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The lead job in the District of Columbia’s Office of Ex-Offenders has been empty since October. So, everyone knows that 2/3 statistic about former felons returning to prison within six years. But to put that in context, there are about 60,000 ex-offenders in DC, which means that 1 out of every 10 people in the […]

Something I neglected to add in yesterday’s post is that Attorney General Michael Mukasey‘s order doesn’t just prevent individuals under deportation from having access to an attorney, it prevents those that do from reopening their case if their lawyer is incompetent and say, doesn’t show up to a hearing or misses a deadline. It’s really […]

Yesterday I wrote a post explaining that the politics of comic books are actually rather opaque in response to conservative outrage over Barack Obama appearing in an issue of Spider-Man. Today, I yield the floor to the experts at Newsarama, in particular J. Caleb Mozzocco: In the article, Joe Quesada cites the inspiration of the […]

Barack Obama joined Ronald Burris’ black nationalist crusade to become a Senator by pressuring Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to stop embarassing himself. So doing, Obama breaks his implicit promise to white people that he would be a beard for them against all accusations of racism and keep the Negroes in line, as long as […]

I feel like speculating irresponsibly about the racial motivations behind the media excitement over an English Professor who claims that rapping has its origins in an old Celtic dissing ritual, so I will: Rap is dead white folks, you don’t need to claim it posthumously through 11th hour revelations. Ferenc Szasz, a professor of history […]

I’m of the opinion that the Rocky movies represent an anthropological treasure that is quite possibly unequaled in peeling back the layers of the American id. From the appealing underdog story of Rocky I, to Rocky appropriating blackness to defeat Mr. T in Rocky III, to Rocky IV, in which Rocky showed the Soviets that […]

The Obama transition has released their internal review of contacts with Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich, conducted by Greg Craig. Among the more significant elements is the revelation that Patrick Fitzgerald‘s office interviewed the President-elect, his Adviser Valerie Jarrett, and incoming White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel. I have several thoughts about this, the first being […]

Dennis Prager is a renaissance man. A Muslim-hater who thinks that equality is a “European” value, that English speaking countries “fight evil” more than other countries, and who believes that AIDS is only a “pseudo-threat” to heterosexuals also believes that whether or not a wife wants to have sex with her husband bears little on […]

The right is salivating today over a Chicago Sun-Times report from yesterday that Rahm Emanuel didn’t feel like taking questions at his kids’ performance … which doesn’t seem that odd to me. The report also suggests that Emanuel may be the person identified in the criminal complaint as “President-elect Advisor,” (hereafter PeA) which suggest Obama’s […]

Despite the fact that the criminal complaint filed against Rod Blagojevich has a wiretap transcript where Blago calls President-Elect Barack Obama a “motherfucker” for being willing to give “nothing but appreciation” for the senate seat Blago wasn’t going to “give away for nothing,” Republicans are already attempting to argue that Obama is indirectly responsible for […]