Memo to the Hollywood child-rapist apologists: You do know you that we’re going to boycott your film projects, don’t you?
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Tired of ‘Winning’ Yet?
I’ve never really thought of Mark Steyn as a Palestinian suicide bomber before.
You’ll want some context.
Steyn, a wonderful writer and former National Review colleague, was filling in for Rush Limbaugh a few weeks ago, and he made the case for using antitrust law to bully technology platforms such as ...
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Tired of ‘Winning’ Yet?
I’ve never really thought of Mark Steyn as a Palestinian suicide bomber before.
You’ll want some context.
Steyn, a wonderful writer and former National Review colleague, was filling in for Rush Limbaugh a few weeks ago, and he made the case for using antitrust law to bully technology platforms such as ...
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Why Did It Take So Long to Arrest Derek Chauvin?
Rich and I were still recording The McCarthy Report this afternoon when news broke that former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin had been arrested for the murder of George Floyd. The homicide occurred on Monday. Today is Friday. That’s why, before we heard the news, I spent several podcast minutes ...
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Why Did It Take So Long to Arrest Derek Chauvin?
Rich and I were still recording The McCarthy Report this afternoon when news broke that former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin had been arrested for the murder of George Floyd. The homicide occurred on Monday. Today is Friday. That’s why, before we heard the news, I spent several podcast minutes ...
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The Need to Discuss Black-on-Black Crime
Thomas Abt’s book Bleeding Out (2019) has garnered a fair amount of attention for its proposals to deal with gun violence in mainly black urban neighborhoods. The entire focus of the book is on interventions in high-crime locations to stem the violence, including: hot-spots policing, working with young males at ...
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The Need to Discuss Black-on-Black Crime
Thomas Abt’s book Bleeding Out (2019) has garnered a fair amount of attention for its proposals to deal with gun violence in mainly black urban neighborhoods. The entire focus of the book is on interventions in high-crime locations to stem the violence, including: hot-spots policing, working with young males at ...
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Jason Isbell’s Alt-Alt-Country Masterpiece
There has long been a chasmic disconnect between the creators and the consumers of Americana music. The Americana songwriter still wants to be Woody Guthrie, but the Americana listener stopped being Tom Joad about 60 years ago. Americana — or alt-country, or folk, or whatever we’re calling it this week — ...
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Jason Isbell’s Alt-Alt-Country Masterpiece
There has long been a chasmic disconnect between the creators and the consumers of Americana music. The Americana songwriter still wants to be Woody Guthrie, but the Americana listener stopped being Tom Joad about 60 years ago. Americana — or alt-country, or folk, or whatever we’re calling it this week — ...
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Anger Is Justified, Riots Never Are
Sometimes a responsibility falls to you that you never anticipated. Sometimes history just demands that someone should say it: Riots are bad. Riots are never a coherent or moral response to injustice, they just multiply injustices and the rioters themselves often suffer more in the long run.
Unfortunately it ...
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Anger Is Justified, Riots Never Are
Sometimes a responsibility falls to you that you never anticipated. Sometimes history just demands that someone should say it: Riots are bad. Riots are never a coherent or moral response to injustice, they just multiply injustices and the rioters themselves often suffer more in the long run.
Unfortunately it ...
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‘Why Do I Have to Play By Somebody’s Rules if There’s No Justice?’: MSNBC Anchor Empathizes with Rioters, Looters on Hot Mic
An MSNBC anchor covering the George Floyd protests in Minneapolis appeared to sympathize with the lawlessness on display in a conversation with a Black Lives Matter activist captured on a hot mic.
MSNBC’s Ali Velshi provided live coverage to the network throughout the protests on Thursday night, with a ...
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‘Why Do I Have to Play By Somebody’s Rules if There’s No Justice?’: MSNBC Anchor Empathizes with Rioters, Looters on Hot Mic
An MSNBC anchor covering the George Floyd protests in Minneapolis appeared to sympathize with the lawlessness on display in a conversation with a Black Lives Matter activist captured on a hot mic.
MSNBC’s Ali Velshi provided live coverage to the network throughout the protests on Thursday night, with a ...
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Why Does the CDC Think the COVID-19 Fatality Rate Is So Low, and Why Won’t It Tell Anyone?
Last week I was searching the Internet for some COVID-19 statistic or other, and I came across a new CDC website. The site featured some numbers the federal government is using to model the spread of the epidemic. One in particular caught my eye: 0.4 percent, the “current best estimate” of the disease's ...
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Why Does the CDC Think the COVID-19 Fatality Rate Is So Low, and Why Won’t It Tell Anyone?
Last week I was searching the Internet for some COVID-19 statistic or other, and I came across a new CDC website. The site featured some numbers the federal government is using to model the spread of the epidemic. One in particular caught my eye: 0.4 percent, the “current best estimate” of the disease's ...
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Protesting Works. Rioting Doesn’t.
The tragic death of George Floyd on May 25 in Minneapolis has set off massive protests in the city and elsewhere. The protesters point to a video in which a police officer uses his knee to restrain Floyd, applying pressure to his neck for several minutes, as Floyd protests that he can’t breathe. This will ...
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Protesting Works. Rioting Doesn’t.
The tragic death of George Floyd on May 25 in Minneapolis has set off massive protests in the city and elsewhere. The protesters point to a video in which a police officer uses his knee to restrain Floyd, applying pressure to his neck for several minutes, as Floyd protests that he can’t breathe. This will ...
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Atlanta Mayor Condemns Rioters
At a press conference Friday night, Atlanta mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, unlike many political leaders across the country, provided moral clarity on the riots:
https://twitter.com/BNONews/status/1266547800092876802
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Atlanta Mayor Condemns Rioters
At a press conference Friday night, Atlanta mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, unlike many political leaders across the country, provided moral clarity on the riots:
https://twitter.com/BNONews/status/1266547800092876802
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