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Skip to Comments By JACK PHILLIPS The  Pennsylvania  Supreme Court on Wednesday overturned  Bill Cosby ’s sexual assault conviction, and he was released from a Pennsylvania state prison just hours later. Pennsylvania Department of Corrections confirmed Cosby was released at around 2:30 p.m. ET,  according to a tweet  from the agency. Reporters on the scene  said  they saw the actor and comedian leave the facility and was being driven away in a white vehicle shortly afterward. In an opinion (pdf) vacating  his conviction, the Supreme Court court wrote that it found an agreement with a previous prosecutor had prevented the 83-year-old from being charged in the case. “When an unconditional charging decision is made publicly and with the intent to induce action and reliance by the defendant, and when the defendant does so to his detriment (and in some instances upon the advice of counsel), denying the defendant the benefit of that decision is an ...

By Tom Knighton If you walk into a gun store and go to buy a gun, you have to go through a whole rigamarole. This is because gun control advocates convinced lawmakers long ago that if you put these hurdles in place, you can keep guns out of the hands of criminals. As a result, we have to show ID and undergo a NICS background check. In some states, you have to wait a period of time to take home your firearm, too, even with a passed background check. Meanwhile,  criminals just skip all that . A thief driving in reverse crashed a vehicle into a Bismarck gun shop early Monday and stole an unspecified number of firearms, according to police who apprehended a suspect later in the day at a convenience store. Tjaden Smith, 22, of Bismarck, was arrested about 2 p.m. Monday, Lt. Luke Gardiner said. Police were called to Double H Guns about 1:30 a.m. Monday. Smith allegedly rammed a service-type vehicle with cabinets on the back into the front door and stole “a number of firearms,” Gardiner...

Skip to Comments By GWENDOLYN SIMS The woke Left’s long march through our institutions of higher learning has reached an astronomy course at Cornell University. Astro 2034 “Black Holes:  Race and the Cosmos”  introduces “students to the fundamentals of astronomy concepts  through readings in Black Studies .” Yes, really: Conventional wisdom would have it that the “black” in black holes has nothing to do with race. Surely there can be no connection between the cosmos and the idea of racial blackness. Can there? Contemporary Black Studies theorists, artists, fiction writers implicitly and explicitly posit just such a connection. And there we have it, friends, proof there is absolutely nothing the Left can’t find racism in or define through the narrow prism of race. In Astro 20434, Cornell astronomy professor Nicholas Battaglia and comparative literature professor Parisa Vaziri challenge that so-called conventional wisdom not through the latest scientifically sound ...

Skip to Comments By ROBERT SPENCER The facts at hand presumably speak for themselves, but a trifle more vulgarly, I suspect, than facts even usually do. On Thursday evening in the Indian city of Muzaffarnagar, Hazra, the second wife of the Muslim cleric Maulvi Vakil Ahmad, pleaded with him not to take a third wife. The good Maulvi refused her pleas and went to sleep, whereupon, according to  India Today , “Hazra cut off his manhood with a sharp-edged kitchen knife, due to which he ‘bled to death.’” What a shame. Hazra will no doubt now face the full measure of the law, yet while her action cannot be excused, it can be understood. Polygamy destroys romance, and dehumanizes women, reducing them to the status of commodities. Is she the one, the only one, who has captured your heart, delighted your eyes, put a spring in your step and filled your heart with joy? No, she is just one in a series, and can be changed once you grow tired of her. The Qur’an tells Muslim men to “marry t...

Skip to Comments By BigLeague Politics The Michigan Court of Appeals has ruled that hurting a liberal’s feelings can be considered a terrorist threat and punishable by up to 20 years in prison, which has prompted a response from activists and lawmakers concerned about the grave implications this ruling may have on the 1st Amendment. “Importantly, the issue is not whether defendant actually made a threat of terrorism, which would be a question for the trier of fact. Rather, the issue is whether, on these facts, defendant can be charged at all. The issue before us turns on whether a social media post made by defendant can constitute a ‘true threat,’” the court of appeals wrote in their ruling that puts all conservatives in the state at risk.  This appeals court ruling is pertaining to the case of 20-year-old Lucas Gerhard, a former Lake Superior State University student who was jailed for 83 days because a liberal classmate was triggered by a picture of a rifle he posted on socia...

Skip to Comments By John Green Back in 2014, the political leadership of California became alarmed at the rapidly rising prison population in the state.  The state was also under court order to reduce the overcrowding in state prisons.  The people of California set a grand objective to reduce the number of convicts in the state.  Fewer people going to prison has to be a good thing -- right? The first thing they did was pass  Proposition 47  -- the Safe Neighborhoods and Schools Act.  That sounds like something everyone would want.  58% of Californians voted in favor of the measure.  There was just one problem.  Reduced prison population was the objective -- not the outcome.  Nothing in Prop 47 was designed to actually reduce crime.  It redefined drug use and theft of property valued at under $950 as misdemeanors rather than felonies.  Punishment would no longer be imprisonment, but a fine of $1,000. The objective of prison p...

Skip to Comments By Scott Morefield Dr. Marty Makary, a Johns Hopkins Hospital surgeon, Fox News medical contributor, and one of the  few talking heads  these days displaying any sanity at all on the topic of all things COVID-19, lent a heavy dose of reality to the ongoing "fearmongering" about the Delta variant. The newest scarient, first discovered in India, is currently on a fast track to becoming the dominant coronavirus strain in the world. It's also becoming the latest excuse for the powers-that-be to try to keep people masked-up, in their homes, and frightened out of their wits. Except, while Delta is indeed more transmissible,  no evidence exists that it's any more deadly  than previous strains. And since the elderly and vulnerable mostly have either natural or vaccinated immunity, its infection of mostly younger people so far doesn't appear to be resulting in any significant upsurge in U.S. hospitalizations or deaths. During a Tuesday afternoon...