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Patricia Jessamy & the Crime Rate
Patricia Jessamy keeps referring to the fact that crime rates are down in Baltimore and implies that this is at least in part her doing.
However, crime in general has been going down. Is the decrease in Baltimore's crime rate different from the rest of the nation? Better? Worse? Only if the Baltimore city's crime rate has gone down more than in the ( Read more... ) -
Only 10 more days to vote! (Defeat Jessamy continued)
Well, since it's Saturday, that only leaves us 7 days until the primary. The good news is that in this year you don't have to wait until the primary election day to vote. Early voting is now available and absentee voting is always an option.
Here's a place to see the debate between Patricia Jessamy and Gregg Bernstein and another to listen to the ( Read more... ) -
If I ruled the world (continued)
All or almost all web pages would have the date it was created and the date of the last update automatically added. This should definitely be the case for media articles and government pages -- basically, any page that has information on it that can become dated, information whose relevance depends on the date, or which may become invalid. -
Please Help Stop Crime in Baltimore City
On Saturday, July 24th, three days shy of his 24th birthday, a young man was dropped off at Penn Station by the bus that had brought him from visiting his sister in N.Y.C He was walking home and was on his cell phone talking with his mother. About a mile from Penn Station, and just four blocks from his apartment near the Johns Hopkins main campus ( Read more... ) -
Immigration debate
I love the actual juxtaposition of these two comments to a Leonard Pitts article made by supporters of the new Arizona law:
gwossy wrote on 05/03/2010 07:45:35 PM:
Replying to Lonnieb (05/03/2010 01:26:20 PM):
"I'm not translucently complexioned, being of Italian ancestry and all, and I wouldn't come withing two state borders of Arizona. My wife ( Read more... ) -
How much lower can those Democrats go?
Knowing that Ohio protesters against health care reform would heckle and mock him, Democrats set them up by having a man confront them by sitting down carrying a sign saying he has Parkinson's and supports health care, thus making a martyr out of him. This nefarious liberal plan was captured on video by the Columbus Dispatch.
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Where's the Moral Dilemma?
A description of the movie, "The Box," states:
A couple is presented with a moral dilemma. They must choose between one million dollars at the expense of a stranger's life or walking away with nothing.
Now, if it were "a couple whose child may die because the child needs expensive medical treatments that they can't afford ...," you might have a ( Read more... ) -
"Suborning"
sub·orn
tr.v. sub·orned, sub·orn·ing, sub·orns
- To induce (a person) to commit an unlawful or evil act.
- Law
- To induce (a person) to commit perjury.
- To procure (perjured testimony).
From the online OED:
sub•orn /s
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