Don’t shed a tear for the (literally) weeping, wailing executives of the now-defunded and soon-to-shut-down U.S. Corporation for Public Broadcasting, writes Beth Brelje in The Federalist. The outfit that shoved the leftist view on every issue down the throats of credulous viewers, writes Brelje, was paying its executives exorbitant amounts – at times upwards of US$500,000 per year – enough to fund entire radio stations. Hmmm, where have we heard that before?
Inhuman for Criminals, the Luck of the Draw for You and Me
The EU may have banished the “‘inhuman,’ ‘degrading,’ and ‘irreversible’” death penalty for criminals, writes Frank Haviland in The European Conservative – but its member states’ soft-on-crime, easy-on-illegal-immigrants policies are making violent death an increasingly common fate for innocent Europeans. In a world gripped by barbarian forces, writes Haviland, it’s time for Great Britain to hold a national referendum on restoring an older form of justice.
