The father says: "I do believe in karma, and if you think for one minute that there would be anything karmically correct for you to have a well-behaved little girl, you're dreaming." Justin Townes Earle and Steve Ea…
Here we are, probably at Wanamaker's in Wilmington -- or was it Newark? -- Delaware. I will be 3 in January, and my sister is 6. I don't think either of us is buying that beard, but my doubt is tinged with trepidation, p…
Last Christmas, my scheduled flight to Austin -- where both my sons lived -- got canceled, the rescheduled flight got canceled, and it became impossible to book a flight that would get me to Austin in time for Christmas. It was 5…
Because the Post Office discovered that one guy -- who probably only wanted to do a good deed -- was -- like 644,000 Americans -- a registered sex offender.
He has confessed to shooting his father and another man. One body was upstairs in the house, and the other was outside. MORE: Arizona law generally holds that a child lacks competency to be held responsible for a homicide. Howev…
FoxNews is covering it live. The main theme at this point is: What's taking him so long? It's been at least 5 minutes. Predictable joke: Is he reconsidering voting for himself? Plausible theory: He's encountering prop…
David Hlavsa's wife, given the choice between childbirth and a D&C, chose to go through labor -- painful, induced labor in a maternity ward-- so that she could see and hold the dead child. She keeps the baby's ashes …
The debate is September 26 and the topic is domestic and economic policy. There will be 9 segments, each 9 minutes long. (I hope the candidates will be dressed to the nines.) I'd like to see one the 9 segments delve into Oba…
My history blogging continues. Before clicking, see if you know the year. "Boston Corset Maker Says Women Have Grown Stouter" — and the the 21-inch waist is a thing of the past. The Chief Justice spoke of Lincoln's…
What music makes you feel that way? Jac says it's this , as he makes a few recommendations to a friend who's looking to "knock the cobwebs out of my itunes library." I love all his selections, but especially th…
"... or confounding Dr. Bailly with impromptu Napoleon Dynamite impressions." "In a way, I think it’s that these kids are not just good – they are so much better than I am at something that I have done almost every…
Because your political opinions are more important than protecting the innocence of children and your terrific sense of humor cancels out any ugliness that might seem to intrude on the sensitivities of repressed adults.
Here 's some timely analysis by law and religion prof John Witte Jr. (It's especially timely for me because it's the subject of the Constitutional Law exam I'm working on grading right now... as I take a break to …
Says the 8-year-old girl Nojud Mohammed Ali , whose lawyer said "I believe there are thousands of similar cases" in Yemen. In other news from the Middle East: A Turkish barber accused of swearing at God is sentenced to …
So wrote Justice White in Coker v. Georgia , and this week, the Supreme Court takes up the question whether the death penalty could nevertheless be constitutional when the victim is a child. Those facts alone are a powerful argu…
NY Post headline about Judge Weinstein's decision in the Polizzi case: Maverick Brooklyn federal Judge Jack Weinstein issued the ruling in a child-porn case over which he presided - chastising himself for not telling the ju…
Bill Cosby — on "Meet the Press" — urges parents to subject their children to intense, prison-style searches: When you—when—there’s a, there’s a friend of mine who was in jail. He is now a pastor in, in Wilmington. A…