Outside the Beltway

Alan Dershowitz thinls the charges against George Zimmerman should be dropped. With due apologies to the good Professor, he’s wrong.

While the United States has some serious problems with policing, we’re not a police state.

All the available evidence suggest that the Occupy movement has fizzled away into virtual nothingness.

A man named Carlos killed a woman named Wanda Lopez. Texas executed a different man named Carlos for the crime.

Danny Lesh freely admits to stealing a bicycle–back from the thief who stole it from him.

Iran’s path to a nuclear bomb isn’t as easy as most think, Jacques Hymans argues in the current Foreign Policy.

What seemed like a diplomatic success has begun to unravel very quickly.

An unusual proceeding, but an unsurprising result.

The consequences of ten years of war?

The Sky News leadership is taking a novel approach to charges that it illegally hacked emails: Claiming a right to break the law when they think it’s in the public’s interest to do so.

The US Supreme Court ruled today that police can strip search anyone they decide to arrest for anything for any reason.

The media circus around the shooting of Trayvon Martin is getting worse.

An lesson from the United Kingdom in the importance of protecting freedom of speech.

A news report today provides an excellent lesson in why all the rushing to judgment in the Martin/Zimmerman case is a mistake.

It’s time to let the legal system do its job.

George Zimmerman and Trayvon Martin met on the night of February 27th. Martin died, and a firestorm has erupted.

A tragic incident in Afghanistan that’s likely to have tragic consequences.

One year later, Egypt’s revolution remains unfinished.

The Supreme Court issued a somewhat muddled ruling on GPS tracking today.

Some questions for opponents of the Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United.

Can the government force a criminal defendant to reveal a computer password? A Federal case in Denver is dealing with that question right now.

Domestic dispute or criminal act?

Protesters in the Chinese fishing village of Wukan are now in open revolt against the Chinese government. The government is laying siege to the town.

Time Magazine has chosen “The Protester” as its Person Of The Year. Let the outrage ensue.

Back in the late 90s, Newt wanted to execute marjiuana traffickers.

A new set of proposed Constitutional Amendments reveals that many people still don’t understand what Citizens United was about.

New head-scratching revelations in the Dominique Strauss-Kahn case.

My wife, Kimberly Webb Joyner, died this morning in her sleep from unknown causes. She was 41.

A progressive columnist has been outed as having sympathies for the Democratic Party.

The NYPD is wantonly violating the 1st Amendment.

The calendar favors waiting out the occupiers, not confronting them.

Why we shouldn’t be surprised that police are using tools of violence against protestors.

Further, there was another example of police violence at UCD earlier this week.

I find the rather nonchalant gassing of the protestors by the police officer, as if he is sparying his roses for aphids, to be disturbing.

Now that Occupy Wall Street is unable to occupy Wall Street, its leaders will have to come up with new ways to keep the pressure on. Some crazies are threatening to take the movement over in the meantime.

Is the star witness in the Penn State case changing his story, or just trying to protect his reputation?

New York Police dealt a major blow to Occupy Wall Street overnight.

Details are still sketchy but two men are dead in separate shootings at Occupy Oakland (California) and Occupy Burlington (Vermont).