Archive for January 2020
For Capital Punishment — Crime and the Morality of the Death Penalty
Just finished this great book written by Walter Berns in 1979. I support the death penalty and wanted to fortify my ability to meet arguments against it. This book is a work of scholarship on a deep subject. A fair review by Peter L. Berger appeared in Commentary Magazine shortly after the book was pujhlished…
Read MoreTool Box Killer Dies of Natural Causes After 38 Years On Death Row
Tool Box Killer Dies in Prison: Lawrence Bittaker, California’s notorious “tool box killer” died of natural causes on death row according to corrections officials. The San Jose Mercury News reports that Bittaker, who was the ringleader, and an accomplice kidnapped, raped and tortured five teenage girls along the California coast over a span of five…
Read MoreBig Win In a Small City Against Red Light and Speed Cameras
From The National Motorists Association: East Liverpool Citizens against Traffic Cameras is a group that has been trying to get a “ban on red-light cameras” measure on the local ballot for a few years. In 2017, City Auditor Marilyn Bosco blocked the group’s proposed referendum by refusing to certify it even though there were enough…
Read MoreDischarge of Student Loan Debt in Bankruptcy
If you’re alive you know that college student loan debts are not dischargeable in bankruptcy. That’s true most of the time but not all of the time. There’s this thing called the “Brunner Test” which, if you qualify, allows you to discharge at least some if not all of your student loan debt. It’s a…
Read MoreJoe Lieberman Speaks — The Democrats and Iran
An op-ed in the WSJ this past Monday, by former Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman President Trump’s order to take out Qasem Soleimani was morally, constitutionally and strategically correct. It deserves more bipartisan support than the begrudging or negative reactions it has received thus far from my fellow Democrats. The president’s decision was bold and unconventional.…
Read MoreLiving in the “crazy years”
These are the “crazy years” that Robert Heinlein told us would be in the last years of the 20th Century. Looks like those years will be around a while longer. Candle light vigil in Tehran Toronto for Soleimani, the Quds Force general and murderer of hundreds of thousands of people.
Read MoreIsmail Qaani, New Quds Force Commander
How to read the Washington Post: Headline: Iran’s new Quds Force commander brings continuity to the post held by his slain predecessor First two Paragraphs: Just hours after a U.S. drone strike killed Iran’s charismatic elite Quds Force commander in Baghdad early Friday, Tehran announced it had named a successor: the force’s little-known deputy chief,…
Read MoreMark Robinson on gun rights — powerful speech
I’ve posted this video before, it was uploaded to YouTube on April 6, 2018. You may have seen it. Well, the Second Amendment is under assault again, or maybe I should say the Second Amendment continues to be under assault. Mr. Robinson has an eloquent response to those who believe, or say they believe, that…
Read More“Turn In Your Guns, The Government Will Take Care of You”
After Las Vegas, Democrats Send In the Clowns Imagine there has been a horrible case of child abuse in your neighborhood. A large family with 10 children had parents who brutally beat their kids, and two died. In reacting to that horrendous news, there’s a knock at your door. It’s your mayor and police chief.…
Read MoreWhy are so many college students besotted with communism and socialism?
When I was in college there were Marxist professors and they had student followers. Together they made up about 2% of the student body and professors. Today they just might be the majority on campus. What happened? In a previous post I reprinted with permission a terrific piece by James Davenport lamenting that most of…
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