One student was killed and three wounded at Northern Arizona State after an altercation that ended when one of the students got his pistol from his automobile and started banging… Read more Campus Carry: An Idea That’s Time Has Not Come (and Never Should) →
Study Says Concealed Carry Permits Don’t Affect Crime Jonathan Silver, Texas Tribune, September 24, 2015 Supporters insist that allowing people to legally carry concealed handguns reduces crime, but that has… Read more Concealed Carry and Crime are Not Correlated →
Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) gave quite a statement on the floor of the U.S. Senate about the vote to cut all federal funds to Planned Parenthood. She asked, only… Read more What Is the Cost of Shutting Down Government to De-fund PLANNED PARENTHOOD: Too Bad If There’s A Salmonella Outbreak or a Traveler with Ebola →
The execution of the Sheriff’s Deputy in Harris County, Texas was horrible. All sensible peoples’ hearts go out to the officer’s family and his co-workers. But, the Harris County DA and the Sheriff immediately moved the murder from the arena of tragedy to the cesspool of contemporary political rhetoric. “We’ve heard black lives matter; all lives matter. Well, cops’ lives matter too,” Hickman said. “At any point where the rhetoric ramps up to the point where calculated cold-blooded assassination of police officers happen(s), this rhetoric has gotten out of control,”… Read more Killing Police in the Era of Black Lives Matter →
You know the cartoon is funny, unless you work for Amazon or a similar employer. Or unless you think JEB BUSH or RAND PAUL will be or should be the… Read more The AMAZON Culture is Exactly What Many Republican Candidates Advocate →
You hear it over and over from conservatives, even from folks you think of as progressive. “We have to do something about these entitlement programs.” This is usually followed by… Read more Don’t You Use the Term “Entitlements!” Never, Ever! →
Surveys on National Policy Issues—Asking Bad Questions Gives you Bad Information AMERICANS ARE EVENLY SPLIT ON “GUN CONTROL.” Quinnipiac University. June 24-30, 2014. N=1,446 registered voters nationwide. Margin of error… Read more Lying About Statistics →
William Ryan published his book, Blaming the Victim, in 1971. That is over 40 ago. His topic was how dominant culture justified racism and social injustice by blaming the victims–Black Americans. The book was basically a response to Harvard’s Patrick Daniel Moynihan’s Black Families, which laid the blame for much of the plight of Afro-Americans at the foot of black culture. However, Ryan coined a phrase that resonates across the decades, in fact across centuries of American social life. Anyone with a mindless commitment to the current power structure uses… Read more Problems with Police? You are to Blame! →
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