In The American Spectator, Jeff Clark questions a modern notion that the U.S. Department of Justice is an autonomous organ of government independent of the Executive Branch, i.e., the President. If the DOJ were to become so, Clark writes, the American republic would not survive beyond a few more presidential cycles.

Inhuman for Criminals, the Luck of the Draw for You and Me
The EU may have banished the “‘inhuman,’ ‘degrading,’ and ‘irreversible’” death penalty for criminals, writes Frank Haviland in The European Conservative – but its member states’ soft-on-crime, easy-on-illegal-immigrants policies are making violent death an increasingly common fate for innocent Europeans. In a world gripped by barbarian forces, writes Haviland, it’s time for Great Britain to hold a national referendum on restoring an older form of justice.


