No doubt there are bleeding hearts all over America wailing against the injustice of this scumbag’s execution, but the world is a tiny bit better place tonight than it was this morning. Vasquez, who drank his victim’s blood after slitting his throat, received the earthly justice he deserved. Now for the eternal punishment.
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RealClearPolitics – Election 2016 – General Election: Kasich vs. Clinton
So not everybody knows who John Kasich is, but if you’re a conservative whose primary is coming up, you need to find out.
When Siri Slips
After i-messaging back and forth with my wife, I jokingly commanded Siri to pass along this message: “You need to get back to work …
Gore Vidal
Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
Japan Just Completed Its Whale Hunt in Antarctica — And It Killed a Lot of Animals | VICE News
Killing whales for heritage, sport, or oil is just stupid. No other way to say it.
Indiana’s Religion Problem
I was going to let this issue pass, as I let so many irritants go these days, but the dogged persistence of Indiana Governor Mike Pence’s opponents is such that they simply must be countered. And not countered just by me, but by every person in the free world with the brains and courage to…
Choosing Sides
Today was a bad day to be a police officer – 2 New York City cops were murdered execution-style by career criminal Ismaaiyl Brinsley. Brinsley, who had shot his girlfriend hours before, committed suicide in a subway tunnel after the murders. From the article: Mayor de Blasio and Police Comissioner Bill Bratton addressed the media…
Ebola Nurse a Criminal?
Kaci Hickox, a nurse who treated Ebola patients in Sierra Leone but has tested negative for the virus, went for a bike ride on Thursday, defying Maine’s order that she be quarantined in her home and setting up a legal collision with Governor Paul LePage. Hickox has flaunted her defiance of the governor by…
Fighting for 15
For some perspective, $15/hr is scarcely less than what new, degreed teachers earn at many school districts here in Texas. The low pay of teachers aside, it’s ridiculous to equate the value of these jobs in terms of wages. The fact is, flipping burgers and bagging fries are not skills. I’ve been there, done that,…
More on Aaron Swartz
New information about Aaron Swartz’s hacking activities at MIT tell quite a different story than the one that was initially revealed by Swartz’s former attorney and expert witness over the weekend. Different enough, in fact, that I would have to say that Alex Stamos lied in Saturday’s post in which he claimed Aaron’s actions were…