With the killing of George Floyd, Americans are forced to face a hard reality. “In just three months it has become clear that modern urban progressivism is politically incompetent and intellectually incoherent,” writes Daniel Henninger in the WSJ. Media Picking at Scabs The media and press have served an arbitrating function among competing urban forces. […]
Allowing Everything Except Kneeling in Prayer?
“Clever Churchgoers Avoid Arrest By Disguising Themselves As Rioters” In Southern California, churchgoers, in spite of the mandated lockdown, have found a bold, creative way to get around the ban on in-person meetings, according to babylonbee.com. “We already have the righteous indignation thing down,” said one church elder. “Now, we’ve simply added black balaclavas, hoodies, Guy […]
Victor Davis Hanson: How to Bust DC’s Stronghold
Originally posted on May 21, 2018. Back in February there was the predictable uproar over President Trump’s allegedly belittling some underdeveloped countries by calling them “sh**holes:” Shortly after the fuss, Victor Davis Hanson suggested ways to help counter the disparaging remark offensive to many elites. Starting with: Relocate the United Nations to an underdeveloped nation. […]
Ray Kelly on Policing and George Floyd
Ray Kelly, NYC’s longest-serving police commissioner, retired in 2013. In an interview with Tunku Varadarajan for the WSJ, Mr. Kelly, who has seen a lot in his decades of policing, admits that the killing of Floyd sickens him. This is the worst act of police brutality that I’ve seen. The reason I say that,” is […]
Elephant in the Room Blocking Police Reform
In 2011, there was a furor raised when some politicians tried to reform collective bargaining for government workers. But now, write the editors of the WSJ, some governors are blaming public-union labor agreements for not making progress with police reform. Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey on Sunday said police collective bargaining and arbitration have prevented the […]
What in Life Doesn’t Involve Trade Offs
Originally posted May 18, 2020. Can the government operate without having to make meaningful tradeoffs of one goal or value versus another? As a way of answering that question, Francis Menton in the Manhattan Contrarian puts forth the “illusion of infinite resources in the hands of the government.” As individuals we all know that we face […]
Prolong Lockdown and Keep Economy in Shambles
Originally posted April 21, 2020. The national response to coronavirus “cannot be understood in isolation from the part it has played in the larger anti-Trump melodrama,” argues Roger Kimball in Specatator.us. On 31 January, Trump suspended air travel from China. The Democrats and press went nuts, charging the president with xenophobia and accusing him of […]
Democrats’ Appalling COVID-19 Reaction
Originally posted April 20, 2020. From Joe Biden: “Donald Trump is not responsible for COVID-19, but he is responsible for our slow, uncoordinated response. Experts say that if we had acted two weeks earlier, more lives could have been saved. Trump failed to take swift action—and we’re paying the price.” A Timeline of the Blame […]
Is Free Speech in the U.S. in Death Throes?
Daniel Henninger of the WSJ does not think that free speech is dead. Yet. But it certainly is in need of active defending, he maintains. Aware of the natural tendency of factions and majorities to want to suppress opposition opinion, the Founders created a Bill of Rights for all citizens, including what they called, with […]
How Camden Brought About Safe Policing
Several years ago it would have been laughable to think of Camden, N.J. as a shining example of good urban policy. Camden’s homicide rate was 87 per 100,000 population, 50% above the prevailing rate in America’s most murderous large city – Baltimore. Last year, Camden reduced its homicide rate almost two-thirds, reports Stephan J.K. Walters […]
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