Daniel Pipes: Philadelphia, the city where I live, has quietly and unassumingly become the capital of the Western world as regards female Islamic garb as an accessory to crime. [ . . . ] By my count, the Philadelphia region...
Posted by gnotalex on February 25, 2013 9:04 PM
Newsbusters: The network morning shows on Tuesday devoted an enormous 20 minutes and 53 seconds to obsessing over a gaffe by a Republican congressman, hyping Todd Akin's comments for nine separate segments. NBC, CBS and ABC touted Democratic efforts to...
Posted by gnotalex on August 21, 2012 9:53 PM
Jack Dunphy: I have spent most of my police career working in South and South Central Los Angeles, where the largest concentration of the city’s black population resides. When I was a young cop in the early 1980s, I was...
Posted by gnotalex on April 3, 2012 7:04 PM
Walter Russell Mead on yesterday's topic, as well as the (sporadic) media coverage of it: The American Interest: "Philadelphia – While out of town last week, I suddenly started receiving urgent long-distance messages about young black people in Milwaukee acting...
Posted by gnotalex on August 9, 2011 7:05 PM
CTV: One day after a lead detective vented his frustration over what he deems lack of cooperation from witnesses in the city's latest homicide, friction continues between members of Edmonton's Somali community and officers trying to solve the case. Bill...
Posted by gnotalex on January 5, 2011 7:00 PM
The Brevard County doctor who was arrested for groping a woman while dressed as Captain America with a burrito in his pants will not go to jail. You gotta admit, the burrito was an inspired touch. Still, it comes...
Posted by gnotalex on May 28, 2010 8:10 PM
The plane slowed and leveled out about a mile aboveground. Up ahead, the Viennese castle glowed like a fairy tale palace. When the pilot gave the thumbs-up, Gerald Blanchard looked down, checked his parachute straps, and jumped into the darkness....
Posted by gnotalex on March 29, 2010 8:21 PM
Metro.co.uk: A Ugandan government official has said that the bodies of people who die from drinking an illicit local gin should be caned six times before burial as an example to the living. District commissioner Edwin Komakech advocated the corpse-punishing...
Posted by gnotalex on November 16, 2009 8:50 PM
that we haven't anticipated this very situation: Topic 357 - Tax Information for Parents of Kidnapped Children You may claim a kidnapped child as your dependent if the following requirements are met: The child must be presumed by law enforcement...
Posted by gnotalex on April 15, 2009 10:09 PM
I`ve featured at least one of these guys before, but it`s nice to see that someone`s put together a hall of fame....
Posted by gnotalex on May 20, 2008 10:13 PM
One is for fighting. the other's for BLAMBLAMBLAMBLAMBLAM BLAMBLAMBLAM Gentle and/or perverse readers: Be apprised that indecent exposure is now apparently a capital offence * in Toronto The Good. From a correction in the Toronto Star: A Feb. 17 article...
Posted by gnotalex on February 28, 2008 10:15 PM
pink tentacle: The Royal Thai Police have released the sketch of a man suspected of stealing 200,000 baht from the Ladprao branch of the Government Savings Bank (GSB) in Bangkok several weeks ago. According to a report on the newsclip.be...
Posted by gnotalex on February 11, 2008 10:03 PM
the morning call.com: Allentown police had suspected William Torres of dealing drugs in the city. But an undercover narcotics investigation yielded much more, and resulted in Torres, 21, being charged early Saturday with two counts of homicide. Police said Torres,...
Posted by gnotalex on January 28, 2008 10:26 PM
The Smoking Gun: Meet Carlton Davis. The Minnesota man, 26, is facing felony charges for allegedly stealing a cell phone and purse from a woman he mugged on a St. Paul street early Saturday morning. According to police, after the...
Posted by gnotalex on September 12, 2007 10:18 PM
The corollory to the maxim that you should always wear clean underwear when going out in case you are involved in an accident is that you should refrain from wearing T-shirts with some message on them that could prove amusing...
Posted by gnotalex on July 13, 2007 10:45 PM
This photograph by Jason Reed of Reuters appeared in Saturday's National Post, and it made me laugh out loud. (Unfortunately this picture is of somewhat-lower resolution, and I was unable to find a better version.) It shows US Federal...
Posted by gnotalex on April 30, 2007 10:24 PM
Reuters: Police found more than 4,000 pieces of lingerie in the home of a Japanese construction worker who used climbing skills developed on his job to steal women's underwear. Huh! I wish I knew how he did that. Every time...
Posted by gnotalex on March 14, 2007 8:41 PM
I would drive 900 miles And I would drive 900 more Just to be the chick who drove 900 miles To be charged with attempted vehicle burglary with battery, destruction of evidence and battery I'm sure you've all heard...
Posted by gnotalex on February 7, 2007 9:08 PM
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