The uncontrolled market in toy or hobbyist drones makes their future use in a domestic terrorist attack “likely,” says a researcher and lecturer on drone warfare. But it will still require sophisticated technical skills to deploy them effectively, according to Michael J. Boyle, Associate Professor of...
Every year, it seems to happen overnight. The trees start budding, the grass gets greener and flowers begin to peek through the surface of the soil. Following a long cold winter, Mother Nature has her way of restoring a sense of hope by breathing new life...
This morning the justices will hear oral argument in National Institute of Family and Life Advocates v. Becerra, a First Amendment challenge by crisis-pregnancy centers to a California law that requires licensed centers to post notices to inform patients about the availability of state-funded family-planning...
President Trump pledged to achieve victory over the opioid epidemic in a speech in hard-hit New Hampshire, touting a “tough” law-enforcement approach—including the death penalty for dealers—as Congress wrestles with treatment funding, the Wall Street Journal reports. “Addiction is not our future. We will liberate...
Forcing pro-life nonprofits to promote abortion is a shocking violation of the First Amendment....
Conservatism should help us negotiate the tragic tradeoffs of life: a way between market and political liberalism versus solidarity. Tocqueville can help....
The petition of the day is: Coleman v. United States 17-1154 Issue: Whether a district court is required to consider the sentencing factors set forth in 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a) when determining a term of imprisonment for a defendant whose supervised release has been revoked pursuant to 18...
When Mark Sveen died in 2011, his life insurance policy still named his ex-wife, Kaye Melin, as the beneficiary – even though the couple had divorced four years before. Nothing in the Minnesota couple’s divorce settlement (which divided up, among other things, the all-terrain-vehicle and...
One day before the filing deadline for the primary election, the Supreme Court rejected a request by Republican lawmakers in Pennsylvania to block a remedial plan adopted by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court from going into effect. The ruling means that the state’s 2018 congressional elections...
A jailhouse video shows California sheriff’s deputies watching and sometimes laughing as a schizophrenic man, who had been strapped naked to a chair for 46 hours, writhes on the floor of his cell, loses consciousness and eventually dies, The Guardian reports. The San Luis Obispo...