More Proof America Is Racist?
Professional sports teams derive most of their revenue from TV contracts. If fewer people are watching sports on TV, that’s less revenue for the teams, and ultimately the players will be paid less. Because 69% of NFL players are black, guess who will suffer the most? The ratings for Super Bowl 55 are in, and […]
YouTuber Wins Darwin Award
Timothy Wilks had a great idea for a YouTube prank — fake a robbery by charging at people with a giant knife. The result wasn’t funny: A man was shot and killed Friday night in Nashville, Tenn., after wielding a butcher knife for a robbery “prank” intended for YouTube, police said, according to reports. Officers […]
‘Family Demands Answers’
Mychael Johnson’s life of crime ended last March after he and an accomplice stole a car and led Tallahassee police on a chase. When police broke off the pursuit, allowing the sheriff’s department helicopter to track the stolen car, Johnson’s accomplice tried to carjack another motorist. The chopper pilot radioed this information to dispatch and, […]
Catch-and-Release: How Liberals Destroyed Law and Order in California
Sacramento County Sheriff’s Deputy Adam Gibson, 31, was killed last month in a shootout with Robert Calderon, 46, a lifelong criminal: He had a combined nine felony and misdemeanor cases out of Sacramento County dating to 1993, Superior Court records show. The cases generally involve drugs and stolen vehicles. His most recent local case, a […]
Catch-and-Release: Career Criminal Arrested in Deadly San Francisco Crash
Jerry Lyons, 31, had spent his entire adult life committing crimes. He had dozens of arrests in California — attempted robbery, burglary, evading police, driving a stolen vehicle, weapons charges, drug charges, shoplifting, trespassing, etc. — but kept getting turned loose until Thursday, when he finally killed somebody. Sheria Musyoka, 26, was an immigrant from […]
Former GOP Staffer Arrested in Truly Disturbing Child Pornography Case
Ruben Verastigui, 27, was arrested Friday in Washington, D.C., on charges of distributing child pornography. When I say that this case is “truly disturbing,” you can just trust me, or you can go read this Twitter thread that includes some excerpts from the arrest affidavit. Truly disturbing. In 2014, the former chief of staff for […]
You Can’t Say ‘Rigged’
One of the things you learn, if you spend as many years in the news business as I have, is that the news is not random. That is to say, the question of what stories will appear on the front page of the New York Times is not merely a matter of what happened the […]
AOC’s Fake Victimhood Narrative
Why would anyone believe anything she says? “Alexandria Ocasio Smollett” and “AOC Lied” trended on Twitter amidst backlash over Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s tale of her experiences during the Capitol Riot. The New York Democrat has repeatedly described fearing for her life during the Jan. 6 riot. In a Monday evening Instagram Live video, she said […]
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