Tête-à-Tête-Tête

I rail periodically against retribution as a notion of justice here on the blog. I suppose it is an artifact of my interests in religion, human nature, and criminal justice that keeps this topic always relevant to me and makes me want to dwell on it at painful lengths. I spent the last [...]

I wasn’t going to say anything about Roman Polanski. I figured no one needed my help to figure out that what he did to his victim was the utmost of deplorable. But apparently some people do need some help. Whoopi Goldberg, who up until today had as much respect from me as any Hollywood [...]

… Tough subject to talk about in a fair way. I’ll try. These thoughts will be random and disconnected, as usual.
First, please construe nothing I say as an effort to minimize the wrong-doing documented in the famous videos on the part of ACORN staffers.
I once was a libertarian on the subject of [...]

Non-players, please pardon the chess metaphor and fret not – no detailed knowledge of the game is necessary.
Imagine a chess board, set up in advance to position toward the middle of the game. One side may have a material or positional advantage in the game. Now imagine that two players, not necessarily evenly matched [...]

Since I often write in praise of the Front Porch Republic, I’m going to have to respond when they jump the tracks of reason and compare themselves to Indians whose babies are ripped from their arms at gunpoint and carried away to be re-educated into the white culture.
Ummm… Well, I responded in the comments [...]

Alan Dershowitz versus Tony Scalia and Clarence Thomas on a truly unthinkable (but thankfully minority) opinion….
Let us be clear precisely what this means. If a defendant were convicted, after a constitutionally unflawed trial, of murdering his wife, and then came to the Supreme Court with his very much alive wife at his side, [...]

Attacking mom in front of kids. IOIYWB (It’s ok if you wear blue).

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A key witness who helped put one of the West Memphis 3 behind bars in the murder of three boys, now claims police forced her to lie.
Vicki Hutcheson was in court Friday at a hearing to determine if Jesse Misskelley and Jason Baldwin will get a new trial, but did not take the stand [...]

Via Post Politics, a statement from the TN Libertarian Party on marriage:
[...] Same-sex couples face numerous federal policies of discrimination, ranging from the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy to gender-based tax penalties. The Defense of Marriage Act, passed by a Republican Congress and signed by Democrat Bill Clinton, denies federal recognition to same-sex marriages. [...]

The paranoid cynic in me has to ask, given the “Democratic” Senate’s obstructionism on closing Camp X-Ray, did Obama whisper to someone that he didn’t really want this right now? Did he twist any arms to get what he requested?