Category Archives: Political Commentary

Democrats

Thoughts from Bob Zimmerman on their increasing disconnect from reality on guns.

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Related: The Democrats’ compassion gap on terrorism.

They reserve their compassion for the enemy.

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Here’s an example. Yes, the Obama administration nixed a probe into the California jihadis.

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And this: Whistleblower says Obama more concerned with rights of Islamists than with protecting the American people. That’s pretty obvious.

Perp-Walk Shots

Ken White has some questions for Reuters:

Who leaked the time and place of the arrest? Was it an FBI agent, a prosecutor, staff, a coordinating local cop? How high up in the government did the decision to leak the arrest go? Did the leak violate the law? Did it violate the defendant’s rights? What was the government’s purpose in leaking the time and place of the arrest? How does this instance fit into the pattern of which arrests get leaked and which don’t? Which nonviolent defendants without records get arrested, and which get summonsed in (or self-surrender through arrangement with their lawyers), and why? What impact does a front-page picture of a defendant in handcuffs have on the jury pool? Is that impact a feature, or a bug, of leaking it? Was the leak intended to inflict extra-judicial humiliation and punishment on the defendant? If the government lies about whether or not it leaked, would you still keep it secret?

“Journalism.”