4/14/15 Today's Inquiries

I wrote a long bit about Hillary Clinton. Read it if you're interested in my thoughts.


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If you provide material and financial support to the police, you can legally hunt black people in Tulsa OK. Well, that's not exactly the deal but it is nice to know that very qualified geriatrics can write a check and then wander around with the cops as if they're real police.

Mr. Bates, an insurance broker, had been a reserve deputy since 2008. He is among scores of civilian police enthusiasts, including wealthy donors to law enforcement, some of whom effectively act as an armed adjunct to the Tulsa County Sheriff’s Department... 

Mr. Bates was the chairman of Mr. Glanz’s 2012 re-election campaign and, with a $2,500 contribution, was its biggest donor. In recent years he also donated equipment to the sheriff’s office, including automobiles and technical equipment, according to a list provided by the county clerk to radio station KRMG.

That's okay, it's not like Tulsa has a bad history of racial violence and oppression.

The Tulsa race riot of 1921 was rarely mentioned in history books, classrooms or even in private. Blacks and whites alike grew into middle age unaware of what had taken place.

Ever since the story was unearthed by historians and revealed in uncompromising detail in a state government report a decade ago — it estimated that up to 300 people were killed and more than 8,000 left homeless — the black men and women who lived through the events have watched with renewed hope as others worked for some type of justice on their behalf.

I also noticed an interesting difference in the way our police kill about 2500 people a year but only 58 got charged while Blackwater killed 30 Iraqis and the perps are getting prison time. Not that American lives are worth more than Iraqi ones but it does seem an odd juxtaposition.

Society causes racial health disparities, not genetics.

Here's what happens when you build a town around a prison.

The world of threats to the US is an illusion. Yes, but it's an illusion that makes people rich!

Promoting the image of a world full of enemies creates a “security psychosis” that misshapes our view of the world. It tempts us to interpret defensive steps taken by other countries as threatening. In extreme cases, it pushes us into wars aimed at preempting threats that do not actually exist.

Year 4 of California's drought. So what happens if they run out of water? Seriously, that's a distinct possibility since none of the solutions are short term.

The "real middle-class" is even worse off than we thought. Thank goodness for Hillary!

A handy map and article about people who work but need public assistance anyway. Hillary will fix it!

Of course, that's the big lie about families on Welfare, that they don't work.

A chart Obama care's critics have a hard time explaining.

The disadvantages of an elite education. Well, the disadvantages to everyone else, the elites still do pretty well.

Financial lessons from Game of Thrones.