Will Justice Do Justice in Ferguson?
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on September 9th, 2014 11:08 pm by HL
Will Justice Do Justice in Ferguson?
Mona Charen, RealClearPolitics
It has been over a month since Michael Brown was shot and killed in Ferguson, Mo., and we have yet to hear the police officer’s version of events. Was Officer Darren Wilson badly injured in his scuffle with Brown? Did Brown attempt to seize the officer’s weapon? Did Wilson have reason to fear for his own life? None of these answers has been forthcoming, which is odd and, frankly, suspicious. There are many possible explanations for the tragic death of Brown ranging from justifiable self-defense by Wilson to bad judgment by both parties and all the way to racially motivated murder. But the…
Blind to the World’s Broken Windows
Richard Cohen, RealClearPolitics
“All politics is local,” the late Speaker of the House Tip O’ Neill famously said. How right he was. The world today is suffering from the failure of President Obama to apply a school of law enforcement that happened to originate in O’Neill’s hometown, Boston, and goes by the moniker “broken windows.” The problem, simply stated, is that Obama was deaf to the sound of tinkling glass. The term “broken windows” comes from a 1982 article in the then-Boston-based Atlantic Monthly. Its title was in fact “Broken Windows,” and the authors were two academics, James Q. Wilson and George L. Kelling….
Harry Reid’s Peculiar Priorities
Mark Pfeifle, RealClearPolitics
The United States Senate should have a busy schedule when it comes back into session this week. Atrocities in the Middle East and the Ukraine, a stagnant economy, a 2015 budget bill and potential government shutdown—there’s no shortage of pressing topics for the world’s greatest deliberative body to debate and discuss. But Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has a different to-do list. His first order of business is a constitutional amendment that would all but repeal the First Amendment’s guarantee of freedom of speech. The Senate will votes this week on Senator Tom…
5 Things to Watch on the Final Primary Day of 2014
Scott Conroy, RealClearPolitics
More than six months after Texas kicked off the midterm election cycle, voters in five states will head to the polls on Tuesday to wrap up the 2014 primary season. Though the races in New Hampshire, Massachusetts, New York, Rhode Island and Delaware are short on competitive intra-party Senate battles, there are plenty of other compelling storylines. Here are five primary races to keep an eye on: 1. New York Democratic Gubernatorial Primary What’s one way for a powerful incumbent to deal with an unwelcome primary challenger? Act like she doesn’t exist. That’s the model…
