[caption id="attachment_7661" align="alignright" width="300"] (AP Photo/Jane Flavell Collins)[/caption]Throw the book at them! Please, no more talk about how they're "only" 19 years old and they don't understand the customs of the Western world. Depo ...

[caption id="attachment_7661" align="alignright" width="300"] (AP Photo/Jane Flavell Collins)[/caption]They were vipers in our midst. They were young people who accepted all that this state and this nation had to offer, and then they spat on its laws ...

It is a sad sight to watch a man grapple with a world that fails to meet his expectations. Unless that man is Eric Holder. Then it is simply infuriating. The attorney general, warped by his own prejudice, is confused because his fellow citizens are b ...

For civil libertarians, all terrorist attacks come in two equally predictable parts. First, comes the terrorist attack, followed by an explosion of politicians calling for new security measures and surveillance. It is the Pavlovian politics of terror ...

Suppose the marathon bombings had been committed by born-again Christian Tea Party members on the dole. Do you really think that Gov. Deval Patrick would be hanging on to those terrorists' welfare files even tighter than he clutches Lt. Gov. Tim Murr ...

Gone, thankfully, are the days when rape victims routinely were treated as if they deserved it. Perhaps the time also will come when the American people are no longer blamed after terrorists kill them. We are not there yet. In a rancid piece of trash ...

Is Gov. Deval Patrick serious? He doesn't know the motivation of the terrorists? On Sunday he went on "Face the Nation," and host Bob Schieffer asked him if he had "any clearer idea" of why the "two young men" did it. "Not yet, Bob," Deval began, mor ...

Is Dzhokhar Tsarnaev an "enemy combatant"? The Obama administration says "No." Then again, it almost had to. From the day he ran for president, Barack Obama has advanced two certainties: that military commissions are bad, and that the way his predece ...

[caption id="attachment_23053" align="alignright" width="300"] (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)[/caption]Now do you think we need a death penalty here in Massachusetts? I understand, it's too late now to strap whoever committed this atrocity into Old Sparky. ...

WASHINGTON - The explosives used in the deadly Boston Marathon bombing were contained in 6-liter pressure cookers and hidden in black duffel bags on the ground, a person briefed on the investigation told The Associated Press on Tuesday. One of the ex ...