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 →
I’ve been thinking about September 1, 1939 quite a bit lately. The reason is that I’ve been watching YouTube videos in which Holocaust survivors describe their experiences. I plan to write more about those videos – I have a lot … 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 →
First there was rejoicing when a United Healthcare CEO was murdered in cold blood. Then there was celebration at the murder of a young Jewish couple. Now some leftists are applauding the act of killing little children in a Catholic … Continue reading →
One can’t help but notice the similarities between Robert (“Robin”) Westman of the recent Minneapolis school killings and Audrey (“Aidan” ) Hale of the Covenant School shooting in Nashville. There are differences, of course, starting with the fact that Westman … Continue reading →
Terrible news: two Catholic school children have been murdered at a church in Minneapolis by a shooter who then turned the gun on himself. The shooter has been identified: The deranged gunman who slaughtered two children and injured at least … Continue reading →
Who would have thought? According to the union, which represents the Metropolitan Police Department’s 3,000 personnel, carjackings are down 83% since federal control was enacted, while robberies dropped 46%. Violent crime fell 22% in the seven days since federal law … Continue reading →
[Hat tip: commenter “Barry Meislin.”] I’m in complete agreement with this: … [Israel] is caught in an equation deliberately made insoluble. On October 7th, by massacring civilians and abducting hundreds of hostages, Hamas triggered a war with no bearable outcome. … Continue reading →
Isn’t that a losing game? Don’t the vast majority of US voters want to be safe from crime? And after all, didn’t Democrats learn their lesson about this during the election of 1988, when one of the reasons Dukakis lost … Continue reading →
The current Democrat line is that crime in DC is no biggee. But ABC news anchor Kyra Phillips begs to differ: “We can talk about the numbers going down, but crime is happening every single day because we’re all experiencing … Continue reading →
This was expected (I had written a previous post on the prospect). Today, Trump declared a “crime emergency” in DC and issued some EOs: Pursuant to my authority under the Constitution and laws of the United States and the District … Continue reading →