Private ones will save your life. Jeez. I wonder if anyone has ever looked into why that might be, huh?
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Cops Kill Men
by Scott Horton | Jun 30, 2020 | Blog
Buzzfeed: On The Day George Floyd Died, Police Across The US Shot And Killed At Least Five Other Men Police in the US have not gone more than two days without fatally shooting someone since 2015. "Justin was shot at least twice. "His death started like so many other...
Armed Israeli Settlers Burn Hundreds of Olive Trees South of Nablus
by Scott Horton | Jun 29, 2020 | Blog
Let's see, what would it be called if "armed Palestinian people-who-are-actually-from-there" burned hundreds of anything belonging to Israeli civilians, even trespassing "settlers"? Right. Exactly. "Terrorism." Well I like how George Carlin used to say: "We don't need...
Cops Love Suffocating People to Death
by Scott Horton | Jun 29, 2020 | Blog
It's why they become cops in the first place. So they can murder people and get away with it. Like the Golden State Killer. Here the NYT counts 70 people suffocated to death by the cops in the last 10 years. Yes, more than half of them black. And almost all of them...
911 is a Joke
by Scott Horton | Jun 26, 2020 | Blog
The CDC should be abolished immediately. Total incompetence. Criminal negligence. “It’s not our culture to intervene,” said Dr. George Schmid, who worked at the agency off and on for nearly four decades. He described it as increasingly bureaucratic, weighed down by...
Liberal Hero John Bolton: Trump Cancelling Iran Strike ‘the Most Irrational Thing I Ever Witnessed Any President Do’
by Scott Horton | Jun 18, 2020 | Blog
Partisanship makes people stupid. People who for partisan reasons hated Bolton's sorry guts in the W. Bush years now think he's just great as long as he's trashing Trump. But he's still a lunatic. More fun:...
Boris Johnson: Israeli Annexation Against Law
by Scott Horton | Jun 17, 2020 | Blog
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said Tuesday that Israeli plans to annex parts of the West Bank would “amount to a breach of international law.” Asked in the House of Commons about possible sanctions on Israel over the West Bank settlements, Johnson said: “I...
Get Rid of the Cops? Hooray!
by Scott Horton | Jun 9, 2020 | Blog
NYT: Not so fast: Advocates for police reform are making the case that the phrase “defund the police” doesn’t mean what many people think it means. “Be not afraid,” Christy E. Lopez, a Georgetown University law professor, wrote in The Washington Post. “‘Defunding the...
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Anti-War Blog – Rafah is now a memory
“Down this road on a summer day in 1944, the soldiers came. Nobody lives here now. They stayed only a few hours. When they had gone, a community, which had lived for a thousand years, was dead. This is Oradour-sur-Glane, in France. The day the soldiers came, the...
Be Careful Who You Defend
ICE tactics in MN have been heavy handed and the “protesters” are funded by the same people that have funded every color revolution of the 21st century. You don’t have to be on either side.
The Slobbering Beast of Power
Beneath the uniforms, costumes of power or the suits of fashionable exuberance lurks naked flesh. Often flabby and unimpressive. The victims of such know the putrid stench on their breath, the sickly odour of sweat, the repulsive effluent of discharge as it penetrates...
Stop Funding the NGO: No Grift Overlooked
Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are non-profit, voluntary, and independent citizen groups operating at local, national, or international levels. The very nature of NGOs needs a complete overhaul. The very term NGO has an undeserved cache of innocence and...
Recent Writing in Defense of Free Immigration
"The Trumpian Ice Age: The Frigidity of Collectivism" "Immigration Policy in an Nth-Best World" "Free Movement Increases Wealth" "Static Analysis Clouds Immigration Debate" "More on Immigration and Public Property" "Immigration Control Threatens the Rule of Law"...
Alex Wins Again
I was a technical climber as a young man and just watched the amazing Alex Honnold free solo the Taipei 101 tower in Taiwan. Individual achievement is the bedrock of pushing the envelope in human creativity and innovation. I think free solo is eventually going to kill...
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