Six Killed in Highland Park Shooting, and Everybody Knows About It; Ten Killed in Philly, and No One Cares.

This morning’s news is all about the shootings in Highland Park, Illinois, at a Fourth of July parage, allegedly committed by Robert Chimo III, who was arrested without incident. The left, of course, concluded that because he surrendered and was arrested alive, he was the recipient of some kind of ‘white privilege.’ But, while Mr …

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For Print Newspapers, Tempus is Fugiting

The solution to being 18th century technology is not becoming 19th century one-party newspapers! Mickey East, a political science professor at the University of Kentucky during the 1970s, when I was a student there, used a bastardized phrase to encourage his students to get their work done, “Tempus is fugiting.” According to Wikipedia, the expression …

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An Economist Actually Admits That He Was Wrong

It’s not as though we didn’t know this already! “I was wrong” is not something you expect to hear from an economist. When they are wrong, economists are far more likely to push the reason for them being wrong onto things totally unforeseeable, or Donald Trump, or bad data coming from outside sources. Well, last …

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“So when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.” — John 8:7

I will admit it: I had never heard of Stacey Henley before. Mr Henley writes about electronic games, and those are simply of no interest to me. But now he’s telling us that if we choose to go to see Spider-Man: Lotus, we must be horrible, horrible raaaaacists. Titled Spider-Man: Lotus, the movie was one …

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Philadelphians Are Fighting Back!

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We have previously noted that the law-abiding people in Philadelphia have been seeking concealed carry permits at a record pace. And we have seen stories about some of the bad guys in Philly being sent untimely to their eternal rewards. Why are people in the City of Brotherly Love arming themselves? When there are innocent …

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In Which Larry Krasner Shows Us Just How Much Respect He Has for the Philadelphia Police!

Sometimes, you just can’t make up this stuff! Philadelphia’s George Soros stooge ‘progressive’ District Attorney, Larry Krasner, tweeted: Ahead of Father’s Day, I challenge anyone thinking about picking up a gun unlawfully, think twice, and remember the families gun violence is wrecking. If you are caught by the @PPD, you will be held accountable. Have …

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The Left Loves to Blame Republicans for the Actions of the Democratic Base

Adopted Philadelphian Amanda Marcotte doesn’t normally write about the City of Brotherly Love, but with the gang gun battle on Sunday, even she had to pay attention. From Salon: U.S. gun laws are causing mayhem and mass murder — and Republicans couldn’t be more thrilled Crappy gun laws cause our crime problems. But Republicans blame …

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When You’re a Desperation Candidate, You Might As Well Take Desperation Shots!

I follow former state Representative Charles Booker (D-43rd District, Louisville) on Twitter not because I like him, but because he is a candidate, and now the Democratic nominee, to challenge Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) in the general election. Mr Booker, who ran for the Democratic nomination to challenge Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) in 2020, but …

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In Which I Tell You, Very Politically Incorrectly, How to Solve All of Society’s Problems

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I really, really, really wanted to write about something else this morning; I’ve spent so much time on the homicide rate in foul, fetid, fuming, foggy, filthy Philadelphia that I felt in a rut. Then the Memorial Day weekend happened, and I had two stories entitled Killadelphia in a row, as the blood flowed freely …

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Black Lives Don’t Matter to the Credentialed Media

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While I have mentioned the censorship of The Philadelphia Inquirer previously, we don’t always get the evidence quite so directly. Police Officer Miguel Torres, Badge Number 7191, reported on a shooting in Mantua: 16th District — Shooting Incident 35XX Fairmont Avenue on highway at 7L06 PM. Victim #1 – Black female 19 years old was shot …

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Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics: How The Washington Post Manipulates Statistics to Mislead Readers

The headline was dramatic: More than 311,000 students have experienced gun violence at school since Columbine. Read that, and you’d think that half the schools in America were being machine gunned down, which is, let’s be honest about it, exactly what the editors of The Washington Post want you to believe. But what, exactly, does …

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