From Heather MacDonald Since last summer, a lie has overtaken significant parts of the country, resulting in growing mass hysteria. That lie holds that the police pose a mortal threat to black Americans—indeed that the police are the greatest threat facing black Americans today. Several subsidiary untruths buttress that central myth: that the criminal-justice system is biased against blacks; that the black underclass doesn’t exist; and that crime rates are
December 22, 2014
French driver screams ‘Allah Akbar’ while slamming car into crowds [Darleen Click]
But don’t you dare jump to conclusions! French authorities say that 13 people were injured Sunday when a driver deliberately slammed his car into crowds in several locations around the city of Dijon in eastern France, amid reports that the driver was heard shouting “God is great!” in Arabic. Sky News reported that witnesses also heard the driver shouting that he was acting on behalf of “the children of Palestine”
December 22, 2014
“American Soldiers’ Support for President Obama Breaks All-Time Record” [Darleen Click]
Approval drops to 15% It’s no secret that President Obama has been an unpopular commander-in-chief with servicemen and -women for a while. But now, his approval rating among active-duty members of the U.S. military has fallen to an all-time low of just 15 percent, The Military Times reports: “Obama’s popularity — never high to begin with — has crumbled, falling from 35 percent in 2009 to just 15 percent this
December 20, 2014
BREAKING: “2 NYPD cops shot dead ‘execution style’ in Brooklyn” [Darleen Click] UPDATED
Uh-oh Two uniformed NYPD officers were shot dead — execution style — as they sat in their marked police car on a Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn, street corner. According to preliminary reports, both officers were working overtime as part of an anti-terrorism drill when they were shot point-blank by a single gunman who approached their car at the corner of Myrtle and Tompkins avenues. “It’s an execution,” one law enforcement source told
December 20, 2014
Character will out — GW Bush v King Barry [Darleen Click]
via British news media: George W. Bush is nothing if not a good sport. And in no better way was that illustrated when the former President donned a Santa suit for a hospital visit in Dallas. The 68-year-old was handing out toys at the Children’s Medical Center of Dallas to patients who have to spend Christmas at the facility. The family that posted the picture of Bush to Facebook lost
December 19, 2014
Merry Christmas and #ShareTheGift [Darleen Click] *sticky* new posts below
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December 19, 2014
Obama criticizes Sony; asks us to “imagine” [Darleen Click]
Obama takes his last day before winging off to a Hawaiian vacation until next year to lecture Sony The rare presidential criticism of a major corporation was leveled at Mr. Obama’s final news conference of the year on Friday. Earlier on Friday, the Federal Bureau of Investigation publicly blamed the North Korean government for an online attack that erased Sony ’s data, leaked embarrassing emails and culminated in a threat
December 18, 2014
“Legendary Mad Magazine Illustrator Jack Davis Calls It Quits at 90”
From Wired: Jack Davis, the legendary Mad magazine illustrator and movie poster artist, is finally hanging up his pencils. It’s not that the iconic 90-year-old cartoonist can’t draw anymore—he just can’t meet his own standards. “I’m not satisfied with the work,” Davis says by phone from his rural Georgia home. “I can still draw, but I just can’t draw like I used to.” Davis has probably spent more time in