Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
Pedophilia is an up and coming subject, as pedophiles strive to become mainstream. In an article about Dr. Earl Bradley, a convicted pedophile, Fay Voshell makes an incredibly important point: Dr. Bradley’s behavior is illustrative of the sort of things a pedophile does to his victims, including sometimes killing the
Continue readingI was thinking about prison yesterday. Someone was telling me that his son, a student at San Francisco State University, had a teacher who announced, “I’m not going to make any pretense of being unbiased,” and then handed out a book about the evils of prison. My response was that,
Continue readingMy daughter started high school at our local public high. It’s a great high school. It’s got a beautiful facility, high quality staff, all the bells and whistles you can think of, an involved parent body, and a whole lot of very nice kids. I always knew all that, but
Continue readingThis is quite the Saturday. Not one BUT TWO of my friends have been published today at American Thinker. Navy One, who blogs at The Mellow Jihadi, and has for years been a Bookworm Room visitor, has a great piece there, a rumination (and book review) about Navy life, non-Navy
Continue readingIt turns out that one of San Francisco’s premier sexual harassment attorneys enjoys a little S&M fun on the side. So much so that he likes to run Craig’s List ads seeking women who like it rough: His lawyer, Stuart Hanlon, said the women had all come to Hoffman’s Van
Continue readingThere is a story that Josef Stalin, hearing mention of the Pope, asked dismissively ““How many divisions does the Pope have?” The quotation, if true, is compelling, because it perfectly illustrates the Leftist viewpoint that the only power is that which comes at the point of a gun. The notion
Continue readingA man died while in the act of raping an elderly woman: The Refugio (reh-FYOO’-ree-yoh) County Sheriff’s Office identifies the man as 53-year-old Isabel Chavelo Gutierrez. Sheriff’s Sgt. Gary Wright says the incident happened June 2 after he rode two miles by bicycle from his home to that of his
Continue readingYou guys are all connected to the news, so I know that you already know about the Supreme Court decision forcing California to release up to 46,000 prisoners because of the appalling conditions in California prisons. As a California resident, I’m less than thrilled about the fact that people who
Continue readingBritain, apparently, has solved the puzzle of criminal recidivism (H/T Melanie Phillips of the Spectator). I know that this story provides us with a most important clue as to the greater disease that afflicts Western Civilization. I really just don’t know what to do with this story, so I am
Continue readingBradley Manning got into some unknown type of dispute with his prison guards and ended up having to sleep in the buff for seven hours!!! Are you outraged? Or, like me, are you giggling at the fact that this story actually made the news? The lawyer for an Army private
Continue readingIf you’re a Mikado fan, you know the source of my post title: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeajGK42vuE[/youtube] The song came to mind because of two stories today, both of which left me wondering whether the punishment fit the crime. One story you may already have read: an Iraqi living in Arizona was convicted
Continue readingAs the younger citizens limit their involvement to videotaping a crime in progress (“Oooh, won’t this look cool when I show it to my friends”), a 71 year old grandmother, Ann Timson, acts with extraordinary — and effective — courage: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7oo2qIpTyY[/youtube] You can read more about Timson here.
Continue readingThe Archbishopric of Canterbury used to be a pretty important job. The guy who held that position, going back to the earliest Middle Ages, was the premier leader of the English church, whether that church gave allegiance to Rome or the British Monarch. The current Archbishop, Rowan Williams is, as
Continue readingSmall Dead Animals notices something interesting: the crime stats in Sheriff Dipstick’s county, as compared to Sheriff Arpaio’s county, are appalling. Appalling that is, assuming you’re a law abiding citizen and not a criminal. If you’re a criminal, they’re pretty darn good. My only question is whether the lousy sheriff
Continue readingThe media does hysteria well. It’s about the only thing it does well. It hysterically accused Palin and Beck and Limbaugh and the Tea Partiers of being complicit in mass murder despite a few readily known and very salient facts: (1) the absence of a single quotation that can be
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