For Jennifer Rubin, black lives really don’t matter

We have previously mentioned Washington Post columnist and dedicated #NeverTrumper Jennifer Rubin many times before. Most recently we noted a tweet of hers at the end of October: Crime has shown up as one of the major issues in the upcoming election, so naturally Mrs Rubin has made a silly claim trying to blame Republicans […]

Neocon off the deep end!

As we have previously noted, the old ‘neo-conservatives‘ turned #NeverTrumpers like Bill Kristol, Max Boot, and Jennifer Rubin have shown themselves to be very much on the political left in the United States, moved to the Democrats due to their #TrumpDerangementSyndrome. Crime has shown up as one of the major issues in the upcoming election, […]

Yes, actually, homicide rates can be brought down!

St Louis, Missouri used to be our nations murder capital, but has been downgraded to second place behind New Orleans. The Gateway City saw a whopping 263 homicides in 2020, which, with the city’s population being 304,709 that year, the homicide rate was an astounding 86.31 per 100,000 population. In 2021, the city dropped to […]

In Philadelphia, Black Lives Don’t Matter!

The mission of journalism is to report the news, the truth, to the public, even if it means digging deeply into things that some people, particularly people in positions of power, do not want disclosed. Journalists must have an open mind, to see the truth, even if the truth is not what they wanted or […]

Morbid math

The flood waters are finally starting to drop. The crest was 30.15 feet, which did not bring it close to our house, so we’re fine, if still stranded; the only road out is still underwater. The highest water ever recorded, the 41.00 feet (guesstimated, since the river gauge failed), got into the crawlspace of our […]

Oдна смерть – трагедия, миллион смертей – статистика

Josef Stalin allegedly said, “One death is a tragedy, one million deaths are a statistic.” My good friend Jeffery, who is now going by the pseudonym Elwood P Dowd, in the comments section in The Pirate’s Cove, complained about the accidental killing of a 3-year-old girl when she found a loaded 9 mm in the […]

What, does Indianapolis think it’s Chicago?

A brief Associated Press story in The Philadelphia Inquirer caused me to check the Indianapolis Star: IMPD: Man dead after shooting on Hovey Street in Indianapolis Brittany Carloni, Indianapolis Star | Hallowe’en, October 31, 2021 | 7:44 AM | 11:05 AM EDT A man died early Sunday morning after a shooting northeast of downtown Indianapolis, […]