NY Prosecutor: ‘We Know Incarceration Doesn’t Really Solve Any Problems’

Posted on | April 7, 2023 | 1 Comment

From the DA’s office that is prosecuting Donald Trump:

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s chief prosecutor, Meg Reiss, bragged about letting violent criminals and felons off the hook – including a murderer – using her restorative justice approach to help them avoid incarceration, Fox News Digital found.
“We know incarceration doesn’t really solve any problems,” Reiss said during a Peace Institute event in May 2021. Fox News Digital has previously reported that Reiss said criminals are not “bad dudes” while simultaneously blasting juries for believing police officers facing misconduct allegations deserve the “benefit of the doubt.”
Reiss went on to describe how the Manhattan district attorney helped a murderer get out of jail time for a homicide victim who had very few relatives. . . .
Reiss also blasted the idea that criminals in New York illegally possessing firearms should amount to jail time.
She said the office has a “gun diversion” program for criminals illegally possessing firearms. . . .
Criminal possession of a firearm in New York is a Class E felony, and carries up to four years in prison and a $5,000 fine.
The Manhattan district attorney’s office did not answer whether it is their general practice to divert Class E felons and violent criminals from the criminal justice system.

There is a word for Meg Reiss’s attitude: insanity.

In 2016, Reiss was appointed as the first Executive Director of the Institute for Innovation in Prosecution (IIP) at CUNY’s John Jay College. She was described at the time as a “Brooklyn and Nassau County prosecutor with more than two decades of high-profile experience in the courtroom and in efforts to reform the criminal justice system.”

The phrase “reform” implies that the criminal justice system in New York wasn’t working. We may then ask, for whom was it not working?

As you can see, over the course of two decades, there was a drastic decline in the number of murders in New York City, from a peak of more than 2,000 per year in the early 1990s, to fewer than 500 by 2007. By the time Reiss was appointed to head the Institute for Innovation in Prosecution in 2016, NYC’s murders had decreased to fewer than 350 a year.

From a standpoint of public safety, then, there seemed to be no need for “reform” or “innovation” in New York’s criminal justice system, but once you start such “reform” measures — e.g., eliminating cash bail, and declining to prosecute “low-level offenses,” as Alvin Bragg has done — it’s amazing how quickly criminals discover that there are no real consequences. After 2017, when there were only 272 murders in New York City, the homicide rate increased 67% percent by 2021, when there were 488 murders in the city. “Incarceration doesn’t really solve any problems,” we are told by Meg Reiss. We know this, she says, but if she explained how we know it, I must have missed the explanation.

What Meg Reiss and other “progressives” generally fail to acknowledge is the problem of recidivism. Criminal behavior, like most other patterns of human behavior, is largely a matter of habit. The person who, at a young age, develops a pattern of criminal behavior is likely to continue committing crimes:

Bureau of Justice Statistics studies have found high rates of recidivism among released prisoners. Examines the recidivism patterns of former prisoners during a 9-year follow-up period. The researchers found that:

— The 401,288 state prisoners released in 2005 had 1,994,000 arrests during the 9-year period, an average of 5 arrests per released prisoner. Sixty percent of these arrests occurred during years 4 through 9.
— An estimated 68% of released prisoners were arrested within 3 years, 79% within 6 years, and 83% within 9 years.
— Eighty-two percent of prisoners arrested during the 9-year period were arrested within the first 3 years.
— Almost half (47%) of prisoners who did not have an arrest within 3 years of release were arrested during years 4 through 9.
— Forty-four percent of released prisoners were arrested during the first year following release, while 24% were arrested during year-9.

One way of looking at this data is to conclude, as does Reiss, that “incarceration doesn’t really solve any problems,” i.e., even after serving a prison sentence for their crimes, criminals continue committing crimes. The possibility of being sent back to prison doesn’t seem to have as much deterrent effect as we might wish. But another way of looking at the data is to conclude that, when we do send criminals to prison, we need to keep them there as long as possible, in order to protect society from their habitual criminality. Oh, but that’s “mass incarceration,” the progressives scream, with no regard to the factor of public safety in such matters.

The people who elected Alvin Bragg as District Attorney deserve every bit of the violent anarchy they have unleashed on New York City. More Democrat voters getting murdered? Oh, what a shame!.

Category: Crime, New York

In The Mailbox: 04.06.23 (Evening Edition)

Posted on | April 7, 2023 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 04.06.23 (Evening Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

From the Northern Command Field HQ in Reno, Nevada, it’s In The Mailbox!
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OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Soft On Crime Yields More Crime – Canadian Edition
EBL: The Last Supper, also, SCOTUS Sides With Troons (For Now)
Twitchy: Rashida Tlaib Accuses TN Legislature Of Fascism For Not Bowing To Mob, Teen Tranny Busted For Planning Shootings At Colorado Churches & Schools, and John Kirby Says It’s “Ridiculous” That We Left Millions Of Dollars Worth Of Stuff In Afghanistan
Louder With Crowder: Joy Behar Goes On Bizarre Rant, Claims Gen Z Is Leftist Because Republicans Cause Tornadoes, also, TikTok Chick Eats Pounds Of Butter Every Day, Says It Helps Her Avoid Panic Attacks
Vox Popoli: Explain it Like I’m Five, also, Devil Mouse in Danger

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: High Fives and Cocktails
American Conservative: Memento Mori for Holy Week 2023
American Greatness: Trans Terror: Colorado Teen Facing Attempted Murder Charge After Allegedly Threatening to Shoot Up Schools
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Above the Law News
Babalu Blog: Reports from Cuba: 20 years since the Black Spring, the long shadow of repression in Cuba, For some crazy reason Finland seems to disagree with Putin’s definition of the “good the free and the just”–and joined NATO yesterday, Repressive agent of Cuban dictatorship granted humanitarian parole, now living in Miam, and Nearly a year after hurricane Ian hit Cuba, affected areas remain in ruins, with thousands homeless
BattleSwarm: The Democratic Party’s Foreign Sugar Daddies
Behind The Black: Spaceplane startup flies small-scale prototype for the 1st time using new rocket engine, Webb snaps infrared picture of Uranus, Global warming scientists whine about India defunding climate research center, Exploring the cratered southern highlands of Mars, part 2, and Pushback – Missouri school libraries sue to keep porno on their shelves, so Missouri lawmakers zero out library budget
Cafe Hayek: There Is No “Will of the People”
CDR Salamander: Diversity Thursday
Chicago Boyz: Is NPR ‘State Affiliated Media’?
Dana Loesch: Rebekah Jones & The Miami Herald Rage After Students Report Her Son For Death Threats
Don Surber: Joe Manchin’s Latest Scheme
First Street Journal: The foreign policy disaster that is Joe Biden
Gates Of Vienna: Fountain of Youth, also, Abduction of Children From Sweden, Video #3
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, A 1979 Saturn, Two Down, One Skates, and The Further Adventures of Rebekah Jones
Hollywood In Toto: Super Mario Bros. Movie Is Exactly What Fans Deserve, Guess What Team Barbie Is Hiding? (Hint: It’s Woke), and Sly Nefarious Bridges Gap Between Faith, Horror
Legal Insurrection: FEC Commissioner Reminds Bragg That Officials Concluded Trump Case Isn’t ‘a Campaign Finance Violation’, Biden Admin Blames Trump For Biden’s Botched Afghanistan Exit, SCOTUS Declines Emergency Request To Reinstate West Virginia “Save Women’s Sports Act”, and CNN ‘Fact Checks’ Trump’s Claim of Soros/Bragg Connection, Accidentally Admits A Connection
Nebraska Energy Observer: Which one?
Outkick: Sloppy Dodgers Fans Get The 2023 Fan Fight Season Started At Dodger Stadium, Dan Le Batard Still Outraged Dana White Slapped Wife, Still Won’t Comment On Employing Arrested Wife Beater Howard Bryant, Deion Sanders Awards First Colorado Jersey Number To No. 1 Transfer As Shedeur Continues To Sling It During Spring Ball, Angel Reese Soaks Up Her 15 Minutes Of Fame, and Nike Uses Dylan Mulvaney to Promote Sports Bras And Women’s Leggings
Power Line: Corporate America Is Woke – Now What? also, Another “Trans” Mass Murderer Stopped
Shark Tank: DeSantis Goes The Extra Mile To “Back The Blue”, Announces 1750 Police Bonuses
Shot In The Dark: One Reason I Love Elon Musk, also, Asterisk
STUMP: Memento Mori for Holy Week 2023
The Political Hat:
This Ain’t Hell: Chinese CDC says “Raccoon dogs? Uh, no”, We love our sheep, we Dogs of War, and Kamala Harris’s staff complains about food quality on Air Force Two
Transterrestrial Musings: Climate Alarmism, Finally!, and Our French Revolution
Victory Girls: Bud Light Backlash: Will It Make An Impact?
Volokh Conspiracy: Louisiana Loses Social-Cost-of-Carbon Lawsuit in the Fifth Circuit (Again)
Watts Up With That: Climate Activists Are Coming for Muslim Zakat Donations
Weasel Zippers: WH Defends NPR “Hard-Hitting, Independent Nature Of Their Coverage Speaks For Itself”, Chicago Elects Socialist-Backed, Defund The Police Advocate As New Mayor, WH Claims Biden Economic Policies Are “Working” Despite Rampant Inflation, High Gas Prices, and Poll: Joe Biden’s Approval Rating Massively Underwater On His Handling Of The Economy, Immigration, Guns, Etc., Etc., Etc.
The Federalist: Maine Mom Sues School Board For Hiding Her Child’s “Gender Transition”, The West Needs To Stop Believing Red China Can Reform Itself, Russia Hoaxer’s Book About How The GOP ‘Went Crazy’ Is An Affront To History, Future GOP Victories Hinge On Positive Pro-Life Messaging, Not Ignoring Abortion, Meet The Double-Crossing Texas GOP Congressman Lobbying For Dangerous Border Cartels, and Exclusive: DeKalb County Officials Skirted Georgia Law To Acquire Funds From Left-Wing Dark Money Elections Group
Mark Steyn: Act Now, Leaven Later

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In The Mailbox: 04.06.23 (Morning Edition)

Posted on | April 6, 2023 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 04.06.23 (Morning Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Ninety Miles From Tyranny: The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #2041
357 Magnum: Alvin Bragg Won’t Prosecute Criminals But Prosecutes The Law-Abiding Instead
EBL: Trump Delivers Remarks at Mar-A-Lago After Indictment
Twitchy: Parent Shut Down For “Personal Attacks” Against School Official’s Transgender Policies, CNN Whines About Variety Using Anonymous Sources In Don Lemon Hit Piece, and Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse’s “Picture Is Worth 1000 Words” Tweet About Justice Clarence Thomas Blows Up In His Face
Louder With Crowder: Nike hires man to model women’s sports bras, “Shut the f*** up, b****” – Comedian compares CNN to a nagging girlfriend in the perfect analogy, and ‘That’s Not Medical Science’ – DeSantis Explains Policy That Punishes Doctors Who Perform Sex Changes On Minors
Vox Popoli: Right Place, Right Time, Immigrants Don’t Grow Economies, and Contemplating De-dollarization
Stoic Observations: Chris Rock & The Four Violations

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: One must Fast before One can Feast
American Conservative: Orange Man in a Banana Republic, also, It Is Finn-ished
American Greatness: Florida Grand Jury Finds Biden Regime is Facilitating Sex Trafficking of Foreign Children, Seven Things You Don’t Know About the Stormy Daniels Hush Money Case, and North Carolina Lawmaker Switches to GOP, Giving Party a Supermajority
American Thinker: Desire and Delusion Didn’t Do Diddly to Dylan Mulvaney’s DNA, Ready Yourself for the 2024 Storms, and A Pandemic of Cognitive Dissonance
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News
Babalu Blog: ‘The longest day in Havana’: College student writes about her grandmother’s escape from communist Cuba, Spanish hoteliers denounced for their collusion with Cuban dictatorship and abusive labor practices, and Cuban dictatorship sustains huge loss in London debt trial, but proclaims victory
BattleSwarm: The Rat’s Nest of Scandal In Democratic State Rep Jolanda Jones’s Office
Behind The Black: Scientists try to model what would happen if Ryugu hit Earth, First binary quasar found, Exploring the cratered southern highlands of Mars, part 1, Shetland Spaceport now faces same regulatory hurdles that destroyed Virgin Orbit, and Pushback – Republicans move to expel Democrats who gave aid to rioters in Tennessee statehouse
Cafe Hayek: Consumption Is Indeed – As Adam Smith Said – “the Sole End and Purpose Of All Production”
CDR Salamander: The Heart Of The Problem
Chicago Boyz: Drowning in a Sea
Da Tech Guy: Vito Perrone Dodges a Bullet in Easthampton, RFK’s Hat in the Ring, and Deconstructionism is the Rosetta Stone for understanding the Political Left
Don Surber: Republicans Lay The Groundwork For 2025 Indictments,
First Street Journal: When public officials are too weak-willed to do the right thing
Gates Of Vienna: A Cry For Help From a French Doctor, also, The Culture-Enriching Abduction of Children From Sweden
The Geller Report: As Trump Goes to Court For Paying Off Stormy Daniels, Another Court Awards Him $121,962 From Stormy Daniels
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, Nothing to See Here. Move Along, and A Nearby Black Hole
Hollywood In Toto: Air – Nothing but Net for Crowd-Pleasing Ode to Capitalism, also, Paint Makes a Mockery of Bob Ross’ Legacy, Comedy 101
The Lid: Wyoming Democrat Says She Supports Murdering People Who Oppose Transgenderism
Legal Insurrection: Biden Admin Working on a ‘New’ Nuclear Deal With Iran, Political Prosecution of Trump “Tears at the Fabric of the Country” and is “a Master Manipulation by Democrats”, NASA Embraces DEI Policies, Appoints ‘Diversity Ambassador’, Cash App Founder Bob Lee Stabbed to Death in Upscale San Francisco Neighborhood, and Watch the Debate on DEI Policies in Higher Education at MIT
Nebraska Energy Observer: A Brit’s view of the Constitution of the United States of America (4)
Outkick: Ray Allen Says UConn Is So Good At Basketball Because There’s Nothing Else To Do, Phil Mickelson ‘Didn’t Say A Word’ During Drama-Free Masters Champions Dinner, Deion Sanders Pushes The Importance Of Hard Work: ‘You Will Not Make It In Life’, LSU Star Angel Reese Threatens White House Boycott: ‘We’ll Go To The Obamas’, and The Attendance For Last Night’s Athletics Game Was Pathetic
Power Line: American Universities Coddle and Encourage Anti-Semitism, Pro-Trump MP Kicks Hornets Nest in Bundestag: Biden Admin ‘Is Not Our Friend’, NPR: State-Affiliated Media?, and Victor Davis Hanson: We’re in a Revolution
Shark Tank: FL Senators Target Confederate Monument Removals
Shot In The Dark: Nothing Says “Understanding The Budweiser-Drinking Demographic” Like This, For Those Who Need The Reminder, and This Is What Evil Looks Like
STUMP: Video: U.S. Mortality Through the Pandemic, All Causes and by Age Group, Provisional through 2022
The Political Hat: The Memory Hole Comes For Mysteries
This Ain’t Hell: Let’s talk Trump, Back to the bad old days of WWI, Four More Accounted For, Vitamin D responsible for Self-Murder, and The U.S. to provide Ukraine with $2.6 billion worth of military aid
Transterrestrial Musings: When AI Lies About Medicine, “I Felt Bullied”, First Orbital Flight, and The California Snowpack
Victory Girls: Chicago Doubles Down With Brandon Johnson
Volokh Conspiracy: Prof. Andrew Koppelman’s Thoughts for Law Students, from the Left to the Left
Watts Up With That: Greenland Temperature Updates, Biden EPA Chief Wants Funding to Hire Hundreds Of ‘Environmental Justice’ Bureaucrats, and Massachusetts Offshore Wind Troubles
Weasel Zippers: Man Wins Women’s WPGA Golf Tournament, JPMorgan CEO Suggests Government Should Seize Private Property For Clean Energy Projects, Occasional Cortex Doesn’t Rule Out Running For “Higher Office”, and Biden Admin Rolls Out “Climate And Economic Justice Screening Tool”
The Federalist: Texas Bill Models How To Stop Dems’ Exploitation Of Colleges For Partisan Get-Out-The-Vote Ops, 12 Anti-Trump Pundits And Lawmakers Who Think Bragg’s Case Is Terrible, Oregon Sued For Denying Adoption To Christian Woman Over Her Refusal To Indulge Gender Dysphoria, Texas AG Just Threw A Glorious Legal Wrench In Biden’s Unconstitutional $1.7 Trillion Spending Spree, and The Left Is Dead Wrong About What Homeless People Really Need
Mark Steyn: Arresting the Opposition Candidate

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Chicago Votes for More Crime

Posted on | April 5, 2023 | 3 Comments

Some of us hoped, when Chicago voted Mayor Frogface out of office in the Democratic primary, that the city had finally come to its senses. But the runoff election proves Chicago is irredeemably lost:

The residents of the Windy City were offered a choice between someone who wanted to rebuild the Chicago PD and bring down the crime rates and someone who was on the record saying he wanted to defund the police. By the slimmest of margins, a bare majority of voters decided to stick with the carjacking epidemic because it’s been working out so well thus far, I suppose. “Progressive” candidate Brandon Johnson bested pro-cop Paul Vallas with a 51.4 to 48.6 margin. . . .
Chicago is well known for the “Magnificent Mile,” a formerly prosperous and productive retail district filled with high-end shops and fine dining establishments. Now it looks like a war zone. For the past year or more, it’s been the site of robberies, assaults, smash-and-grab heists, and even murders. Business owners have been fleeing the area. . . .
So how did this happen? As we discussed in the final weeks of the runoff, it really came down to a question of race. Vallas is white and Johnson is Black. Alderwoman Jeanette Taylor was making the rounds of every political rally in the city and preaching about the need to hold together “our Black and brown coalition.” And it looks like she managed that feat, if only by a slender margin.

It’s actually worse that Jazz Shaw realizes. The explicitly anti-white rhetoric about a “Black and Brown coalition” for Johnson ensured that the electorate was racially polarized, and Johnson got his highest percentage of the vote in majority-black wards where crime is the worst. Some of these wards have less than 1% white population.

Here, based on the NY Times ward-by-ward results and the City of Chicago’s official ward map, are the voting-age proportions of black and white in the wards where Johnson got the most votes:

Ward 24 … Johnson 84% …. Black 77% …. White 4%
Ward 21 … Johnson 82% …. Black 95% …. White 1%
Ward 20 … Johnson 81% …. Black 73% …. White 5%
Ward 17 … Johnson 81% …. Black 86% …. White 1%
Ward 16 … Johnson 81% …. Black 69% …. White 2%
Ward 6 ….. Johnson 81% …. Black 95% …. White 1%

The representation of 1% white voting-age population in wards 21, 17 and 6 results from rounding up fractions. The population of Chicago is 29% black, 33% white and 28% Hispanic, but the anti-white political climate in the city now means that only black candidates can be elected mayor, because black voters will never vote for a white or Hispanic candidate, and the appeal of a “Black and Brown coalition” will always persuade a certain percentage of Hispanic voters to vote for the black candidate. And this is happening, by the way, despite the fact that Chicago’s black population has declined while the Hispanic population has increased.

After the most recent census, there was a protracted fight in the city council over the Chicago ward map, which resulted in racial gerrymandering:

The map created 16 wards with a majority of Black voters and one ward with a plurality of Black voters. The map has 14 wards with a majority of Latino voters, rather than the 15 wards that the City Council’s Latino Caucus had demanded. . . .
Representatives of the Latino Policy Forum, a Chicago advocacy group, said they were “extremely disappointed that for the second consecutive decade Latinos have been shortchanged in their representation.”

Nobody in Chicago cares if whites are “shortchanged in their representation”; indeed, that is a fundamental goal of the “progressives” who control Chicago. There are 50 wards in Chicago, of which 60% are specifically carved up to ensure black or Hispanic majorities. And what this means, in terms of policy, is that Chicago seeks to avoid jailing criminals, who are turned loose to re-offend over and over again. When Jazz Shaw refers to the city’s “carjacking epidemic,” it’s no exaggeration. As recently as 2014, Chicago had barely 300 carjackings a year. Last year, there were more than 1,600 carjackings in Chicago, to go along with 737 murders and 2,937 people wounded from gunfire.

From Brandon Johnson’s victory speech:

Because tonight is a gateway to a new future for our city. A city where you can thrive regardless of who you love or how much money you have in your bank account. A city that’s truly safer for everyone by investing in what actually works to prevent crime. And that means youth employment, mental health centers, ensuring that law enforcement has the resources to solve and prevent crime.

Ri-iiiight. Not a word in there about putting criminals behind bars, because Brandon Johnson is against putting criminals behind bars.

By electing Johnson, Chicago has voted for more crime, committed by repeat offenders who know they won’t be prosecuted and sent to prison by Chicago’s “Black and Brown coalition” government.

Category: Chicago, Crime, Election

In The Mailbox: 04.05.23 (Morning Edition)

Posted on | April 5, 2023 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 04.05.23 (Morning Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: What 4th Amendment?
EBL: Bing Crosby – The NATO Song
Twitchy: “We Will Not Normalize Serious Criminal Conduct”, Troon Pastor Compares Treatment Of Trannies To Christ’s Crucifixion, and Special K Hopes You Can Appreciate The Biden Administration “Doing Something” About The Chicom Spy Balloon
Louder With Crowder: Kid Rock shoots up Bud Light cans in protest. Unrelatedly, beer confirms Dylan Mulvaney as spokesdiva, LOL: Someone on the grand jury indicting Trump may have just committed a felony of their own, and Woke MN Democrat says biological men in girls school sports are okay since female athletes won’t amount to much anyway
Vox Popoli: The Inevitable Math, They Do Hire Liars, Another Nail in Darwin’s Coffin, and Amazon Kills Book Depository
Stoic Observations: The Engineering Path Not Taken

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Americans Must Choose
American Greatness: Dem Reps Who Egged on Rioters at Tennessee Capitol Stripped of Committee Assignments & Face Expulsion, also, U.S. Manufacturing Hits New Low Under Biden
American Thinker: Texas Medical Board Suspends Doctor for Choosing to Do No Harm, Soros’s Justice in U.S. and Israel, and Liberals: Burn the Place Down!
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Written English News
Babalu Blog: Nearly 400 protests in communist Cuba during the month of March
BattleSwarm: Kentucky Ballistics + Slow-Mo Guys = Gun Destruction at 187,000 fps
Behind The Black: Virgin Orbit files for bankruptcy, Lockheed Martin picked by Australia to build two military communications satellites, FAA issues travel advisory for Boca Chica for April 10, 2023 Starship launch, The outermost edge of Mars’ north polar icecap, and Judges expand hiring boycott of elite law colleges that allow violent protests and censorship
Cafe Hayek: If Solitary Confinement Is Cruel and Unusual Punishment … Aren’t, Also, Lockdowns?
CDR Salamander: How Many Bottles Of Catsup Are In The Flag Mess?
Chicago Boyz:
Da Tech Guy: Indulgence Calendar for April, Funny How the SF Mayor DIDN’T ask her own State for help, Easy street for electric vehicles, and Fast Thoughts Under the Fedora
Dana Loesch: Trump Indictment Unsealed
Don Surber: What Rule Of Law?
First Street Journal: The left really do hate Freedom of Speech and of The Press, also, A 2020 George Floyd rioter is sentenced to five years in federal prison
Gates Of Vienna: Geert Wilders – “Stop With the Craziness!”, The Eternal German Spirit of Subservience, Cock-a-Doodle-Do!, and Allons Enfants de la Patrie!
The Geller Report: Post Indictment, Trump’s Poll Numbers Skyrocket, E Pluribus Trump, and Soros DA Bragg Tells Judge To Gag Donald Trump
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, What’s Up for April, 2023, and Bud Light, Dylan Mulvaney, and Truth in Advertising
Hollywood In Toto: Woke Scolds Want to Cancel Pop Culture Classics, This Australian Comic Predicted Academia’s Woke Insanity – 7 Years Ago, and Money Trumps Woke As HBO Max Eyes ‘Harry Potter’ Series
The Lid: Passover And The Blood Libel
Legal Insurrection: Anti-Defamation League Blasted for Becoming Just Another Tool for the Left, Flyers at Pepperdine University Compare Opposing Trans Ideology to Genocide, Cornell Rejects Student Demands for ‘Trigger Warnings’ Before Class Discussions, Columbia Law Students Throw a Fit After Members of Federalist Society Meet With Justice Kavanaugh, and William & Mary Student Claims She Has Received Death Threats for Saying Men Cannot Have Babies
Nebraska Energy Observer: Neo said
Outkick: Chaos Breaks Out In Storrs After UConn’s Championship Win Over SDSU, Absurdity Of MLB Blackouts Exemplified By Game Unable To Be Aired Inside Stadium Where Game Was Played, Baseball Is Back! Drunk Fan At Brewers Home Opener Pees In Concourse In Front Of Other Fans, Trent Dilfer Responds To Hugh Freeze’s Spring Game Proposal By Standing Up To Nick Saban, Alabama, and UConn-SDSU Title Game Edges Women’s Final In Ratings, Draws More Eyes Than Every NBA Final From Past 3 Years
Power Line: Judge Ho’s thought for the day, Maybe Trump CAN win the general election, and Trump’s new lawyer
Protein Wisdom Reborn: The Audacity Of Woke
Shark Tank: FSHCC Backs Senate Bill For Private Nursing Program Funding
Shot In The Dark: Unexpectedly, Cold Flint/s,
STUMP: Will there be a state and municipal public finance bailout?
The Political Hat:
This Ain’t Hell: AF General says F-35 JIT supply chain is wrong, Two weeks of leave in conjunction with family member’s death, John Watts – SEAL Team NONE, and Afghan Orphan update
Transterrestrial Musings: The Climate Cult, Can We Really Trust AI?, The Parable Of The Drowning Man, and The Death Of Downtowns
Victory Girls: Legal Minds Weigh In On Trump Indictment
Volokh Conspiracy: Divorced Father Inflicted “Mental Injury” on 12-Year-Old Son By Religious Criticisms of Son’s Felt Homosexuality, also, Justin Fairfax (Former Va. Lt. Gov.) Loses Libel Lawsuit Against N.Y. Public Radio
Watts Up With That: The Earth’s Green Future is Forked, Record March Cold Over the Western U.S. and Northern Plains, and California Gov. Newsom to make gas prices even higher!
Weasel Zippers: MSNBC: Being Anti-Trans Is “Anti-Gospel, Anti-Christ”, Elon Musk On NY Times Feed: “Twitter Equivalent of Diarrhea”, Fake Beer Signs Deal With Fake Woman, and Judge Warns Trump To Refrain From Posting On Social Media – Trump Posts Anyway
The Federalist: EXCLUSIVE: Biden Admin Is Funding Overseas Lithium Projects While Shutting Down American Mines, Hospitalized Or Not, Democrats Have A Plan For Fetterman, WaPo ‘Fact-Checker’ Humiliated After Smearing Criticism Of Soros-Backed DA As ‘Antisemitism’, How The Transgender Lobby’s Obsession With Its Own Victimhood Breeds Violence, and Illinois Dems Work To Shut Down Life-Saving Pregnancy Centers With Vague ‘Deceptive Practices’ Bill
Mark Steyn: Who’s Afraid of the Weeping Willow?, also, Steyn’s New Book – The Prisoner Of Windsor

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In The Mailbox: 04.04.23

Posted on | April 5, 2023 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 04.04.23

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

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Making History (Not in a Good Way)

Posted on | April 4, 2023 | Comments Off on Making History (Not in a Good Way)

Witness the dawning of Soviet America:

In a historic first of shredded norms and judicial weaponization — at least in the formerly exceptional United States — a former president and current front-running presidential candidate has been arraigned on criminal charges.
Donald Trump arrived in New York City on Monday to face charges conjured up by Soros-backed Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg through a grand jury process in the near-universally Trump-hating city. The former president spent the night in his luxurious upscale quarters in the landmark Trump Tower in midtown Manhattan.
On Tuesday, the former president reported to the DA’s office and courthouse at 100 Centre Street to be fingerprinted and processed just before 2 p.m. In a blow to slavering leftists everywhere, the coveted mugshot was not taken. Democrats and Trump Derangement sufferers had been expected to use the image for historic purposes reflecting the seriousness of the charges and the gravitas of the situation, such as printed toilet tissue, dart boards, “Trump for Prison 2024” t-shirts, and similar hate aids. Nor was the once-and-possibly-future president handcuffed, most likely because his Secret Service detail pointed out that it would be ludicrous to handcuff a man surrounded by Secret Service agents.
From there, the front-running Republican candidate in the 2024 presidential race appeared before New York Supreme Court Judge Juan Merchan at 2:29 p.m. The historic charges that are serious enough to warrant turning the United States into a banana republic and dividing her citizens against one another were finally unsealed. They included 34 counts of falsification of business records, which is a misdemeanor in New York State but which Bragg had tortured into felonies. It is extremely unusual for a single alleged crime to be split into 34 separate charges, explained an expert who had been briefed on the situation. “For example, when a shoplifter steals six handbags, she will only be charged with one count of larceny.” But here we are.

“Where were you when the Republic died, Grandpa?”

(Hat-tip: Instapundit.)