When I was a child I’d periodically become wildly enthusiastic about something I had read or some music I’d heard, and I’d run to show my parents. “Yes dear, that’s nice,” they’d say absent-mindedly, backing out of the room. I … Continue reading →
The officer who stopped Michael Brown did not do so because he was a suspect in the convenience story robbery, but became suspicious during the course of the exchange with Brown: [Ferguson Police Chief] Jackson said the officer was aware … Continue reading →
Rick Perry becomes the latest in a long line of Republicans who have been the target of malicious prosecution for political reasons: Scott Walker, Tom DeLay, Ted Stevens. He won’t be the last. It is no accident whatsoever that it … Continue reading →
Take a look at this excerpt from a piece by Beutler in TNR about the racial situation in Ferguson, Missouri [emphasis mine]: You’ve probably seen the statistics by now. Ferguson is about two-thirds black. It’s police force is nearly 100 … Continue reading →
…that ISIS is looking to cross our unsecured southern border? And that it will easily succeed?
Continue reading →I keep hearing that Obama has checked out and is no longer interested in being president. But was he ever interested in the work of being president? I don’t think so. From the very start, what interested him was giving … Continue reading →
The Ferguson police have released this video of a convenience store robbery in which Michael Brown was suspected to have been the perpetrator. It occurred shortly before the fatal shooting. Dorian Johnson, the young man who was with Brown when … Continue reading →
Robin Williams’s widow has announced that he had recently been diagnosed as having Parkinson’s, although the disease was in its early stages. Parkinson’s is a nasty progressive illness with many many manifestations. It can be treated, but it can’t be … Continue reading →
Maliki’s decision to step aside paves the way for the ascent of Haider al-Abadi, the U.S.-favored candidate attempting to form a new government… In a statement earlier Thursday from Martha’s Vineyard, where he is on vacation, Obama said he spoke … Continue reading →
The suicide of Robin Williams has started a lengthy discussion of depression, with those who’ve suffered from it trying to describe its depths, and why depression could drive a man like Williams to do what he did. Depression is an … Continue reading →
I grew up in an area of New York that wasn’t especially high-crime, and my dealings with police tended to be limited to traffic stops. And yet I feared them because they had the power and I did not. And … Continue reading →
I already have extremely high regard for the Marines and special forces. But if this report is true, my regard for them goes up a slight notch, if such a thing be possible: Their mission: Find a way to get … Continue reading →