Free Republic

The Dutch elections of March 15 were billed around Europe and beyond as a battle royal between the forces of populist evil, as represented by Geert Wilders and his Freedom Party (PVV), and virtually everybody else in the motley crew of Dutch electoral politics. The victory of prime minister’s Mark Rutte’s VVD party (which lost 20% of its seats) over Wilders’s PVV (which added 25%), was greeted rapturously as a monumental defeat for populism and great triumph for Europe across the political spectrum. In fact, it was nothing of the kind, and if its coverage showed anything, it was...

Saw this series during the holidays, and am currently rewatching it. It is obviously one side of a story, and lacking the other narrative is incomplete. That said, I am somewhat, actually more than somewhat ,disturbed with the interrogations of young Mr. Dassey He has been under lock and key from the moment he was pulled from class in 2006. "What happened to her head Brendan?" Uh, he cut her hair?

Is Steven Avery guilty?