Year: 2018
The Revealed Meaning of Guilt
A few days ago, Gabriel Malor pointed out this story: LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) — A judge has dismissed charges against two men who were convicted in the death of a woman as part of a “Satanic ritual” more than 25 years ago. This is an all-too-familiar story. Garr Keith Hardin and Jeffrey Dewayne Clark were convicted of… Read more
A Brief, Partial, and Contingent Defense of the Cops Who Waited
As the media puts together a still-evolving account of what happened during the school shooting in Florida, it now appears that as many as four Broward County Sheriff’s deputies were at the scene early on during the shooting, including school resource officer Scott Petersen, yet did not enter the school to confront the shooter, even… Read more
America’s Harvest Box: Socialism for Republicans
About a year ago, my friend Jennifer was mocking our current lack of school choice with this analogy to the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP): …the system we have, wherein people are given food stamps to spend at whatever store they please, is FAR better than a system wherein poor people are only able to get food… Read more
Show Me the Memo! Or GTFO!
If I’m following the story correctly, California Representative Devin Nunes, a Republican who sits on the House Intelligence Committee, has prepared a 4-page memo which purports that the FBI lied in some way to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) to get permission to wiretap a Trump aide who was supposedly talking to the Russians. … Read more
The First Year of President Trump
I gotta say, it hasn’t been as bad as I thought it would be. Last year about this time I was concerned about four major policy areas where I thought Trump could ruin things. He’s been active in all of them, but as I suggested, he’s done the most damage in the area where he… Read more