Marc Lamont Hill’s Idea Of Fun
On CNN today, a repulsive person named Marc Lamont Hill, a professor at Columbia University, expressed a certain sympathy for the deservedly dead murderer Chris Dorner, and said that watching his...
View ArticleWaPo: Christianity Creates Killers
Today the Washington Post brought in Rabbi Bradley Hirschfield for an online chat on the topic of, “What role does Christianity play in the murder of the openly gay mayoral candidate in Mississippi?”...
View ArticleA Hideous Crime, A Small Mercy
Three years ago, 16-year-old Trevor Reese jumped out of the woods, knife in hand, seized 8-year-old Jackson Attuso, who was riding by on his bicycle, and slaughtered him. After stabbing the boy...
View Article‘Dexter’ Murderer Goes To Angola
Yesterday in my town was the sentencing hearing for Trevor Reese, a teenager who murdered a little boy by slashing his neck so deeply it nearly decapitated him. A friend of mine was present in the...
View ArticleBoy, 8, Blows Old Woman’s Head Off
Lord, have mercy: The 8-year-old boy suspected of fatally shooting his caregiver Thursday afternoon is believed to have been playing a version of the video game “Grand Theft Auto” minutes before he got...
View Article‘Wayne, I Accept Your Curse. I’m The Dad.’
A harrowing account of the sentencing hearing of Trevor Reese, 20, who slashed the throat of eight-year-old Jackson Attuso. Reese was sentenced last week to life in the Louisiana State Prison at...
View ArticleThe Remorse of Kalashnikov
A reader sends this: The inventor of the Kalashnikov assault rifle apparently wrote to the head of the Russian Orthodox Church before he died expressing fears he was morally responsible for the people...
View ArticleWhen Killing Children Is OK By Europeans
Belgium has now legalized euthanasia for children. All that remains is for the king to sign the bill, as he is expected to do. Excerpt: “The law says adolescents cannot make important decisions on...
View ArticleWhiteness, Sex, And Envy
Jeff Yang considers the repulsive “manifesto” left behind by Elliot Rodger, the Isla Vista mass murderer. He says Rodger’s rage against women (for denying him the sex he thought he was entitled to) and...
View ArticleWhen ISIS Ran the American South
I’ve been trying to figure out what to say about this ridiculous controversy the president sparked with his facile Crusades remarks the other day, and the overreaction by partisans of the Left and the...
View ArticleA Prosecutor Repents
[UPDATE: I removed the video, which played automatically, annoying the world. — RD] In Louisiana, a criminal prosecutor who secured a death sentence 30 years ago for a man who was recently exonerated...
View Article#PrayForCharleston
Lord, have mercy!: Sylvia Johnson, one of the Rev. Clementa Pinckney’s cousins, said in an interview with NBC that she had spoken with one of the survivors of the shooting, who gave her this account....
View Article‘There’s Nothing But Love’
I have been struggling to know what to say about the Charleston massacre. It is such an evil deed that words seem to be an inadequate response. One of you readers reminded us yesterday that not too...
View ArticlePro-Choice Taunters’ Deadly Logic
Erick Erickson nails it, and nails it hard. He says that the Planned Parenthood shooter was neither a churchgoer not a pro-life activist, but a violent crackpot who lived in a trailer in a field: But...
View ArticleSorry, Baig Family! Love Wins Again
Albert Buchatskyy/Shutterstock California, man: A 57-year-old convicted killer serving a life sentence in California became the first U.S. inmate to receive state-funded sex-reassignment surgery, the...
View Article