This is a refreshing bit of anti-Mike Farrellism. Prof Robert Blecker, NY Law: No matter how vicious the crime, no matter how vile the criminal, some death penalty opponents feel certain that nobody can ever deserve to die — even if that person burned children alive, massacred a dozen strangers in a movie theater, or bombed the Boston Marathon. Other opponents admit the worst of the worst of the worst

I’m not even going to comment, because I already have, several times. I’m just going to quote JohnInFirestone, who sent along this pair of links: “Politically connected, far left lefties with almost unlimited access to personal data. What could go wrong?” Okay, so maybe I’ll add one tiny little comment: This is part of a ruling class effort to put a stake in the heart of limited-government activism by defeating

Because the drooling morons who make up the sadly naive base of the party simply can’t understand the 3-D chess the GOP braintrust is playing. Which is why this whole representative government think is really turning out to be quite the hassle — and why lawmakers seem content to subcontract out much of what now comes to have the force of government-centric law to the bureaucratic 4th branch, essentially a

To add to the faux-weighty, ostentatiously self-important irony of SVU “tackling the tough questions” — in the instance Darleen notes, the tough questions being: are famous, southern white female celebrity chefs all at once fearful of / intrigued by the savage Mandingos that roam northeastern cities even if said Mandingos are but figments of the white paranoiacs’ innate racist imaginations, no doubt brought on by an upbringing steeped in race