Citizen Writers Fighting Censorship by Helping Americans Understand Issues Affecting the Republic.
We have already noted that there are questions concerning the homicide numbers in Philadelphia. The Philadelphia Police Department’s Current Crime Statistics page reported that there had been 488 murders as of 11:59 PM EST on Sunday, December 11th. At 9:21 AM EST on Monday, December 12th, Stevee Keeley of Fox 29 News tweeted: Identity & …
Following the unfortunate death of methamphetamine-and-fentanyl crazed drug addict and previously convicted felon George Floyd while he was resisting a legitimate arrest in Minneapolis, the left went wild, and “Defund the Police“, as though the problem wasn’t crime, but people being arrested for committing crimes. This stupid notion was popular with the street agitators, and …
We have previously noted the change from the 502 homicides originally reported for 2020, down to 499. Now, Philadelphia Inquirer columnist Helen Ubiñas noted someone that many expected to be on the list of 499, but who wasn’t there. This one seems legitimate: A 22-year-old was killed just over the city line in Upper Darby. …
Firearms. When you want to talk about a contentious subject, with a lefty, that’s my go to topic. If that isn’t enough, it’s that pro-abortion topic. But since the left tries so hard to make the tool illegal, and I just love my collection of tools, that’s where I will argue until they want …
Humanity, Humility and Humiliation; The PM/Restocking Manager at the Chesapeake, VA Walmart store, killed six of his co-workers…and then himself. All of us on the outside of the story are shocked. Maybe…for a day or two. But then we move on to the next shooting, the next liar on Wall Street, the next political battle in …
Observations and Lamentations; I have been doing more stuff around my home, but still taking time to see what has been happening, around here and there, and what absurdities are piled on top of previous absurdities. Sometimes, you just have to take a break, and go and clear your head, by moving dirt, fixing …
According to the Philadelphia Police Department’s Current Crime Statistics page, there have been 473 people murdered in the City of Brotherly Love as of 11:59 PM EST on Thursday, December 1st. So, about what was District Attorney Larry Krasner worried on Thursday? Advocates sound alarm on murders of transgender women in Philadelphia Fox 29 News …
Six Ongoing Cataclysms in America, Part I; Foundational threats to the American Republic from the US political class
Good writers know that they need to have good opening paragraphs to entice the reader to continue on, and Washington Post reviewer Peter Marks sure nailed that one! Take a deep breath and try to ruminate calmly on the position playwright Bruce Norris takes in his scintillating new play, “Downstate”: that the punishments inflicted on …
No, there was not a drop in “mass shooting deaths” because of an “assault weapons ban” in the 1990s. And banning these rifles again will not stop shootings.
I’d bet he isn’t thinking, “Hey, I sure got around those gun control laws, didn’t I?” Meet Stephon Henderson. Mr Henderson, 59, allegedly shot and killed Talina Henderson, 47, his wife, at a residence in the 2800 block of Bay Colony Lane. Mrs Henderson was shot “multiple times,” which tells us that this was no …
Five people were killed and another 18 wounded, some critically, allegedly by Anderson Lee Aldrich. As Robert Stacy McCain reported, Mr Aldrich, in June of 2021: was in an armed standoff with police at his mother’s home in Colorado Springs. He was charged with multiple felonies, but for reasons as yet unknown, the charges were …
Five people were murdered, with another 18 wounded, in a mass shooting in a Colorado Springs nightclub which catered primarily to homosexuals, and it’s a crisis unlike any we’ve ever seen before! Horrors! A mass shooting! “LGBTQI+ people are under attack! They’re not safe!” Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg is a homosexual male, so naturally …
Gun violence and crime is a crisis. But taking firearms away from law abiding citizens will not change the behavior of criminals, nor will it solve America’s real societal issue, the destruction of the family. violence behaviour violence, an act of physical force that causes or is intended to cause harm. The damage inflicted by …
Projecting someone’s moral compass by using black people as a debate tool by using them as a measuring stick simply as a debate tactic is racist.
I have not been exactly enamored of the #BlackLivesMatter movement, a movement started over the wholly justified killing of Michael Brown as he assaulted a police officer. Young Mr Brown had just roughed up a store clerk half his size in the course of a robbery. Several grifting incidents have been recorded concerning the Black …
We’ve seen this movie before. Mega rich (____) fill in the blank – Wall Street banker, tycoon, hedge fund manager-megadonor – climbs the political social ladder by rubbing elbows with powerful Democrat pols then buys influence with them by donating million$ to their campaigns and causes.
When Joe Biden ordered everyone to take the jab, and used the power of government to compel compliance, he gambled with our lives.
Body-worn cameras are overall much better for cops than originally thought. And the usual suspects are not happy. A few years back I was tasked by my shift commander to review the body worn camera (BWC) videos of two of my officers. They handled an accident and one of the drivers filed a complaint that …
San Francisco “soft touched” its way into its current drug/homelessness mess and it’s determined to find a “soft touch” way out.