This article is a ‘must read’. ===== The following is adapted from a speech delivered on January 25, 2018, at Hillsdale College’s Allan P. Kirby, Jr. Center for Constitutional Studies and Citizenship in Washington, D.C., as part of the AWC Family Foundation Lecture Series. Over the past year, facts have emerged that suggest there was a plot by high-ranking FBI and Department... Read more
Archive for the ‘Policing’ Category
The FBI is Politicized
March 1 | Posted by mrossol | Big Govt, Law, Losing Freedom, Policing, US ConstitutionOctober 24 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Law, Obama, Policing, The Left
Please, don’t confuse me with the facts… ============ WSJ 10/24/2016 By Heather Mac Donald FBI Director James Comey has again defied the official White House line on policing and the Black Lives Matter movement. The “narrative that policing is biased and violent and unfair” is resulting in “more dead young black men,” Mr. Comey warned in an Oct. 16 address to the International... Read more
Ambivalent about Crime
August 20 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Henninger, Policing, TrumpOne of the primary roles of government is the safety of its people. =========== WSJ 8/18/2016 Richard Nixon, law and order’s most famous practitioner, used the reality of domestic unrest to defeat Hubert Humphrey in the annus horribilis, 1968. President George W. Bush persuaded voters in 2004 that John Kerry would provide uncertain leadership in the post-9/11 war on terror. Donald Trump, always willing... Read more
Chicago: The Wild, Wild West
June 16 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Obama, Party Politics, Policing, The LeftWell, you asked for it. Be thankful. ============= WSJ 6/16/2016 By Heather Mac Donald Someone was shot in Chicago every 150 minutes during the first five months of 2016. Someone was murdered every 14 hours, and the city saw nearly 1,400 nonfatal shootings and 240 fatalities from gunfire. Over Memorial Day weekend, 69 people were shot, nearly one an hour, topping the previous year’s... Read more
Please, Don’t Confuse Me With Facts
February 15 | Posted by mrossol | Democrat Party, Law, Party Politics, Policing, RacismI’m sure Bernie and Hillary will help get the facts out in the open soon. ======== WSJ 2/12/2016 By Heather Mac Donald A television ad for Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign now airing in South Carolina shows the candidate declaring that “too many encounters with law enforcement end tragically.” She later adds: “We have to face up to the hard truth of injustice and systemic... Read more
Hiding the Rise of Violent Crime
December 26 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Law, Party Politics, Policing, The LeftNot getting the attention it needs to get. I’m disappointed, though not surprised, that the Obama administration as well as many on the Left do not want to have a more open discussion. Where is the Reverend Jesse Jackson? Where is Al Sharpton? Where is Eric Holder? ===== By Heather Mac Donald Dec. 25, 2015 1:09 p.m. WSJ Murders and shootings have spiked in... Read more
