The Other McCain

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

It’s Only Confederate Flags, They Said

The destructive mobs of organized ignorance (which is to say, the Left) began their crusade by playing upon the anti-Southern prejudices of Yankees. Nearly 30 years ago, one scholar who had followed this “controversy” from the outset explained its origin to me very simply: By the early 1990s, the NAACP was nearly bankrupt, not merely […]

Transgender ‘Rights’ vs. Common Sense

Say hello to Demetrius Minor, who was 16 when he was sentenced to 30 years in prison after a plea bargain on manslaughter and carjacking charges in 2011 in Camden County, New Jersey: A Gloucester Township teenager has admitted to killing his foster father in July. Demetrius Minor, 16, pleaded guilty Friday to aggravated manslaughter […]

Virginia: ‘Too Close to Call’? BREAKING UPDATE: Youngkin Wins!

UPDATE 12:55 a.m. ET Wednesday: Glenn Youngkin wins Virginia! BREAKING: Republican Glenn Youngkin wins election for governor in Virginia. #APracecall at 12:37 a.m. EDT. #Election2021 #VAelection — AP Politics (@AP_Politics) November 3, 2021 *** PREVIOUSLY (7:14 p.m. ET) *** Tonight I’m watching CNN (so you don’t have to) and they’re trying to sell the Virginia […]

I’ll Take ‘Things Not to Say to a Jersey Cop While You’re Holding a Knife’ for $400

What is “I’m gonna stab him”? Excuse me if I took some time off from writing my long Breonna Taylor post — which I promise I will finish — in order to watch some more police bodycam videos. This one is from Asbury Park, N.J., where police responded to a domestic violence call Aug. 21. […]

U.S. Coronavirus Daily Deaths Have Decreased 43% in the Past Four Weeks

  Since peaking April 21, the daily number of U.S. deaths from COVID-19 have decreased from an average of more than 2,000 per day to fewer than 1,200. This decrease has been mainly due to sharp reductions in the rate of death in the two hardest-hit states of New York and New Jersey. During the […]

The Battle of Atillis Gym

  This may go down in history books as the 21st-century Concord Bridge: A few hours after workouts began Monday morning at New Jersey’s Atilis Gym — which is making national headlines for its early reopening in defiance of Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy’s coronavirus shutdown order — police showed up outside the Bellmawr business. What […]

‘A Familiar If Odd Accent to City Life’

  Daniel Greenfield at FrontPage Magazine: The New York Times called them “sidewalk ministers” who practice “tough love.” The paper quoted Heidi Beirich of the Southern Poverty Law Center who described them as victims of racism and claimed that they were non-violent. The Washington Post, in its own puff piece on the Black Hebrew Israelites, […]

Report: ‘Black Hebrew Israelite’ Cult Connection to Jersey City Attack

  Early this morning I reported (“Jersey City Shooting ‘Targeted’ Jews, ‘Being Investigated as a Hate Crime’”) about suggestions of anti-Semitic motives in Tuesday’s shootout, and now we discover evidence that clearly indicates this was an act of terrorism: David Anderson was named as one of the two active shooters who kept police at bay […]

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