KILLING THE DEATH PENALTY

New Jersey might become the first state to abolish the death penalty since capital punishment was reinstated 31 years ago.

A special commission appointed by the Legislature a couple of years ago analyzed the benefits of the move. The panel determined that the death penalty costs taxpayers more than paying to incarcerate prisoners for life (probably because New Jersey hasn't executed anyone since 1963).

It also concluded that the death penalty doesn't deter people from committing murders (I beg to differ).

This commission must have its head up its study. And, I wonder just how much it cost taxpayers.

WE ARE SIAMESE IF YOU PLEASE

New Jersey educators want to add Chinese as a world language to their school's curriculum.

They deduce that since 67 percent of students already speak Spanish, why not give them an opportunity, at taxpayers' expense, to become trilingual?

Are they smoking crack?


Teaching kids to speak Chinese before they can speak English proficiently shouldn't happen until pigs can fly.

Then again, Pig Latin as a first language sounds kind of "iftyna."


P.S. Sorry, I have no pictures of pigs, but Canada geese should do the trick. They're almost as dirty, and they already can fly.