The NYT Should Look A Little Harder.

The NYT claims there are few dumb regulations:
http://mobile.nytimes.com/article?a=732909&f=77

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Best Thing I Have Read So Far This Week.

"Oprah Winfrey says she turned to comfort food when "Bride of Chucky" beat "Beloved" in its opening weekend."
http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/movies/2011/01/13/2011-01-13_oprah_winfrey_beloved_box_office_failure_made_me_eat_30_pounds_of_mac_and_cheese.html

The RNC: Does it still matter?

The Republican National Committee will elect a new Chairman this week. But does it matter? The tea party insurgents certainly underminded the party establishment this fall.

And now news is starting to come through the grape vine that at least one conservative PAC is preparing to have their own semi-public selection process to determine whom to support in the 2012 POTUS primaries. This would essentially be an independent primary within the GOP primaries. It would defintely further undermind the RNC.

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So From What I Am Hearing...

...from the Left lately, the attackers in this video must be violent, extreme Tea Party types. Because, as we all know, they are the ones who commit violent crimes in this country: http://www.myfoxdc.com/dpp/news/local/video-shows-attack-on-metro-rider-010611

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New York Times Watch.

Of course a one-term Congressman with no real accomplishments is deserving of a departing article dedicated to him in “America’s finest newspaper:”

He Entered Congress Swinging, and Exits That Way
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/03/us/politics/03grayson.html?_r=1&ref=politics

Single Moms And Crime In The Nation's Capital.

From The Washington Examiner:

The section of D.C. across the Anacostia River is home to the biggest percentage of single-parent households, with 65 percent of family households run by women and 9 percent run by men. The remaining one-quarter of the roughly 32,000 family households are run by married couples, according to the Census Bureau's American Community Survey. http://washingtonexaminer.com/local/dc/2010/12/dc-home-most-single-parent-households#ixzz19Q5qNtxX

The "area across the Anacostia River" is the 6th and 7th Police Districts in DC. Look at the homicide rate in those areas compared to the rest of the city:

2009:
7th District: 42
6th District: 33
Citywide: 143
http://mpdc.dc.gov/mpdc/cwp/view,a,1239,q,543315.asp

So that area was the scene for over half of the city's murders despite having well less than half of the city's population. Where were the other half committed?

Other areas in which more than half of families are run by single parents include the remainder of Southeast D.C. and most of Northeast D.C.
http://washingtonexaminer.com/local/dc/2010/12/dc-home-most-single-parent-households#ixzz19QAXSSi6

Those areas are the 1st, 4th and 5th Police Districts. Let us look at their homicide rates:

2009:
1st District: 9
4th District: 17
5th District: 25
http://mpdc.dc.gov/mpdc/cwp/view,a,1239,q,545926,mpdcNav_GID,1538.asp

All together the homicide totals for the 1st, 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th Police Districts for 2009 were 126.

126 of the 143 total were committed in the land of the single mom.

The other two areas, (which according to the Washington Examiner article do not have a majority single-parent households) only saw 17 of the 143 total murders.


Off-topic but "of-note:"

Notably, the 3rd District is "Downtown DC" which is not very residential and so it can likely be assumed that a substantial number of the murders there were committed by "non-residents."

The 2nd District contains a lot of the yuppies and gentrification that people like DC Mayor-Elect Vince Gray love to vilify. No murders were committed in the 2nd District in 2009. None.

Heard It Through The GRAPEVINE:

Rep. Mike Pence has officially begun shopping around and making offers to consulting firms and possibly staff for a run at higher office in 2012.

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