Our Leaders Dither as Our Cities Burn
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USA Politics
The Game Plan Is Obvious
As even Shaun King has noticed, nearly every institution that Black Lives Matter claims is complicit in “institutional racism” and the oppression of black Americans is run by Democrats. Nowhere is this more true than in the city at the epicentre of the current riots: Minneapolis. Minneapolis is an absolute
Okay, I’ll Bite, Minneapolis Will Disband Its Police, Then What?
Minneapolis has been brewing this storm-in-a-teacup story of racist police long before George Floyd was murdered. Nine of the eleven councillors were primed and ready to outvote Minneapolis’s mayor, Jacob Frey, who would not commit to abolishing the police at a demonstration last Saturday where protesters
Modern Policing II
Yesterday I wrote in The BFD about the impossibility of policing the multicultural chasm opened up by the Black Lives Matter movement. It was subsequently announced that the Minneapolis City Council intends to disband the Minneapolis Police Department altogether, and hand policing over to ‘community groups’. Nine of the 13
Here’s How the Media Twisted Trump’s Words about George Floyd
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Even Shaun King Can See It
If you’ve got half a brain and even the faintest inkling of how America’s federal system of government works, you may have been scratching your head, wondering what on earth the death of George Floyd has to do with President Trump. Or, indeed, any of the other palaver
The Antifa-ISIS Connection
Well, we can’t say we weren’t warned. The most obvious thing about the wave of riots sweeping America for the past few days is just how organised they are. This is no more a “spontaneous uprising” than the Reichstag fire was a random act of terror. Which is
Modern Policing
British Home Secretary Sir Robert Peel is regarded as the father of modern policing. His Metropolitan Police Act received royal assent in 1829, and the Metropolitan Police Service in London was formed in September of that year. The first modern and professional Police force in the world, its founding was
Douglas Murray on the George Floyd Protests, Rioting & COVID Hypocrisy
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The USA Presidential Election
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com The age-old trouble with the left is their sense of righteousness leading to their belief that the wider world largely subscribes to their views. This is grand scale naivety, probably the left’s most conspicuous feature. We saw it illustrated with Trump’s recent
Trump Can Save Rioting America by Doing Nothing
Tim Kirby strategic-culture.org Right now, across the USA there are either mass protests or mass riots depending on whom you ask and as usual the Punditry and Mainstream Media are doing their best to make this seem like an isolated, never before seen event on American soil. But,
Omission Watch: Mayors Inhibit Religious Services, but Allow Massive Protests
Tim Graham papundits.wordpress.com James Freeman at The Wall Street Journal takes up a topic the liberal media elites will avoid: State and local officials are discriminating against religious services as they grant wide berths to protests in the streets. He began with a joke headline from the Babylon
The BFD Video: Does America Have A Future?
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Can a Dictatorship Happen in America?
Olivia Pierson oliviapierson.org In the Leighton Smith Podcast this week, released on Wednesday June 3rd, Leighton interviewed George Friedman of Geopolitical Futures and the subject of President Trump came up. Friedman, who is a conservative, has often supported the president but this time he offered some fairly vague criticisms