Posts Tagged ‘crime’
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Ryan’s Poverty Agenda
Posted on June 8, 2016
Tackling poverty is hard for any political leader. It’s especially hard if you are Paul Ryan. The issue is complex and the federal response to the issue to date has...
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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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Murder in Northwest DC
Posted on May 22, 2015
In Hollywood, it seems like it is always Bulgarian mafia thugs who take a family hostage and demand a ransom. Of course, in Hollywood, those bad guys are messing with...
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Living In a Game of Thrones World
Posted on May 19, 2015
A wealthy family, blocks from Joe Biden’s house, is held (presumably at gunpoint), murdered and then burned to cover up the evidence. Another family is murdered by their next-door neighbor,...
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Racial Polarization and Baltimore
Posted on April 28, 2015
In the aftermath of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, my hometown of Chicago faced riots in most of the worst ghettos in the city, except in certain areas...
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