Falmouth Citizen

How does a man who broke no laws land in jail? Mistaken identity or false evidence? In this case it was a rotten judge. Thanks to New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, Brian Aitkin rang in the New Year as a free man after Christie commuted his sentence on Dec. 20. Love that governor (so lay off him for being in Florida when the big snowstorm hit). Read the rest of this entry »

The taxpayers of the United States were given a reprieve when Congress left town earlier this month for their Labor Day holiday vacation without the U.S. Senate passing the Police and Firefighter Monopoly Bargaining Bill. That's not for lack of trying. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi played down and dirty by trying to attach it to a "must-pass" war-funding bill. It didn't happen. Read the rest of this entry »

Guns are in the spotlight again. According to a report, whose veracity is unknown but is appearing all over the Internet, the U.S. Department of Education is buying shotguns. The same for the IRS. The rumor mill has it the IRS is buying riot guns to enforce the Health Care Bill. Then there is the report that the Heller v. District of Columbia case was overturned on what appear to be silly grounds that "the Supreme Court didn't say the Second Amendment is a fundamental right" (although they did). Read the rest of this entry »

"The economic recession has had at least one positive effect. It once and for all disproves the claim that unemployment begets crime. As the economy began to shed jobs in 2008, criminologists predicted that crime would shoot up. But the opposite has actually happened. More than 7 million-lost jobs later, crime in the U.S. has plummeted to its lowest level since the 1960s." Read the rest of this entry »