There is a web site where the owner works very hard on statistics relating to gun-control and crime worldwide as well as US and local. Like the Watts Up With That site does with the global warming/climate change statistics. His posts are full of numbers, graphs, and links to sources for the numbers. In one off main topic post there was this line: It might also help the general understanding

Dale Franks breaks down the numbers: One might […] remark that rising mortgage rates may signal the inevitability of rising interest rates for Treasury bonds. Or, perhaps, vice versa. Whatever. Either way, you should keep in mind that a rise of 1% in Treasury yields works out to an additional $160 billion or so in debt service payments per year. Right now we’re paying about $350 billion a year on

What is particularly interesting to me about the interview is that is shows clearly something I long ago surmised — and subsequently posited while discussing the nascent outlaw! movement (an idea that led to my ouster from polite online “conservative” company, but that now, 4-years later, seems more prescient than “unhelpful” or “fundamentally unserious“) — namely, that the ideas behind Levin’s prescriptions, when divorced from the identity or political label

With the caveat that I haven’t really looked into the details of the story, or the official police response. And yet, it does have the ring of truth to it.  Perhaps Radley Balko would know better. But there is this piece to chew on. Anyway, for your consideration: Dear Jeff, My big brother Ethan, who had Down syndrome, was killed by three police officers earlier this year. His crime? Not

That’s right: the University of Denver, where I once taught argument, lit, and theory — and where Brian Kiteley, as head of the creative writing program and a champion of the free expression of novelists, finds certain ideas unpalatable and in need of censorship if not shunning (not things of the American Psycho or Lolita or Ulysses or Portnoy’s Complaint variety, though; literary danger arises instead in brief polemics or

His take:  possibly, but the case isn’t airtight.  And then there’s the fact that the move toward employers’ increasing reliance on part-time workers is tied to the the economic downturn, not just to ObamaCare, as the trend predates ObamaCare’s passage. My take:  because nobody really knows what is in the law, or how it will be implemented (selectively, post-election season, etc), some businesses are fiercely worried, while others simply have

This, my friends, is what is commonly referred to as “reaching the tipping point.” Or, if you’re a bored, narcissistic, imperial ideologue who happens to be a wonderful father (rumor has it) and a Good Man who is, Visigothic epithets to the contrary, merely your garden variety liberal Democrat who is doing what he thinks is best for the country — you call it “fundamental transformation,” and your clear intentions