Ten years ago today I triggered Seattle with this post on MLK Day in the progressive-decadent free weekly The Stranger after someone unwisely gifted me a week guest-blogging there. Life goes so fast. Washington State has moved to limit elective surgeries, ostensibly in anticipation of a covid surge WASHINGTON (KPTV) – Patient volumes at someContinue reading “Portland Dispatch January 17: The Big Grift Cycle”
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Portland Crow January 6
Portland Dispatch December 29
A gunshot victim found in a tent in North Portland set the city’s annual homicide record at 86 early this morning, but with an accelerating race to the finish, his hold on the title is in no way assured with just a day to go: If the man’s death is confirmed to be a homicide,Continue reading “Portland Dispatch December 29”
Portland Dispatch December 28
On December 10 of this month a Multnomah County judge sentenced a man to ten years in prison for fighting with antifa on streets the Portland police had abandoned in August of 2020. Deputy District Attorney Nathan Vasquez convinced a jury to convict Alan Swinney on 11 of 12 assault counts, two of them levelContinue reading “Portland Dispatch December 28”
From the Vault
OCT 27, 2007 POINT DEFERENCE, WA (UNS*) — Civil rights leaders in this Seattle suburb are up in arms over what they say is the latest incident in a nation-wide trend of hate crimes involving the public display of nooses, a symbol of lynching in the Jim Crow south. A noose was discovered hanging fromContinue reading “From the Vault”
Ugly in Portland, December 2020
Statuary Rape
Portland anarchists crowned a season of monument destruction in October of 2020 when they pulled down the city’s Teddy Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln statues and attacked the nearby Oregon Historical Society–despite its having been so woke and feminist for years it could be called the Oregon Hysterical Society; this on what antifa organizers billed asContinue reading “Statuary Rape”
Down and Out in Portland October 22: Misery under the New Order
Stream of Consciousness
Included in this stream: What Happened: “Dr. Jay Bhattacharya on 19 Months of COVID” from the Hoover Institution’s Uncommon Knowledge with Peter Robinson
Standards, Disparity and Equilibrium
White American and black American culture have always been largely distinct. Until recently, as a matter of course, the European Christian “white” cultural standard determined the nature of our society and law. It had to, just as any nation and society has to have a similar basis. Before the civil rights era of the sixtiesContinue reading “Standards, Disparity and Equilibrium”