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- “If they can’t understand the English language, then, of course, they shouldn’t be citizens,” Tancredo said on Fox News. “They shouldn’t be voting. And we shouldn’t be pandering to them.”
- “Ortiz and Dejesus were committing an illegal act, but their 14th Amendment rights to due process under the law were violated when Horn murdered them with a shotgun. This is lynch mob justice. The penalty for burglary is not execution.”
- About a Psychology Today article titled Ten Politically Incorrect Truths About Human Nature. “The article goes on and on and traffics in every stereotype you can think of. It’s an apology piece for every heteronormative and racist stereotype you can ima
- “a 15-year-old girl arrested on suspicion of petty theft was illegally placed among 34 male inmates in late October. For 26 days they treated her as their plaything, raping and torturing her repeatedly.”
- Stretching to make this a trend piece: “Historical data is scarce, but those who work in adoptions say more black couples appear to be adopting white children.”(tags: via:islandgirl550 transracialadoption)
- “More than 2,500 federal inmates became eligible for early release from prison starting in March after the U.S. Sentencing Commission voted Tuesday to retroactively reduce the penalties for using and selling crack cocaine.”
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