“Crimes” on The Daily Caller

Whether or not they win big this November, Republicans need to stop thinking of themselves as the “party of opposition.” (more)

A convicted burglar is back behind bars, despite his claims of good intentions. (more)

A Bartow man fatally stabbed his roommate and drank the victim’s blood, an eyewitness told police. (more)

LEIDSCHENDAM, Netherlands (AP) — Naomi Campbell testified before a war crimes tribunal Thursday that she had received some “dirty-looking stones” after a 1997 dinner party with former Liberian ruler Charles Taylor. Still, the supermodel said she didn’t know if the stones were actually diamonds or if the gift came from Taylor. (more)

A 67-year-old Randolph man has been accepted into a special probation program in Morris County for shooting his family’s 20-year-old African gray parrot to death with a pellet gun last year. (more)

The people who watch politics closely expected it, the ones who didn’t assumed it, and now we know it. Through an internal U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service memo, the Obama administration blatantly confirmed amnesty is their number one objective regarding illegal immigration.  Actually calling removal of persons who are not in the United States legally a “threat”, this is not only proof of a Capitol Hill rumor that was just in the past few month showing teeth, but another spit mark on the Constitution made by our current leader. (more)

A 17-year-old and three juveniles have been charged in connection with an animal abuse case that left a puppy suffering from severe burns. (more)

Republicans and President Obama agree that this week’s decision by a federal judge to defang Arizona’s illegal immigration law shines a spotlight on the need for an immigration reform debate that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid recently declared dead for the year. (more)

While Judge Susan Bolton lays out the “Welcome” mat for the illegal immigrants to enter our borders, she is threatening not only our immigration standards, but also our standards as a nation.  Since the moment Governor Jan Brewer refused to allow ignorance of the White House to infect her state for another day, this was not about just about immigration totally but about what we wanted this nation to be.  We are threatened daily by outside invaders and instead of protecting ourselves, we fight within our own legislative and judicial walls, complicating every aspect of it and back bite ourselves while our nation crumbles. (more)

When U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton ruled on Wednesday that key provisions of Arizona’s new anti-immigration law were unconstitutional, she could have also declared them unnecessary. That is, if the main impetus behind the controversial legislation was, as Arizona Governor Jan Brewer said when she signed it in April, “border-related violence and crime due to illegal immigration.” The fact is, despite the murderous mayhem raging across the border in Mexico, the U.S. side, from San Diego to Brownsville, Texas, is one of the nation’s safest corridors. (more)

Reporting from Washington — Critics of the Obama administration’s decision to sue Arizona over its new law to control illegal immigration accuse the government of overlooking a more obvious target: the dozens of cities that called themselves a “sanctuary” for immigrants. (more)

A Palestinian man, Sabbar Kashur, was recently sentenced to 18 months in jail for rape.  He met a woman in downtown Jerusalem, they started talking, they felt a mutual attraction, they went to a nearby building, and had sex.  Rape?  Imprudent, sure; reckless, probably; stupid, works for me — but… rape? (more)

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) — The chief prosecutor of the war crimes tribunal for Sierra Leone says Naomi Campbell will testify next month at Charles Taylor’s trial. (more)

A 55-year-old North Carolina woman was taken to the hospital after her husband loaded a gun with toilet paper and shot her in the back early Tuesday morning, according to the Rockingham County Sheriff’s Office. (more)

A Washington Post report makes it official.  The Department of Justice lawsuit against Arizona, as I suggested in wondering what could possibly be motivating the administration, is a cynical bid for the Hispanic vote, a strategy to turn red border states purple.  How very pre-post-racial. (more)

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Kosovo’s former prime minister must be retried on murder and torture charges related to the country’s 1998-99 war with Serbia, the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal ruled Wednesday, calling his acquittal two years ago “a miscarriage of justice.” (more)

An air hostess is facing ten years in prison after admitting stealing from business class passengers as they slept on long-haul flights. (more)

Toronto Police have charged a man with attempted murder in connection with a sexual attack on a 61-year-old woman at Pine Hills Cemetery earlier this week. (more)

A middle school teacher facing a felony abuse charge for allegedly beating his 5-year-old son with a belt July 4 says he’s innocent, and has hired Attorney Eric Deters to defend him. (more)

Hundreds of animals — birds, dogs, hamsters, gerbils, turkeys, chickens and geese — were rescued from a home in Highlands, Harris County, KPRC Local 2 reported Friday. (more)