Identifying a problem is at best only half the job of fixing the world. Responsibility demands that we must determine whether any proposed solution to the problem will result in actual betterment. No one made this point more strongly that…
I simply can’t believe it. In addition to all the rioting, looting, and destruction of private property there has been an act of unspeakable violence. You might think I am referring to David Dorn, the retired black police officer who…
Richard J. Daley, the old-school mayor of Chicago, told the city’s superintendent during the riots that followed Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination to “shoot to kill any arsonists” and “shoot to maim or cripple anyone looting.” Another of President Lyndon…
Seattle’s silly-season reverie of a largely peaceful commune carved out of its Capitol Hill district ended at 2:19 Saturday morning, June 20. Gunfire killed one and critically wounded another within the CHAZ/CHOP area, already shrunken to three from six square…
In the 1940s, my parents lived in a small Georgia town where my father had his dental practice. He was friends with the chief of police and on good terms with many of the patrolmen. The police station was on…
Last Saturday, conservative journalist Andy Ngo was assaulted by a mob of masked protesters while covering an Antifa demonstration in Portland, Oregon. Ngo, a frequent critic of Antifa and other radical left-wing militant movements, was “punched in the head, covered…
What an amazing last week we’ve had. It’s almost like half of America’s political class set out to prove George Orwell correct in every particular. Orwell, the author of 1984 and Animal Farm, the two most cogent takedowns of socialism…