No f**king sh*t, Sherlock … “The Safe Neighborhoods and Schools Act” isn’t living up to its promise. Also known as Proposition 47, the California ballot initiative, which was approved in November 2014 with 60 percent of the vote, downgraded drug possession and many property crimes from a felony to a misdemeanor. Proponents argued that lesser punishment for low-level offenders would enhance public safety. San Francisco District Attorney George Gascon was
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August 16, 2015
From the UNEXPECTEDLY!!! Files: In the Wake of Proposition 47, California Sees a Crime Wave [Darleen Click]
April 29, 2015
Is your city burning? Thank a Democrat! [Darleen Click]
Blue City Model You’re not supposed to say this in polite company, but what went up in flames in Baltimore Monday night was not merely a senior center, small businesses and police cars. Burning down was also the blue-city model of urban governance. Nothing excuses the violence of rampaging students or the failure of city officials to stop it before Maryland’s Governor called in the National Guard. But as order
November 27, 2012
Democrats revive their Jim Crow roots [Darleen Click]
Once a racist, always a racist “Everytime [sic] I think the Democratic race card players could not get more vile, more deranged, more patronizingly demeaning to blacks, someone manages to defy even my vivid imagination,” thunders blogger William Jacobson. He’s referring to a passage in a Washington Post editorial about critics of U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice–a passage that in our view is useful for its clarity. […] The Post focuses
June 5, 2012
Ok, really, I know, gloating is just wrong … [Darleen Click]
… but, what the hell, this made me giggle in a most unseemly manner … I’ll repent tomorrow.
April 30, 2012
Liberal Fascist Alert: Organized Progressives using Twitter’s Spam block/report to suspend Conservative Accounts [Darleen Click]
… And they brag about it, too. As our late-night-owl readers know, after Twitter reinstated conservative activist Chris Loesch’s account in the wee hours of Sunday night/Monday morning, the progressive flag-spam lynch mob — a vicious group of free speech-squelching Twitter users who trigger automatic suspensions by falsely “mass reporting” conservatives as “spammers” — took him down again and again. […] And you will not be surprised to learn that
April 25, 2012
As goes California — the epic failure of the Progressive Left [Darleen Click]
Well, only if one defines failure as being a vibrant example of Western principles rather than a feudal state of coastal lords and inland serfs [Joel] Kotkin, one of the nation’s premier demographers, left his native New York City in 1971 to enroll at the University of California, Berkeley. The state was a far-out paradise for hipsters who had grown up listening to the Mamas & the Papas’ iconic “California