Archive for the ‘Shootings’ Category
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Congressional Baseball Game Shooting Brings Back Bad Memories
Posted on June 14, 2017
Today’s Congressional Baseball Game shooting has brought bad memories flowing back into my brain. July 24th, 1998 was a hot day too. The House had just passed bipartisan health care legislation shepherded...
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Look of Evil
Posted on June 18, 2015
The vacant eyes. That’s what is so striking about the pictures of the latest mass murderer. Dylan Storm Roof, who coldly killed 9 people in an iconic African American Church...
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Soft on Crime Begets More Crime
Posted on June 2, 2015
You don’t have to be a sociologist or a criminal studies major to figure this out. The headlines are pretty stark....
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Media Malpractice in Ferguson
Posted on October 24, 2014
The nation’s news media has never been held in lower esteem. And never has that derision been more deserved than in Ferguson. It’s astounding really, how irresponsible the news coverage...
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Innocence Lost
Posted on October 23, 2014
Like foreshadowing in a dark novel, three years before the attacks on September 11, 2001, a lone gunman walked into the document door of the United States Capitol, pulled out...
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