“The problem is if they just start lying.” That’s how Erik Mouthaan (Holland’s RTL News) puts it. Or, put less eloquently, this is what I’d say to Rick Santorum, who recently lied about the Netherlands, which seems to be a popular pastime (see, for instance) among US prohibitionists and conservatives. Said Santorum: People wear differ…
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How to make Sudafedfrom crystal meth. [thanks to The Agitator]
Over at the Montclair SocioBlog (“the best blogI bet you don’t read”), Professor Jay Livingston commentson Charles Murray’s new book (no, I haven’t read it either) and Murray’s problem of “The Europe Syndrome.” A lot of Republican politicians have noticed this problem over the pond as well. As Murray says [I’ve added a few comments]:…
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In the current issue of New York’s Transportation Alternative’s Reclaimmagazine. [And dig the picture of me, from 12 years ago:] [photo by Amy Eckert]
I’ll be on Hot 97’s Street Soldiers with Lisa Evers this coming Sunday morning (it was prerecorded today). Rounding out the roundtable is Noel Leader, co-founder of 100 Blacks in Law Enforcement Who Care, and Norman Seabrook, President of the New York City Correction Officers’ Benevolent Association. It’s a lively hour. You’ll hear me question…
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For those who believe this whole “new media” thing isn’t simply part of liberal fiction and the socialist agenda, you can follow all my twats (that is what they’re called, right?) @petermoskos. Personally, I’m skeptical. I think Twitter is a plot to get us to believe global warming is real and everybody should have health…
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El Paso County Commissioner Willie Gandara Jr. recently said: Legalizing drugs is the coward practice of combating cartels, it is an insult to our men and women in law enforcement, and the laziest form of parenting our children and youth about the effects of drugs…. Unfortunately, on this upcoming primary election we will have many…
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From Sarah Armaghan in the Daily News: Sgt. Craig Bier and Officer Donnell Myers [were] in an unmarked car … when the gunfire started. Myers, who was in the driver’s seat, whipped his head around to see Chinloy squeezing off shots from a .40-caliber Glock handgun at some people in front of a store, police…
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There’s some good reporting by Frank Main of the Chicago Sun-Times. He goes beyond Police Supt. Garry McCarthy’s bombast (“We’re going to obliterate that gang,” he told police brass in a meeting in June. “Every one of their locations has to get blown up until they cease to exist.”) to talk to actual gang members.…
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Ta-Nehisi Coates has good thoughts on the New York Times piece by Binyamin Applebaum and Robert Gebeloff describing how people vote against the government programs they receive. This isn’t necessarily against their own interests. As Coates says: What I strongly suspect is the sort of shame you see in Mr. Falk’s is neither crazy, nor…
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