Blue Stories Matter

For years I worked as police reporter for The Washington Times, spending long hours in squad cars in various cities getting to know cops well. Now I listen to nice white people in the suburbs, and self-assured voices from NPR, talking about the police. They know nothing of the world where the police work. They do not know the bad sections at 3 a.m., the yawning dark alleys and lightless facades of buildings, the boredom, and the radio, the soul of a squad car, the laconic chat of the net. Slow night. Not all are slow. I rode one night with the Arlington force, the Virginia county just ...

Elon’s Coddled, Swaddled Nazis

To get the formalities out of the way, yes, I was perma-banned from Twitter by the “free speech” Musk regime. And I gotta say, I’d come to really like many of my followers, ...

Remembering My Hitler Youth

Growing up, I was genuinely obsessed by Adolf Hitler and his Nazis. If I ever found myself daydreaming in class, I would doodle swastikas and cartoon drawings of Hitler’s head ...

A Pug’s Life

I have never really understood why people like pug dogs. They seem to me ugly, they run to fat, and because of their pushed-in snouts and widely spaced eyes, they are ...

The Beautiful Humanity on Death Row

The New York Times is weeping over the death penalty again, publishing a glowing review of Nashville reporter Steven Hale's book Death Row Welcomes You. Obviously, it's an ...

From The Jackie Robinson Story

The Return of Skepticism

McKinsey & Company, the famous management consulting firm, has published a number of wildly popular reports during the Great Awokening—such as 2015’s “Diversity Matters,” ...

Joe Flaherty

Funny as a Crutch, or a Wheelchair

Yes, for those who are asking, Elon nuked me from Twitter. Perma-ban—irreversible. Yes, it involved the Holocaust. But let’s talk about that next week, okay? Because a great ...

Confected Controversy: Is White Chocolate Racist?

Did you eat a lot of chocolate for Easter last weekend? If so, did your choice of which particular color of candy egg to swallow say something deeply significant about you as a ...

Donald Trump

Trumped-Up Charges

Several of my American friends expressed to me their outrage at the recent trial of Donald Trump, his sons and associates, in New York for civil fraud, resulting in a huge and ...

King Felipe VI of Spain

Scientific Racism?

As floods of genomic data pour in on ancestral variations among humans, the Establishment increasingly double dumbs down on the question of whether or not race even exists. For ...

Dining Nazis, Whining Jews

I’ve done three straight weeks of politics, so let’s lighten the mood with the Holocaust. Wait, that came out wrong. I mean, let’s lighten the mood with Hollywood. And the ...

April Fools’ Day—Every Day!

In this Year of Our Lord 2024, it is now becoming increasingly difficult to tell the real news stories from the fake-news spoofs. I recently saw a story with the headline “Gay ...

In My House!

What if you come home and find strangers living in your house? I assumed you order the squatters out, and if they resist, call the police, and they will kick them ...

Hampstead Heath, John Constable

Untrue Believers

Sometimes I wonder whether the true aim of modern “progressives”—progress toward what, one is tempted to ask—is to provoke such a strong and even violent reaction among ...


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