It’s all over the blogosphere. Look at memeorandum’s top articles, and you’ll see they’re all about Sarah Palin’s video defense of herself in which she calls the attacks blaming her for the Giffords shootings a “blood libel.” Even some on … Continue reading →
Running into it, not away from it. Also, “Everybody has a mother who’s going to cry tonight.” [NOTE: In line with Zamudio’s prediction about crying mothers, a neighbor of Loughton’s parents is quoted as saying that “Jared Loughner’s mother has … Continue reading →
I’ve got a new article up at PJ entitled, “Politics and the schizophrenic’s language: do mere words have the power to ignite acts such as Saturday’s shooting?” Comment here, comment there, comment wherever you wish.
Continue reading →Sometimes when murders happen, the neighbors and people in the community who knew the perpetrator beforehand say he’d just been a quiet, nondescript person who’d always minded his own business. Not so Jared Loughner. He was telegraphing signs of distress, … Continue reading →
Giffords’ intern, 20-year-old Daniel Hernandez, rushed to give her aid right after the shooting and may have saved her life by elevating her head and keeping her from choking on her own blood. In the understated manner typical of most … Continue reading →
We all know what members of the Secret Service do: they protect the President and First Family from attack. But we don’t often think about the details of what that actually involves. Here’s a very matter-of-fact narrative from Clint Hill, … Continue reading →
In 2002, Ingrid Betancourt was running for Colombia’s presidency when she was kidnapped by leftist FARC guerillas and held in difficult captivity for six years along with fourteen other hostages. The group was freed by Colombian soldiers in the summer … Continue reading →
Arthur Koestler had his flaws, including a long devotion to Socialism. But, like his good friend Orwell (who shared that trait), he was a fierce opponent of Communism Soviet-style, having almost been burned in its fierce annihilative furnace early on. … Continue reading →
…but they grind exceedingly fine. [NOTE: See this for a previous post of mine on the subject.]
Continue reading →Joran van der Sloot, the man who almost certainly killed Natalee Holloway in Aruba in 2005, has confessed to murdering another young woman in Peru. Thus, justice of a sort will finally come—unfortunately, too late to save his latest victim, … Continue reading →
Yesterday John Patick Bedell walked up to the Pentagon and shot two officers there before being killed himself. Bedell hated George Bush and was a 9/11-truther. And yet Peter Grier of the Christian Science Monitor calls him he was a … Continue reading →
Why was Amy Bishop not apprehended and incarcerated long ago? Or, at the very least, forced to have an encounter with the mental health system? If this report is true (and I’d like to see a link to the additional … Continue reading →