Seems the big news today is Hillary’s comment about the “ists” and “ics” of Trump’s supporters: “To just be grossly generalistic, you can put half of Trump supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables,” Clinton said. “Right? Racist, … Continue reading →
Georgetown is a Jesuit school trying to atone for an episode in its past: In an effort to acknowledge its ties to slavery, Georgetown University will offer the descendants of nearly 300 slaves preferential treatment in its admissions process. In … Continue reading →
Polls in Florida can be used to illustrate the idea that Trump is staging a huge comeback, or that he’s hopelessly behind. There’s one that says he’s doing pretty well there (2 points ahead of Hillary) and two others that … Continue reading →
Several commenters have pointed out that Trump made a speech recently that appealed to black voters. Here’s how commenter Richard Saunders describes it, for example: Trump makes the best speech of the campaign, and is the one of the first, … Continue reading →
In a pattern that’s become all too familiar around the nation, the death of a black man at the hands of a police officer has sparked riots. This time it’s in Milwaukee. Here’s a lengthy article on the subject in … Continue reading →
In Shelby Steele’s Shame: How America’s Past Sins Have Polarized Our Country, he writes: …[A]ll these victim-focused identities are premised on a belief in the characterological evil of American and the entire Western world. This broad assumption is the idea … Continue reading →
When the recent police shootings in Dallas were in the news I was singularly impressed by Dallas Police Chief David Brown. In his public statements he was consistently calm yet intense, forceful yet articulate, during a time of great stress. … Continue reading →
Prosecutors in the Freddie Gray cases have now dropped all charges against the remaining three police officers out of the six they have used as scapegoats: Prosecutors dropped all remaining charges against three Baltimore police officers accused in the arrest … Continue reading →
When they want him to be a Republican. Revisionist history, brought to you by Democratic Representative Keith Ellison: Note that George Stephanopoulos—whom I presume knows better—does not trouble himself to correct Ellison because it suits George’s purposes to let the … Continue reading →
It’s deja vu all over again in the most recent of the Freddie Gray trials: …Lt. Brian Rice was acquitted of charges involuntary manslaughter, misconduct in office and reckless endangerment… Previous Freddie Gray trials have resulted in one hung jury … Continue reading →
The killer is black separatist and former Marine Gavin Long, who murdered three police officers and wounded three more on his 29th birthday, and was in turn killed. He was also a former member of the Nation of Islam and … Continue reading →
Booker T. Washington was a towering figure. Born in slavery, he become a leader of early post-Civil War black advancement and in particular emphasized the value of education. You can read about his manifold accomplishments here, as well as the … Continue reading →