The American penitentiary system was invented to replace punishment with “cure.” Prisons were built around the noble ideas of rehabilitation. In society, at least in liberal society, we’re supposed to be above punishment, as if punishment were somehow beneath us
The fact that prisons proved both inhumane and miserably ineffective did little to deter the utopian enthusiasm of those reformers who wished to abolish punishment
Incarceration, for adults as well as children, does little but make people more criminal. Alas, so successful were the “progressive” reformers of the past two centuries that today we don’t have a system designed for punishment
I said I was going to expose this story and didn't care if it was Republicans doing it
Rod Blagojevich went to jail for selling Obama's Senate seat
Ricketts sold Sasse's Senate seat to himself
Let me explain
Nebraska Governor Jim Pillen announced on Thursday the appointment of his predecessor, Pete Ricketts, to the US Senate, filling a vacant seat left by former Senator Ben Sasse
On Friday it was revealed that the Biden administration failed to pay numerous National Guard troops their final year end pay on time during the week of Christmas
The failure came after approving a contoversial additional $45 billion aid package to Ukraine, and the House passing a $1.7 trillion spending plan
Good morning, Christmas was never pagan. It's always been Christian. Stop getting your history from 2005-era Facebook memes. Cringe lol
It is traditional that the media be filled with pseudo historical nonsense about the pagan elements of Christmas at this time of year
the media loves giving dubious background stories on traditions and festivals. At Christmas, it fills column inches or provides clickable online copy in what is usually a quiet news period