By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com I’m all for the right to bear arms. The constitution says we can. That being said, guns and semi-automatic rifles are a dangerous enough commodity — like prescription morphine and oxycodone — that they need to be regulated — particularly when they end up in the hands of…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Despite the president’s promise to place science above politics, the DEA issued a final order rejecting a license for a University of Massachusetts, Amherst professor to grow marijuana for federally regulated research. Just over a decade ago, in June of 2001, Professor Lyle Craker, 70, applied for the license in an…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com DETROIT — If you were gambler, you might want to put up your home, your first born and your savings and checking accounts and bet that a fed judge in Detroit will flatly reject the most recent motion by so called “underwear bomber” Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab. Abdulmutallab, who is representing himself…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — In a different twist on the war on drugs, Mexican police on a couple occasions in the past 18 months have first gathered in the U.S. before crossing back into Mexico to stage raids, the New York Times reports. The boomerang operations are designed to throw off the cartels,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The legal battle goes on for two Secret Service agents in a case stemming from a 2006 visit to Colorado by Vice President Dick Cheney. The Associated Press reports that the two agents are asking the Supreme Court to declare them immune from being sued in a First Amendment lawsuit. The…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com There’s no shortage of hate. Take Cody Crawford, a self described Christian warrior. The 24-year-old Oregon man has been charged with a hate crime for a November firebombing of a Mosque in Corvallis, Ore., the Associated Press reports. Authorities allege that Crawford is a “potential major contributor” of DNA to a…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A former FBI evidence technician in the agency’s Merrillville, Ind. office was sentenced Thursday in Hammond, Ind., to 15 months in prison for lying about stealing nearly $80,000 in evidence that she kept for herself instead of properly returning the cash as she claimed she did. Melissa L….
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com I’m all for the right to bear arms. The constitution says we can. That being said, guns and semi-automatic rifles are a dangerous enough commodity — like prescription morphine and oxycodone — that they need to be regulated — particularly when they end up in the hands of the violent Mexican…
