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• The Trayvon Martin case revisited – Part 2

  One of the commenters posting on my previous Zimmerman – Martin shooting aftermath post had this comment to make:

  Zimmerman’s injuries do not automatically exonerate him of any wrong-doing, and by pursuing Martin for zero justifiable reasons,

  Oh, how wrong did the poster get this, and I am talking big-time wrong. Granted, if you got your facts only from the LSM you would believe that Zimmerman was told to stand down by the authorities, disobeyed … Read more

• The Trayvon Martin case revisited.

  Well, it now is starting to look to me like we where all had by histrionics and the usual LSM bullshit that is used to capitalize on anything that helps the left push their “America is an evil racist country” and “Guns are evil” narrative. As others come forth to give details about the Trayvon Martin incident, it is starting to look like those that piled on the police for not doing a thorough … Read more

• Profiles in Cowardice

  It’s the must-listen audio of the day as the “captain” of the Costa Concordia refuses to obey the Coast Guard’s increasingly angry demands that he return to his sinking ship:

  I ran this by a few native Italian speakers and they have told me the translation doesn’t quite capture the color of the Coast Guard’s language. At one point, he calls Schettino an Italian slang word for penis, the equivalent of calling him a little … Read more

• Perverted Justice

  What Lee once called the Best Magazine on the Planet devoted this month’s issue to our criminal justice system. And today, they unveiled a searing indictment of sex offender registries. You really should read the whole thing. A few choice passages:

  On Georgia’s exclusions zones which bar offenders from being near just about anything:

  Under the 2006 law, all 490 registered sex offenders in DeKalb County, most of them men who as teenagers had consensual

  … Read more

• The Plankton Panic

  Last fall, a paper came out claiming that global warming had reduced plankton populations by about 40%. There was a wide-spread freakout in AGW circles. Plankton are the foundation of the ocean food chain and the source of half the world’s oxygen. In his book Death from the Skies, Phil Plait talked about the danger presented by a nearby supernova or gamma ray burst: it would kill of the plankton. Not long after, oxygen … Read more