"Amanda Todd, a Vancouver-area teenager who posted a story to YouTube last month about being cyber-bullied, was found dead Wednesday night"

"How authorities use online activity to fight gang-related crime"

"Any time you find yourself in an argument about frivolous lawsuits and tort reform, someone's probably going to bring up "that woman who sued McDonald's over the hot coffee and won four ba-jillion dollars in damages.""

"A woman in Turkey is awaiting trial after beheading a man who she says raped her repeatedly for months and is the father of her unborn child. Her lawyer says the woman killed the man to protect her honor."

"A 46-year-old Lincoln man has been arrested for allegedly stabbing his own brother during an argument."

" A second soldier accused of driving an Asian-American private to suicide has received a six-month prison sentence after pleading guilty to reduced charges in a court-martial at Fort Bragg."

"A Delaware doctor and his wife were arrested this week after their daughter told authorities that she was punished by "waterboarding," police said."

Anybody in this country who wants to kill a lot of people in a crowded public space can do so fairly easily. The fact this almost never happens - and that when it does happen the act almost never has a political motive - indicates how wildly overstated the threat of terrorism is in America today.