The state of clemency in Missouri is in total disarray. Recently, the Kansas City Star reported that Governor Mike Parson is sitting on a backlog of over 3,500 petitions for clemency from Missouri’s prison population. Since taking office in May of 2018, Parson has acted on just one of these cases. But Parson does not…
On Monday, November 4, 2019, over 400 Oklahoma prisoners were set free because their sentences were commuted. That was the largest single-day mass commutation of prisoners in state history, and the Oklahoma governor calls it the largest in the nation. But this story doesn’t end with the state. It’s just the beginning. Oklahoma has one…
“Somebody f*cking do something” screamed Kacey Musgraves at Lollapalooza music festival. Gun control is fashionable at the moment. But in reality, it is just another government program that will grow bureaucracy and diminish individual liberty. The same knee-jerk mob reaction that pleads for the government to “f*cking do something” about gun control is the same…