Just One Thing
Peggy Noonan's latest piece is a brilliant take on why crime feels scarier now even if actual levels of crime are lower than they were in the 1990s. GREAT insights.
I hope this "free link" works...https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-crime-scarier-policing-uvalde-elementary-highland-park-shootings-killed-11657228617?st=h0yhsw6o67vlqsj&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Several "Early to mid-teens", both boys and girls, killed a 73-year old man for no reason other than apparent sport. https://abcnews.go.com/US/minors-surrender-police-connection-beating-death-73-year/story?id=86662773
This is in part of American culture: https://nypost.com/2022/07/12/video-shows-child-hit-and-swear-at-cop-in-minnesota/ (Video below)
This writer calls the raising of these children "a social experiment gone bad." It's hard to disagree. Sheila Qualls: Grooming children for a life of crime - Alpha News
Today's Guests
Few industries were impacted as much by COVID as travel-related stuff including hotels which are now struggling mightily to find workers (even though you pretty much never get your room cleaned and bed made anymore). We'll talk with Jenn Clark Fugolo, VP of Advancement for the AHLA Foundation. That’s the charitable arm of the American Hotel & Lodging Assn. By the way, I recently saw data that in Denver alone the number of open jobs in hotels was 2,180 and in hospitality overall was 7,180. Again, that's just Denver.
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Peggy Little is a senior litigator at NCLA (the New Civil Liberties Alliance). We're going to talk about a case that will be heard by the Supreme Court called SEC v. Michelle Cochran. This may seem like a super-nerdy legal topic but the question of whether "administrative law judges" are constitutional is a HUGE question when it comes to the ability of Americans to be in a fair fight against giant federal prosecutors that too often act as judge, jury and (figurative) executioner of things that sometimes aren't even actual laws but just rules they made up.
Other Stuff
Today's Videos
A fine line between brave and stupid, but at least Mr. Smith is still alive. I wish the others weren't as lucky but it appears they got away.
In another neighborhood...watch this and bemoan the inevitable fate of some American children who have been utterly failed by their parents and the politicians who incentivized their parents to become and raise worthless anti-society thugs, although that's really unfair to worthless people. (To be exceedingly clear: My statements do not revolve around race although statistically one race has a bigger problem of this sort than other races in America do, and that comes back largely to politicians....see the article by Sheila Qualls linked in "Just One Thing" above.)