[Hat tip: commenter “Bob Wilson.”) Here’s a good example of the workings of the hierarchy of victimhood in the Woke world: Eventbrite is facing blowback for taking down an event page for women advocating on behalf of single-sex spaces on … Continue reading →
[Hat tip: Steven Hayward at Powerline.] Get a load of this BBC “reporter,” whose name is Anjana Gadgil: First she fences with words, calling armed terrorists between 16 and 18 “children” and implying that gives them some sort of dispensation … Continue reading →
Much of France is a mess right now, and there is that déjà vu feeling from memories of the US during the George Floyd summer of 2020 [comments in brackets are mine]: Paris and other French cities resemble war zones, … Continue reading →
William Blake was a unique poet and artist. I don’t think he fits into any category except “mystical visionary” and probably “some sort of genius.” Many people are aware of his poem
Continue reading →That quote in the BBC article is actually an understatement. The story is exceptionally distressing, and probably nearly 100% of readers would find it distressing. Here’s what happened: Four young children have been stabbed in a park near Lake Annecy, … Continue reading →
In case you somehow missed the story, Penny is the man who has been arrested and charged with second degree manslaughter for subduing a raving Jordan Neely on the New York subway, and whose chokehold (that word is continually used … Continue reading →
Some French Revolution history from Victor Davis Hanson: Almost everyone who originally had opposed the absolute monarchy, and, like the Americans, wished for a constitutional replacement, was eventually executed by revolutionaries who were then executed by more radical revolutionaries. The … Continue reading →
Except what they did do, which is to run away and also alert authorities. Fortunately, in the case of the BART cleaver-wielder, although the injured man was taken to the hospital his cleaver injuries were not life-threatening. But this was … Continue reading →
This is an important article about the campaign against Daniel Perry, a man who subdued Jordan Neely on a New York subway, an act that resulted in Neely’s death: Penny’s fate will, as Peachy Keenan wrote in The Federalist, be … Continue reading →
This guilty verdict was a forgone conclusion, considering that the trial was held in DC and the judge refused to move it: A jury on Thursday convicted Enrique Tarrio, the former leader of the Proud Boys, and three allies of … Continue reading →
Most violent crime is intra-racial – that is, blacks mostly kill and/or violently attack blacks, whites mostly kill and/or violently attack whites. And the black-on-black violent crime rate is much much higher than the white-on-white violent crime rate. But the … Continue reading →
I think there’s no question that Derek Chauvin should have won his appeal, but I would have been utterly shocked if he had. That’s the state of the legal system, especially in a place like Minnesota. The case will probably … Continue reading →