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In 2017, Larry Krasner was among the first candidates in the country to run as a “progressive prosecutor” in his successful campaign for Philadelphia district attorney. That wave swept across the country, with left-wing lawyers in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Manhattan, and elsewhere following the Krasner model: running for the chief prosecutor’s office while promising to decrease prosecutions. → Read More
When voters earn less money than they did last year, and housing is more expensive than ever, it's hard to get them to pay attention to other issues. Yet that's been Democrats' main strategy. → Read More
The Fifth Circuit took a hammer to Democrats' attempt to insulate their pet programs from the voters in our democratic republic. → Read More
The war on drugs has failed. But laws should be changed by Congress, not the president, and pardoning entire classes of offenders truly strains the purpose of the pardoning power. → Read More
'Rick and Morty' writers handled their weird obsession with incest better this season than ever before. → Read More
Most communities elect their school boards democratically. Philadelphia's is appointed by the mayor, which has created an inherent conflict of interest. → Read More
The first four episodes of 'Rick and Morty' this season seem by most accounts to have been better written than anything we’ve seen lately. → Read More
This week's 'Rick and Morty' episode explores narcissism and self-indulgence —traditionally vices, now often seen as liberation. → Read More
By digging in his heels and refusing to comply with the legislature’s legitimate exercise of its investigatory power, Krasner is now alienating even members of his own party. → Read More
For someone who hates religion, Rick does a great job of creating a system of belief that explains things about higher consciousness. → Read More
Episode one was packed with emotional comeuppance for our protagonist, driven home by the characters’ latest destruction of an entire planet. → Read More
If our economy is bad — and it is, by any number of measures — the people in office should be focused on fixing that, not convincing us that it isn’t so. → Read More
If trial courts must call on 'biologists' every time the subject of sex comes up, it is hard to see how justice can be done. → Read More
All of the convenience of electronically moving money around effortlessly comes at the cost of losing control over it. → Read More
Even before COVID or BLM riots, crime rates began to rise under leftist district attorneys who refuse to put criminals in jail. → Read More
Certain writers have left the "Rick and Morty" team, and gone with them is the no-sacred-cows approach to humor of seasons past. → Read More
They’re not all going to be home runs, you know? → Read More
Instead of wanting to preserve this planet for all humanity, ecoterrorists start talking as if humanity is the problem. → Read More
Episodes 1 and 2 include telling points in a developing theme of the season: Rick coming to terms with things. → Read More
Deeds, not words, will rebuild America's cities and restore the people’s trust. Fill the potholes and the rest will follow. → Read More