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  • Democrats are in a dither over non-endorsements

    Isn’t biased news coverage enough? Over 250,000 Washington Post readers are canceling their subscriptions because the newspaper, by order of its owner, won’t endorse Kamala Harris for President. Or anyone else. Another large daily, the Los Angeles Times, is also discontinuing candidate endorsements. Mid-level editors, high in dudgeon, are resigning in protest on both coasts. On…

  • Quit blaming police for crime!

    Hello? Anybody home?  The essential Heather Mac Donald in the Wall Street Journal: Police officers aren’t making minority neighborhoods unsafe; criminals are. The four victims of fatal police shootings in Chicago in 2021 were all armed. [They comprise] 0.7% of the 538 homicide victims year to date. Blacks make up 83% of all homicide offenders…

  • Progressives are winning the war on achievement

    “The Bias Fallacy” Excerpted from Heather Mac Donald in the Manhattan Institute’s City Journal: ‘Insufficient diversity results from racial bias, claim the activists,’ and every few days, the press serves up another exposé of this industry or that company’s too-White workforce  to drive home the point. … The Los Angeles Times asked: “Why are Black…

  • Our schools are teaching guilt and victimhood, not responsibility

    No thanks on Thanksgiving? The white lab coats at Blaska Policy Werkes, the indentured servants at the Stately Manor, and the unlettered field hands at the Experimental Work Farm (and Penal Colony) wish you a rewarding Thanksgiving. Have an extra serving of green bean/mushroom soup casserole on us! Topped with packaged onion rings, of course!…

  • Who is killing all the young black men of Madison?

    The inconvenient truth that dare not speak its name The Capital Times discovers another racial disparity and it is worse than Cops in Schools. “African-Americans increasingly targeted as gun homicides spike.” Given the headline’s passive voice, it is fair to ask who is doing this targeting? Who is killing all the young black men of Madison?…

  • Don’t know much about (police) history

    Their minds are closed; don’t confuse them with facts The Madison Common Council did something good Tuesday 05-15-18 and they will get some credit for it: they expressed their appreciation for police during National Police Week. Unanimously. (Their resolution.) Mayor Paul Soglin recalled how Madison’s finest turned back an outbreak of homicides. Ald. Skidmore handed…