Six Weeks, Six Cities, 600 Murders

Kevin McCullough|Posted: Jul 05, 2020 11:00 AM – for Townhall.com The single most important domestic issue of our time is not the rising number of new people testing positive for COVID-19. Deaths have hit all-time lows. The single most important domestic issue of our time is not even the continued economic hardship of a nation […]

After 600 Deaths in 6 Democrat Cities in 6 Weeks – There Was Even More Carnage this Holiday Weekend

JULY 5, 2020 News Source: The Gateway PunditRead the full story here. Published by: The Daily Reformer. Six Democrat-led cities accounted for 600 deaths over a 6 week period. Unfortunately there were more deaths this week and BLM doesn’t care. After explaining that the coronavirus and the economy were not the most pressing issues in the US […]

Democrats exploit well-meaning passions in cities seeking relief

By Tammy Bruce – – Wednesday, June 10, 2020 – for the Washington Times My cmnt: We certainly have noticed that Libs and democrats have nothing bad to say about all those people NOT practicing social distancing in mass protests. But we can’t go to church or even a baseball game which are held outdoors. This simply […]

The Most Violent Cities in America are All Run by Democrats

By Dan O’Donnell – Jul 30, 2019 – for NewsTalk 1130 WISN President Trump is under fire for a series of tweets blasting Rep. Elijah Cummings’ (D-MD) home district of Baltimore as a “very dangerous & filthy place.” While the President’s critics have focused on the perceived racial focus of the tweets, they have fastidiously avoided […]

Who benefits from Democratic control of cities?

by Walter E. WILLIAMS – January 23, 2019 for AP News My cmnt: It sure as hell is NOT the black citizens of those cities who overwhelmingly vote democrat each and every election. Time for a change? In 1976, Gerald Ford won 15 percent of the black vote. That’s the most of any recent Republican […]

Road to urban despair paved by Democrats

By JOHN KASS -AUG 19, 2016 AT 7:27 PM for the Chicago Tribune My cmnt: Note that this column was written in August of 2016 but it could have been written today in July of 2020. Democrats still run all of the worst cities in America, where crime, murder, mayhem, failed public schools, black unemployment, abortion mills and […]

Willful Ignorance on Display in the Slavery Reparations Debate

Ted Noel|Posted: Jun 11, 2020 12:01 AM – for Townhall.com My cmnt: I of course agree with Dr. Ted Noel. Nobody handed me nor my family on either side anything because we were white. My maternal grandfather arrived in Texas from the Czech Republic in the early 1900s on a cattle boat (which is what it […]

Birkenstock Bolsheviks, Limousine Liberals & the Democrat party

Laura Ingraham coined the epigram Birkenstock Bolsheviks to describe the rich, white, spoiled, trust fund babies who are illegally pulling down statues and making all the noise and most of the violence today. Riddled with white guilt and white privilege they have found a home in the democrat party along with the Squad, who though […]

Understanding the Hidden $1.1 Trillion Welfare System and How to Reform It

Authors: Robert Rector and Vijay Menon – for The Heritage Foundation April 5, 2018 SUMMARY The true cost of welfare or aid to the poor is largely unknown because the spending is fragmented into myriad programs. Current welfare is focused largely on increasing benefits and enrollments and redistributing income. Self-defeating behaviors that increase the need for assistance […]

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About White Privilege

Wayne Allyn Root|Posted: Jun 28, 2020 12:01 AM for Townhall.com My cmnt: Wayne says below what I have told my own children. Nobody handed me nor my family on either side anything because we were white. My maternal grandfather arrived in Texas from the Czech Republic in the early 1900s on a cattle boat (which […]

Millennial Drops Support For Socialism After Learning How Hard It Is To Get Avocado Toast In Venezuela

The Babylon Bee – Sept 1, 2018 RIVERDALE, NY—31-year-old Darlene Austin has always been an avid supporter of socialism, but she recently had an eye-opening experience. “At a vegan cafe, I met a guy from Venezuela,” Austin explained. “I asked him about how great it must be to live in a country working to end […]

Tony Morrison: Clinton is our first Black president

The New Yorker: The Talk of the Town October 5, 1998 Issue My cmnt: Both Toni Morrison and Ta-Nehisi Coates (see article below this one) are missing the point. Morrison trying to inject racism into Clinton’s self-inflicted problems and crimes is not helpful nor is Coates blaming Clinton’s prosecution for sexual assault on vague power […]

Instagrammers invade private New Zealand ‘infinity’ pools

The owners of an idyllic west coast property are at their wits’ end trying to stop hundreds of young instagrammers caught on motion sensor cameras trampling their land, bathing in their clifftop pools and taking photos on a dangerous cliff edge. Melanie Reid reports Melanie Reid – June 20, 2020 Melanie Reid is Newsroom’s lead current […]

Black Fathers Matter

Katie Kieffer|Posted: Jun 22, 2020 12:01 AM – for Townhall.com Fathers matter. A child without a good father figure grows up with a disadvantage that cannot be erased by money, education or fame. Activists claim that whites and police are primarily responsible for holding blacks back. In truth, black father figures are the foremost differentiating […]

Why I will never support BLM

By Ryan Scott Bomberger Posted June 5, 2020 – in Radiance.Life/BLM Every life unjustly killed deserves justice. In the cause to make things right, I will not join a movement that has nearly everything wrong. More innocent lives have now been killed (#BlueLivesMatter, too) since these predominantly violent protests began over George Floyd’s horrific death. What about the […]

Lessons From the Past

The minimum wage laws help union workers and hurt entry-level Blacks Thomas Sowell|Posted: Jan 28, 2019 2:00 PM – for Townhall.com Seventy-one years ago this month — in January 1948 — a black, 17-year-old high school dropout left home. The last grade he had completed was the 9th grade. He had no skills, little experience, […]

Crippled by Their Culture

Race doesn’t hold back America’s “black rednecks.” Nor does racism. BY THOMAS SOWELLTuesday, April 26, 2005 12:01 a.m. THE WALL STREET JOURNAL For most of the history of this country, differences between the black and the white population–whether in income, IQ, crime rates, or whatever–have been attributed to either race or racism. For much of […]

Intellectuals and Race: Part IV

Dr. Thomas Sowell – Mar 15, 2013 – for Townhall.com Editor’s note: This is Part IV in a series. Part I can be found here. Part II can be found here. Part III can be found here Among the many irrational ideas about racial and ethnic groups that have polarized societies over the centuries and […]

Intellectuals and Race: Part III

Dr. Thomas Sowell – Mar 14, 2013 – for Townhall.com Editor’s note: This is Part III in a series. Part I can be found here. Part II can be found here. The desire of intellectuals for some grand theory that will explain complex patterns with some solitary and simple factor has produced many ideas that do […]

Intellectuals and Race: Part II

Dr. Thomas Sowell – Mar 13, 2013 – for Townhall.com Editor’s note: This is Part II in a series. Part I can be found here. Once we recognize that large differences in achievement among races, nations and civilizations have been the rule, not the exception, throughout recorded history, there is at least some hope of […]

Intellectuals and Race: Part I

Thomas Sowell Mar 12, 2013 for Townhall.com There are so many fallacies about race that it would be hard to say which is the most ridiculous. However, one fallacy behind many other fallacies is the notion that there is something unusual about different races being unequally represented in various institutions, careers or at different income […]

White Privilege?

White supremacy and white privilege are used by the Left to produce white guilt which results in white, elite liberals doing and saying things that are detrimental to all people. Black Lives Matter is an example of using white guilt to achieve Marxist goals. Condemning all police as racist is an example of using limited, […]

The Orwellian University

by Frank Furedi / October 13, 2016 for Prospect Magazine UK “Speech codes are now littered with words that are ambiguous and opaque” The first time I was told off for using “inappropriate language,” I thought my colleague was joking. We were university professors and speaking freely should come with the territory. But during the […]

Democrats blasted for ‘virtue signaling’ by wearing African sashes during George Floyd tribute

by Emma Colton, Social Media Manager | June 09, 2020 12:17 PM |The Washington Examiner Democratic lawmakers wearing Ghanaian kente sashes during a tribute to George Floyd were mocked online for the move. A group of Democrats, including Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, knelt in the Capitol building on Monday for nearly nine minutes, […]

A Deplorable Moment for Every Black American in This Country

JEROME HUDSON 22 May 2020 – for Breitbart.news Joe Biden saying, “You ain’t black” if you’re on the fence about voting for him over President Donald Trump is beyond insulting. Am I insulted? Hell yes. Am I surprised? Hell no. I’ve been called a coon “with bad African blood” because my skin is black, and I’ve never, […]

Race and the Left

While doing a little online research on Steven Spielberg’s films I read the Newsweek article from December 8, 1997 on slavery in America. This article deals at length with his film ‘Amistad’. I was interested in Spielberg’s statement that he did not receive any money from the profits of his film ‘Schindler’s List’ as he […]