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You in a heap o’ trouble, boy!

So, a man who had managed to keep a clean record himself was hanging around previously convicted felons, and has now been sentenced to five years of three-hots-and-a-cot. Normally I would include the criminals mugshot, something the Lexington Herald-Leader will not do, but the internet search for this fine gentleman’s mugshot turned up images of more than one person, and I cannot be certain which one is this new guest of the federal government.

Man sentenced to prison time for buying guns later used in Kentucky violent crimes

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You in a heap o’ trouble, boy!

After all of the scandals involving Catholic priests, I’m always not-so-secretly glad when these sexual abuse scandals involve teachers or Protestants. Though the Lexington Herald-Leader simply tells us that the alleged offender was a youth minister, he was with the Green River Pentecostal Church in Lincoln County.

Kentucky youth pastor who confessed to sex crimes now faces federal charge

By Taylor Six | August 30, 2026 | 12:22 PM EDT

A Lincoln County youth pastor was federally charged last week with online enticement of a minor, according to court documents released Friday.

Jason Coulter, 48, of Lincoln County, faces one count of online enticement of a minor after he sexually abused a member of his church’s youth group, according to an affidavit. He was already facing charges in state court.

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Dear Lexington gang-bangers: imitating Killadelphia isn’t a good idea.

Did I jinx the city of Lexington? The Lexington Herald-Leader reported Saturday afternoon that:

(This) was the third weekend in a row for fatal shootings in Lexington, after six months when no homicides were reported.

I noted, on August 14th:

Lexington, Kentucky, current population 329,791, has seen four murders so far in 2026. Philly has 4.77 times Lexington’s population, but 27 times as many murders.

I’d like to think that the gang-bangers in Lexington didn’t take what I wrote as a personal challenge! Continue reading →

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Thank the Lord that I am not an attorney!

Brandon Dockery, mugshot by Fayette County Detention Center, and is a public record.

As I was being graduated from the University of Kentucky in 1977, I was seriously considering going to law school. I had totally destroyed the LSAT, and thought it would be a good fit for my obviously brilliant mind and quick thinking. But, alas!, law school was simply not something I could ever afford, and, as my career progressed, it has become more and more obvious that a career as an attorney would not have been a good fit for me. Nothing has made that more clear to me than the case of Brandon Dockery. As this site reported, in August of 2021, on the arrest of Brandon Dockery for the murder of Raymar Webb, I simply could not have put myself through what defense attorneys Cherish Derrickson and Caitlin Dunnington did to try to defend Mr Dockery. Continue reading →

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The problem isn’t mass incarceration; the problem is that not enough criminals are incarcerated, for not a long enough time.

Brandon Dockery, mugshot by Fayette County Detention Center, and is a public record.

This site reported, in August of 2021, on the arrest of Brandon Dockery for the murder of Raymar Webb. Held in the Fayette County Detention Center, he has finally gone on trial.

Defendant apologizes for deadly Lexington shooting during his murder trial

By Taylor Six | Monday, August 24, 2026 | 1:00 PM EDT

The man charged with killing a Lexington father in a downtown parking lot testified at his own trial Monday, expressing remorse and saying the shooting was a “stain on him that will never go away.”

That won’t go away for Raymar Webb, either, because he’s been stone-cold graveyard dead for over five years now. Continue reading →

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Killadelphia Yeah, the murder rate is lower now, but it's still high

We previously noted the killing of 78-year-old Steve Alexander, killed by what reporters Ellie Rushing and Jesse Bunch called a “stray bullet” as four men jumped out of an SUV and fired more than fifty rounds “toward a group of young men on the sidewalk.” The Philadelphia Inquirer has been very careful not to call it a gang hit, at least in the articles I have seen so far, but they have at least stated that the 30-year-old victim, previously referred to as being 31-years old, was the actual target.

Over 50 rounds fired, three people struck, only one killed, and he wasn’t even the target, but just collateral damage. Gang-bangers are deadly, but still notoriously bad shots.

On August 10th, the city’s George Soros-sponsored, criminal-loving and police-hating District Attorney, Larry Krasner, said, after six homicides the previous weekend, “We had a bad weekend. We’re not having a bad year.”

Well, the bad weekends are continuing: Continue reading →

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Journalism differences between the Lexington Herald-Leader and Philadelphia Inquirer. ** Updated! ** When a poor newspaper outclasses a wealthy one

The First Street Journal has twice reported on the mass shooting in Charles Young Park in Lexington, Kentucky. We also noted the murder of a 78-year-old man in North Philadelphia Tuesday afternoon.

But there’s a significant difference in coverage between two newspapers to which we subscribe, The Philadelphia Inquirer and Lexington Herald-Leader. The Lexington newspaper is, to put it frankly, dying. Staff have been cut, there have been three General Managers in just a few years, and the paper, which once covered most of eastern and southeastern Kentucky, is a mere shadow if its former self, almost entirely restricted to Lexington now, and print publishing only thrice a week. Continue reading →

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Killadelphia Four shooters, over fifty rounds fired, sounds like a gang hit to me!

We noted, just a few days ago, that there had been 108 murders in the City of Brotherly Love, through Sunday, August 9th. The city’s George Soros-sponsored, criminal-loving and police-hating District Attorney, Larry Krasner, following that weekend in which six people were murdered, said:

We had a bad weekend. We’re not having a bad year.

I contrasted Philly’s murder rate with that of Lexington, Kentucky, which, when I wrote, had four homicides all year, noting that Philly was 4.77 times Lexington’s size but has 27 times as many killings. Then Lexington had its fifth murder, as we reported here and here.

Well, it looks like Philly didn’t want to be left behind!

78-year-old man killed in North Philly triple shooting

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You in a heap o’ trouble, boy! ** Updated! ** At some point it has to be asked: how stupid can people be?

The Lexington Police went from saying Sunday morning that they “have no updates” on the mass shooting at Charles Young Park to the (alleged) shooter being in jail Sunday evening. I suppose that’s the kind of thing the police do to not alert the suspect that they are hot on his heels.

18-year-old arrested, charged with murder and assault after shooting at Lexington park

By Valarie Honeycutt Spears | Monday, August 17, 2026 | 4:34 AM EDT | Updated: 9:09 AM EDT

An 18-year-old man was arrested Sunday and charged with killing one and injuring four in a mass shooting, according to the Lexington Police Department.

No, of course the Lexington Herald-Leader did not publish the suspect’s mugshot, but WLKY did, and one of my electronic friends tweeted it out to the world. Continue reading →