Tag Archives: murder

Je Suis Charlie

While I have not written, yet, about this particular topic, the slaying of 12 people by Islamic jihadists in the Paris office of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo today for expressing their ideas is something that needs responses, no matter how small the voice is. I am not a cartoonist able to respond to this attack as other have here, read more

What Unregulated Capitalism?

My Facebook feed today had a link to an article from last year by The Objective Standard on homicide statistics. The article looked at claims that if the murder rate of blacks was the same as that for whites, then the United States would have a very low murder rate which would rank 147th in the world. After dissecting the numbers the article’s author pointed out the cultural causes for the disparity in murder rates.

The first comment to the article made a claim that in the 1960s many people read more