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Archive for 2017
October 4, 2017
ROBERT BYRD AND WOODROW WILSON COULD NOT BE REACHED FOR COMMENT: Black Lives Matter Students Shut Down the ACLU’s Campus Free Speech Event Because ‘Liberalism Is White Supremacy.’
BECAUSE HE COULD? Why ‘the most interesting man in the world’ ditched beer for tequila.
SOMEWHERE, FRED HOYLE IS SMILING: We’re More Confident Than Ever That Life on Earth Really Did Come From Meteorites.
LAWMAKERS WARN TWITTER CEO: ‘Eliminate Racially Divisive Communications’ or Face New Regs, Government Oversight.
THEY MUST WANT MORE TRUMP: Trump will win in 2020 if the left keeps calling him a racist.
Robert Robb:
I now believe that the left will re-elect Trump. The ruction over NFL players taking a knee during the national anthem illustrates the point.
The left has talked itself into believing that Trump’s alleged appeals to white racism were what put him over the top.
More astute psephologists have pointed out that the actual difference was made by people in industrial states who previously had voted for Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012, but switched to Trump over Hillary Clinton in 2016. Hard to attribute those decisions to white racism.
Nevertheless, the left now interprets all of Trump’s actions through the prism of perceived appeals to white racism. If Trump were to tweet, “It’s a lovely day in Washington,” the left would denounce it as a dog whistle to white supremacists.
Which brings us to the NFL ruction. Players began kneeling during the national anthem reportedly to protest what they regard as racial injustice in the United States. Trump denounced them in Trumpian fashion.
According to the left, since the players were protesting racial injustice, Trump was endorsing racial injustice by criticizing them. There goes that dog whistle!
To most Americans, that’s nuts.
Well, yes. But as Bill Whittle likes to say, if Republicans didn’t have Democrats to run against, they’d lose every time.
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KNOWN WOLF: Man charged in Edmonton attacks was ordered deported from U.S. in 2011.
The Somali refugee accused of stabbing an Edmonton police constable on the weekend and running down four pedestrians was ordered to be deported from the United States in 2011 by a U.S. immigration judge, CBC News has learned.
In July 2011, U.S. Customs and Border Protection transferred Abdulahi Hasan Sharif into the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement at Otay Mesa Detention Center in San Diego, Calif., according to Jennifer D. Elzea, acting press secretary for the ICE office of public affairs.
Two months later, on Sept. 22, 2011, an immigration judge ordered Sharif removed to Somalia. Sharif waived his right to appeal that decision.
But Sharif was released on Nov. 23, 2011, on an ICE order of supervision, “due to a lack of likelihood of his removal in the reasonably foreseeable future,” Elzea said in a statement to CBC News.
And then they lost track of him.
PLUG-IN: The 2017 Chevrolet Volt.
THE CUBA CONUNDRUM: Who is Attacking our Diplomats and Spies in Cuba?
JEFF DUNETZ: If Only Thomas Friedman Had A Brain.
SO WHAT YOU’RE SAYING IS, THEY’RE NOT DUMBASSES: They Survived the Las Vegas Shooting. But They Don’t Want More Gun Control.
The lefty media hates it when people retain the capacity for rational thought after a tragedy.
THE MADNESS OF SAINT WOODROW: Or, What If the United States Had Stayed out of the Great War?
What the retraction fails to mention is how a mistake this big got through.
TRUST THE GOVERNMENT: Known Terrorists Under Witness Protection Roaming The Country Pretty Much Unattended.
AN IMPORTANT MESSAGE FROM NYT’S FRANK BRUNI: Democrats, Please Get Ready to Lose.
JIM TREACHER LAST YEAR: Tom Petty Was A Prophet.
WALTER WILLIAMS: Blacks versus Police.
According to “The Washington Post,” 737 people have been shot and killed by police this year in the United States. Of that number, there were 329 whites, 165 blacks, 112 Hispanics, 24 members of other races and 107 people whose race was unknown. In Illinois, home to one of our most dangerous cities — Chicago — 18 people have been shot and killed by police this year. In the city itself, police have shot and killed ten people and shot and wounded ten others. Somebody should ask the kneeling black NFL players why they are protesting this kind of killing in the Windy City and ignoring other sources of black death.
Here are the Chicago numbers for the ignored deaths. So far in 2017, there have been 533 murders and 2,880 shootings. On average, a person is shot every two hours and 17 minutes and murdered every 12 1/2 hours. In 2016, when Colin Kaepernick started taking a knee, Chicago witnessed 806 murders and 4,379 shootings. It turns out that most of the murder victims are black. Adding to the tragedy is the fact that Chicago has a 12.7 percent murder clearance rate. That means that when a black person is murdered, his perpetrator is found and charged with his murder less than 13 percent of the time.
Similar statistics regarding police killing blacks versus blacks killing blacks apply to many of our predominantly black urban centers, such as Philadelphia, Baltimore, New Orleans, St. Louis and Oakland. Many Americans, including me, see the black NFL player protest of police brutality as pathetic, useless showboating. Seeing as these players have made no open protest against the thousands of blacks being murdered and maimed by blacks, they must view it as trivial in comparison with the police killings. Most of the police killings fit into the category of justified homicide.
But that’s different because shut up.
NEXT, THEY’LL PROBABLY GET A CONTRACT TO HANDLE IRS DATA: Every Yahoo account that existed—all 3 billion—was compromised in 2013 hack.
COVERING THE IMPORTANT ISSUES: Welcome to AP vs. Chicago: A Style Guide for Editors, Writers, and Word Nerds.
IT KEEPS GETTING WEIRDER: Paddock’s Girlfriend Used Two Social Security Numbers and Was Married to Two Men at the Same Time.