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FBI Press Conference Scheduled on Developments in Charlie Kirk Case UPDATE: Has 4chan ID’d the Killer?

After Wednesday’s “now we’ve got him/now we don’t” confusion over whether law enforcement had arrested the gunman who assassinated Charlie Cook, today there is supposed to be a press conference where the FBI will announce the latest developments in the investigation. UPDATE 4:55 p.m. ET: At this point, I am not going to name the […]

Charlie Kirk Was Assassinated Today UPDATE: Suspect Reported in Custody UPDATE: Nope, FBI Got It Wrong (Again)

About 2:45 p.m. ET, my phone started buzzing with messages that Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk had been shot while speaking on a college campus in Utah. The videos that circulated on X/Twitter looked very, very bad. Everybody started praying for Charlie, but about 4:40 p.m. ET, President Trump broke the news that Charlie […]

‘Blood Visibly Drips on the Floor as the Defendant Walks Away From the Victim’

The headline quotes from the affidavit for the arrest last month of Decarlos Dejuan Brown Jr. in Charlotte, North Carolina: Detectives obtained video from inside of the train car. The video is clear and of ID quality. The victim enters the train car and sits in the seats directly in front of the defendant. The […]

A Return to Frontier Justice?

“Ultimately, police exist not to protect the public from criminals, but to protect criminals from the public,” Professor Glenn Reynolds has said. As in so many cases, however, the advancements of civilization are generally taken for granted by the destructive agents of “progressivism.” Most Americans have little appreciation for such rights as trial by jury, […]

What ‘White Privilege’ Looks Like

This was one of those “viral video” stories that I was going to let pass by without comment, until I got the details from Miranda Devine’s column in the New York Post. First of all, you have to know that this incident took place at “the upscale Clarke Cooke House,” which just happens to be […]

FBI Raids John Bolton: Why?

The big news today raises some intriguing questions. While we must assume that there is legal justification for the FBI’s raid on John Bolton — probable cause to suspect him of illegal activity — the same could be said of dozens of others whose names might be on Donald Trump’s enemies list. That is to […]

Vegan Transgender Death Cult Update: Feds Seek Death Penalty in Vermont

The latest news from the New York Post: The Justice Department said Thursday it will seek the death penalty against a member of the cultlike Zizians group accused of killing a U.S. Border Patrol agent in Vermont in the latest Trump administration push for more federal executions. Teresa Youngblut, 21, of Washington state, is among […]

Deadly Hip-Hop Drama Down Home

Snellville, Georgia, used to be the kind of podunk town that was frequently a punch-line in Lewis Grizzard‘s columns, mainly because there’s just something funny-sounding about that name, “Snellville.” But whereas Snellville had fewer than 2,000 residents in 1970, it is now home to more than 20,000 residents amid the explosive growth of Gwinnett County […]

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