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Who will cast the first stone?
The Mex Files | 22 hours ago
Don Henry Ford Jr., “The Unrepentant Cowboy“, in his own words, a “former dope smuggler, convict, bronc rider, dope-addict and general no-good,” pens a moving tribute to the forgotten man in the “drug war” (The read more
Unintended consequences
The Mex Files | August 18th 2008
According to Antonio Payan, a political science professor at the University of Texas in El Paso, 3000 mostly middle-class families have moved from Juarez to El Paso over the last year. Payan is indirectly quoted by AFP (or the editors at AFP assume read more
Challenge: Anger Management, please!
Teens On Parenting | August 15th 2008 by Zen
I'm in JROTC, which is a military science course. Last year, I had a leadership position (cadet First Sergeant) that put me in charge of around thirty people. Though I don't dare say that my job was anywhere as difficult as parenting, there's somethi read more
Crime-ridden Arkansas town expands 24-hour curfew
Political Party Poop | August 14th 2008
You can read the story here if you care Ok this is how my mind works. I have seen this story on various sites, but this morning I saw it on several “black” websites so all I had to do was check out the demographics of the town to get to the r read more
Meet the new cops, same as the old cops?
The Mex Files | August 13th 2008
The News (Mexico CIty): The Monday announcement to disband Mexico City’s judicial police force and implement 20 new measures to improve security and policing was met with approval from the federal government, but human rights activists and anal read more
Blog Watch: Time To Clean Out The Gene Pool
Political Party Poop | August 13th 2008
This is a great article found on Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler Read this heartwarming story about two goblins out to do some ad hoc wealth distribution, only to find out that if you intend to hold the element of surprise, making a Hell of a racket isn read more
Colour Conscious Justice: Towards a Colour Blind Justice System
Law is Cool | August 13th 2008 by Omar Ha-Redeye
Is the justice system blind to colour? Jim Rankin and Betsy Powell of the Toronto Star pose this question in an article that is part of the newspaper’s series on Crime and Punishment. The series explores “the state of crime and punishment in Cana read more
Nobody Writes Off The General
The Mex Files | August 11th 2008
I wouldn’t exactly call General Sergio Aponte Polito a victim of the “drug wars”. He was a popular figure in Baja California, kicking ass and winning the support of even even “an old radical surfer from the 60’s fighti read more
America Finally Getting Sick of Obama
War Of Wits | August 10th 2008
Well, it’s unanimous. For the first time since this endless election cycle started, it appears that people are finally getting sick and tired of hearing about Barack Obama. Recent news reports show that large percentages of Americans believ read more
The good ol’ days … pre-Vienna Convention
The Mex Files | August 10th 2008
I’m working on a short history of Mazatlán, and ran across an item in the 22 May 1866 New York Times on some Americans who didn’t get their consular visit and came to grief here during the French intervention. The French are generally co read more
A new weapon against drug users
TheTrenchcoat Chronicles | August 9th 2008 by Trench Reynolds
New fingerprint method can spot drugs or explosives: Researchers at Purdue University have developed a new way of fingerprinting that can detect marijuana, cocaine, and explosives just from someone’s fingerprints. Dr Demian Ifa, Prof Graham Coo read more
Crime and Punishment for Dumies
Jack King: Making of a novelist | August 6th 2008
Recent taste of the War and Peace wet my appetite for more Russian literature, so I read the Idiot and the The Raw Youth, by Dostoevsky. I’ve noticed something interesting - my hunger for the Russian masters returns during the summer - I mark t read more
A Victory for the State
The Right Opposition | August 6th 2008
A great victory for the several states yesterday as a foreign citizen was executed in this country, pursuant to U.S. and Texas state law. The execution came in spite of international attempts to meddle in the domestic law process. In... read more
Death in Texas
The Mex Files | August 5th 2008
Second update: The Supremes did not grant the say, and Medellin was executed at 21:57 Houston Time (about an hour after I wrote the “update” below). UPDATE: as of an hour ago (I’m writing this at 19:48 Mazaltan time) the U.S. Sup read more
Attention must be paid
The Mex Files | August 4th 2008
Claudia Beltrán, in Sunday’s Noroeste reports on the reporters who’ve weighed in on Sinaloa lately. She focuses on the recent Washington Post article by Manuel Roig-Franzia (whom I sent an e-mail to, suggesting he check his sources & read more
Chutzpah on the Amazon
The Mex Files | August 3rd 2008
Quotation of the week: “We can’t let little countries screw around with big companies like this—companies that have made big investments around the world.” An unnamed Chevron lobbyist, regarding the 16 billion dollar fines levied read more
Nobody like the boogeyman…
The Mex Files | August 3rd 2008
On the murder of Luis Ramirez in Shenandoah, Pennsylvania, a lot has been said. Maria Anglin wrote this in this morning’s San Antonio Express-News It’s no wonder hate crimes happen; nobody likes the boogeyman. There are those who have m read more
How not to deal with narcotics
The Mex Files | August 2nd 2008
Frontera NorSur (El Paso) has a long article on the growing narcotics CONSUMPTION problem within Mexico. I’ve never denied that consumption has increased, though I argue that the reason, ironically enough, is more border enforcement in the Un read more
What The Hell?
Queer Conservative | August 2nd 2008 by Kevin
Seriously? What the hell?2 Killed After Former Employee Opens Fire at PA WarehouseMan Arrested In Lakeside Ambush on 3 Wisconsin SwimmersMaybe hell is the keyword. read more
Brokers Gone Wild...
FX Trading Ideas.....and other Ramblings | July 31st 2008
As part of my continuing series titled "What were you thinking" comes this story from yesterday Wall Street Journal.It seems two former Credit Suisse brokers were misleading a few clients on what they were really buying for them. In one example, Mr. read more
The logic of violence — Tennessee and Mexico
The Mex Files | July 31st 2008
I’ve said it before — violence in Mexico, horrifying as it might be, is logical. Mexico Trucker On-line goes into over-drive on the unemployed trucker who shot up a church in Tennesee because it was “too liberal”: …I can read more
What’s really wrong with “Plan Mexico”
The Mex Files | July 31st 2008
Inside USA’s Avi Lewis recently sat down with Jorge Chabat, Laura Carlsen and John Gibler (on the radio broadcast) to discuss “Plan Mexico”… the transcript is available from Democracy Now! Mexican support is falling for the mi read more
Teddy Bailgame
FamousDC | July 29th 2008 by FamousDC
Not good news for the Senator from ANWR. Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska), a giant of Senate politics and a legend in Alaska, has been indicted on seven criminal charges. He was not however indicted for wearing ridiculous looking Incredible Hulk ties. read more
Note to Republicans: “Drugs are BAD!”
Political Party Poop | July 29th 2008
Found this on Wonkette, funny stuff, a drug induced Republican! Now that must have been some potent shit, no ditch weed up there in Nebraska! Damm! Pregnant Ho’s in Missouri, naked dope smoking legislative GOP types in Nebrask,a almost makes Kansa read more
Jim Adkisson is just a loser
TheTrenchcoat Chronicles | July 28th 2008 by Trench Reynolds
Hate Crime Investigation After Cops Say Church Shooting Suspect ‘Hated’ Gays, Liberals: 58-year-old Jim Adkisson is charged with first degree murder for killing two in the shooting at the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church. H read more
They’re not impressed (Plan Merida)
The Mex Files | July 28th 2008
While it’s political agenda is appalling (it is connected with an organization called “National Association of Former Border Patrol Officers,” which doesn’t seem to be a retiree’s club, as the name suggests, but an anti- read more
Illegal alien airwaves?
The Mex Files | July 27th 2008
This is the kind of thing you read about regularly: Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio is facing more accusations of racial profiling stemming from his ongoing crackdown on illegal immigrants. This time, four U.S. citizens claim they were stopped and read more
Sunday readings: 27-July-2008
The Mex Files | July 27th 2008
Mucho macho man… “brownfemipower” on “Thinking Through Machismo” (la Chola) I don’t necessarily have a problem with male posturing. I’m not sure if other cultures have the equivalent experience, but to me, male postu read more
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