Category: General

An Alabama man was executed yesterday for the brutal 1988 sexual assault and murder of 32-year-old Karen Lane. Ivana Hrynkiw and Sevannah Tryens of the Alabama Media Group report that murderer Gregory Hunt showed no signs of life nine minutes after he began breathing nitrogen gas. It was the state’s fifth execution via nitrogen gas. Evidence presented at trial indicated that Hunt, who had briefly dated Lane, was seen entering her apartment on the night she was murdered. His fingerprints and semen were found on the victim’s body along with a broomstick covered with bodily fluids used to sexually assault her. Continue reading . . .

It may come as a surprise to some that in the American two-party political system, one of those parties is an aggressive advocate for people who commit crimes. The evidence of this is overwhelming and every day the news media provides us with more.  Some ongoing themes are so pervasive that specific proof is not needed. For example; the Democrat party has been the home of the anti-incarceration movement, which has been advocating against prison and jail sentences for criminals since the 1960s. They succeeded in reducing or eliminating punishment for most crimes in the 1970s but, when crime skyrocketed in the 80s and 90s, the public rebuked those policies and restored consequences.  This caused a dramatic decline in crime rates.  For at least the last two decades it would be difficult to imagine anyone who has not heard prominent Democrats proclaiming that police, prosecutors and the entire criminal justice system is racist. President Obama and his Attorney General Eric Holder repeatedly made this accusation 16 years ago and democrats across America serving as mayors, district attorneys, judges and supreme court justices parroted that narrative, which has repeatedly been proven false.

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Let us all take a moment today to remember those who gave their lives in the defense of freedom.

“Today, we are ending the Biden Civil Rights Division’s failed experiment of handcuffing local leaders and police departments with factually unjustified consent decrees,” announced Assistant U.S. Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon. Since the beginning of the Obama administration and continuing over to the Biden administration, the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division has filed dozens of lawsuits against mostly big city police departments alleging unconstitutional policing practices and racial bias. Breanne Deppisch and David Spunt of Fox News report that that the DOJ is now dismissing lawsuits against the Minneapolis and Louisville police departments launched after the George Floyd riots of 2020. In both cases the government claimed that the departments were racially biased.

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A spate of murders in Minneapolis last week has focused attention on the impact of the city’s progressive, lenient treatment of juvenile and habitual adult offenders. Audrey Conklin of Fox News reports that, beginning on April 29, there were six shootings over 24 hours which left six people dead and five others injured. The city has been the epicenter of anti-police policies since the 2020 George Floyd riots with violent crime and murder up dramatically since 2019, while crime has declined nationally. “Minneapolis, sadly, is experiencing the tragic consequences of years of anti-police rhetoric and failed leadership from the Minneapolis State Council and the lunatic county prosecutor of Hennepin County in which Minneapolis sits,” said Jim Schultz, 2022 candidate for state Attorney General and president of the Minnesota Private Business Council. “When city officials demonize law enforcement and slash police budgets and refuse to prosecute the criminals, the results are bought on the streets.”

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Governor Gavin Newsom’s Department of Corrections has authorized a twice-deported Mexican national, sentenced to ten years in prison for killing two teens, to be released after serving 3.5 years. Art Pedroza of New Santa Ana reports that the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) plans to release Oscar Eduardo Ortega-Anguiano in July.  The illegal alien repeat felon was convicted of the 2021 death of 19-year-old Anya Varfolomeev and 19-year-old Nicholay Osokin when he crashed his speeding car into them while driving drunk and without a license.  It was not Ortega-Anguiano’s first run-in with law enforcement.  Over the past several years the CDCR has increased the good-time and rehabilitation credits for violent criminals to the point where most only serve a fraction of their sentences. The CDCR is under the direct authority of the Governor who has publicly announced his goal of emptying out state prisons.

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A social justice celebrity, honored for his advocacy for criminal justice reform (read no consequences for criminals) has been charged with murder days after Soros-bankrolled District Attorney Larry Krasner welcomed his endorsement for re-election. Ellie Rushing of the Philadelphia Inquirer reports that Sergio Hyland an organizer for Pennsylvania’s progressive Working Families Party, also funded by Soros, and another reform group, Straight Ahead, served over 20 years in prison for two previous murders.  Following his release from prison Hyland has advocated for alternatives to incarceration, the elimination of bail and reducing policing as the solutions to crime in Philadelphia.  Krasner, who has boasted about his record of reduced prosecutions, elimination of cash bail and shorter sentences for criminals, said that he was “honored” to accept the endorsement of Hyland and Working Families in early April.  Eight days later Hyland was arrested for the July 2024 execution-style murder of 30-year-old Jasimane Ransom, a mother of two.

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An illegal alien from Guatemala has been arrested along with his uncle for the March 31, 2025 murder of his American girlfriend.  Adam Sabes of Fox News reports that 23-year-old Lesbia Mileth Ramirez Guerra’s body was found buried in a forested area of Maryland’s Prince George’s County on April 17.  She was the mother of two children.  The illegal, Keycy Robinson Alexi Barrera-Rosa, has been charged with her murder.  Barrera-Rosa’s uncle, Rolvin Eduardo Barrera-Barrera, has been charged as an accessory to the murder.  Barrera-Rosa and his uncle both crossed the U.S. border into Texas in 2019 and were given a notice to appear before a judge at a later date.  They moved to Prince George’s County, a sanctuary for illegals, where they remained protected from federal immigration authorities until their arrest.   According to a story in the Southern Maryland News, police believe that the young mother was strangled to death.

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Five years ago New York state adopted “bail reform” which essentially eliminated bail for every arrestee except for murderers and rapists. Two years earlier the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court announced the “Brangan Doctrine,” requiring judges to consider an arrestee’s ability to pay as the primary consideration when setting bail. This has resulted in most offenders being released on low or zero bail, even after dozens of prior arrests. Similar laws or judicially-imposed limits on bail are in place in cities that include Chicago, Philadelphia, Seattle, Austin and DC.  Some of these “reforms” were adopted by cities and counties, some were imposed by progressive District Attorneys, some came from the legislature and some were ordered by judges. After the progressive District Attorney in Los Angeles was voted out last fall, his broad zero bail policy was abandoned by the new DA. But under California law those arrested for almost all property crimes, including auto theft and most drug crimes, still require release without bail.  The California Supreme Court is currently considering a “Brangan doctrine” approach to bail in a case called In re Kowalczyk, which, based on the court’s decision, could impose the ability-to-pay rule for the entire state. CJLF filed argument in opposition in that case.  In places where these reforms are the law, the criminal justice system has become a revolving door, with criminals arrested for serious crimes such assault, illegal possession of firearms and trafficking deadly drugs such as fentanyl, and released back to the streets before the ink is dry on the police report.

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Many will probably remember news stories in 2023 covering a young illegal immigrant from Venezuela bragging about how easy it was to get money from the U.S. government and squat in a vacant house with impunity. Michael Ruiz of Fox News reports that 26-year-old Leonel Moreno had an estimated 500,000 Tik Tok followers watching his videos mocking taxpayers and other illegals who worked for a living while he was prospering on government handouts. In one of those videos, Moreno bragged, “I didn’t cross the Rio Grande to work like a slave. I came to the U.S. to mark my territory.” Last Friday, the Trump administration announced that Moreno has been deported to his original territory in Venezuela.

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