The Other McCain

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

‘Protester’ Who Made Terroristic Threats on Live TV Is a Brooklyn Lawyer

  New York’s legal profession attracts top-quality people: A George Floyd protester was arrested after he made a threat on live television to burn down Manhattan’s ritzy Diamond District, cops said Sunday. Israel Burns, 34, of Bath Beach, Brooklyn, was arrested about 8 p.m. on Saturday after he was interviewed on Fox News earlier in […]

A 21st-Century Mrs. Jellyby

  What can be said about David French? Honestly, my preference would be to say nothing, to forget that such a person even exists, and indeed, I make it a habit to ignore all #NeverTrump people. So you can imagine what extraordinary effort is necessary to attract my notice to any #NeverTrump argument, and David […]

Muslim Immigrant Attacks Police

  Is it OK to stop calling this “mostly peaceful” yet? Authorities are looking into whether the Wednesday night stabbing of an NYPD officer in Brooklyn was a terror-inspired attack, law enforcement sources said Thursday. One officer was stabbed in the neck and two others were shot during the confrontation in the Flatbush neighborhood. All […]

Rioter vs. FedEx Truck: Guess Who Won?

  Here’s a helpful hint for young “social justice” activists — truck drivers have no obligation to surrender to armed hijackers: Authorities said a man was hit and killed by a FedEx truck during protests over George Floyd’s death in St. Louis. A preliminary investigation revealed that the driver of a FedEx double tractor-trailer was […]

Anarchy in Minneapolis: Democrats Celebrate Rioters Who Burned Down City

  Anarchy is the worst of evils that can afflict a people. Societies can survive the cruelty of tyrants and the blunders of demogratic governments, but anarchy — the destruction of law — brings about a state of affairs in which no man’s life or property is safe. Minneapolis did not have to go up […]

May Is Mental Health Awareness Month, and Crazy People Are Dangerous

  Last week, a shocking video went viral showing a young black man brutally beating an elderly white man. James Woods posted the video to his Twitter account, and even President Trump took notice. Online sleuths using face-recognition software quickly identified the suspect as 20-year-old Jaden Hayden, and linked him to social-media accounts with bizarre […]

‘Biological Leninism’

  Why has Stacey Abrams become a darling of the Democratic Party? Why is an otherwise obscure former state legislator a “rising star,” when her only accomplishment was (a) losing a gubernatorial election by more than 50,000 votes and (b) blaming her defeat on racist “suppression”? A friend tipped me to one possible explanation — […]

Ahmaud Arbery: Focus on Media Bias, Because ‘The Issue Is Never the Issue’

  Andrew Branca, an attorney specializing in self-defense cases, has referred to the “propaganda circus” surrounding the death of Ahmaud Arbery. One of the problems I’ve encountered is that, while my attention to the case has focused on the issue of media bias, which is what this “circus” is actually about, many people seem to […]

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