There is at least a slight possibility that Philadelphia Inquirer columnist Helen Ubiñas isn’t a totally Kool Aid drinking #woke progressive, as her Monday morning column told a very uncomfortable truth. After a Philadelphia mother lost her son to gun violence, she blamed one person This mother’s personal journey is part of the layered, complicated […]
While I have mentioned the censorship of The Philadelphia Inquirer previously, we don’t always get the evidence quite so directly. Police Officer Miguel Torres, Badge Number 7191, reported on a shooting in Mantua: 16th District — Shooting Incident 35XX Fairmont Avenue on highway at 7L06 PM. Victim #1 – Black female 19 years old was shot […]
As always, I checked the Philadelphia Police Department’s Current Crime Statistics page on Monday morning, and it tells me that, as of 11:59 PM EST on Sunday, January 23, 2022, 37 souls had been sent untimely to their eternal rewards. IT also tells me that ‘only’ 36 people were murdered in the city’s streets on […]
Tishaura Jones, the Mayor of St Louis, Missouri, is very, very worried about “gun violence.” “Gun violence” is the euphemism that the left use to describe people shooting and killing each other, without blaming bad people, but blaming inanimate objects, as though firearms simply levitate and fire at people all by themselves. From CNN: Gunshots […]
For the #woke[1]From Wikipedia: Woke (/ˈwoʊk/) as a political term of African-American origin refers to a perceived awareness of issues concerning social justice and racial justice. It is derived from … Continue reading it’s all about racism. From Sunday’s Washington Post: ‘Lynchings in Mississippi never stopped’ By DeNeen L. Brown | August 8, 2021 JACKSON, Miss. — Since 2000, there have been at […]
It’s always good when a credentialed media source catches up with The First Street Journal, but one thing is certain: it only happens reluctantly. If progressives don’t start taking rising crime seriously, they risk getting mugged by reality Opinion by Helaine Olen Roshkow | Washington Post Columnist | July 10, 2021 | 8:00 AM EDT […]
Independence Day, the Fourth of July, is the 185th day of the year, just a couple of days past the midway point of the year. Prior to today, the Lexington 2021 Homicide Investigation page lists 20 murders in the city so far this year. However, it omits the murder of Demonte Washington, 28, reported on May 22th in the Herald-Leader. […]
Lexington, Kentucky, had gone 18 days without a homicide, but I suppose that it was too good to last. From the Lexington Herald-Leader: 2 men shot dead in Lexington: 1 was left in a vehicle, another killed outside a club By Jeremy Chisenhall | June 9, 2021 | 7:05 AM EDT | Updated 4:33 PM […]
St Louis is our most murderous city. As of last night, there had been 76 homicides in the Gateway City . . . and 71 of the victims were black. St Louis is ‘only’ 45.3% black, but comprise 93.4% of the city’s murder victims. Of the 32 murders of blacks in St Louis, all 32 […]