The law and the jungle

It's becoming pretty clear the immigration "reform" crowd is going to push this monstrosity through, no matter what the American people think. In fact, they will delude themselves into thinking everybody but a few cranky, conservative racists is coming around to the right way of thinking:

No, this is not really comforting:

Charles Manson was denied parole Wednesday, the 11th time since 1978 that the cult leader was ordered to continue serving life sentences for a murderous rampage in 1969.

Manson, 72, did not attend or send a representative to the proceeding before the Board of Parole Hearings at Corcoran State Prison.

The Indiana Statehouse has become the latest place to go gun-free, sort of:

Pistol-packing tourists at the Statehouse soon will have to leave their guns at home.

Lawmakers and judges, however, will be exempt from new Statehouse security restrictions that go into effect June 4.

Welcome to reality, where we must deal with things as they are, not as we wish them to be:

It's funny how a gun can in stantly change your perspec tive on things, make you wish you could rewrite history.

State Rep. Michael DeBose, a southside Cleveland Democrat, discovered this lesson the night of May 1, when he thought he was going to die. That's the night he wished he had that gun vote back.

Have we become such a big city that the terrors of daily life are too routine to report on? Of all the news operations in town, only WANE-TV bothered to carry anything on this:

A neighbor was the target of the drive-by shooting, but the bullets tore through the home of an innocent family. It happened around 4 o'clock Friday morning when the sound of gunshots woke a little girl.

The Evansville Courier & Press has an interesting editorial about capital punishment that wonders, as I have, whether relatives of the victims really get "closure" when someone is executed after two decades on death row. The editorial focus on Nicholas Harbison, accused of killing three people in a corn field, who has agreed to plead guilty in return for not facing the death penalty:

We've just come off one of the biggest nanny-state sessions of the General Assembly in recent memory (buckle up!), and the Indianapolis Star clearly wants more:

If David Leon Woods is executed on schedule Friday morning, five of his victim's children will be there to watch, since Indiana has joined the majority of death-penalty states in having "right to view" legislation:

Gene Placencia hopes to find closure by watching the man who fatally stabbed his father 23 years ago die by lethal injection early Friday.

One value of the death penalty is that it lets society say what it will not tolerate. Like this:

AUSTIN - Backers of a Senate bill to toughen punishment for child-sex offenders said they've reached a deal that would permit the death penalty for offenders who repeatedly prey on children.

Criminal geniuses of the week:

According to Indiana State Police, two people are under arrest Wednesday morning after their car broke down on I-69 north of State Road 35.

A trooper was sent to assist a stranded vehicle Tuesday after the occupants called OnStar for help. When police ran their Michigan license plate, they say the 2007 black Cadillac came back as a possible stolen vehicle out of Detroit, Michigan.