Crime and Punishment

We libertarians usually dislike hate-crime laws. These laws increase the sentence for crimes motivated by bigotry, and that just sounds an awful lot like a thought-crime to me. Kip Esquire doesn't see much of a problem with this. He points out that we already have "therapy courts" that treat people more leniently for crimes committed out of drug addiction and now even … [Read more...] about Outlawing Terrifying Hate Crimes

Chicago police officer Anthony Abbate is in more trouble: Chicago Police Officer Anthony Abbate, accused of beating a female bartender in an attack caught on videotape, was charged in an indictment Friday with 14 new felonies... My first thought when I about the 14 new charges was that this was just the department piling on to prove they're tough on bad cops. How do you get … [Read more...] about More Charges for Abbate

The Virginia Tech massacre has brought out the usual bunch of wackos looking to blame it on their favorite social ill, from video games to the teaching of evolution to Teh Gay. (Links via Kip) I haven't read of anybody blaming the Jews yet, but you know that's coming. In my mind, the most reprehensible response is from those who are calling Virginia Tech students cowards. … [Read more...] about Blaming the Victims of the Virginia Tech Massacre

Ron Coleman is criticizing NBC's decision to air parts of Cho Seung-Hui's video. Cho is the guy who killed 32 people at Virginia Tech, and it appears that between the first shooting incident and the second he sent a package to NBC News in New York. That package contained an "often incoherent 23-page written statement, 28 video clips and 43 photos." In other words, it was the … [Read more...] about Raving Madmen

Bad taste in morality. … [Read more...] about Good Taste in Music…