Archives for September 2020
BLM Protesters Losing Moral High Ground and Support with Bullying by Day, Rioting by Night
In “Democrats’ Achilles Heel: Ostrich-like Silence on Spikes in Urban Crime” on August 21, and “Folks, If Crime Stats Begin Rivaling Covid Stats, Trump Wins! So Shut Up, AOC!” on July 12, I argued, in fact warned, that BLM protesters are looking too much like marauding rebels without a cause. Only this explains BLM mobs… Read more.
Meanwhile Over in Zimbabwe Life Has Returned to Normal…
Scores of people were arrested Friday in Zimbabwe as hundreds of military troops as well as police attempted to thwart an anti-government protest, with streets empty and many people hiding indoors. … Tensions are rising in Zimbabwe as the economy implodes. Inflation is more than 700%, the second highest in the world. Now the coronavirus… Read more.
Snowden Was Right. But He’s Still Russia’s ‘Useful Idiot’.
Edward Snowden is declaring vindication. I’m still a critic, but I can’t blame him. Seven years after the former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden blew the whistle on the mass surveillance of Americans’ telephone records, an appeals court has found the program was unlawful – and that the US intelligence leaders who publicly defended… Read more.
Germany Confirms What Everyone Knew: Putin Poisoned Navalny
It has been self-evident for years that Russian President Vladimir Putin is determined to “neutralize” anyone who poses a threat to his presidency for life. And no one posed a greater threat than opposition leader Alexei Navalny. This is why I asserted – in “Protests Unmasking the Insecurity and Cowardice Behind Putin’s Swagger and Bravado”… Read more.
In Republishing Images of the Prophet Muhammad, ‘Charlie Hebdo’ Shows Islamophobic Arrogance, Not Democratic Defiance
Five years ago, Islamists attacked the offices of Charlie Hebdo, a satirical French magazine. They did so to avenge its publication of plainly offensive cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad. They not only killed 12 people in that attack, including five famous cartoonists, but executed “a wave of jihadist strikes across France.” I duly commented in… Read more.