September 12, 2026

JOURNALISM’S SELF-DESTRUCTION:

Posted at 9:43 am by Glenn Reynolds

ACADEMIA’S SELF DESTRUCTION.

Posted at 9:42 am by Glenn Reynolds

DEMOCRATIC PARTY PULLS SUPPORT FOR NC HOUSE CANDIDATE SHELLY HEADEN:

[Headen’s] posts include comments about an attack on some conservative states and suggest violence could be more effective than peaceful protest.

The party said the comments “violate everything our party represents.”*

Headen told WFDD she does not remember making the posts but apologized to those hurt by them. She said she understands the party’s decision to withdraw its support.

“They’re doing what’s best for the party, and that’s what they should do,” Headen said. “At the end of the day, we just need to get back to normalcy. Whatever it takes. If, you know, one person gets sacrificed which is me, that’s fine.”

* And/or she’s saying out loud what far too many on the left believe:

Tweet concludes:

She said: “I think our only hope is an attack on US soil, preferably Alabama, Louisiana where the stupid people live.”

She said: “I’ve sacrificed myself just like Jesus sacrificed himself on the cross, and Martin Luther King and Abraham Lincoln and all the people that put themselves out there to sacrifice for our country,” she said. “If a few angry moments on social media are the end, then so be it. MAGA will keep winning if we continue with not standing up for what’s right.”

And:

Turley’s tweet concludes:

“Visiting Dauchau [sic] Concentration Camp in Germany… This is where Trump supporters belong.”

As he writes in a follow-up tweet, “Headen is an example of how rage can consume you. What these rage addicts do not admit is that they like it.”

Posted at 8:14 am by Ed Driscoll

THE TOXIC WORLD-VIEW OF TA-NEHISI COATES:

Tweet concludes, “All I knew was that Bin Laden was not the first man to bring terror to that section of the city. I never forgot that. Neither should you. In the days after, I watched the ridiculous pageantry of flags, the machismo of firemen, the overwrought slogans. Damn it all. I could see no difference between the officer who killed Prince Jones and the police who died, or the firefighters who died. They were not human to me. Black, white, or whatever, they were the menaces of nature; they were the fire, the comet, the storm, which could—with no justification—shatter my body.”

(Classical reference in headline.)

Posted at 7:45 am by Ed Driscoll

September 11, 2026

COURAGE:

UPDATE:

Posted at 11:12 pm by Glenn Reynolds

OPEN THREAD: Ring in the weekend.

Posted at 9:30 pm by Glenn Reynolds

LINDSAY CLANCY FAN FINDING OUT HOLDOUT JUROR IS ‘BLACK’ MAY BE THE GREATEST THING ON THE INTERNET:

There are those watershed moments in internet history when it makes journalisming all worth it.

Such is the case when a Lindsay Clancy fan found out the mind-bending news that the lone holdout juror in the Clancy case who forced a mistrial was… *gasp“… black.

The TikTok crime pseudo-expert, who goes by the handle @paigearony, really sums up the absurdity of identity politics being involved in criminal cases.

“I’m a non-practicing white… it changes the landscape of the conversation a little bit. A lot of us were assuming it was a white man.”

I can’t get past the “non-practicing white” line. Here we have a person assuming that being white is like a social affliction, rather than the shorthand description for a person with sparse melanin content.

It’s apparently real — and spectacularly silly:

Posted at 7:45 pm by Ed Driscoll

PRO-CLANCY JUROR IS ASKED HOW THE 11 WHITE JURORS TRIED TO GET THE BLACK HOLDOUT TO CAVE:

Meanwhile, Sue O’Connell of Boston’s NBC affiliate is doxxing the lone holdout:

And she’s not taking the pushback from social media very well:

Finally, at America’s Newspaper of Record:

UPDATE:

Tweet concludes, “the unanimous verdict requirement exists precisely so one person can refuse to go along. If being that person now means risking all of your laundry being aired out to your community that can easily identify you, we’ve essentially converted unanimity to majority rule by intimidation.”

Posted at 7:25 pm by Ed Driscoll

PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RESULTS:

Shot:

 

Chaser: Gabrielle Giffords shooting fuels debate over rhetoric.

Has the nation’s harsh political rhetoric become more than just talk — to the point of being dangerous?

The attempted assassination of Arizona Democratic Rep. Gabrielle Giffords as she spoke with voters outside a grocery store in Tucson fueled a debate Sunday over whether the sharp partisanship and anti-government language that now mark American politics have created a climate that makes violence against public officials more likely.

As a moderate Democrat who barely won re-election in a state torn by disputes over immigration policy, economic angst and growing mistrust in the government, Giffords was familiar with today’s increasingly nasty political rhetoric. Her opponent last fall accused her of betraying her district. Meanwhile, former Alaska governor Sarah Palin’s website posted a map with cross hairs on 20 Democrat-held congressional districts Palin was targeting for takeover by Republicans in the November elections. Giffords’ was one of them.

“You can’t say they’re just words; they have consequences,” said South Carolina Rep. James Clyburn, a member of the Democratic leadership. He said he worries about the effect of words on “people who may not be clicking on all cylinders.”

He cautioned, “We need to take a look at what we’re drifting into here.”

—USA Today, January 9th, 2011.

Posted at 5:14 pm by Ed Driscoll