June 30, 2008

Now and On Earth: A gritty slice-of-life novel
Reviewed by Denise Noe
Jim Thompson is probably best known for his hard-boiled crime stories. “Now and On Earth,” a semi-autobiographical novel, is not a crime story. It is a gritty and realistic slice-of-life novel in which he unflinchingly conveys the bleak lives of a financially strapped extended family [...]

Speed and efficiency have never been the hallmarks of the socialist political state.
New York’s slow and extraordinarily costly shamble in rebuilding the World Trade Center after 9/11, now almost seven years ago, is a typical example of socialist state planning. This fiasco is a model for what so-called progressive liberals, led by Senator [...]

-By Warner Todd Huston
Derrick Z. Jackson of the Boston Globe has done it again. Now, usually Z is one of those columnists that is sure every white American is a racist and many of his columns are based on that assumption, but it looks like he is branching out from his normal black/white identity politics [...]

by Jim Kouri, CPP
Last week, 96 street gang members and associates were arrested as a result of a state-wide public safety initiative in New Jersey, according to a report obtained by the National Association of Chiefs of Police.
Each of those arrested were targeted for their membership, participation or association with violent street gangs operating [...]

June 29, 2008

If it were not so serious, it would make a fine story for a farce. Following the March 29th elections (which were heavily rigged to try and give Zanu PF a victory) they delayed giving the results for a month and then simply falsified the Presidential ballot. Following the June 27th vote – Zanu PF [...]

The Institute for American Values (IAV) has issued a major report titled “The Taxpayer Costs of Divorce and Unwed Childbearing“, conservatively estimating the cost to taxpayers at $112 billion.
This is a very conservative estimate because it either understates or does not include federal expenditures driving decisions to not marry or to have children for [...]

The information in this column is intended for informational purposes only, and does not constitute medical advice or recommendations by the author.  Please consult with your physician before making any lifestyle or medication changes, or if you have any other concerns regarding your health.

BONE MARROW STEM CELLS & LIVER FAILURE
The liver is an extraordinarily complex organ, [...]

It’s often odd what people focus on. Was there a “pact” in Gloucester, Massachusetts for young girls to become pregnant or were these girls simply individually irresponsible? While the perversely salacious idea of simply using men as sperm donors literally made headlines around the world, what is more important is the fact that Gloucester [...]

by Jim Kouri, CPP
Seventy members and associates of the Drew Street clique of the Avenues gang have been named in a federal racketeering indictment unsealed on June 25 that alleges a long series of narcotics-related offenses and violent crimes — including murder, attacks against police officers, witness intimidation and extortion of local businesses.
The charges [...]

-By Warner Todd Huston
With more fallout from the Supreme Court’s latest 2nd Amendment ruling, the Chicago Sun-Times has published an op ed wagging a finger at the Supremes saying that the Heller decision will be a “tax on Chicago citizens,” and that it is a tax to be “paid in blood and money.” The [...]

June 28, 2008

-By Warner Todd Huston
The Washington Post published a June 28th piece geared to protect Barack Obama from the nagging rumors that he is a secret Muslim, rumors that have been circulating since 2004. The Post’s Matthew Mosk penned an attack on Free Republic, based on an Obama flak who claims she has somehow discovered [...]

In a previous blog, I wrote about a major disadvantage of fulltime homemaking as an occupation: there is no retirement from it. In that blog, I mentioned that my father is retired from being a cab driver. In the years since that retirement, he has never once expressed any guilt feeling about failing to pick [...]

Will Malven
6/26/2008
“This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.”
T.S. Elliot – The Hollow Men
In Heller vs. Washington D.C., The Supreme Court of the United States voted 5-4 (divided along ideological lines) to declare that “the right to keep [...]

June 27, 2008

Tallahassee Dem. Newspaper: Big Brother Should Track Guns With GPS
-By Warner Todd Huston
She thinks she has lit upon a “responsible idea” to regulate guns. The idea Megan Kristen Lewis of the Tallahassee (Fla.) Democrat thinks is “responsible” is to put global positioning tracking devices (GPS) in every gun. That way the government could track down [...]

by Jim Kouri, CPP
Diplomatic leaders and legal and human rights experts presented unique perspectives on Latin America’s political landscape and democracy during a recent academic discussion held at the University of Miami, according to a report submitted to the 14,000-member National Association of Chiefs of Police.
Among topics discussed was the state of political prisoners [...]

June 26, 2008

Will Malven
June 26, 2008
In a very narrowly worded decision the Supreme Court, in a disturbingly slim 5-4 majority decision confirmed what any half-witted reader of the American Constitution and the Bill of Rights could have told them from the beginning, the Second Amendment to the Constitution protects the right of the individual to keep and [...]

5 to 4 Decision Saves Gun Rights In America
D.C. Gun Ban Is Unconstitutional and Overturned
Second Amendment Protects an Individual Right Unconnected with Militia Service, and is preserved by a single vote
Use of firearms for traditional lawful purposes such as self defense at home is a protected right
The history, precedents, scholarship and wording of the Second [...]

To give this book a fair review, it is necessary to discuss some history because a generation has been born and reached middle age since the events that catapulted the subject of “The Manson File” into worldwide infamy.
On the evening of August 9, 1969, five people were murdered at the Bel Air, California home [...]

Chicago’s Father Michael Pfleger made a triumphant appearance Sunday at St. Sabina’s Catholic Church. Returning from a two-week suspension, the priest delivered his “Ain’t nothing like a comeback” sermon to an adoring congregation.
He could as aptly have used “I will survive” as his theme. Like him or love him, Father Pfleger is the definitive survivor. [...]

-By Warner Todd Huston
Riddle me this: when is a cartoonist as shallow and one dimensional as his own creations? When his name is Ted Rall. The San Antonio Express-News ran a short story covering a convention being held in Texas that is serving as a gathering place for some of the nation’s increasingly fewer political [...]