Category Archives: Social Commentary

Education, Media Criticism, Political Commentary, Social Commentary, War Commentary

The New Anti-Semitism

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It’s becoming increasingly fashionable in Europe:

What this describes is a slow pogrom — but one that can pass unnoticed and be ignored because of its very gradualness. Governments are doing some good things about it, but the battle for decency will have to be fought in the universities, the media, political parties, and other places where the virus is spreading. It will have to deal honestly but intelligently with Muslim anti-Semitism, which European officialdom shrinks from confronting.

What was old is new again.

Media Criticism, Political Commentary, Social Commentary

Paramilitarization Insanity

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A tragic story. In fact, a criminal one.

I wonder what Mr. Wrana’s final thoughts were of the country he fought for 70 years ago. Too much law enforcement in America has lost all sense of proportion: If you need six armed officers to police a nonagenarian in an old folks’ home, seven armed officers to police a 20-year-old female you suspect might have a beer in her shopping bag, thirteen armed officers to terminate Giggles the baby doe, you’re doing it wrong — and you’re the real threat to public order.

These cops should be charged with manslaughter. It was a huge mistake to give the police departments all of that Pentagon surplus.