Category Archives: Crime

What crime statistics don’t tell you

A lot of crime takes place in the dark for obvious reasons. That’s no reason to conduct the public debate about it under similar conditions. Yet while informed discussion is the cornerstone of self-government, … Continue reading

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Logic rocked

“B.C. rocked by 12th shooting in 16 days” says the Ottawa Citizen headline. Remind me again how gun control works.

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Hate free speech?

Dutch politician Geert Wilders faces criminal charges for being rude about a religion. As for what he said, well, you don’t need to hear it, do you? The government says he’s a bad man and should go away and not … Continue reading

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On the way to St. Ives?

Out in B.C. they’ve finally summoned up the courage to lay polygamy charges against breakaway Mormons. Now let’s see if all the right-thinking leftists who insisted that courts should not let elected legislators show disrespect to the romantic and sexual … Continue reading

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Riding the bus of life

No one ever said life would be easy. So if you haven’t been horribly murdered on a bus I say you should feel lucky.
Of course such incidents, narrowly defined, are extremely uncommon. And so far we haven’t had … Continue reading

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