Mad Dogs & Englishmen

It’s Past Time to Examine How Police Unions Protect Bad Cops

By John Fund

Police brutality has been seared into the consciousness of many Americans -- especially blacks -- since the 1960s, when TV showed civil-rights protestors being clubbed and hosed by Jim Crow police departments. After every nationally publicized incident -- the latest being the horrific death of George Floyd -- ... Read More

It’s Past Time to Examine How Police Unions Protect Bad Cops

By John Fund

Police brutality has been seared into the consciousness of many Americans -- especially blacks -- since the 1960s, when TV showed civil-rights protestors being clubbed and hosed by Jim Crow police departments. After every nationally publicized incident -- the latest being the horrific death of George Floyd -- ... Read More

No, Martin Luther King Was Not Pro-Riot

By Kyle Smith

Among the more contemptible rhetorical tricks used this past weekend was the hijacking of Martin Luther King Jr. to enlist him in the cause of rioting. Celebrities, activists, leading journalistic institutions, and even the Martin Luther King Jr. Center itself are participating in a misinformation campaign by ... Read More

No, Martin Luther King Was Not Pro-Riot

By Kyle Smith

Among the more contemptible rhetorical tricks used this past weekend was the hijacking of Martin Luther King Jr. to enlist him in the cause of rioting. Celebrities, activists, leading journalistic institutions, and even the Martin Luther King Jr. Center itself are participating in a misinformation campaign by ... Read More

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Research: One Group Spread 65% Of All COVID-19 Cases Across US

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Research: One Group Spread 65% Of All COVID-19 Cases Across US

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Joe Biden Doesn’t Know How Guns Work

By Dan McLaughlin

Joe Biden can best capitalize on the rioting following the death of George Floyd in the same way he can best capitalize on anything in 2020: by keeping quiet and out of sight. Unfortunately for Biden, he does occasionally show up and say things. And then this happens: He suggests that police should be trained ... Read More

Joe Biden Doesn’t Know How Guns Work

By Dan McLaughlin

Joe Biden can best capitalize on the rioting following the death of George Floyd in the same way he can best capitalize on anything in 2020: by keeping quiet and out of sight. Unfortunately for Biden, he does occasionally show up and say things. And then this happens: He suggests that police should be trained ... Read More

The ‘Very Fine People’ Trap and How to Avoid It Today

By Dan McLaughlin

Violent, racially charged disorder in our nation’s cities, and the involvement of Antifa, evokes memories of the lowest moment of Donald Trump’s presidency: the August 2017 “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Va., that erupted in violence that left one protestor dead and many more injured. Joe ... Read More

The ‘Very Fine People’ Trap and How to Avoid It Today

By Dan McLaughlin

Violent, racially charged disorder in our nation’s cities, and the involvement of Antifa, evokes memories of the lowest moment of Donald Trump’s presidency: the August 2017 “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Va., that erupted in violence that left one protestor dead and many more injured. Joe ... Read More

NR PLUS Elections

Biden as Paradox

By Victor Davis Hanson

It is now conventional punditry that should Joe Biden win in November, his vice president, in 1944-style, will sooner rather than later become president. Biden, to reboot and secure the identity-politics base, thought he had to discriminate by sex and race in advance by selecting his vice president. But given ... Read More

NR PLUS Elections

Biden as Paradox

By Victor Davis Hanson

It is now conventional punditry that should Joe Biden win in November, his vice president, in 1944-style, will sooner rather than later become president. Biden, to reboot and secure the identity-politics base, thought he had to discriminate by sex and race in advance by selecting his vice president. But given ... Read More

Forget the Name, Antifa Is No Better Than the Fascists

By David Harsanyi

Perhaps the most nonsensical talking point offered by Antifa apologists was to claim that the group couldn’t possibly be nefarious or violent because its members are anti-fascists -- it says so right there in the name! https://twitter.com/robdelaney/status/1267136748691296259 I apologize for singling out ... Read More

Forget the Name, Antifa Is No Better Than the Fascists

By David Harsanyi

Perhaps the most nonsensical talking point offered by Antifa apologists was to claim that the group couldn’t possibly be nefarious or violent because its members are anti-fascists -- it says so right there in the name! https://twitter.com/robdelaney/status/1267136748691296259 I apologize for singling out ... Read More

NYPD Counterterrorism Head Says Organized Groups Planned Looting in Wealthy Neighborhoods

By Zachary Evans

Widespread looting in New York City was planned advance by a coordinated group seeking to target wealthy neighborhoods, the head of the NYPD's counterterrorism unit said on Sunday. A number of stores, many of them in the upscale Soho neighborhood in Lower Manhattan, were looted on Sunday evening during ... Read More

NYPD Counterterrorism Head Says Organized Groups Planned Looting in Wealthy Neighborhoods

By Zachary Evans

Widespread looting in New York City was planned advance by a coordinated group seeking to target wealthy neighborhoods, the head of the NYPD's counterterrorism unit said on Sunday. A number of stores, many of them in the upscale Soho neighborhood in Lower Manhattan, were looted on Sunday evening during ... Read More

Police Disperse Protesters with Tear Gas, Rubber Bullets Outside White House as Trump Addresses the Nation

By Tobias Hoonhout

President Trump promised that he “will fight to protect” the nation in an address from the Rose Garden Monday night as protestors clashed with police less than a mile away amid nationwide protests stemming from the death of George Floyd. "I am mobilizing all available federal resources, civilian and ... Read More

Police Disperse Protesters with Tear Gas, Rubber Bullets Outside White House as Trump Addresses the Nation

By Tobias Hoonhout

President Trump promised that he “will fight to protect” the nation in an address from the Rose Garden Monday night as protestors clashed with police less than a mile away amid nationwide protests stemming from the death of George Floyd. "I am mobilizing all available federal resources, civilian and ... Read More

Family Medical Examiner Concludes George Floyd Died of Asphyxia, Rules Death a Homicide

By Zachary Evans

An independent autopsy commissioned by the family of George Floyd found that Floyd died from asphyxia caused by pressure to the neck and back, which stopped blood flow to his brain, attorneys for the family told reporters. Floyd also had no underlying health condition that contributed to his death, according ... Read More

Family Medical Examiner Concludes George Floyd Died of Asphyxia, Rules Death a Homicide

By Zachary Evans

An independent autopsy commissioned by the family of George Floyd found that Floyd died from asphyxia caused by pressure to the neck and back, which stopped blood flow to his brain, attorneys for the family told reporters. Floyd also had no underlying health condition that contributed to his death, according ... Read More