On April 25, Spanish police, at the request of Holland's national prosecutor's office, arrested Dutch citizen Sven Olaf Kamphuis. Kamphuis will likely face charges in Holland related to what Dutch officials describe as the most extensive criminal cyberattacks in the history of the Internet. The attacks, which occurred in mid-March, overwhelmed the website of Spamhaus, a European nonprofit organization... Read more.

As I write this, not even 48 hours have passed since three young women escaped a decadelong nightmare of captivity in a house in Cleveland. In this short time, speculation about them and their ordeal has reached stratospheric heights. Stories parse their 10-year-ago pasts. Headlines declare that "their nightmare is over" and that their escape is "a miracle." Worse, dark assumptions... Read more.

So, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg believes that the public's interpretation of the Constitution must evolve in the face of terror attacks such as the one in Boston. "You're going to have to have a level of security greater than you did back in the olden days," the man explained, "and our laws and our interpretation of the Constitution, I think, have to change." Of course he thinks... Read more.

When I read that President Obama refused to comment on the murder trial of abortion butcher Kermit Gosnell "because it's an active trial," I knew immediately he wasn't being truthful. In fact, the second I heard about Obama's excuse for dodging the question, I tweeted that ongoing investigations or trials did not preclude his publicly weighing in on the Trayvon Martin case or on the case... Read more.

Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, captured last Friday evening, was not informed of his right to remain silent and his right to a lawyer until Monday morning, nearly three days after his arrest. The FBI said the delay was justified under the "public safety" exception to Miranda v. Arizona, the 1966 ruling in which the Supreme Court said the now-familiar warnings are required to enforce... Read more.

What safety measures make sense in the aftermath of a tragedy such as the Boston Marathon bombings? I'm not sure. But I am positive it's not the advice below, which was posted on Facebook, apparently by someone who was interviewed by a news show shortly after the horrific event: "If you love your kids, don't bring them into large crowds at high profile events. Yes, it stinks that you have to make... Read more.

My wife sometimes talks to her clothes as if they were people. "Well. You haven't been out in a while," she'll say in late spring, looking at a pair of open-toed shoes, cooing at them as she takes them from the floor of her closet. This is not, by itself, evidence of a slipping grip on reality. My pickup truck is named "Evangeline." Plenty of people have involved conversations... Read more.

Last week, I spoke to students at Grosse Pointe South High School in the suburbs of Detroit. This is the same place where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his historic speech in March 1968, three weeks before he was assassinated. In his speech that day, King talked about "The Other America" and painted a grim portrait of the economic disparity that separated black America from white America. Here... Read more.

They blend in. They don't make threats. They carefully plan their attacks rather than "snap." They may be quite sane. Their friends, acquaintances and relatives sometimes know they are planning to plant bombs or shoot their victims, but say nothing to authorities in advance. This is what I have learned about domestic terrorists and assassins by interviewing psychologists who currently work... Read more.

Most laws are meant to stop people from doing something, and to penalize those who disregard those laws. More generally, laws are meant to protect the society from the law breakers. But our immigration laws are different. Here the whole focus is on the "plight" of those who have broken the laws, and on what can be done to lift the stigma and ease the pressures they feel, so that they can... Read more.