FOX IS REPORTING that both suspects in the Dallas police shootings are now in custody.
Archive for 2016
July 8, 2016
CNN: Fourth officer died after being shot during a protest in Dallas, police tweeted.
More at the NBC-DFW Website: 4 Police Officers Dead After Shooting in Downtown Dallas.
July 7, 2016
“SOCIAL JUSTICE” IN A NUTSHELL: Yelling ‘I hate white people’ and punching one isn’t a hate crime, Canadian judge rules. Most of the WaPo story isn’t about the actual assault, but about how racist Canada has always been.
MORE ON DALLAS: 3 Police Officers Dead After Shooting in Downtown Dallas.
Three officers are dead, and at least seven others are injured in downtown Dallas Thursday, Dallas Police Chief David Brown says.
The entire statement follows:
“Tonight it appears that two snipers shot ten police officers from elevated positions during the protest/rally. Three officers are deceased, two are in surgery and three are in critical condition. An intensive search for suspects is currently underway. No suspects are in custody at this time. We ask that any citizen with information regarding the shootings tonight call 214-671-3482.
We will provide more information once it is available. Please keep us in your thoughts and prayers tonight.”Gunshots rang out following a protest and rally held over police shootings in other parts of the U.S.
The shootings took place as a rally and march in downtown was ending. The rally was held to show solidarity with communities affected by officer-involved shootings this week in Louisiana and Minnesota.
1968 sucked the first time around.
MEANWHILE, IF YOU REPORT AN ACTUAL TERRORIST THEY CALL YOU AN ISLAMOPHOBE: NSA classifies Linux Journal readers, Tor and Tails Linux users as “extremists.”
REPORT: Two Cops Shot At Black Lives Matter Protest In Dallas.
The usual cautions about early reports apply, of course.
THE NRA ALWAYS WAITS TO WEIGH IN, BUT THERE’S THIS: Second Amendment Foundation Calls for Independent Investigation of Philando Castile’s Death. “Exercising our right to bear arms should not translate to a death sentence over something so trivial as a traffic stop for a broken tail light, and we are going to watch this case with a magnifying glass.”
WHY ARE LEFTY COMPANIES SUCH CESSPITS OF DISCRIMINATION? Federal investigators probe Google over age-discrimination complaints.
WHY ARE DEMOCRAT-RUN CITIES SUCH CESSPITS OF OFFICIAL RACISM AND VIOLENCE? Philando Castile Shooting Fits a Pattern of Violence Toward Blacks, Governor Says.
UPDATE: Related:
ROBBY SOAVE ON PHILANDO CASTILE:
During a subsequent press conference, Diamond Reynolds—Castile’s girlfriend—insisted that he had done nothing wrong. And she’s right. They were stopped because their car had a broken tail light. That’s it.
In Minnesota, citizens are allowed to carry firearms if they have a permit to do so. Castile was merely exercising his Second Amendment rights. His decision to inform the officer about his weapon was courteous, but not legally required. Permit holders in Minnesota do not need to tell cops that they are carrying firearms unless specifically asked.
It seems fairly clearly, then, that Castile is in some sense a Second Amendment martyr: He was killed by a police officer because he was exercising his rights.
I’ve seen some carry-rights advocates — e.g., Nikki Goeser — making just this point. On the other hand, I’m slower than I used to be to weigh in on these cases because the initial reports — see, e.g., Ferguson — were so one-sidedly wrong. For example, the officer who shot Castile was apparently “Chinese,” which suggests that efforts to shoehorn this into a Bull Connor-style white-racism narrative may be off base, not that that’s stopped anyone.
SURPRISE! State Dept. to Reopen Clinton Email Probe: “Even the Democrats know that somebody is going to need to get blamed for this mess eventually. The FBI and DOJ have now punted back to State in order for a Hillary surrogate or two to fall on their swords.”
Take heart whoever you are, soon-to-be fall guy who will bring new meaning to the phrase, “Ready for Hillary.” As Mark Steyn has written, “When the British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan dumped some of his closest cabinet colleagues to extricate himself from a political crisis, the Liberal leader Jeremy Thorpe responded: ‘Greater love hath no man than to lay down his friends for his life.’” Bill and Hillary’s careers are testaments to that phrase.
I’m skeptical that this is really an issue, but it’s certainly not an issue at the University of Tennessee College of Law, where all our non-adjunct faculty are on the tenure track, including writing faculty. (And our writing program, which has students writing a lot of papers even in their first year, really works. When I was new, I had to do a lot of English-teacher work on student papers; now they’re all well-written.)
TWEET OF THE WEEK:
HERE’S A SHOOTING OF AN UNARMED YOUNG MAN THAT YOU HAVEN’T HEARD ABOUT.
GANGSTER GOVERNMENT: Congressional Report: Obama Administration Withheld Information on Illegal ObamaCare Payments. Knowing violation of the law.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: ‘I Kind of Ruined My Life by Going to College’: 4 Student Debt Horror Stories.
If only someone had foreseen this.
KURT SCHLICHTER: You Need To Suck It Up And Vote For Trump.
LOOSE LIPS SINK SHIPS: (Post BUMPED AND UPDATED.) My latest Observer essay. World War II’s sobering rhyme “Loose Lips Sink Ships” reminded America that failure to protect national security secrets exacted a harsh price in blood. Even minimal negligence—much less the gross negligence exhibited by Hillary Clinton—could provide an enemy enough information to damage the U.S. and allied war effort and kill American servicemen and women.
This essay builds on Comey’s sellout.
UPDATES: PJ MEDIA has a copy of Speaker Ryan’s letter. Ed has already linked to Andrew McCarthy’s essay analyzing Hillary’s damage to US national security. Here’s a key quote:
Unlike most criminal statutes, the felony of grossly negligent mishandling of classified information does not call for prosecutors to prove that a defendant intended the harm done. It merely requires proof of gross negligence – which is no different from what Comey compellingly demonstrated was Clinton’s “extreme carelessness” in mishandling national defense secrets.
When loose lips sink ships — or even put ships at risk– the loose lips have earned prosecution. The “lipster’s” intent matters not.
THIS SHOULD NOT COME AS A SURPRISE: Marginal Tax Rates Matter To Star Scientists (And To The Rest Of Us).
BECAUSE APPARENTLY WE’VE RUN OUT OF GENUINE CONCERNS: “Great beer is too cheap.”
ANDREW McCARTHY: For Any ‘Reasonable’ Prosecutor, Damage to National Security Would Outweigh ‘Extremely Careless’ Hillary’s (Largely Irrelevant) Intent.
As Ace of Spades writes, “No matter what you probe Hillary did, Comey ups the ante for what he claims must be proven, then says it’s not proven…Almost like he was employing motivated reasoning to get to the conclusion he favored from the start. He has simply rewritten the statute, completely, to give Hillary another Clinton Gets Out of Jail card.”
UPDATE: No malice aforethought here: “Dear God, Comey admits under oath her attorneys scrubbed devices in a way to prevent forensic recovery…Astounding.”
RUSSIA REINFORCES KALININGRAD: The NATO summit meeting in Warsaw begins July 8. The Kremlin has been huffing and puffing and muscle-flexing for months, trying to rattle Eastern European NATO members. Kaliningrad figured prominently in month’s NATO wargame in Poland. The Kaliningrad Oblast (an exclave on the Baltic Sea wedged between Lithuania and Poland) is heavily fortified. Apparently the Kremlin is beefing up ground forces and upgrading anti-aircraft defenses in the exclave.