[NOTE: This is a very big topic, and I’m pressed for time at the moment so I’ll only scratch the surface.] Earlier today, commenter “Fred” made the following statement: The problem with religions is not the text in holy books … Continue reading →
…that the three posts below this one for today are all on the theme of people being released by the legal system or of charges against them being dismissed. Some involve the guilty (Hinckley). Some involve the already-guilty but then … Continue reading →
Adel Kermiche, the young ISIS sympathizer in France who killed an 84-year old priest by slitting his throat as he performed mass, previously had been detained for wishing to go to Syria. Kermiche was also wearing electronic monitoring, so the … Continue reading →
…and goes to live with his elderly mother: John Hinckley is now 61 years old, and as the judge wrote, “suffering from arthritis, high blood pressure, and various other physical ailments like many men his age.” That’s irrelevant, IMHO, although … Continue reading →
Prosecutors in the Freddie Gray cases have now dropped all charges against the remaining three police officers out of the six they have used as scapegoats: Prosecutors dropped all remaining charges against three Baltimore police officers accused in the arrest … Continue reading →
Most people today have some idea who the Ayatollah Khomeini was: the scowling guy with the beard who created and/or exploited the Iranian Revolution in 1979 and brought Islamic theocracy to Iran. But I’m not at all sure how much … Continue reading →
Here’s a comment I found at RedState: Ted Cruz would have never had to explain why he didn’t explicitly endorse Trump in that speech the next day had the RNC/Trump campaign not orchestrated the booing and outrage from the convention … Continue reading →
I don’t watch the DNC, but if you’d like to read other people’s impressions of what’s going on there, see these articles. Far from a love fest. The two parties right now are very different, as are the issues ripping … Continue reading →
The latest atrocity committed by ISIS followers/admirers/members in France had an overtly religious target: Francois Hollande says France is at war with ISIS after two Islamist knifemen butchered a French priest and left a nun fighting for her life before … Continue reading →
In separate and seemingly unrelated attacks in Germany, two Syrian “asylum seekers” commit heinous acts of violence that are probably some mixture of terrorism and just plain craziness or psychopathy or vicious rage. This seems to be the new pattern, … Continue reading →
When they want him to be a Republican. Revisionist history, brought to you by Democratic Representative Keith Ellison: Note that George Stephanopoulos—whom I presume knows better—does not trouble himself to correct Ellison because it suits George’s purposes to let the … Continue reading →
Emails are probably not the best way to conduct clandestine business, as Hillary Clinton, David Petraeus, and now Debbie Wasserman Schultz have learned: The Florida congresswoman’s resignation — under heavy pressure from top Democrats — comes amid the release of … Continue reading →