They are not law enforcement, but tax-funded gangs (hence the tattoos).

Though sadly temporary, this was a more fitting restitution for American slavery, which stole the lives of millions of Africans and destroyed their families. Too bad it was countermanded by President Johnson, a Unionist Democrat.

I should add that unions, including those for police, were part of the leftist agenda early in the 20th century.

Christians should not commit another sin in rushing to judgement, as lynch mobs do, until enough facts become available, which may never happen given the media's tendency to sensationalism and political filtering.

Sacking the officer was easy, but my guess is he had problems before that were not addressed by superiors.

"Blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed," John 20:29.

I don't participate in phone polls anymore, even "friendly" ones, as they are a waste of time given the unbounded number of questions they ask.

The current economy is close to the Socialist's dream: everyone relying on benefit checks, AKA guaranteed income. Gov't as Sugar Daddy. But the problem is, this dream must be paid for by someone, and if you tax these people enough, as Pelosi et al. want to do, there's no incentive for them to work to the extent they'll be taxable.

Gotta bash Trump if you're going to sell books to Commie nerds.

Irony: the system of chattel slavery was in part justified on the grounds that blacks were incompetent to live without supervision. We have the same situation now, with an unemployable caste dependent on welfare benefits. The main difference is, no force is required to keep them this way.

It is ironic that corporate capitalism, supposedly a conservative faction opposed to leftism, has actually fed this Progressive fantasy in its incessant promises of happiness through technology. As Edward Bernays might say, modern business sells dreams, not merely products like Jesus's family.

E.g., while a teen I was an Anglophile (too much BBC?), but got over it and now see that other cultures can be both infuriating and admirable, just as Israelites were sometimes godly, but other times wicked. When I met European young people before, I was surprised at how acquainted they were with their neighbor countries. This gave them a more balanced perspective, I think.

Originally, the Bill of Rights was binding only on the Nat'l Gov't, not the States. This was why States with established churches were not violating the Bill of Rights.

Homes built before the 1960s or so usually had garages in the back of the property, like the carriage-houses of old. Since then, they've been in front, but why, if they're going to use it as a storage-shed anyway?

These and other such colleges have the same role in America as the Normale Supérieure, which have long supplied most of France's civil servants and ruling class. They inculcate a certain mode of thinking.

Statistics are dubious enough without political incentives to falsify, which with suicides, can be familial (respect for dead, reputation, etc.). And comparative statistics are valid only if both data sets are equally reliable.