Jailbreak Press

In a remarkable interview with USA Today Clinton made it clear why she thinks she should be the Democratic nominee for president in 2008- She’s White. Obama isn’t. She can win over “hard working White Americans.” Obama can’t. Case closed. Apparently there is no road too low for the Clinton camp as long as it leads to the nomination. (more…)

Never before has empirical data counted for so little among pundits in a nominating race. Clinton’s 9 point victory in Pennsylvania has lead the political class over the deep end with coverage about Obama’s alleged problems with the party’s White working class and his inability to win crucial states in the general. Clinton’s talking points on electability have finally sunk in with the mainstream press. (more…)

An educated Black man is still a relatively rare specimen in contemporary America. Only about 8 percent of Black males have Bachelor’s Degrees. Due to this fact Black males are often in demand in circles that value diversity. I’m sure that this sometimes has lead a few institutions to lower standards and cut Black men slack that others might not be given. Occasionally this has serious repercussions. The New York Times- a Hillary Clinton endorser- got into trouble with Jason Blair, a young, Black, charismatic reporter who talked his way to the top and turned out to be fraud. It should also be pointed out that ‘Black slack’ is more than offset by the old white boys network, and the kind of favors they do for one another pale in comparison. (more…)

Sarah Jane Olson’s arrest at an airport and re-incarceration only a few days after being released from prison is the latest example of the failure of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to shift its culture from one based on punishment and prisoner recycling to rehabilitation and community re-integration. The old punishment culture that produced the determinate sentencing regime in the late 1970’s made it next to impossible to release inmates that no longer poised a threat to public safety. By taking away discretion in sentencing from parole boards and Judges the State has left thousands of inmates languishing in prison long after they’ve been rehabilitated. (more…)