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In a unanimous verdict, Nidal Hasan has been found guilty on all counts in the November, 2009 Fort Hood massacre. https://twitter.com/NBCDFW/status/370962863424561152 https://twitter.com/chrissadeghi/status/370962880021008384 Hasan had been charged with 13 premeditated counts and an additional 32 attempted premeditated counts of murder.  Today's verdict means that Hasan will face the death...

Yesterday the WSJ published an editorial on the Christopher Lane case: Some are focusing on the ease of obtaining a gun in the U.S., as (inevitably) is the reflexive CNN, and it would almost be a relief if we could blame such a murder on guns. Then we...

Gee, I wonder why . . . ALBANY, N.Y. — A new report from the nonprofit Tax Foundation shows people moving out of the state during the last decade took $45.6 billion in personal income from New York's economy, the most in the nation. The Washington, D.C.-based...

As a co-founder of the first San Diego Tea Party group, I appreciate grassroots activism that lights fires under our politicos. I would like to feature two new citizen-organized protests and update my Legal Insurrection friends on the local one I have been closely following. They...

Through no fault of his own, aspiring baseball player Christopher Lane of Australia was in the wrong place at the wrong time. "The wrong place" was jogging on a street in Duncan, Oklahoma. The wrong time was when a trio of teens with random murder in...

Reports are coming out of Syria today that the government may have launched a chemical attack outside Damascus; as is common in these situations, the reports are murky and the Syrian government has, not surprisingly, denied the accusation. From the Washington Post: Syrian activists accused the government...

There has been an important ruling on a court case involving the construction of California's budget-busting high speed train. And provisions written into the ballot measure approved by voters when they agreed to the train may save them from its unintended consequences. A Sacramento judge ruled...