Just a reminder to make The Point a frequent rest stop on your cyberspace travels. I do. Here's just a few samples from recent days to show you why it's a very valuable site.* Links to Chuck Colson's latest (and one of his most compelling) commentaries on Communist China's cruel disregard of human rights AND a detailed BreakPoint Fact Sheet listing numerous resources dealing with the 2008 Olympics in Beijing.
* Regular Point contributor Diane Singer alerted visitors to this stirring CBS news video about Atlanta's judge Marvin Arrington and his blunt, "tough love"message to the black community.
* Gina Dalfonzo's call to drop the "S" word along with a link to a rigorous NRO editorial decrying the MSM's ongoing campaign of malfeasance, misinformation, mud-slinging against the Swift Boat veterans.
* And just one more of many I could list, Kim Moreland's summary of an article published in the July/August online edition of the Atlantic.
The saddest part of this Atlantic article (profanity alert) is that it was a predictable outcome from a governmental initiative. The story goes that housing officials decided it best to tear down inner-city Section 8 housing and move residents to suburban neighborhoods in hopes of creating better living conditions for the poor. But the law of unintended consequences can now be felt in burbs across the country.
What's happened is the poor have congregated in once low-crime neighborhoods and criminals and gangs have followed them. So many suburban neighborhoods are now experiencing "an epidemic of violence.”...
