According to the Marshall Project, a nonprofit news organization that focuses on the U.S. criminal justice system, about half of the 2.2 million people currently incarcerated in the United States are parents. One in five of them have child support … Continue reading
There will be another post to read in the morning. In the meantime, here’s a thread where you can converse amongst yourselves.
In my column on Sunday concerning Obama’s push to rehabilitate ex-cons and reintegrate them into society, I wrote, “He’d better not be planning to give criminals the speed pass to the front of the line.” On Monday afternoon, Obama spoke … Continue reading
We seem to have picked up a number of new visitors to our little digital abode over the last day. Welcome, newcomers! Here is a random open thread where you can carry on with the socializing until a new blog … Continue reading
For those who missed it over the weekend, the House Select Committee on Benghazi released a significant email on Saturday by an unknown official at the U.S. Embassy in Tripoli, Libya. The email was dated September 14th, 2012, three days … Continue reading
This week for his address to the nation, the President essentially rehashed his address from two weeks ago. 2.2 million people (including illegals) behind (state and federal) bars. $80 billion in taxes to keep people (also known as criminals) incarcerated. … Continue reading
So there’s another Republican primary debate tonight, this time on CNBC. It will be broken up into two parts like the two previous debates were. The lowest-polling candidates will get their turn to make their appeals to voters at 6pm … Continue reading
In our neo-enlightened America, it seems that everything is -ist now, or select groups–sometimes all groups–are guilty of some form of -isming or -phobiaing. This week especially, and it’s only Wednesday. Here are a few examples of the -ismzzz we’ve … Continue reading
Today is Navy Day, which is the day this republic recognizes the efforts of the United States Navy, the largest naval force in the world. Navy Day was established by the Navy League in 1922, using this date in honor … Continue reading
It’s been almost two months since President Obama talked about going to Alaska, where he melted a glacier with his heat vision or whatever, so we were about due for another climate talk. He started out this week’s address by … Continue reading
