Welcome! This is an unapologetic, agenda-free zone. Just commentaries on current events that’ll move you to think, laugh, rage, and even cry.
No. For starters, crime is not soaring. It’s at historic lows. In fact, the incidence of everything from murder to rape and petty theft was five times higher in the 1980s and early 1990s than it is today. Perception vs. reality But thanks to social media, so many crimes get viral coverage, almost every crime… Read more.
Occasionally I have cause to reprise a commentary in full with relatively little explanation. This is one of those occasions. It stems from the following headline in the June 3 edition of The Independent: Trump condos going for bargain prices because no one wants to live in them More to the point, that report includes… Read more.
But it’s only a matter of time before suburbia-whipped city dwellers return with tails between their legs. Read more.
Eight people were killed [and 11 were injured] when a man drove 20 blocks down a bike path beside the Hudson River in Lower Manhattan on Tuesday afternoon before he crashed his pickup truck, jumped out with fake guns and was shot by police officer, the authorities said. Federal authorities were treating the incident as… Read more.
A grand jury in Staten Island voted Wednesday not to indict New York City police officer Daniel Pantaleo in the death of Eric Garner, a black man who died after Pantaleo placed him in a chokehold. Garner, 43, died July 17 as he was being arrested for selling untaxed cigarettes. In a video of the arrest,… Read more.
Mandatory Minimums Nothing betrays the latter-day puritanism that governs so much of life in America quite like the hundreds of thousands of people who are incarcerated in state and federal prisons for using drugs… For decades I have been among those calling for decriminalizing non-violent, victimless crimes [like using drugs or selling sex]. Unfortunately this progressive… Read more.
If these politicians were not lead vocals in a chorus of moral crusaders, I would not give their sexual escapades a moment’s thought. For the unadulterated pleasure of afflicting these hypocrites, however, I don’t even mind being bedfellows with a publicity-seeking hustler like Larry Flynt. (“DC Madam outs Sen. David Vitter as a faithful ‘John,’… Read more.
Just two weeks ago New York City policemen killed a knife-wielding man in broad daylight in Times Square. On that occasion they had plenty of time to clear bystanders from their line of fire. Therefore, nobody was injured when two trigger-happy policemen fired 12 shots between them from just three feet away. Local authorities have not… Read more.
