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Unfortunately reality, and your reality are divergent. The power of UTC is that it injected our shared humanity into the debate. It made it difficult for decent people to look away.

Read one book the list I posted. It costs you nothing and might allow you to reconnect with what it means to be human.

Commented: Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 @ 9:26 am By: Big Bob

On results in criminal cases, the prosecution matters as much as the defense. Targeting of certain groups, like the political right targeted by leftwing prosecutors, such as Soros prosecutors, has a lot to do with outcomes as well. In the case of Alvin Bragg. the Manhattan prosecutor bought and paid for by George Soros, he reduces the felonies of a majority of real criminals to misdemeanors or just dismisses them, but for a top GOP political target like Trump, he does just the opposite, takes what at best are two misdemeanors on which the statute of limitations has run and elevates them to 34 "felonies".

The most inexperienced public defender would have a much easier time getting a good result for his client in front of a politically corrupt Soros prosecutor like Bragg than the most highly paid attorneys representing his political target. The data strongly supports that argument.

And the elephant in the room is the judge. A crimimal always has a hard time in front of what people call a "hanging judge" but that is a rare breed in big cities. On the other hand a political defendant is in for a world of hurt when the judge is an extreme political partisan of the opposing side like Juan Merchan.

Commented: Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 @ 8:01 am By: Conservative Voter

Although 1984 is a great book, it's not the only book.

Commented: Monday, May 6th, 2024 @ 8:56 pm By: Big Bob

If Lincoln wanted to see "who made the big war" in 1862, he should have looked in a mirror. After Lincoln's election, there were special committees set up in both the House and Senate to try to negotiate a compromise between North and South before things got out of hand. A third committee was set up for the same purpose by a group of states, both north and south. There were lots of politicians on both sides who wanted to find a formula to preserve the union. In the Senate, the northern faction of the committee was headed by Senator Seward of New York, a Republican who was later Lincoln's Secretary of State and the southern faction by Senator Jefferson Davis of Mississippi. Both were willing to negotiate and wanted to find a formula to save the union. Seward felt he needed the blessing of his party's president elect, Lincoln, but Lincoln refused to engage. Seward even dispatched a New York newspaper editor named Weed, who was a personal friend of Lincoln, to Illinois to plead with Lincoln to engage with the committee, but Lincoln still refused. With Lincoln refusing to participate in any way, the northern Republican elements of these committees felt they did not have the authorizations to go forward, and the effort collapsed. All due to Lincoln. The War Between the States was, indeed, Lincoln's war.

Commented: Monday, May 6th, 2024 @ 10:27 pm By: John Steed

The left is trying to cancel our history because they are following the playbook of Chairman Mao's disastrous Cultural Revolution. Its what totalitarians do.

In his novel "1984", George Orwell wrote of the actions to stamp out history from that novel's tyrant "Big Brother":
"Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And that process is continuing day be day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except the endless present in which the party is always right."

Those on the far left who follow the path of Chairman Mao and of "Big Brother" are totalitarians and their agenda needs to be totally rejected.

Commented: Monday, May 6th, 2024 @ 6:51 pm By: Conservative Voter

There is something wrong with belonging or aligning yourself with Hamas. They are a terrorist organization. When do we draw the line on allowing terrorists to openly proselyte in America? Are we forgetting October 7th?

Commented: Monday, May 6th, 2024 @ 4:11 pm By: Buzz Cayton

I stand by my post.
Not my fault Trumps an idiot.

Commented: Monday, May 6th, 2024 @ 3:08 pm By: Big Bob

Poor people got their right to a court appointed taxpayer paid lawyer in Gideon vs. Wainright decades ago, so Bob's argument has been bogus for a long time. It is part of the "rights" read to criminal defendants when they are arrested. Indeed, with the Soros DA's out there, it appears that poor defendants are better off than rich ones in the way those prosecutors handle cases. Alvin Bragg is s Soros DA and so is Fani Willis.

Commented: Monday, May 6th, 2024 @ 3:07 pm By: Steven P. Rader

According to reports today, Biden is delaying arms shipments to Israel to put political pressure on Israel for the same objective as the pro-Hamas college riots. Biden also pressured Israel to reopen a border crossing from Gaza to Egypt, and then Israel knuckled under to Biden's demand, Hamas fired rockets at the Israeli soldiers at that border post, killing three of them.

In his mad rush after the Muslim vote, it looks like Biden is throwing away the Jewish vote. Playing politics for the Hamas terrorists is likely to bite Biden in the ass on election day.

Commented: Monday, May 6th, 2024 @ 1:05 pm By: Conservative Voter

Not only is Harriet Beecher Stowe a white woman, but her book is a novel, a work of fiction that was written with a political agenda.

If you want to read an anti-slavery factual perspective from an eyewitness (which Stowe was not), a far better source is the chapter on slavery in Charles Dickens book on his travels in the US. Although a renowned novelist himself, that book of Dickens is non-faction based on his personal observations, and he highly critizes both slavery and slave owners.

It is also interesting that during the War Between the States, Dickens never bought the north's narrative about fighting to abolish slavery, which claim he described as "specious humbug designed to conceal the north's desire for economic control of the wouthern states."

Commented: Monday, May 6th, 2024 @ 12:44 pm By: John Steed

As usual, you miss the point.
Inserting yourself in a conversation without following the context is what you do best.

HBS is not a black author but wrote a very good book on the subject at hand.

Commented: Monday, May 6th, 2024 @ 12:15 pm By: Big Bob

The two tier justice system is not an "excuse". It is a mortal danger to our democratic basis of our Constitutinal republic. Having practiced criminal law myself for decades, it appalls me to watch the shameful abuse of our justice system for political purposes.

Commented: Monday, May 6th, 2024 @ 9:51 am By: Steven P. Rader