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Two stories from today’s British news:
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Two young men pounced on a stranger on a London street, stabbed him, slit his throat, and ran off, leaving him to bleed to death on the street. That’s sad, but that’s not the news. This is the news:
Britain’s most senior judge, Lord Chief Justice Phillips, has advised [...]

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San Francisco is a very crowded little city. Although it covers only about seven 49 square miles (it’s a little square about 7 miles on each side), it’s the fourth most populous City in California, with almost 800,000 people crammed into that little space. Interestingly, though, San Francisco did not end up going [...]

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Please study the above photo very carefully. Doesn’t that look like a nice room? You can see that it’s fairly spacious and well fitted out, with nice colors, lots of light, and pretty curtains? I bet a lot of dorm students are looking at it enviously, as are a lot of kids who [...]

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Here’s the headline: “Judge admits mistake in kicking whites out of court.” Upon reading that headline, I assumed that this was going to be the familiar story about some crackpot anti-white judge who issued a ruling, a la the Jeremiah White mode of thinking, that blacks can’t get a fair trial with whites [...]

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I loved this short, but true, story:
A teenager learned it is not a good idea to try to rob a former U.S. Marine at knifepoint, no matter how old he is.
Santa Rosa police Sgt. Steve Bair said an 84-year-old man was walking on Fourth Street with a grocery bag in each arm when the boy [...]

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I blogged yesterday about law enforcement run amok, in connection with the decision to prosecute a mother who left a sleeping child in the car, while she walked a few feet away — something every mother in the world has done. As you may recall, I was quite heated in expounding upon the idiocy [...]

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Dennis Prager often states that being kind to violent criminals almost inevitably means being unkind to their future victims.  Now, I don’t know whether the two men whose criminal records are described below walked off lightly because of liberal criminal policies or the overload of the criminal justice system, but they certainly had bad records [...]

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Do you recall that, a couple of months ago, I wrote a lengthy post about the fact that the apparently benign sounding Child Protective Services has become a vicious scourge assaulting good parents because they’re easy targets? If you don’t recall that post, I recommend that you read it either before or after you [...]

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With regard to Eliot Spitzer, a defense is springing up all over the MSM and the liberal blogosphere:  it’s stupid to make prostitution criminal; therefore, Spitzer shouldn’t be in trouble for paying for prostitutes.  In response to this defense, I would point out that whether it should be criminal is not the issue here.  The [...]

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If you haven’t already read Heather MacDonald’s debunking of the “Rape Epidemic” on college campuses, you must. The whole article is replete with gems such as this one:
The campus rape movement highlights the current condition of radical feminism, from its self-indulgent bathos to its embrace of ever more vulnerable female victimhood. But the movement [...]

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I did a post yesterday in which I quoted from an interview with Michael Cappi regarding the fact that Islam, unlike Judaism or Christianity, is not a religion that concerns itself with broader moral issues that rise above mere tribal law. I’d actually made precisely the same point in an earlier post, here. [...]

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I blogged the other day about Dennis Prager’s strongly expressed opinion that those who have runaway compassion for criminals lack compassion for innocent people. Prager made that point in connection with the killing of Sean Taylor, something that took place at the hands of four young men with lengthy rap sheets. I later [...]

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I’m sorry that I don’t have much time to blog today, but I’m bouncing from professional deadline to parenting deadline and back again without respite today. However, I did manage to catch up on my iPod’s backlog of Dennis Prager shows. Since the show was from last week, Dennis commented briefly on the [...]

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This is what a Canadian jury found that Robert “Willie” Pickton did to six women:
During his trial, a prosecution witness Andrew Bellwood said Pickton told him how he strangled his alleged victims and fed their remains to his pigs. Health officials once issued a tainted meat advisory to neighbors who might have bought pork from [...]

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The San Francisco Chron has a long article about the fact that, in the Bay Area, blacks are locked up disproportionately for drug crimes, as compared to whites:
San Francisco imprisons African Americans for drug offenses at a much higher rate than whites, according to a report to be released today by a nonprofit research institute.
In [...]

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NPR did a little eulogy for Richard Jewell:
Lets take a moment to remember a man who really was not a terrorist.
Richard Jewell died yesterday.  He might have saved lives at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta.  He was a security guard.  He’s the man who discovered a green knapsack.  He’s the man who ushered several people [...]

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Debate will always rage about the purpose of imprisonment and the reasonable length for prison sentences. Some people think prison exists solely to punish people, while others believe that we need to use prisons to rehabilitate people, and stop being so gosh darn punitive. I tend to fall in a mushy middle that [...]

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A little over a month ago, I blogged about the California prison system’s problem dealing with inmates who have male genitalia, but who have declared themselves female.  The genesis of my post was the fact that one of these self-identified females, a man who had no surgery but took hormones, sued the California prison system, [...]

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I don’t think anyone is going to argue with me that prisons are dreadful places. Even if the facility is decent, you’re still locked up with hundreds of people who have violated the law, many in heinous and violent ways. There’s also too much time and too little to do — and, as [...]

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I’ve been quiet so far about the attack against Stanislav Shmulevich, a 23 year old Pace University student who was arrested for flushing a Koran down the toilet. Part of my silence was because this story happened while I was on vacation, which made blogging about it (heck, even thinking about it) difficult. [...]

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Tell me honestly — how are the state prison systems supposed to deal with the following true scenario?
The person at issue was born a man, and started taking hormones to feminize his appearance. At some point, he committed a crime and ended up in California’s state prison system. He continued to be given [...]

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This is very bad news:
The Lincoln Avenue rapist is free to walk Lincoln Avenue again, or anywhere else he pleases - without a tracking device.
Patrick Henry Ghilotti, the notorious San Rafael serial rapist, was released from state supervision Thursday and may travel wherever he chooses.
Although living at home in Vacaville with his wife since his [...]

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London, one of the greatest cities in the world for the last 1,000 years or so, continues to slide down, down, down. If you’re unlucky enough to live in the wrong section of London, this is what it’s like to do business:
A corner shop run by an Asian couple has been attacked 200 times [...]

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Life imprisonment for a crime you didn’t commit is a bad thing, but it’s a lesser evil than execution for that same uncommitted crime. The nurses and doctor in Libya, originally sentenced to death for allegedly transmitting HIV to children, have had their sentence commuted to life in prison:
Death sentences on six foreign medics [...]

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Back in December, the SF Chronicle revealed that San Francisco arrested blacks faster than did other major cities in California. I considered the ideas the police advanced and concluded, based on my own lifelong knowledge of the City, that the police were probably correct: San Francisco is a liberal white City across the [...]

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