Monthly Archive: September 2024

A federal District Judge has ordered the state of Indiana to provide sex reassignment surgery for a convicted murderer.  Matt Delaney of the Washington Times reports that District Judge Richard Young’s ruling in a lawsuit by the American  Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) requires state taxpayers to pay for the surgery, even though Indiana law forbids it.  The suit was brought on behalf of the former Jonathan Richardson, who now calls himself Autumn Cordellione.  Although Cordellione claims he identified as a female when he was six-years-old, he was married to a woman in 2001 when he strangled his 11-month-old stepdaughter to death while his wife was at work.  Although he was sentenced to 55 years in prison for the murder, he will be eligible for parole in 2027.

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President Biden issued a statement yesterday to take credit for the widely reported FBI data for 2023 showing a significant decline in crime.  The New York Times noted that “The latest data is consistent with earlier preliminary reports from the F.B.I., and with research from other organizations and criminologists, all showing continuing declines in most crime, including murder.” If this is true, why doesn’t the public believe it. As the Times notes: “a Gallup poll last year found that 77 percent of Americans believed crime was rising, even though it was actually falling.” Perhaps the FBI data does not accurately reflect what’s actually happening in the real world that most Americans are living in.

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The answer is yes if you believe a story by Matalie Neysa Alund in USA Today.  The headline reads “Missouri set to execute `loving father’ whose DNA wasn’t on murder weapon, attorneys say.”  Habitual felon Marcellus Williams will be executed tomorrow barring a last minute stay. He was convicted of killing 42-year-old Felicia Gayle on August 11, 1998, while burglarizing her home. Her husband discovered her body, which had been stabbed 43 times. A 2003 Missouri Supreme Court decision describes a random and brutal killing.  Update:  Williams was executed without incident Tuesday.

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While his Department of Corrections & Rehabilitation is accelerating the early release of serious and violent criminals in prison, Governor Gavin Newsom is pretending to get tough on thieves. Evan Simon of the California Globe reports that last Thursday Newsom signed a bill that would increase the sentences of some thieves. The bill, AB 1960 by Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas (D-Hollister) would add a one-year enhancement to the jail sentence of someone convicted of stealing or damaging property worth $50,000.  Stealing $200,000 would add two years to the jail sentence. The same enhancements would be added to the punishment of someone who receives or resells $50,000 or $200,000 worth of stolen property. With the possible exception of jewelry stores, this law will have zero impact on the hundreds of smash-and-grab thieves terrorizing markets, drug and department stores.   It does nothing to deter a thief who steals under $950 worth of goods from six different stores in one week. Under Proposition 47, a misleading initiative adopted in 2014, those thefts are misdemeanors and the habitual thief gets no punishment.

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is the national public health agency of the United States. It is a federal agency under the Department of Health and Human Services, and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. Considering how badly the CDC handled the Covid 19 outbreak, one would think that the agency would focus on cleaning up its act and doing a more credible job of identifying diseases and helping doctors treat them. Unfortunately, like most other large federal agencies, the CDC is too busy pushing a progressive political agenda including issues that have nothing to do with diseases and public health. In a recent piece in Liberty Unyielding attorney Hans Bader lays out the CDC’s promotion of the progressive anti-incarceration narrative which has helped propel New York City, Chicago, San Francisco, and most of America’s other large cities into crime-ridden jungles.

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