I’m a product of New York City’s gifted and talented program in the public schools, although I think it was called something slightly different back then (if memory serves, it was “intellectually gifted children” or “IGC”; forget the “talented”). Not … Continue reading →
This is something I previously had suspected as a possibility – that by the time police got to the scene at Uvalde and entered the school building, and then got to the barricaded classroom, they thought the shooting of children … Continue reading →
From that same Daily Mail article I wrote about in the post below this one – the article contains a lot of extra information, including the following about Ramos’ parents’ police records: Ramos is the son of Reyes and Salvador … Continue reading →
Here’s the story as it now stands. I caution everyone to ask questions, though, before jumping to conclusions. For example: Video emerging online from Tuesday’s schoolchildren massacre in Uvalde, Texas shows local police more concerned with stopping parents than stopping … Continue reading →
When I heard that an Iraqi man living in the US had recently been arrested for plotting to assassinate George W. Bush, my first thought was possible entrapment. It didn’t used to be that way for me. Although I often … Continue reading →
On the judicial nominee front: Nusrat Choudhury, Biden’s pick for a New York City federal trial court, allegedly claimed during a 2015 panel that police shoot unarmed black people every day in the United States. Choudhury defended the statement in … Continue reading →
During the Trump administration, he was often blocked by federal judges issuing national injunctions on things he was attempting to do. Now the shoe is on the other foot: A Louisiana federal judge blocked the Biden administration on Friday from … Continue reading →
Democrats in New York are outraged because their efforts to gerrymander themselves between three and four extra Democratic seats in the House of Representatives have backfired. But back in 2014, NY state had actually amended the NY state constitution and … Continue reading →
A lot of people are writing about this Andrew C. McCarthy article in which he reports the following: Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, who will replace Justice Stephen Breyer on the Supreme Court after the current term ends in a few … Continue reading →
I was walking in a certain town in New England this past Saturday and I happened on a pro-abortion demonstration. I heard it long before I saw it. There was a lot of yelling and honking, and a crowd composed … Continue reading →
In a recent thread, commenter “Rufus T. Firefly” has made an interesting point about abortion: …[A]t its core it’s not a legal or political issue. I hate that our society has turned it into a political war with slogans, chants … Continue reading →
First of all, it’s illegal – although the DOJ hasn’t seemed to mind so far, since they probably think it serves the purposes of this administration. But even Democrats don’t approve of protesting at justices’ homes. The poll was taken … Continue reading →