Local right-winger (one of my many winger correspondents) always copies me on stuff he sends to Glenn Beck, Rush, etc. Here’s what shows up in my in-box this morning, referencing yesterday’s shooting at Fort Hood:
Another *^&  #%$^ Muslim murders Americans and the “news” people say he might have been depressed because he was picked on […]

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Seven dead, 20 wounded, the base has been shut down.
More here.

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Via Sullivan, verrrrry interesting piece by Ryan Sager about how crime has essentially remained flat - after falling precipitously - yet we all think it’s way up:

With the exception of 2001 and 2002 (9/11 effect?), between 52% and 89% of Americans every year since 1990 have thought that crime is on the rise. That’s a […]

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Jeebus.
A U.S. Census worker found hanged from a tree near a Kentucky cemetery had the word “fed” scrawled on his chest, a law enforcement official said Wednesday, and the FBI is investigating whether he was a victim of anti-government sentiment. …
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Gilbert Acciardo, a retired Kentucky state trooper who directs an after-school program at the elementary […]

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Associated Press apparently planning to move a story on the Lancaster cameras this evening, just saw a graphic for it. We really are on the cutting edge nationally; Lancaster, ever five years behind most trends, is out in front on this one. To many’s chagrin.

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Jeebus. I had an uncle who lived in Bridgeville, where the health club shooting took place; the shooter kept a very bizarre online diary in which he detailed his plans - if it’s real.
The disturbed walk among us, perched upon the ledge, ready to jump and take others with them. It’s not an exclusively American […]

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Good call from the Rude Pundit:
Instead, think like a gun-owning white guy who thinks that the government is trying to take away his guns and that a revolution is coming  … That ain’t a fantasy person. It’s the godd*mned audience for much of the right-wing rhetoric these days. Now, think, if Gates had been armed, […]

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Almost sounds like a murder-suicide, doesn’t it?

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Will Bunch, citing the L.A. Times story on Lancaster, makes another good point on the surveillance camera issue:
Actually, Mowrer is wrong — nothing could more un-American than preventing people from watching who goes in or out his front door, provided that they are standing on a public street or sidewalk where citizens have the right to […]

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…and now I see that Olbermann has given us a “Worse” Person in the World “award” for the security cameras in the city.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqorZkUBh-8

Well, no Keith, they’re not “spying” on one another. Haven’t you ever heard of a neighborhood watch?
Ah well. The whole sort of anti-Orwell business plays well on the left, I suppose - though […]

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Saw the story in this morning’s Intell. Just wanted to quick say that there may be more to this story than the DA is letting on. Let’s just say that during my discussions with some of the people who knew him best, in their grief, they told me a few things they obviously didn’t want […]

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…was a perv.
Dunno how I missed this story. I think I wish I had continued to miss it.

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Totally missed this until I saw it mentioned in the Era’s article today - apparently the Philly Inquirer ran a piece last weekend on the rash of “Inappropriate student-teacher relationships in Lititz“:
In a town founded as a Moravian religious enclave more than 250 years ago, residents insist the cluster of teacher-student sex scandals is an anomaly […]

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Pulling out of the neighborhood yesterday, I saw the cop car. Uh-oh.

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Hm.
David Kellermann, the acting chief financial officer of mortgage giant Freddie Mac, was found dead at his home Wednesday morning in what police said was an apparent suicide.
Mary Ann Jennings, director of public information for the Fairfax County, Va., Police Department, said Kellermann was found dead in his Reston, Va., home. The 41-year-old Kellermann has […]

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Interesting. The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review - owned by Richard Mellon Scaife, conservative billionaire - seems to be the only outlet that isn’t reporting that the Pittsburgh shooter feared the Obama administration was going to try to take his guns.
I wonder why that is.

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Following that shooting up in Binghamton, NY, and I was curious to see how the local newspaper handled it on its Web site - pretty well, it seems. Clear the decks; that’s the only story on your main page. You know you’re going to be inundated with clicks, and you respond to it. Also, uploading […]

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In a world where Bill Ayers is virtually indistinguishable from the Unabomber or even Timothy McVeigh (and don’t laugh, I’ve had conversations with conservatives who say exactly that), it’s rather odd to hear Glenn Beck attempt to justify shooting sprees like the one down in Alabama as good old Americans simply “pushed to the wall” by political […]

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The day after a guy in Alabama goes nuts, killing 12 - including members of his own family - we have a Columbine in Germany, teen gunman killing 15, according to the BBC.
Resentment in the air.

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We’ve talked about the theory a lot in Lancaster. Some research up in Massachusetts that seems to indicate the approach actually does work:
The year was 2005 and Lowell was being turned into a real life crime-fighting laboratory.
Researchers, working with police, identified 34 crime hot spots. In half of them, authorities set to work - clearing trash from […]

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