Savagery is spreading with lightning speed across the United States, with murderous assaults on police officers and civilians and the ecstatic annihilation of businesses and symbols of the state. Welcome to a real civilization-destroying pandemic, one that makes the recent saccharine exhortations to “stay safe” and the deployment of police officers to enforce outdoor mask-wearing seem like decadent bagatelles.
Read all of Heather MacDonald's essay here.
Related article in Science magazine: Divergent views on the National Academy of Sciences study on police shootings.
Tuesday, June 02, 2020
Monday, June 01, 2020
Reforming the FBI
Law professor Jonathan Turley's review of the recently-released Michael Flynn transcripts indicates that the FBI actions deserve a lot of scrutiny. An excerpt:
Ironically, in his calls with Kislyak, Flynn expressly sought a more frank, honest relationship with Russia. He told Kislyak “we have to stop talking past each other on — so that means that we have to understand exactly what it is that we want to try to achieve, okay?” That is a question that should now be directed at the FBI, to understand what it was trying to achieve by continuing an investigation long after it ran out of crimes to investigate.
Ironically, in his calls with Kislyak, Flynn expressly sought a more frank, honest relationship with Russia. He told Kislyak “we have to stop talking past each other on — so that means that we have to understand exactly what it is that we want to try to achieve, okay?” That is a question that should now be directed at the FBI, to understand what it was trying to achieve by continuing an investigation long after it ran out of crimes to investigate.
Fighting Crime and Protecting Property
The video I posted earlier about a store in Scottsdale has been disabled.
Here is a link to a related story about owners of a family bakery in Cleveland who armed themselves to protect their business.
Think of the businesses that were closed - and hurt - due to the pandemic. There is no reason why they should now be threatened with complete destruction due to roving bands of criminals.
Historian Richard Pipes put it quite well: "Property is an indispensable ingredient of both prosperity and freedom."
We need to protect it.
Renegade
"I was excommunicated from a church I didn't know existed."
Christian Alejandro Gonzales interviews feminism scholar Christina Hoff Sommers.
Christian Alejandro Gonzales interviews feminism scholar Christina Hoff Sommers.
More Timely Than Ever
To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
- Theodore Roosevelt
[Photo by Library of Congress at Unsplash]
First Paragraph
Like all young men of a certain age, Harry Gilmour had grown up with his own notion of how a naval battle should be. This wasn't it.
- From Gone to Sea in a Bucket by David Black
- From Gone to Sea in a Bucket by David Black
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