Tag: Domestic terrorism

Here we are again. Two mass shootings over a weekend. Three in a week. And yet we seem paralyzed as ever about what to...

The temptation is to say that a line was crossed on Saturday in America. But I can't bring myself to do it. Maybe the most...

  Tuesday morning few people knew of JoAnn Windholz, the Colorado Republican state representative from Commerce City. By Tuesday afternoon, she had made headlines nationwide...

If you tune in the NBA All-Star game today to get a last happy look at Carmelo Anthony as a Denver Nugget, you will also be asked to join the front lines of American anti-terrorism work.

Scott Roeder, the 51-year-old accused of murdering abortion provider Dr. George Tiller in his Wichita, Kans. church, had a long history of ties to a violent right-wing extremist group, had previously threatened another abortion provider, and had just that week vandalized Tiller’s clinic.
Just as federal law specifically penalizes hate crimes, the law also makes it a federal crime to threaten or commit violence against abortion providers, or to vandalize their clinics. Yet as The Washington Independent revealed last week, the criminal law was not being enforced.