Do Immigrants Reduce Crime Rates In Urban Areas?
Murder rates are on the rise in a number of urban areas in the Northeast and one possible explanation being offered is that those metropolitan areas with the lowest immigrant population are more...
View ArticleThe Price Of Economic Inequality?
The costs to incarcerate Americans is exploding. I suspect we’re at or nearing the point where it would have been economically preferable to have provided the education, jobs, wages, and opportunities...
View ArticleA Novel Idea for Gun Control? Vasectomies for a Permit.
There’s an old axiom which posits that the number of guns a man owns is inversely proportional to his shortcomings in, eh, other areas. Apparently, several lawless regions in India have decided to put...
View ArticleSouth Dakota: Save The Fetus – Flog The Mommy?
South Dakota pro-life activists are pushing an anti-abortion initiative for November. This follows a similar attempt in 2006. While this measure has more exceptions, the requirements are impractical...
View ArticleLimbaugh Urges Riots in Denver
…and you should be urging Colorado Attorney General John Suthers (a Republican) to investigate. How is it that a GOP attack dog frontman can call for riots in the streets of Denver during the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
More On That Plan For A Theocracy…How About Anarchy?
Americans look overseas when thinking about sectarian conflict. If the November election is viewed by religious ideologues as a significant shift towards secularism, it could serve to trigger...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The “Order” Of Things: Let Them Kill…Yes – Let Them Marry…No
Underlying the polling related to Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell and same-sex marriage is a snapshot of a society still encumbered by gender disparity. The juxtaposition of the masculine and feminine highlight...
View Article
