Plunderbund

It’s often claimed by those who oppose immigration (illegal or not) that immigrants commit crime at an alarming rate and are a threat to public safety. Turns out, it isn’t true.
People born outside the United States make up about 35 percent of California’s adult population but account for about 17 percent of the adult […]

One of the common memes I read on pro-gun websites is the overwhelming need to protect one’s self and family from violent home invaders intent on killing you and your family.
Well, in New York City - population 8 million - they are on track to have fewer than 500 homicides, and if trends hold just […]

I finished watching The New Asylums last night, and it’s a great little documentary. It seems that our prison mental care facilities are far beyond what is available in the “real world” to these men when they are released, and since many of them become homeless and run out of meds, their mental illnesses […]

Yesterday I watched part of a PBS documentary called “Frontline: The New Asylums“, which demonstrates that the prison system has become the dumping ground for the mentally ill. 16% of all inmates in Ohio have been diagnosed with a mental illness. It’s really quite remarkable. Ohio, thankfully, does much better than most […]

Death penalty reform is having a positive effect in China.
The Chinese authorities are expecting fewer executions this year than at any time in the past decade, according to state media.
The reduction is due to a new rule which means the country’s top court must review every death sentence.
Automatic appeals. Who knew?
Of course, that doesn’t […]

Stick with the video. It’s about double standards and racial injustice… still alive in the South today.

ESPN has a fantastic article about the history of racial injustice in the South, and how it’s influencing opinions about Michael Vick’s alleged dogfighting.
“You would think that Michael Vick is the largest criminal this country has ever encountered, by the media play,” [prominent 1960s civil rights activist Juanita Abernathy] says. “The way they have portrayed […]

That headline there is factually correct - an Oregon DA has dropped felony charges against two people who were slapping 13 year old girls’ asses. But there’s a twist - the persons charged (now with misdemeanor sexual assault) are 13 year old boys. (If you read the link, you’ll get their names, but […]

It appears a real, actual, indictable felony may have occured when Bush ordered Harriet Miers to defy a congressional subpoena. Via TPM:
Invoking a privilege is one thing, but telling a person not to show up in response to a subpoena — if only to actually invoke the privilege — is quite another. It’s not […]

This morning, RABid is pimping Ken Blackwell’s latest column on TownHall. The entire column is a fabrication - a lie - and plainly claims a bill does something it explicitly does not. Let’s take a closer look, shall we?
Blackwell says:
A bill making it illegal for people of various faiths to freely hold and […]

No, not steamed rice, or fried rice, but Condi Rice. That’s right, Condi Rice’s total incompetence expands beyond her performance as Secretary of State and National Security Advisor - she was also incompetent in overseeing Chevron policy that should have prevented the company from sending kickbacks to Saddam Hussein as a part of the […]

Yesterday I indicated that I’m against concealed-carry in a post about a Cleveland man defending himself from an armed attacker. The article indicated that the incident may have been the first instance of a concealed-carry self-defense shooting.
The Buckeye Firearms Association contends otherwise.

Hurley over at WMD (my eyes! my eyes!) attempts to make a point about Iraq but falls pretty short - of course. He compares recent outbreaks of crime in Philly with Iraq, sarcastically calling the city a “quagmire” and urging us to “get out of there”. I won’t bother to argue […]