Thursday, October 20, 2016 Sheriff David Clarke: The Warlord of Milwaukee County Now that Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Arizona’s Maricopa County faces a possible federal felony conviction that would dislodge him from office, the floor is open for nominations to replace him as the preening figurehead for the Punitive Populist constituency. Milwaukee County, Wisconsin Sheriff […]

Tuesday, October 11, 2016 Who Protects Kids from Predatory Police and Prosecutors? Raising teenage girls in the age of Snapchat exhibitionism is a challenging proposition – and it’s not made any easier by ambitious prosecutors seeking to criminalize unwise acts that fall within parental jurisdiction.  Last April 6, two parents from Knoxville, Iowa were summoned […]

Wednesday, October 5, 2016 “Let’s Convict Him and Get It Over With”: The Framing of Lanny Smith A picturesque landmark in a troubled county: The Idaho Falls LDS Temple James Swogger was a terrified 25-year-old awaiting trial on a charge of sexual misconduct with a child when he contacted Detective Victor Rodriguez of the Bonneville […]

Wednesday, September 28, 2016 Rather than Indulging the Reparations Racket, Why Not Abolish Enslavement to the State? Forty-five years have elapsed since the passing of Sylvester McGee, the last black American citizen who had been claimed by another American as property. Eighty-one years have elapsed since the death of Cudjoe Lewis, the last black American […]

Wednesday, September 14, 2016 Make This Right, Jared: Help Free Chris Tapp Put former Idaho Falls Mayor Jared Fuhriman in a room filled with people, wrote the Idaho Falls Post Register’s editorial board in an encomium to the retired politician, “and warmth radiates from him. His decency is genuine, not the fabricated kind that can […]

Monday, August 29, 2016 The State as Accomplice: Did Idaho’s “Justice” System Shield a Serial Murderer? See an important update below. “Our investigation in the death of Angie Dodge is not over,” insists Idaho Falls Police Chief Mark McBride. “It will never be considered a closed case until after we have identified and brought all […]

Thursday, September 8, 2016 The Stolen Life of Cathy Woods Survivor: Cathy Woods, following her exoneration. Former police detective John Lawrence Kimpton had crested the biblical threescore-and-ten in 2011 when he passed away in the company of loved ones in a Reno hospital room. He should have died in the prison cell that by that […]

Monday, August 22, 2016 Sheriff Zollman — What Will You Tell Jack Yantis’s Widow? No, they won’t forget: Adams County residents at the site where deputies gunned down Jack Yantis. Residents of Adams County, Idaho, should compel Sheriff Ryan Zollman – by nailing his feet to the floor, if necessary — to answer this question: […]

Monday, August 1, 2016 Beware, Adams County: A “Sociopath” Will Soon Return to Duty “I’m a man of faith, and I believe nothing happens without a reason,” insisted Adams County Sheriff Ryan Zollman after Idaho Attorney General Lawrence Wasden placed the state’s imprimatur on the murder of Council rancher Jack Yantis. To the family and […]

Saturday, August 13, 2016 No Justice for Jack Yantis: The “Smoking Gun” is a Bloody Bullet Jack Yantis with his now-widow, Donna. (See update below.) “Perhaps you can account also for the bullet which has so obviously hit the window?” “By George! How ever did you see that?” “Because I looked for it.” Sherlock Holmes […]