When do some media people realize that ascribing behaviors to entire groups of people, then making excuses for the behavior, does not elevate public perceptions of the groups\’ status, it lowers them? In his New York Times column this morning, Charles Blow, who seems to make a career of making excuses, explains to us why Black people are less likely to go...
While driving to Manhattan, then to a Mother\’s Day get-together (which was great, by the way, just as it always is), we put on CBS Newsradio 880. Before the traffic report we wanted to hear (after which my wife controls the radio, which means it\’s music, music, music), there was a story on politics. I can\’t provide the exact words, but Jim Taylor, the newscaster (who...
I am about to leave, with my beautiful wife – the mother of our progeny – to see said progeny…and two of their progeny. On this most progenious day (yeah, I know it isn\’t a word, but what the blip, you know what I\’m trying to say), I wish all mothers a happy mother\’s day. If yours will be at least half as happy as I know ours will be...
The editorial board of the New York Times has published a major editorial today, titled “How Racism Doomed Baltimore”, which goes into great detail about how this major city got to its sorry state – with significant references to Chicago, which it seems in largely the same way. Much of this editorial\’s contents rings true. It is well worth reading and thinking...
Today\’s quote comes to us from one-time United Nations Ambassador John Bolton – a former diplomat who is incapable of expressing his opinions diplomatically (that\’s not a criticism). Here, pulled from Robert Wilde\’s article at breitbart.com, are excerpts of what he had to say, yesterday, about Benghazi – and what it tells us about Hillary...
Two Hattiesburg, Mississippi police officers – Benjamin Deen and Liquori Tate – were gunned down last night, during a routine stop – which, it is suspected, was actually a set-up, an ambush. Officer Deen was White, offficer Tate was Black. The suspects – Curtis Banks and Marvin Banks – are Black. Both have criminal records. (UPDATE: Three...
Three days ago I put up a blog titled “Pamela Geller Responds”, which consisted of Ms. Geller\’s explanation of why she ran that “draw a cartoon of Muhammad” contest in Garland, Texas, and what she thought of the people who attacked her for doing so. I did not comment on what Ms Geller said, I only asked that readers draw their own conclusions. Now I\’m...
Ken Berwitz Today\’s paragraph the day comes to us from Jazz Shaw, writing for hotair.com. This is Mr Shaws lament about the current state of affairs in Baltimore, now that the rioting, looting, and arson related to Freddor Gray\’s death has died down, and things are back to what passes for normal there: The records show that we\’re barely the month of May and...
Today\’s quote comes to us from Brent Bozell, who runs the Media Research Center and newsbusters.org. This is Mr. Bozell, on Neil Cavuto\’s show, offering his take on why recent polls have shown media to be trusted by so few people – in one recent poll, even less trusted than congress: “…isn\’t it incredible that their response to being marginalized...
How do you package, repackage and otherwise attempt to sell a presidential candidate with little in the way of accomplishments but much in the way of shady dealings and scandal? Let\’s start with the first three paragraphs of Annie Karni\’s latest blog at politico.com. In early March, weeks before Hillary Clinton even announced her campaign, spokesman Brian Fallon and...
Apropos of nothing political… …it is 30 games into the 2015 baseball season, and the Yankees – seen as a old team in transition, and missing 3 of their 5 starting pitchers – have a 19-11 record; one of the best in baseball. There are a number of reasons this is happening. They certainly include the tremendous hitting of Jacoby Ellsbury and Brett Gardner, the home...
Can State\’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby objectively, impartially, handle the Freddie Gray case if her husband is the City Council member who represents the district Gray lived in and the Gray family\’s lawyer is one of her biggest donors and a member of her transition team? Lawyers for the Baltimore 6 – the police officers Mosby charged in the death of Gray – say no. Excerpted...
You can\’t say the Obama administration isn\’t accomplishing things when it comes to the job market. The latest data are out and….. -We now have 93,194,000 citizens who are not in the labor force; -We now have 56,167,000 women not in the labor force; -Job participation rate at a 38 year low. We\’d have to go back to that great force for prosperity, Jimmy...
As you are probably aware, David Cameron\’s Conservative Party pulled off a major upset in yesterday\’s United Kingdom election. That is big news. But it\’s not the best news. The best news – even if it is temporary (which it well may be) is that the terrorist-loving, Jew-hating scumbag george galloway lost his seat in Parliament. Not to a Conservative Party...
How dirty is The Clinton Foundation? Excerpted from Warner Todd Huston\’s article at breitbart.com: Shocking revelations show that at least four Clinton Foundation board of directors have either been charged or convicted of financial crimes, including bribery and fraud. This newest, startling revelation is just one more of many in Peter Schweizer\’s bombshell book Clinton Cash: The...
