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Biden Administration stupidity on the death penalty

Regular readers of The First Street Journal, both of them, know that I am opposed to capital punishment. It isn’t because I am Catholic, although being Catholic informs my decision taking, but the belief that once we have a prisoner in a position where he can be executed without his consent, he is, by definition helpless, and it is not necessary to kill someone you hold helpless.

There has been a lot of talk recently about President Joe Biden, who purports to be Catholic, and the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops discussing whether he should be denied the Eucharist due to his support of abortion. He is, however, very much in line with the Church in his opposition to capital punishment, but there are obvious questions raised by this story from The Washington Post:

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This may not be a good change Replacing elected officials with unelected bureaucrats leads to poorer service

I moved away from Hampton, Virginia in 2000, and while I liked the place, I wasn’t sad to no longer have to deal with the Hampton branch of the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles. Who knows, maybe it has been improved since the 1990s, but at least in the 1990s it was nothing more than Affirmative Action for special education students. The individual clerks at the stations in the long, long waiting room were ugly, bored, rude and stupid.

Moving to Delaware wasn’t too bad. Small state, and the DMV for New Castle County wasn’t great, but it wasn’t too terribly bad, either. It outclassed Hampton in every way.

Two years later, and Pennsylvania was a dream: license plate issues and renewals were handled by private notaries public, taking half the burden away from the local DMVs. Private businesses have to have polite people, or they go out of business. The Carbon County DMV office was small, and a bit of a pain as it was not open every day, but at least it wasn’t any worse than Delaware’s. Continue reading →

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Charles Booker is running for the Senate

In news which is no surprise, former state Representative Charles Booker has declared for the Democratic nomination to face incumbent Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) in the 2022 election.

Mr Booker said last March that he was “strongly considering” running for the Senate in 2022, and, as we have previously noted, in April formed an exploratory committee on the subject. Continue reading →

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The public support for the Lexington Police Department, and the hits to officers’ morale

I have said it before: in our urban black communities, they dislike the police more than they dislike the criminals in their midst. They are like the Palestinians in Gaza, tolerating, feeding, supporting, hiding, and providing sex for Hamas, no matter how much damage Hamas cause in Gaza, because they hate the Israelis more.

And so the black community in Lexington have made it their mission to hobble, if they cannot eliminate, the city’s Police Department. On Friday, June 25th, they got a little bit of that done, getting the city government to ban no-knock warrants. Continue reading →

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The solution to transgender bathroom issues from an unusual place Who'd have ever guessed that it would come from the Vatican?

In late June of 2016, the Pico family toured the Vatican. Lots of history, tradition and great art, about which thousands and thousands of people have previously written; it’s a subject on which I have little more to contribute.

But there is one very unexpected quirk I saw, just before we left, that addresses a problem for today. Near a public cafeteria were the public restrooms. Entering the men’s room, I noticed the typical urinals along one wall, some in use, and a middle-aged female janitor cleaning, while the restroom was in use. Well, that’s pretty European, I thought.

Then I got to the stalls. Unlike what we see in the United States, the stalls in that men’s room had walls and doors which were essentially floor-to-ceiling, providing complete privacy. And that’s the solution to the stupidity we are seeing in the United States these days. Continue reading →

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What could possibly go wrong?

As we have previously noted, while we might forgive His Majesty King Henry VIII for believing that Catherine of Aragon or Anne Boleyn were somehow responsible for his first two children being daughters, the role of the X and Y chromosomes in determining the sex of mammals, including humans, has been known for over a century. Sex is not somehow “assigned” at birth; sex is determined at conception, depending upon whether the sperm which fertilized the egg carries the X or Y chromosome. We recognize the sex of a newborn child by visual examination of the child, but the characteristics which indicate sex developed long before birth, during gestation, as programmed in by the developing child’s DNA.

When you read or hear someone talking about sex being assigned at birth, you know automatically the pure bovine feces is about to follow. From The Philadelphia Inquirer:

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Today’s left really do hate them some #FreedomOfSpeech

We have previously noted the hostility of the credentialed media to what everyone would have thought they supported, freedom of speech and freedom of the press, at least for other people.

Now comes Aaron Rupar, who claims to be a journalist for Vox. Mr Rupar us upset, highly upset, that Fox News’ Brian Kilmeade claims that he read Mein Kampf in school:

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It only takes a slight omission to completely skew the story Translation: the Associated Press has lied to you!

We have already covered the Lexington-Fayette Urban-County Council’s ban on no-knock warrants in the city, and needn’t go into it further here. Most of our source material came from the Lexington Herald-Leader.

Also on the Herald-Leader website was a ‘national’ story on it, by the Associated Press: Continue reading →