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Gun and Crime Roundup for September 23, 2014

Been a while since I did a roundup on gun news and examples of criminal stupidity, so here it is: Study shows that banning “assault weapons” has no effect on crime. The Missouri House and Senate override the veto of … Continue reading →

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The NFL and Domestic Violence: A Ginned Up Moral Panic

I had been reading less and less of Sports Illustrated for a while now, partially because of their increasing politicization (see Peter King, Gun Control Zealot), and partially because each redesign was worse than the last. The most recent one, … Continue reading →

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While I Grapple With Rotherham, Pat Condell Brings The Noise

So I keep try to pen a coherent essay on the Rotherham child rape scandal, and I keep getting too angry and/or disgusted to write about it. Pat Condell has no such problem. “If your 11 year-old daughter is regularly … Continue reading →

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“Wallace Hall Was Right About UT All Along”

That’s the headline on this Dallas Observer story by Jim Schutze (who you may remember from my piece on Tom Leppert’s term as Dallas Mayor). The Hall piece details what members of the conservative Texas blogsphere (myself included) have been … Continue reading →

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Edmonton Beheading Update

British police name the beheader as “Nicholas Salvadore, a 25-year-old would-be cage fighter who is believed to be a Muslim convert, who had been living a few doors from 82-year-old [Victim] Palmira Silva.” Seeing some reports that Salvadore is a … Continue reading →

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British Police Claim Beheading By Convert To Islam “Not Terrorism Related”

Another beheading in the UK, this time in Edmonton, north London, by what his neighbors claim is a convert to Islam, but “detectives said they had ruled out terrorism as a motive for the killing.” Well, isn’t that special. Funny … Continue reading →

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LinkSwarm for August 29, 2014

In addition to not having a clue, when it comes to ISIS, Obama says that “we don’t have a strategy yet.” I’m sure if someone asked Franklin Roosevelt in early 1942 what his plans were for dealing with Imperial Japan … Continue reading →

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Setback to FBI Case Against Leleand Yee?

This story came out while I was away in London, but evidently Leland Yee’s defense attorney is claiming that the FBI’s lead informat is unreliable because he has some baggage of his own: the attorney for former San Francisco school … Continue reading →

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LinkSwarm for August 22, 2014

Just making it to Friday coming back from vacation to Texas in the middle of August seems like it’s own victory condition… The Great Obama Meltdown. “Ferguson is the Great Society writ large because the Great Society convinced, and then … Continue reading →

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Why Would You Even Loot a Shoe Carnival or Radio Shack?

Another shooting of a black man by police leads to a night of looting by members of the local black community. Specifically they looted a Shoe Carnival and a Radio Shack. You have to wonder what sort of cost-benefit analysis … Continue reading →

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