A medium rare rib eye steak, a baked potato with butter and sour cream, an iceberg lettuce salad, garlic bread and lemon meringue pie for dessert. That was the last meal ordered up by serial killer Oscar Bolin right before the state of Florida executed him. … [Read more...]
Do We Really Need Hate Crime Laws?
Love and hate, the two most prevalent human emotions. Every human on the planet, save those afflicted with serious mental health issues, has experienced these feelings. They cannot be legislated and neither emotion is, in itself, considered to be a crime. It is what some people do with their hate that is the problem. The eruption of hate into criminal behavior resulted in passage of a federal hate crimes law back in 1968. … [Read more...]
History Matters and So Does Political Reality
Here we go again! In the aftermath of the mismanaged U.S. military pullout in Afghanistan calls to impeach the president, or demands for him to resign, are being heard daily. Our republic cannot stand if lawmakers resort to undoing elections via impeachment every few years. If we, the electorate, are voting for undeserving or incompetent candidates then that is on us, and we need to reexamine how we chose who to vote for. … [Read more...]
The Clock is Ticking on Ways to Fix the U.S. Election System
This column is not about relitigating the 2020 election. Joseph Biden is the duly certified U.S. President. Period. Now, let’s talk about the mess in which we find our election system. Let’s talk about voter fraud. It does exist, claims to the contrary are incorrect. And discussions about voting integrity matter because we have about one year to decide how to avoid the confusion and controversy surrounding the 2020 election. … [Read more...]
The Fentanyl Flood Into the US – Why Can’t We Make It Stop?
About eleven times every hour, about 250 times a day, an American citizen dies of a drug overdose. The most frequent culprit is fentanyl. The most popular mode of delivery is fentanyl laced heroin, fentanyl mixed with cocaine or illegally produced OxyContin pain pills containing fentanyl. And it’s not just hard-core addicts who are dying. … [Read more...]
To Better Serve and Protect Cops Need Some Relief
Calls for the blanket defunding of police are literally killing us. The proof is in the spike of homicides in cities that brutally cut their police budgets during the last year. That said, it doesn’t mean that programs can’t be implemented to shift police priorities and share duties with other specialists, like mental health professionals, to respond to carefully screened 911 calls. … [Read more...]
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