Ken Berwitz From ABC News\’ Philadelphia affiliate we have this (in its entirety; too short to excerpt): A homeless veteran, beaten at a gas station in the Olney section of Philadelphia nearly eight months ago, has died. The incident at the Sunoco in the 5500 block of North 5th Street was captured by a surveillance camera on April 7th.The video shows 51-year-old Robert Barnes being...
Ken Berwitz As I suspect you know, Turkey shot down a Russian fighter plane this week. Turkey claims that the Russian plane was in its air space long enough to receive repeated warnings, before shots were fired. Russia claims that it its plane either was never in Turkish air space or was there, accidentally, for just a tiny bit of time, and that there were no warnings. I don\’t...
Ken Berwitz Today\’s paragraphs come to us from one of the top-tier columnists this country has produced, Mona Charen (whom I do not quote often enough in this blog….I\’ll try to make up for it in the future). They are from her November 13th commentary in which she discussed the insanity currently pervading so many of our colleges and universities. The bold print is...
Ken Berwitz Excerpted from Richard Pollock\’s article at dailycaller.com: While the UnitedStates and Europe argue over how many Syrian refugees to allow in, the richestPersian Gulf states have accepted exactly zero. The Muslim countriesof the Gulf Cooperation Council that include Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia,Bahrain and United Arab Emirates steadfastly refuse to accept any...
Ken Berwitz Serge Kovaleski is a long-time journalist, currently working for the New York Times. Mr. Kovaleski has a condition called arthrogryopsis, the symptoms of which include physical deformity, and involuntary, “jerky” movements of his hands, arms and overall body. Donald Trump did not like something that Kovaleski wrote. It had to do with an apparent about-face...
Ken Bewitz I\’m still trying to figure this one out. Here is film director Spike Lee\’s suggestion on how to prevent sexual harrasment and rape on college campuses: “I think a sex strike could really work on college campuses where there\’s an abundance of sexual harassment or date rapes. Second semester it\’s going to happen. Once people coming back from...
Ken Berwitz From an article at NBC News-Chicago: During the secondnight of protests over the Laquan McDonald shooting, police made severalarrests after some demonstrators tore off lights from the Christmas treestanding in Millennium Park. Video shows a group ofprotesters just before 10:00 p.m. yanking the lights from the bottom of thetree. Police quickly responded to disperse the...
Ken Berwitz Barring some unforeseen circumstance, this will be the last blog of the day. My beautiful bride and I are heading north to be with family. So, this being Thanksgiving and all, I thought I would end with a few cartoons and pictures, from the large number of them compiled by powerlineblog.com\’s Steven Hayward. You can click here to see them all, but these...
Ken Berwitz Today\’s Paragraphs Of The Day winner – by a mile – is columnist Larry Elder. I read his description of what happened when he decided to try and find out what “microaggression” means, and laughed out loud several times….albeit through gritted teeth. Here it is: On Twitter, I asked a pro-protest Occidental College student to provide a...
Ken Berwitz From our pal Relo Myra. I don\’t know if you will understand this, but I know my mother would have laughed.
Ken Berwitz If there is one thing we learn from the current “state of the art” in media reportage, it is that, when the perpetrators are Black, there is a good possibility that the reportage will pretend not to know their race. We saw that yesterday, with Washington Post reporter Peter Hermann\’s article about a woman being attacked by teenagers, in which he told us that...
Ken Berwitz Today\’s quote comes to us from John King, of CNN. And it is beautiful in its simplicity. While talking about “retail politicians” – i.e. politicians who connected with everyday people – King said this: …butone of the premier retail politicians in the country, somebody who knew how togo into a room, and you knew it. When Mario Cuomo was in...
Ken Berwitz “I am, however, deeply disappointed that the Congress has again failed to take productive action toward closing the detention facility at Guantanamo. Maintaining this site, year after year, is not consistent with our interests as a nation and undermines our standing in the world.”: President Obama, upon signing this year\’s defense policy...
Ken Berwitz If President Obama were a Republican Governor and he could be accused of closing a couple of bridge lanes, you\’d know about it. But as President, the fact that he force-fed a health care system on us which involves about one-sixths of our entire economy, and it is failing big-time? Strictly back-page news. Excerpted from Richard Pollock\’s article at...
Ken Berwitz From our pal Special Ed Robin: Now that you\’ve seen that list, would you like to see the list of Arab countries – wealthy or otherwise – which allow Palestinian Arabs to emigrate to and become citizens? Ok. Just look up. With the exception of Jordan (which, itself, is a Palestinian Arab state), there is not one on the face of the earth. What...
