The Other McCain

"One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up." — Arthur Koestler

What Part of ‘Drop the Gun’ Is So Difficult for Some People to Understand?

Watching the police bodycam video of this incident, I was struck by how much of what we call “race” is actually about culture. A police officer in Rantoul, Illinois — a town of 12,000 people, about 15 miles north of Champaign, and 120 miles south of Chicago — approaches a car that he recognizes as […]

The Wonderful Joys of ‘Progress’

“In our day, innovations march with so rapid a stride that they quite take away one’s breath. The fantastical project of yesterday, which was mentioned only to be ridiculed, is to-day the audacious reform, and will be to-morrow the accomplished fact.” — R.L. Dabney, 1871 The person now known as Stacie Marie Laughton went by […]

Crazy People Are Dangerous

Everyone agrees that the late James Windale Lanier had “been dealing with mental health issues,” as WCTI-TV put it. But despite the relevance of this information to Lanier’s untimely demise earlier this year, I’ve been unable to find any media account that specifies how these “issues” had been diagnosed or treated. Because I’m not a […]

White Privilege or … Biden Privilege?

Decided against making this another Aspiring Rapper Update, but the lawyer for imprisoned Florida rapper Kodak Black makes an important point: Nobody else — certainly not a black man — would have gotten the sweetheart deal Hunter Biden got from the Department of Justice. Rapper Kodak Black’s Lawyer Slams DOJ’s Prison-Free Plea Deal with Hunter […]

Slap on the Wrist for Hunter Biden

Because it’s different when Democrats do it: The court papers indicate the younger Biden has tentatively agreed to plead guilty to two misdemeanor tax charges of failure to pay in 2017 and 2018. The combined tax liability is roughly $1.2 million over those years, according to people familiar with the matter who spoke on condition […]

Detroit: Transgender Woman of Color Murdered During Pride Month

During Pride Month! An investigation is underway after the body of a transgender woman was found at a hotel [June 1], near Woodward and Six Mile in Highland Park. The mother of Asia Davis is devastated — asking why and how something like this could happen. “She’s my only child,” said Davis’ mother. “She was […]

The Ontological Error of ‘Gun Violence’

Gloria: “Daddy, did you know that sixty-five percent of the people murdered in this country in the last ten years were killed by handguns?” Archie Bunker: “Would it make you feel any better, little girl, if they was pushed out of windows?” That exchange from a 1972 episode of All in the Family always comes […]

Do Ghouls and Witches Count for ‘Diversity and Inclusion’ at Harvard?

The manager of the morgue at Harvard Medical School somehow got involved with a macabre collection of death-obsessed weirdos, and now all of them are facing multiple felony charges: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Cedric Lodge, age 55, of Goffstown, New Hampshire, Katrina Maclean, age 44, of […]

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