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(Un)Conventional Wisdom
April 29, 2015
Civic improvement always has its victims.
A mourner pats the hearse holding the casket of Freddie Gray outside New Shiloh Baptist Church in West Baltimore on April 27. (CNS photo/Olivia Obineme, Catholic Review)
(Un)Conventional Wisdom
April 29, 2015
Don’t hold your breath waiting for Freddie’s Law.
Death penalty opponents stood in front of the U.S. District Court in Boston on Monday.
(Un)Conventional Wisdom
April 28, 2015
It's offensive to say Bostonians oppose the death penalty because it is not cruel enough.
According to Gallup surveys, the belief that a gun makes a home safer has soared since the beginning of the century.
(Un)Conventional Wisdom
April 24, 2015
Majority say that protecting gun rights is more important than controlling gun ownership.
Newt Gingrich is calling for more government spending on medical research, but will he stick up for heroic fruit flies?
(Un)Conventional Wisdom
April 23, 2015
Newt Gingrich calls for a doubling of the budget for the National Institutes of Health.
Makeshift Memorial for marathon bombing victims at Copley Square, Boston, April 30, 2013.
(Un)Conventional Wisdom
April 22, 2015
Jurors must not use the defendant’s ethnicity or religious beliefs against him.
States shaded green get most of their revenue from individual and business income taxes. States shaded yellow get a majority of revenue from sales taxes.
(Un)Conventional Wisdom
April 20, 2015
Soak the rich, the sinful, the spendthrifts or the tourists
Keeping welfare recipients away from nail salons (a quintessential neighborhood-based small business) does nothing to foster independence.
(Un)Conventional Wisdom
April 16, 2015
Keeping welfare recipients away from nail salons does nothing to foster independence.
Because the Earned Income Tax Credit benefits only wage earners who file taxes, it does not carry the stigma of assistance programs such as food stamps (Image from irs.gov.)
(Un)Conventional Wisdom
April 15, 2015
Taxpayers should shift anger from person using food stamps at Walmart to Walmart itself
Hillary Clinton is going to meet some resistance to giving the Democrats another four years in the White House, but the polarized electorate is her friend. (Image from HillaryClinton.com.)
(Un)Conventional Wisdom
April 12, 2015
Eight years of a Democratic White House is a disadvantage, but not necessarily a fatal one