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• Jerry Brown Says to the Feds, Back Off Thu Jan 10
  Debra J. Saunders
  "It is now time to return the control of our prison system to California," Gov. Jerry Brown declared at a news conference Tuesday morning. ... more
• Barack the Unmerciful: Obama's Amazingly Stingy Clemency Record Wed Jan 9
  Jacob Sullum
  Will Barack Obama go down in history as our least merciful president? With less than two weeks to go in his first term, this reputedly progressive and enlightened man has a strong shot at winning that dubious distinction. ... more
• When Will Obama Reform Presidential Pardons? Sun May 27
  Debra J. Saunders
  As a candidate for president in 2008, Barack Obama pledged to "immediately" review federal mandatory minimum sentences "to see where we can be smarter on crime and reduce the ineffective warehousing of nonviolent drug offenders." ... more
• Documentary ‘The War on Kids’ compares U.S. public schools to prison system Thu May 3
  Townhall.com Staff
• Redemption Thu May 3
  Paul Greenberg
  Charles Colson died the other day at 80, a respected and even revered evangelist in the mold of Billy Graham. ... more
• The 'New' Charles Colson Tue Apr 24
  Cal Thomas
  After Richard Nixon lost the 1960 presidential election to John F. Kennedy and the California governor's race two years later (when he uttered the immortal line to the media, "You don't have Nixon to kick around anymore") the former vice president knew he must reinvent himself to run for president again in 1968. ... more
• Five Myths of the 'Racist' Criminal Justice System Thu Apr 19
  Larry Elder
  Calling America's criminal justice system "racist" is not confined to "civil rights leaders" like the Revs. Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton. Then-Sen. Barack Obama, during the 2008 presidential campaign, said it, too. Blacks and whites, said Obama, "are arrested at very different rates, are convicted at very different rates (and) receive very different sentences ... for the same crime." ... more
• If You're Ever Murdered, Here's an Idea Tue Feb 21
  Dennis Prager
  I'd like to offer a simple proposal that, if enacted, could generate a great deal of a most precious resource: moral clarity. It concerns the death penalty. ... more

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