Back from a wonderful week on Mission Bay in San Diego with family and friends, and almost no news contact. But now it’s back to work.
We live in a seriously Kafkaesque world where reasonable and rational expectations are dashed by dissonant realities. A few cases in point.
The FBI is investigating a human smuggling operation that is designed to bring Iraqis and other Middle Easterners across our southern border (that would be the Mexican border) at $20,000-25,000 a pop.
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Human Rights Watch reports that the separation of families caused by the imprisonment of felons in federal institutions for lengthy sentences, including life without parole, creates an undue, unfair and harsh financial and emotional strain on families. The human rights group is calling for a review of sentencing guidelines and urges that judges should consider the impact of long prison sentences on the extended families of those convicted.