So much for having a full discussion. Asking people to look at contributing factors of personal conduct that measurably result in dependency, fatherless homes, abuse, crime, violence and the like is evidently something only a hater would presume to bring up. The problem is, those very conditions hardly encourage the investors and employers the angry voices are demanding deliver them prosperity. [More]Forget it Jake. It's Chi-Town.
NYT's Blow Explodes On CNN Guest: 'This Guy Should Not Be Allowed' On TV [More]No Enemy of the Republic should! And Blow is just the arbiter of the limits of acceptable discourse.
In a new memoir, New York Times Op-Ed columnist Charles Blow opens up about abuse he has suffered, and inflicted in his life."Inflicted"?
With a Friend in the White House, Gun Sales Sag [More]I dunno -- there's only so many guns people are going to buy because the good ones aren't cheap and they last.
Parkland student Hogg and De Blasio link young voter registration to gun safety [More]"Mayors for Our Lives"?
The document the PAC released, which is part of the SF-86, revealed that Spanberger had once taught at a private school in Northern Virginia called the Islamic Saudi Academy, which later fended off controversy after a valedictorian was charged with aiding al-Qaida. That aspect of her résumé had not been made public until Tuesday. [More]Gosh, we're really sorry for releasing that information. Why would any voter need to know about that?
Chapel Hill police chief told officers to 'stay way out' as Confederate monument was toppled; one officer put on leave amid concerns over tattoo [More]Yeah, well, not putting themselves on the line is kind of an "Only Ones" trademark, as Columbine and Parkland demonstrated. So is taking the politically expedient course, as the manufactured tattoo "controversy" demonstrates.
Calif. teacher arrested for road rage and armed robbery, had loaded gun in classroom during arrest [More]Any bets on the guy's politics?
Yet Red Sox President Sam Kennedy says the team has spoken to Martinez about being more cautious on social media. [More]Why? I thought athletes' "First Amendment rights" extended to the field...
St. Louis’s top prosecutor, Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner, has a so-called “exclusion list” of 28 police officers and will refuse to prosecute suspected criminals if any of those officers are deemed critical to such prosecutions. [More]It's fair to ask if we're dealing with lying thugs, with a political operative that places race hustling above public safety, or with a combination of both.
Speaking at a townhall in Texas, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) was detailing the differences between himself and his challenger, Democratic Rep. Beto O’Rourke, when he began, “On the Second Amendment—” prompting a gun rights supporter to interrupt, “Come and take it!” That triggered an apparent O’Rourke supporter, who had been heckling Cruz, to yell out, “Oh, we will!”[More]I don't suppose anybody at Fairfax is interested in correlating that with this...?
First came the stunning revelation that Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, former archbishop of Washington and friend to presidents, had for decades been a predator-priest who preyed on seminarians and abused altar boys, and whose depravity was widely known and covered up. [More]So his "pastoral concern" for "the lives of 21 children" may have had a self-interest component...?
The officer responds by saying, “That doesn’t supercede HIPPA.” [More]Decapod crustaceans take precedence?
