The Jimmy Kimmel brouhaha has many elements to it. For example, the left sees the opportunity to frame it as the Trump administration unfairly pressuring the network to drop Kimmel because it didn’t like his remarks, and succeeding in getting … Continue reading →
So fast and furious it’s hard to keep up. But here’s some of it. (1) There’s no reason to trust a person’s enemies to represent that person’s words fairly. The Kirk-hating forces – and they are legion, it turns out … Continue reading →
The question of whether Tyler Robinson may have had accomplices is being investigated, and for good reason: The feds have widened their investigation into the assassination of Charlie Kirk to probe whether pro-trans, online groups and others connected with Tyler … Continue reading →
Note that I wrote “the suspect,” not “a suspect.” His name is Tyler Robinson, 22, and he is a Utah resident. Cracking this case demonstrates the tremendous usefulness of the ubiquitous surveillance cameras in public places, plus the technology to … Continue reading →
The modus operandi in the Kirk assassination seems somewhat similar to that of the Trump assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania. One difference is that, when an ex-president and presidential candidate speaks at a large open-air venue, the roofs are supposed … Continue reading →
When I was very young – in my early teens – I was alone, flipping around the TV dial late one night, and came across the Ingmar Bergman movie The Virgin Spring. It’s not for young people. I didn’t know … Continue reading →
The first topic I’ll be tackling in this post is: why did Decarlos Brown so seldom have to answer to the court? Here’s a handy timeline, although it certainly doesn’t answer all my questions on the subject. But some of … Continue reading →
I saw a link to an article about the murder of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska back when it happened a couple of weeks ago, but I didn’t click on it because one can’t follow everything, and I figured it was … Continue reading →
It shouldn’t be unusual for a politician to be able to admit an inconvenient truth, but it is. So praise is due to Muriel Boswer for this: Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser admitted on Wednesday that crime in the district … Continue reading →
You may recall that Tim Kaine was Hillary Clinton’s VP running mate. What is it with these Democrat VP candidates named “Tim”? Not his finest hour: This is one of the most embarrassing things I’ve ever seen from a Senator. … Continue reading →
Britain never had an especially robust tradition of free speech; certainly nothing to compare with that of the US. So it doesn’t come as a complete shock that Britain has been cracking down on what it defines as “hate speech” … Continue reading →
This is astounding (the clip I’ve selected is about three minutes long): Those instructions read something like the advice a therapist might give to deal with a verbal spat between friends or acquaintances. They would be absurd to use in … Continue reading →