In 1993, Richard Allen Davis, an ex-con with an 11-page rap sheet, broke into a Petaluma, California, home, kidnapped Polly Klaas, 12, then strangled her to death. It was a horrific crime — a sweet child snatched during a slumber…
Easter I am pretty darned old by now. Seriously old. 78. I often feel pretty bad about it. I am weaker. I have less endurance of any kind. Cruelly enough, food does not taste as delicious as it used to…
Gentleman Bandit: The True Story of Black Bart, the Old West’s Most Infamous Stagecoach Robber By John Boessenecker (Hanover Square Press, 376 pages, $32.99) Stagecoach holdups were a staple of those Western movies of the fifties that I so enjoyed…
Conservatives can congratulate themselves for not giving up hope in the wake of the 2020 George Floyd imbroglio and Republican defeat at the polls. The attacks on police funding all over the country became epidemic. Black Lives Matter (BLM) activists…
A Heart Full of Headstones: An Inspector Rebus Novel By Ian Rankin (Little, Brown, 335 pages, $28) After over-dosing on political reading, writing, and viewing for weeks (it seemed much longer, and it starts again soon), I felt justified in…
The long and disturbing rap sheet of Frank James, the black nationalist New York City subway shooter arrested on Wednesday and charged by federal prosecutors with one count of committing a terrorist act against a mass transportation system, ought to…
New Yorker Michelle Go was pushed in front of a moving subway train, Sandra Shells was waiting for a bus in Los Angeles, and Brianna Kupfer was working in a furniture store when their lives were taken from them. All…
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) claimed that President Joe Biden is “well on his way to becoming the most pro-crime administration in history” at an event Friday hosted by the Manhattan Institute in Washington, D.C. Cotton asserted that Democrats are “pro-riot,…
Washington President Donald Trump crowed Friday when a Swedish judge released New York rapper A$AP Rocky from custody pending the judge’s verdict on an assault charge. The verdict will be announced on August 14. “A$AP Rocky released from prison and…