On my blog and in my E-Newsletter last week I advised you of a plan by La Crosse County, Wisconsin to release all of its female prisoners. Many of you wrote letters about the plan to the La Crosse County Tribune and reporter Reid Magney, who wrote the story. The Tribune's recent editorial La...
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Background: If you have a daughter in the nine-year-old range, you're probably familiar with the Disney show Hannah Montana. My daughter often forces me to watch it with her. Well, "forces" isn't exactly accurate, since she snuggles up in my arms as we watch, which would probably make even going to the opera worth...
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More than 20 Southern California gang members awaiting release from area jails and state prisons are facing new criminal charges today as a part of “Operation Winter Warning,” an expanded effort to target incarcerated foreign national gang members for federal prosecution. Since the operation began three weeks ago, a total of 23 criminal alien...
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Background: According to the latest U.S. Government estimates, the average family in the highest income bracket (average income--$112,000 per year) spends $1,340 a month to raise each child. Yet some men are paying 20 times that much a month in child support. Most of this money is not going to the child, but instead...
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Have the Constitution’s checks and balances come unglued? The First Things website carries a provocative essay by Richard John Neuhaus. The essay explores the contention that, as Anti-Federalists feared in the 1787-89 Constitutional ratification debate, the judiciary has come to be the dominant power in the Federal government. Without exaggeration, it can be said...
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Someone needs to straighten the judge in the Dillon Cossey case out. The 14-year-old boy apparently planned a Columbine-style attack on a local school. Dillon Cossey apparently wasn't too close to carrying out the plan--for one, he didn't have ammunition. But the case's real shocker is this--Montgomery County Judge Paul Tressler put some of the...
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This is an interesting letter to the editor on the dicey subject of disciplining children who are caught between conflicting divorced or separated parents. First the story, then a few comments.
Mom feels courts need to support parental discipline
(Palladium-Item, 12/28/07)
I'm the mother of a 15-year-old boy, a great kid who's active in school.
I've been a...
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Scrooge’s Former Boss Fezziwig Is a Nester (2007-12-24) by David John Marotta One of my favorite Christmas movies is the version of Dickens’s “A Christmas Carol” starring George C. Scott as Ebenezer Scrooge. I must confess that I understand Scrooge’s character. Scrooge — a denizen of early Victorian London — is a solitary and...
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