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The more they overthink the plumbing, the easier it is to stop up the drain! If we are going to have executions, we should just get on with them, and do so simply

As both of my website’s regular readers know, I am opposed to capital punishment. We should not kill anyone unless it is absolutely necessary, and if we have a prisoner securely and permanently confined, to the point he is unable to resist his execution, then he is sufficiently helpless enough that it is no longer necessary to kill him.

But whether you support or oppose capital punishment, one thing is clear: we sure are inept and incompetent in administering it! The Volunteer State just tried, and failed, to execute Christa Pike, 50, for a gruesome murder she committed when she was 18. She was sentenced to death, while her 17-year-old boyfriend and accomplice was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole; being a minor at the time of the crime, he was not eligible for capital punishment.

Though I am opposed to capital punishment, I have exactly no sympathy for Miss Pike. She was pleading for her life, which could have been another twenty or thirty or forty years locked in a cell for twenty-three hours a day. To me, that would be a fate worse than death, but I suppose it’s too easy for me to say, since saying it does not put me in the execution chamber. Continue reading →

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Duke Lacrosse Rape Case 2.0 Haven't we learned anything from that rush to injustice?

Remember the Duke Lacrosse Team Rape Hoax of 2006? A stripper by the name of Crystal Gail Mangum accused three members of the university’s lacrosse team of raping her after a party for which she had been hired?

In the end, it was proven that the three young men accused were not just not guilty, but factually innocent, but not until after huge publicity, condemnation of the accused by a large group of faculty members, and, of course, the very lovely Amanda Marcotte adding her 2¢ many times.

Well, we’re seeing something similar at Cornell, and the public relations assaults by the activists have begun. I will admit it: I checked Miss Marcotte’s Salon postings, but it seems that she learned something from the rotten egg on her face twenty years ago: she hasn’t weighed in on this case, at least not yet. Continue reading →

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Democrisy! If Tim McBride and Will Thomas can be accepted as women, why can’t Hannah Gann be accepted as black and ‘Palestinian’?

The credentialed media amuse me greatly , and none of them more than The Philadelphia Inquirer. After an article on Monday attempting to normalize transgenderism, which included a hyperlink to the newspaper spending “several months chronicling the lives of two transgender women making their way in rural Dauphin County,” Tuesday saw the editors tweeting about having given OpEd space to Rann Miller, an educator and freelance writer based in South Jersey, telling us, in the words of John Prine singing about Dear Abby, “You are what you are and you ain’t what you ain’t.”

Sorry about that convoluted sentence, but I missed the article last Friday!

Hannah Gann’s deceit makes the work of Black and brown justice activists harder

If Gann had truly been committed to the justice movement, she would have known the troubling history of white infiltrators in Black organizations who attempted to sabotage the struggle for freedom.

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Should the good work of every sinner be destroyed, because he was a sinner? John 8:7

Should we ban Volkswagens because Adolf Hitler helped create the company? Millions of people, including millions of Americans have bought the “people’s car,” because it has been practical for them. A lot of students had them when I was in college, though I was not one of them, back in the days of quill pens and inkwells, because they were inexpensive and cheap to operate.

That’s kind of the way I look at this stuff going on now in the Catholic Church . . . and among media who hate the Church:

At sacred Lourdes, Pope Leo confronts a new reminder of the church’s sins

Story by Anthony Faiola, Stefano Pitrelli • Saturday, September 26, 2026

LOURDES, France — The gold-flecked mosaics adorning the Basilica of Our Lady of the Rosary here were installed in 2008 for the 150th anniversary of what the Catholic Church recognizes as miraculous apparitions of the Virgin Mary.

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Philadelphians really hate law enforcement, at least when it comes to their favored groups Why would the honest people of Philly want to help keep criminals on the streets?

Is it really any surprise that the City of Brotherly Love, the good people thereof who have thrice elected the George Soros-sponsored, criminal-loving and police-hating defense attorney Larry Krasner to be the chief criminal prosecutor just don’t like the laws being enforced?

Philly tells federal court the Trump administration can’t force it to collaborate with ICE

Attorneys for city officials asked a federal judge to toss out the Department of Justice’s challenge to a city ordinance that prohibits city agencies and employees from honoring immigration detainers.

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I admit it: I never knew that Glenn Greenwald was a rabid anti-Semite!

I confess: I had previously thought of Glenn Greenwald as a journalist and a strong advocate for Freedom of Speech and of the Press. I never knew that he was a raging anti-Semite.

Mr Greenwald tweeted:

What was this IDF soldier doing in the West Bank?

The journalist knew, of course, exactly whet the “IDF soldier” was doing in Samaria, because the CNN article he linked told him: Continue reading →

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The Philadelphia Inquirer and normalizing the abnormal The truth shall set you free, but 'transgender acceptance' requires people to lie

Philadelphia Badlands. Photo via Philadelphia Inquirer Click to enlarge.

When my daughters were contemplating where they would go to college, I absolutely vetoed Temple University, not due to the school itself, but because I knew where it was located, in Philadelphia’s combat zone. The city has since cleaned up Broad Street, but go just one block deep off of Broad, and the same badlands that had been cleaned up on the main drag persisted.

It was that personal experience which drew me to this article, in Sunday’s Philadelphia Inquirer:

How Temple University failed my daughter on her first day of college

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You in a heap o’ trouble, mom and dad! So much stupidity involved in this case.

We have previously noted the murder of William “Billy” Schmidt over pure stupidity, a street theft of a cell phone. It took the Philadelphia Police a few weeks to identify the killers, but once they were, one of them fled the state. The alleged killers are minors, but now the parents of one of them are in trouble:

Parents accused of driving teen charged in Penn State student’s killing to Colorado ordered to stand trial

The judge’s ruling came after prosecutors presented evidence on how they allegedly helped their son evade capture following the June killing of William “Billy” Schmidt.

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You in a heap o’ trouble, boy! Go to jail. Go directly to jail. Do not pass "Go," do not collect $200.

Jacolby Williams, mugshot via WKYT-TV, because the Lexington Herald-Leader wouldn’t publish it.

We have noted, dozens of times, the McClatchy Mugshot Policy. Though I have never been able to find it officially published, when it was first emailed to McClatchy reporters and editors, a couple of the recipients sent it out via Twitter, which is the source of the image to the left, with the full text being printed in the footnote.[1]McClatchy Mugshot Policy: Publishing mugshots of arrestees has been shown to have lasting effects on both the people photographed and marginalized communities. The permanence of the internet can mean … Continue reading The policy is meant, as stated, because “The permanence of the internet can mean those arrested but not convicted of a crime have the photograph attached to their names forever.”

But it seems that what my best friend used to call the Lexington Herald-Liberal extends that to those convicted of crimes, serious crimes, as well. Continue reading →

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↑1 McClatchy Mugshot Policy:

Publishing mugshots of arrestees has been shown to have lasting effects on both the people photographed and marginalized communities. The permanence of the internet can mean those arrested but not convicted of a crime have the photograph attached to their names forever. Beyond the personal impact, inappropriate publication of mugshots disproportionately harms people of color and those with mental illness. In fact, some police departments have started moving away from taking/releasing mugshots as a routine part of their procedures.

To address these concerns, McClatchy will not publish crime mugshots — online, or in print, from any newsroom or content-producing team — unless approved by an editor. To be clear, this means that in addition to photos accompanying text stories, McClatchy will not publish “Most wanted” or “Mugshot galleries” in slide-show, video or print.

Any exception to this policy must be approved by an editor. Editors considering an exception should ask:

  • Is there an urgent threat to the community?
  • Is this person a public official or the suspect in a hate crime?
  • Is this a serial killer suspect or a high-profile crime?

If an exception is made, editors will need to take an additional step with the Pub Center to confirm publication by making a note in the ‘package notes‘ field in Sluglife.