Archive for April 2017
Twister Sister in Texas
From the Daily Mail: A tornado ripped through Emory, Texas, on Saturday night and wiped out St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church. Nearly 45 people were inside and none were hurt in the storm that ripped off the roof and tore down the church’s walls. St. Thomas Aquinas had five arguments that he said proves…
Read MoreDisqus Comment System Added
I’ve switched to the Disqus comment system which makes commenting easier and allows you to edit your comment even after you’ve posted it. It’s also much faster than the old comment system was and allows you to use HTML to format your comments, add links, etc.
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High quality surveillance video nabs armed robber
This sort of high quality surveillance video should be everywhere. Blurred and grainy images are the norm. Watch: Kansas City police have this armed robber in custody.
Read MoreMake The Left Own Its Legacy
John Kass — Chicago Tribune: The lies We were told about who would silence free speech The lie we were told as kids was this: The end of American liberty would come at the hands of the political right. Conservatives would take away our right to speak our minds, and use the power of government…
Read MoreOne good guy with a gun takes out 3 bad guys with guns
Nashville Gunfighter Takes Out THREE Armed Robbers WKRN Nashvile A man died after he was injured during a shootout at a Bordeaux shoe and clothing store late Thursday night. It happened inside retailer Hot Kicks, located in a strip mall at 3101 Clarksville Pike, around 11 p.m. Metro police told News 2 a group of…
Read MoreIt’s beginning to look like a repeal of Obamacare is not in the cards
Obamacare is an awful law that has raised the cost of healthcare, raised healthcare insurance premiums and imposed enormous deductibles on people even with the sky-high premiums they are forced to pay. Those who get government assistance with their insurance premiums are basically relegated to Medicaid which is a terrible excuse for healthcare and proves…
Read More5% of counties in the U.S. contain 47% of the population and account for 68% of murders.
From the Crime Preventiion Research Center: Murders in United States are very concentrated: 54% of U.S. counties in 2014 had no murders at all; 2% of counties account for 51% of all murders in the U.S. The murder map: Note that the counties with the strictest gun control laws and the lowest number of legal gun…
Read More49 pages of political grandstanding — UPDATED
That’s a fair description of San Francisco Federal Judge William H. Orrick’s showboating against President Trump’s executive order that existing Federal law [8 U.S.C. 1373] against sanctuary cities be enforced. The law in question was enacted by Congress in 1996. Who was president in 1996? Bill Clinton. Back then Democrats were opposed to illegal immigration,…
Read MoreMurder rate jumped in 2016
Three cities, Chicago, Baltimore and Houston responsible of one-half of all murders. The deadly spike concentrated in just a handful of U.S. cities, the deadly spike concentrated in just a handful of U.S. cities. …just a few U.S. cities played an outsized role in the nationwide uptick in the murder rate in recent years and…
Read MoreThe taming of the judiciary
How to Actually Fix Scotus by Deion Kathawa is a remarkable piece of writing by a senior at the University of Michigan. If there are more like Deion Kathawa presently hiding out in universities the nation may yet be saved. Courts and judges became politicized when Democrats figured out that getting friendly left-wing judges to…
Read MoreChanging Times
Law library from olden times…
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