Syndicated Columns
Time to Purge Bloated Sex Offender Registries
Those registries that are supposed to keep track of sex offenders? They contain lots of names that shouldn’t be there.
Read MoreRomance Can Turn Brutal – Especially For The Children
If you’re the typical U.S. consumer you just shelled out money to celebrate Valentine’s Day. Collectively Americans spend multiple billions each year on candy, flowers, jewelry or some other gift to spark romance with a loved one. Historians agree the celebration likely began in ancient Roman times with the mid-February fertility festival called Lupercalia.
Read MoreWe Deserve A Smarter War on Drugs
Did we learn nothing from the so-called crack cocaine plague of the 80’s and 90’s? For those with fuzzy memories, the media back then erroneously and breathlessly declared that crack use had reached epidemic proportions. Newsweek declared crack was “the most addictive drug known to man!” The full truth would eventually come out. Crack was…
Read MoreThe Government Can Take Your Money for No Reason
If you carry too much cash the federal government can take it away from you. Yep, you read that right. If an agency, like the Transportation Safety Administration, the Drug Enforcement Administration or U.S. Customs and Border Protection finds someone carrying large amounts of cash they can confiscate it by simply declaring it to be…
Read MoreYour Campaign Donation May Be Funding a Zombie
Are you among the countless Americans who feel so passionately about the upcoming presidential election that you wrote a check to your favorite candidate? But if your candidate dropped out of the race can you get your money back? At one time there were a whopping 29 democrats running for president . Now only twelve…
Read MoreBail Reform: Proceed With Caution
Photo courtesy: Alpha Stock Images January 2020 ushered in a unique new law in New York State that abolished cash bail for defendants arrested for non-violent crimes. Activists in the bail reform movement called it landmark legislation that stops judges from locking up the poor while they await trial simply because they can’t afford bail.…
Read MoreUniversities Routinely Ignore and Violate Basic Civil Rights
This column might win me no fans on college campuses but there is something that must be said. Universities across the country are unconstitutionally punishing those accused of sex-based misconduct with no regard to the civil rights guarantee of due process. They say they are acting lawfully under the so-called Title IX law of 1972.…
Read MoreGetting Away With Murder
It has never been easier to be an undetected serial killer in the United States. That’s the opinion of two experts in the field of collecting murder data in America. And both men say that as you read this there are thousands of active serial killers roaming the U.S.. Some operate in big cities, others…
Read MoreNot Every Sexual Harassment Complaint is Legit
This will not start out as a good year for Professor Nick Flor of the University of New Mexico. Beginning January 1st he will be suspended from this tenured position at UNM, without pay, for a full year. He is not allowed to get another fulltime job and the multimillions of dollars in grants he…
Read MoreOur Gun Violence Problem. What if…?
Remember the name Ed Stack. As the CEO of Dick’s Sporting Goods, a chain of 727 stores nationwide, he has shown more leadership in trying to solve the nation’s gun violence problem than all the politicians in Washington combined. Stack, 65, is not just talking the talk, he’s walking the walk down the path of…
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