Daily Archives: August 21, 2012

Virginia Police Put U.S. Marine Veteran in Mental Institution for Political Facebook Posts

August 21, 2012
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Virginia Police Put U.S. Marine Veteran in Mental Institution for Political Facebook Posts

Remember this name: Brandon Raub.Raub, a twenty-six-year-old former U.S. Marine, was arrested and sent to a mental institution for writing political comments on his Facebook page. He has remained in custody since his arrest last Thursday. He has not been charged with any crime.Raub's arrest and detainment are actions of a police state, reminiscent of the Soviet Union, Nazi Germany, Communist China, and other dictatorships around the world. The Virginia authorities have made Raub's case for him. . . .

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‘The Case for Cinematic Violence’

August 21, 2012
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‘The Case for Cinematic Violence’

American Culture editor S. T. Karnick makes "The Case for Cinematic Violence" at PJMedia today: "It seems to me, however, that those who maintain that sex and profanity in the culture should be treated more leniently than violence actually have it exactly wrong: earlier social values, which were lenient toward depictions of violence but were fairly strict about depictions of sex and the use of profanity, had it right, and the modern, more 'enlightened' approach is in fact blinkered and wrong. The reason lies precisely…

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