The real story of the murder of Kitty Genovese
Read it. And then wonder whether the NY Times ever gets anything right.
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Literary leftists: Clarence Darrow, free will, and poetry
When I was young I came across this book of courtroom speeches by Clarence Darrow. Although I was only about eleven years old it enthralled me, and I think it was one of the reasons I ended up going to … Continue reading →
What’s the best response to marauding flash mobs?
My answer: I’m not at all sure. But I was brainstorming the question after reading about the most recent incident of flash mob violence, which occurred in a Brooklyn mall: A wild flash mob stormed and trashed a Brooklyn mall, … Continue reading →
The Arapahoe shooter…
…appears to have been acting alone and was not reported to have telegraphed any particular warning signs, mental illness, or violent tendencies. Good student, excellent debater—who had been kicked off the debating team and was seeking revenge. That certainly can’t … Continue reading →
Lessons from the Sandy Hook report
There don’t seem to be any, except that some acts of evil are inscrutable and beyond our understanding. Many of the assumptions people had about Adam Lanza and his murders are undermined by the official report, according to Jacob Sullum … Continue reading →
School discipline: affirmative inaction
Somehow I missed this story when it first came out almost a year and a half ago, but let’s take a break for a moment from Obamacare and re-visit another travesty: President Barack Obama is backing a controversial campaign by … Continue reading →
Cassandra Koestler: if the tale’s too terrifying
[NOTE: I’m planning to recycle a slightly edited version of some older posts on the World War II era that I think bear repeating. This one originally appeared about three years ago. People often think that knowledge of Nazi genocide … Continue reading →
Violent DC car chase
It’s hard to know what to make of the incident yesterday in Washington DC in which a dental hygienist from Stamford Connecticut, with her one-year-old toddler in the back of her car, seems to have had some sort of meltdown/breakdown/panic … Continue reading →
The Muslim war on Christians escalates
And even Robert Fisk notices: The Diab family can never return to Maaloula [Syria]. Not since the Christians of this beautiful and sacred town saw their Muslim neighbours leading the armed Nusrah Islamists to their homes. Georgios remembers how he … Continue reading →
Barbarians: the Islamist terrorist war on the west
A few days ago I used the term “barbarism” in reference to the Nairobi mall attack. It’s the proper one. And this is an excellent article making a similar point—by a writer who appears to be a liberal, yet. But … Continue reading →
A hero of the Nairobi mall, and some details about guns and violence
Here’s a story about the heroic actions of a guy named Abdul Haji at the Nairobi mall massacre scene. Note the photo of the two rescuers with the guns; it’s a graphic demonstration of how guns are neither good nor … Continue reading →
Barbarism in the Nairobi mall
I suggest you think long and hard before clicking on this link about the extreme barbarism with which the terrorists at the Nairobi mall treated their victims, because it contains some of the most disturbing information you will ever read. … Continue reading →