She was ambushed. The 13-year-old girl was in court to support her father, who was about to be sent back to jail for violating the terms of his supervised release. He worried about his daughter. They lived in a bad neighborhood, she had smoked some weed, and while in jail he wouldn’t be there [...]
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May 1st, 2024 - 12:15 am § in Misc.
How this blog has evolved since its founder’s death
This blog is now over 14 years old, and it’s been 4 years since its creator, Dr. Steve Schwartz, was fatally stricken with Covid-19. Without his presence, some changes were inevitable, although the fact I’ve been a contributor since the blog’s inception helps provide continuity. Ma[...]
June 2nd, 2023 - 4:01 am § in Law and Courts
Guns are changing American life
An entire generation of American kids are growing up in fear of being gunned down in their classrooms, or shot at a shopping mall. The NRA likes to say, “An armed society is a polite society,” but the data say otherwise. Guns are now the leading cause of death of Americans under age 19 ([...]
May 30th, 2023 - 11:27 pm § in Science
Could AI cause human extinction?
Experts are raising alarms about artificial intelligence (AI), saying it threatens human existence. A group of scientists and tech industry insiders rate the risk of “extinction from AI” as being on a par with “other societal-scale risks” like pandemics and nuclear war. They [...]
May 26th, 2023 - 12:22 am § in Law and Courts
This state practice is so rancid all SCOTUS justices nixed it
It isn’t often the Supreme Court makes everybody happy, but the court’s decision in Tyler v. Hennepin County will please liberals, conservatives, and libertarians alike. “The case centered on Geraldine Tyler, a 94-year-old Minnesota woman whose home was taken by Hennepin County a[...]
May 24th, 2023 - 7:01 pm § in Misc.
4½ years for Pelosi office invader
The Capitol rioter who invaded then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office on Jan. 6, 2021, and later sold autographed phots of his feet on her desk, was sentenced to 54 months in prison by a federal judge on Wednesday, May 24, 2023 (read story here). Richard Barnett, 63, of Fayetteville, Arkansas, who[...]
GOP candidate floats 25 voting age
GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy (photo, left) “wants to raise the voting age to 25 or require ‘civic duty’ stipulations for younger voters,” Mediaite reported on May 11, 2023 (read story here). By that he means people between 18-25 either have to serve in the milit[...]
Colorado school proves CRT is true
Critical race theory (CRT) argues racism is systemic in the U.S. That perhaps varies from place to place, but school officials in Douglas County, Colorado, leave no doubt it’s systemic in their schools, and they’re part of it. “The racism experienced by a family in the Douglas Coun[...]
Why I prefer career politicians
Some people, mostly on the right., bemoan “career” politicians and advocate for term limits. Not me. I want professional politicians in key offices. I know this will grate on some people, so let me explain. First, arguing that “career” politicians are mucking things up is a [...]
Was this indictment a politically motivated witch hunt, or just prosecuting a thief?
Let’s start with basics: Joe Harding didn’t come from America’s educated or business elite. He’s a junior college dropout who worked in construction before starting his landscaping business (see his profile here). You could say he’s a dirt-under-fingernails type of guy.[...]