by Henry Oliner | May 7, 2017 | Crime, Guns, Philosophy, Random
from Kevin Williamson at National Review, The ‘Right’ to Health Care, Declaring a right in a scarce good is meaningless. It is a rhetorical gesture without any application to the events and conundrums of the real world. If the Dalai Lama were to lead...
by Henry Oliner | Jun 14, 2016 | Crime, Culture
For my liberal friends who do not understand why anyone needs an assault rifle or why anyone with basic common sense would object to banning them, allow me to try and explain and offer some other solutions that may actually have some effect. Fully automatic weapons...
by Henry Oliner | Oct 4, 2015 | Crime
From National Review, Theatrical shootings aren’t the problem, hysterical reactions aren’t the solution, by Kevin Williamson: These acts are dramatic because they are unusual (not as unusual as we’d prefer), extraordinary because they are unrepresentative of the...
by Henry Oliner | Jun 10, 2015 | Crime, Culture, Democrats, Economics
From Townhall Walter Williams writes The True Black Tragedy excerpts: The minimum wage law and other labor regulations have cut off the bottom rungs of the economic ladder. Put yourself in the place of an employer, and ask: If I must pay $7.25 an hour — plus...
by Henry Oliner | Jul 21, 2013 | Crime
From the Economist, The curious case of the fall in crime: There is no single cause of the decline; rather, several have coincided. Western societies are growing older, and most crimes are committed by young men. Policing has improved greatly in recent decades,...
by Henry Oliner | Jul 15, 2013 | Crime
Hate Crime legislation adds another dimension to a crime that is unwarranted. The racialization of Zimmerman’s killing of Treyvon Martin brought race as an issue. Without that issue as a wedge the political play was absent. Our obsession with race is becoming...
