Americans’ antipathy to the study of history is a boon for pundits and politicians, especially when they feel the urge to declaim on urgent matters. Today, in Washington, our pundits and pols, expounding on September 11 and the concomitant ‘intelligence breakdown’ in vacua, can do so with the greatest freedom of expression imaginable. History

From today’s Jerusalem Post: “Don Quixote diplomacy“: Today the faces stare out at us from our front page and ask: What are you waiting for? How many more of us must die? How long will you postpone the inevitable? To Yossi Beilin, the Arab world, Europe, and the US State Department, the inevitable is the hurried formation of a Palestinian state more or less along the 1967 boundaries, a notion

From today’s Jerusalem Post: “Don Quixote diplomacy“: Today the faces stare out at us from our front page and ask: What are you waiting for? How many more of us must die? How long will you postpone the inevitable? To Yossi Beilin, the Arab world, Europe, and the US State Department, the inevitable is the hurried formation of a Palestinian state more or less along the 1967 boundaries, a notion

“The nation’s immigrant population grew by more than 11 million people in the 1990s, the highest increase in history, according to Census 2000 data released Tuesday,” the Houston Chronicle reports. […]Some economists say a growing immigrant population provides a growing labor market to offset the aging native-born population. But a number of political groups have formed in recent years under the belief that a growing immigrant population will lead to