Author: Ring of Fire Staff

Two high school football players, Trent Mays,17, and Ma’lik Richmond, 16, were convicted Sunday in an Ohio rape case. Mays and Richmond were accused of raping a girl during a summer party in August 2012. The case was tried before Judge Thomas Lipps, a visiting judge, without a jury. The issue at trial was whether the victim was too drunk to understand what was happening to her and to give her consent. After reviewing the evidence presented over four days of testimony, Judge Lipps announced his decision finding the teens guilty. Defendant Mays was also found guilty of disseminating...

Two Steubenville, Ohio, high school football players were found guilty of rape yesterday by a Juvenile Court Judge. Trent Mays and Ma’lik Richardson were two of the high school students involved in the Steubenville rape scandal that went viral after the activist group, Anonymous, dedicated an entire blog to exposing evidence of a heinous series of events perpetrated by students of the high school and enabled by adults of the town. When the guilty verdict was announced, the collective mainstream news media went on an emotional binge and threw a giant pity party for the rapists. CNN reporter Candy Crawley said she...

The final report from the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction states that over $60 billion of U.S. dollars was spent in Iraq on reconstruction. “Operation Iraqi Freedom,” which began in March 2003, aimed to essentially take down Osama Bin Laden and his dangerous followers and the invasion, which was put into action by former President George W. Bush, was initially projected to require significantly less funds, time, and troops. Iraqi Freedom was also meant to inspire democracy within the tumultuous Middle East by what Bush called a “global democracy revolution”. Now ten years later, with thousands of American casualties...

A California judge has ruled National Security Letters (NSL) are unconstitutional under the First Amendment. The use of National Security Letters has allowed the FBI to spy on U.S. citizens in silence for years. In the ruling, U.S. District Judge Susan Illston also struck down gag orders imposed on Internet and telephone companies. The letters request private information about the company’s subscribers without a court warrant in the name of counter terrorism efforts. “This pervasive use of nondisclosure orders, coupled with the government’s failure to demonstrate that a blanket prohibition on recipients’ ability to disclose the mere fact of...

The ultra-conservative majority of the Supreme Court has a chance to redeem itself tomorrow by looking out for the interest of American citizens instead of generic drug manufacturers. The Court will hear arguments Tuesday about whether generic drugmakers can be held liable for their products when those products harm consumers. The plaintiff in the case was severely injured by the generic drug Sulindac in 2004, which caused permanent damage to her lungs and esophagus, and inflicted burn-like wounds on 60 to 65 percent of her body. She spent months in a medically induced coma while her wounds were treated....