If you’re as old as I am, you understand the Reginald Denny reference – one of the most horrific and widely-covered moments of the deadly Rodney King riots in 1992: Reginald Oliver Denny (born 1953) is a white former construction … Continue reading →
Almost from the start, nearly everyone on left and right claimed that the video of George Floyd’s dying moments made it clear that Officer Chauvin was a murderer. I found this to be a shocking assertion – not in terms … Continue reading →
Those goals would be obvious, that is, if the MSM was actually reporting on this sort of thing. Here’s the official BLM statement on the events leading up to the widespread Chicago looting. It’s a fascinating document. First, it tries … Continue reading →
Seattle’s Carmen Best could read the writing on the wall that told her the City Council was determined to cut the legs out from under the police, and to personally punish her as well. So Best – the first black … Continue reading →
There’s only a slight and completely unconvincing pretense of protest this time. This was about opportunistic criminality [emphasis mine]: Hundreds of looters and vandals descended on downtown Chicago early Monday following a police shooting on the city’s South Side, smashing … Continue reading →
From commenter “Artfldgr”, concerning the post-Floyd rioting: Let me explain how this is DESIGNED – and I believe with outside help from other states think tanks… ie. experts who have had decades of experience in this are designing and informing … Continue reading →
A former prosecutor has his say. His view accords pretty much with mine, but I think such a viewpoint is almost inevitable for anyone who looks at the transcript and combines it with the full video, and keeps an open … Continue reading →
[NOTE: The following is a slightly changed version of a post of mine. If you follow the links in the second paragraph, you’ll find three other pieces I’ve written about the decision to drop the bomb on Hiroshima.] Once again … Continue reading →
I’ve previously analyzed the George Floyd transcripts here. Now the British paper Daily Mail has obtained the videos despite the efforts of prosecutor Keith Ellison to suppress them. Here’s a discussion by shipwreckedcrew of Red State about what the videos … Continue reading →
There have been periodic hints that some black people who would ordinarily vote Democratic – which is over 90% of black people – might lean towards Trump this time. I tend to doubt it. After all, we’ve heard it before … Continue reading →
Government malfeasance. Please read the whole thing.
Continue reading →…to crime-ridden cities: President Trump is deploying 100 federal agents to Chicago to help combat rising rates of some crimes – a move that marks an expansion of the White House’s intervention into local law enforcement as Trump continues to … Continue reading →