Police
Police Commissioner Richard Ross “resigned” on Tuesday, according to an announcement from Mayor Jim Kenney’s office. Ross left voluntarily in the same way prisoners on a pirate ship walk the plank voluntarily. Update: After publication of this, it was learned Ross was accused in a law suit of not
Culture
A peculiar, unexpected link has been discovered between the Christchurch and El Paso mass murderers. Both are green, or “ecofascists,” as some would put it, which makes the rest of environmentalists feel rightfully queasy, maybe because their hands have not always been completely clean. This Washington Post story does a
Culture
While visiting family in West Virginia last week, I got to go to Walmart on two consecutive days in two different towns. It’s a blessing. Don’t hate me. The two visits doubled the number of times I ever had been in a Walmart. It’s not that I’
Crime
On the fifth anniversary of the death — note that word — of make-believe martyr Michael Brown, two Democratic presidential candidates chose to go willfully insane and trash the facts of the infamous case that gave rise to the fallacious “Hands up, don’t shoot” rallying cry. That’s quite a mouthful.
Culture
I loved the song “Take Me Home, Country Roads,” long before I ever set foot in the Mountain State. As a matter of fact, John Denver wrote and recorded the tune before he had ever set foot in West Virginia. His co-authors were Bill and Taffy Danoff. Turns out, Denver
ICE
The ICE roundup of 680 suspected illegals in Mississippi got quite a bit of play, as expected. When it broke I happened to be watching Shepard Smith on Fox News, who practically came to tears as he described people being “rounded up” and a teenager crying as a parent was
Culture
For more than two decades, some Americans have vilified their presidents. The visceral level of hatred is unsettling to me. George H.W. Bush was strongly disliked by the Left, but the disdain was expressed as ridicule rather than poison, portraying him as a man hopelessly out of touch. The
Crime
Now we add the blood-splattered walls of an El Paso, Texas, Walmart and the blood-splattered sidewalks of an outdoor fun zone in Dayton, Ohio, to our List of Gun Horrors, which is more accurately the List of White Male Horrors. The alleged shooters in these two cases are white males
Immigration
They beat Joe Biden like a piñata at the second CNN debate. That was expected. Uncle Joe fought back. That was expected, too, even if he tripped over his tongue several times and mistakenly furnished his text number as a web address. Surprisingly little was made by the media about
Uncategorized
This meme was posted by a right-wing group. Some of you may have seen it around. Some of you may agree with it. Some of you may think it is true. It is not true. The U.S. Constitution protects everyone under its jurisdiction — guilty, innocent, citizen, non-citizen. It is
Immigration
When you are an air traveler, you tune out the safety message prior to takeoff, but I want to remind you of a chunky of it: If you are traveling with a child, and the oxygen masks suddenly drop from above. What are you instructed to do? First put on
Crime
What is the result of handcuffing cops? Saturday evening a group of more than 100 motorcycles came roaring up Broad Street, blasting through red lights, like a funeral procession, but with the stiffs on handlebars instead of in the hearse. I caught them on video stopping westbound cars on Spruce,