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From The Civil Rights Era, by Hugh Davis Graham: Less apparent at the time was the calculated nature of the black challenge in Birmingham. On the heels of the previous fall’s failed protest campaign in Albany, Georgia, where the polite discipline of Police Chief Laurie Pritchett had defeated demonstrators led by Martin Luther King, the Southern ChristianContinue reading “Violence and Authority”

Young progressive: “We’re not going back to the bigoted past. We know better.” Curmudgeon: “You weren’t even there, dumbass.”

Something happened in the wake of the failed terror attack in Garland. Not so much a shock–it’s been coming in full view for a while–as much as depressing confirmation. The elite media has shown a disturbing willingness to sacrifice the first amendment, among other things, as a necessary concession to Diversity. From Eric Wemple’s blog: MSNBC’sContinue reading “She should have known what we all know isn’t true”

The other day the president asserted the media is deliberately misleading the nation on the extent of violence by protesters in Baltimore by showing the same footage of a burning CVS, over and over. I think he’s not so much ignorant or dishonest as he is confused. He probably saw this remarkable footage of aContinue reading “President Obama and the Clown Car Liquor Store”

The violence that happened yesterday distracted from the fact that you had seen multiple days of peaceful protests that were focused on entirely legitimate concerns of these communities in Baltimore, led by clergy and community leaders. And they were constructive and they were thoughtful. And frankly it didn’t get that much attention. And one burningContinue reading “Rumsfeld Obama Spring Mashup: Don’t Trust the Media!”

When I sat down to write this last night, Martin O’Malley, feeling duty-bound as former mayor, was the only presidential candidate to address the rioting in Baltimore. I get up this morning and find them all jockeying to be least offensive in lamenting violence they don’t dare condemn. Only the president was unequivocally condemnatory ofContinue reading “Clowns to the left of me, Jokers to the right…”

Watched Die Hard again recently and was struck by the scene where Reginald VelJohnson’s black LAPD patrolman explains to John McClain he’s working a quiet beat (unnamed Century City) on Christmas Eve because after mistakenly shooting a kid with a toy raygun he doesn’t think he’ll ever be able to draw his service revolver againContinue reading “Cover Version”

One may cover over secret actions, but to be silent on what all the world knows, and things which have had effects which are public and of so much consequence, is an inexcusable defect.–Montaigne, On the Duty of HistoriansAppropriate condemnation for those, from the University to Fox News, determined to enforce our continuing misunderstanding of race and its problems.Continue reading “Quote of the Day”