Free Republic

SAN FRANCISCO: Sara Jane Moore started the new year Tuesday a free woman more than three decades after a bizarre assassination attempt on President Ford that still baffles even her own attorney. "I never got a satisfactory answer from her as to why she did it," said retired federal public defender James F. Hewitt. Prison officials have offered no details on why Moore, 77, was paroled Monday from a federal penitentiary east of San Francisco, where she had been serving a life sentence. Moore had been behind bars for 32 years. The one-time aspiring film actress was 40 feet away...

Students at New York City's Beacon School are getting a real education this week: The law is for chumps. Teacher Nat Turner and about a dozen of his Beacon students traveled to Cuba this month to check out life in a workers' paradise - in contravention of a Department of Education directive and in violation of federal law. Beacon - a so-called alternative public high school that caters to the bright and the privileged - dotes on teachers like Turner, who festoons his classroom walls with Che posters as he pines in public for a revolution that will never come....