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Killadelphia: Crime is down, or so we are told

Normally I’d have used Steve Keeley’s original post on Twitter — I refuse to call it 𝕏, the worst rebranding in history — but Lloyd Christmas’ response was so great that I had to use it.

I assume, of course, that Mr Christmas was engaging in satire. I don’t know him at all, and there are probably some on the left who would seriously take that position!

There will be some on the left, including Elizabeth Hughes, the publisher of The Philadelphia Inquirer, who would see Mr Christmas’ tweet as absolutely serious reasoning, and who decided, a few years ago, that the newspaper would be an “anti-racist news organization,” ordering limitations on the Inky’s crime coverage, and who seems to have mandated that the newspaper not publish mugshots or photographs of criminals, unless, of course, the accused are white police officers.

A search of the newspaper’s website for “Etting Street,” where the murders took place, at 9:15 PM EDT turned up several stories on the shootings, all of which were dated more than a week ago, but nothing on the Philadelphia Police releasing photos of one of the suspects, nothing to help readers who might recognize the suspects, to help the police get them off the streets. Continue reading →

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Is Jake Tapper really this dumb?

Is this actually real? Did the distinguished Jake Tapper actually say, “Asking questions is literally our job. Demanding facts and answers, instead of just taking a President’s word for it”? After over four years of the credentialed media covering for Joe Biden’s descent into dementia, now Mr Tapper is saying that the media’s job is to demand facts and answers? Click on the image and you can see the video for yourself.

There’s a faked video of the Indiana Fever’s Sophie Cunninghan trashing Jacy Sheldon of the Connecticut Sun that’s making the rounds on Facebook that’s pretty funny. In it, Miss Cunningham said that Miss Sheldon fell into the ugly tree and hit every branch on the way down, after the kerfuffle over Miss Cunningham’s hard foul on Miss Sheldon to stop a layup at the end of the game, a foul that was completely unnecessary, since the Fever were too far ahead of the Sun for the basket to have made a difference. It’s a good enough fake that it makes me wonder just how many artificial intelligence fakes there are in the world. Continue reading →

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Today’s left truly hate #FreedomOfSpeech . . . for people other than themselves Today's left champion 'diversity', just as long as it's not a diversity of opinions.

The “Occupy Democrats” emerged from the silly “Occupy Wall Street” protests and say they are “a merger of the goals and interests of Occupy with those of the Democratic Party.” What they oppose is, in no particular order, Donald Trump, capitalism, and freedom of speech and of the press. They apparently, to judge from the cartoon published on their Facebook page, blame conservative election victories on President Ronald Reagan, who enabled Rush Limbaugh to gain an audience — not that he had “Talent on loan from God” — and then Fox News, the Drudge Report and the Koch brothers, then Alex Jones, Steve Bannon, and inevitably Donald Trump. I’m only surprised that they didn’t include Twitter —  I refuse to call it 𝕏 — and Facebook.

We have reported many times on now thankfully former President Joe Biden’s attempt to create a Ministry of Truth under the Department of Fatherland Security, called the “Disinformation Governance Board”, and how we were fortunate that it failed. The left were aghast when Elon Musk was trying to buy Twitter, because they were afraid that conservatives might use Twitter more successfully, and the very lovely Taylor Lorenz, who wants to force us all to wear face masks forever, blamed the failure of that Board on “right-wing attacks.” My good friend — we’re such good friends that she has blocked me on Bluesky — Amanda Marcotte, who exercises her own freedom of speech and of the press on Salon, wanted the government to take over Twitter while The Philadelphia Inquirer’s far-left columnist Will Bunch suggested it “should exist more as a semi-public utility than as an entity that a man with a spare $44 billion can just light on fire.” Continue reading →

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Bad causes attract bad people Why are all of the left's cause cÊlèbre heroes bad people?

Galadriel

I had meant to write this on Saturday, but got sidetracked when we rescued a very emaciated Huskey (mix?) female dog. She was begging for attention outside of the Sav-a-Lot grocery store, and she’s skin and bones: ribs showing, as well as her hips. I walked her to my 2010 Ford F-150, still running strong with fewer than 200 miles until the odometer flips to 200,000, and brought her home. We fed her, and I’ll take her to the vet on Monday, because she might have worms, causing her to not get enough nutrition from the food she does get.

With three dogs and a cat of our own, we really can’t keep her, and I’ve been trying to find someone who can take care of her. That didn’t stop me from naming her Galadriel.

Robert Stacy McCain did write yesterday, noting the complicity of the credentialed media, which he has long called Democratic operatives with bylines, in minimizing the stories of attacks on Jews in the United States: Continue reading →

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Covering their own asses! The credentialed media are blaming everybody but themselves for their own failures

It has been a few days since journolists Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson published their book Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again, blaming everybody in Mr Biden’s administration for the elderly President’s decision to run for re-election despite his failing mental status. Continue reading →

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No matter how much you hate the credentialed media, you do not hate them enough! Only a fool would believe that the credentialed media didn't know about President Biden's descent into dementia

Jake Tapper, the lead Washington anchor for CNN, and Senior White House correspondent for ABC News before that, is a very well connected man in Washington media circles. He knows everybody who’s anybody, and everybody who’s anybody in DC knows him. With a guesstimated net worth of $20 million, he gets invited to all of the great parties.

Perhaps that $20 mil just isn’t enough for him, because any he’s been taking heroic measures to try to save his journalistic reputation. Too bad that no one with any sense, any sense at all, would believe that a journolist — and you can see the reason I spell it that way — as well connected as Mr Tapper was wholly unaware that President Joe Biden was slowly losing his marbles.

And here he goes again, this time in the pages of The New Yorker:

How Joe Biden Handed the Presidency to Donald Trump

At a fateful event last summer, Barack Obama, George Clooney, and others were stunned by Biden’s weakness and confusion. Why did he and his advisers decide to conceal his condition from the public and campaign for reëlection?

by Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson | Tuesday, May 13, 2025

President Joe Biden got out of bed the day after the 2024 election convinced that he had been wronged. The ĂŠlites, the Democratic officials, the media, Nancy Pelosi, Barack Obama—they shouldn’t have pushed him out of the race. If he had stayed in, he would have beaten Donald Trump. That’s what the polls suggested, he would say again and again. Continue reading →

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The left really do hate Freedom of Speech and of The Press

This site has previously noted that, despite their protestations about protecting democracy, today’s left really hate our Freedom of Speech. Media Matter for America, a thoroughly left wing group, posted on Twitter — I refuse to call it 𝕏, which is part of my Freedom of Speech! — a bubble diagram and link to their article “The right dominates the online media ecosystem, seeping into sports, comedy, and other supposedly nonpolitical spaces“. Very unsurprisingly, Amy McGrath Henderson, the twice-failed Kentucky congressional candidate who once stated, in a fundraiser not in the Bluegrass State, “I am further left, I am more progressive, than anyone in the state of Kentucky,” said of the graph, “This is way more important than we want to admit.”

The right dominates the online media ecosystem, seeping into sports, comedy, and other supposedly nonpolitical spaces

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The New York Times and the control of language

I wonder if it will be approved.

At 10:56 AM EST I submitted a comment on The New York Times main editorial, “The MAGA WAR on Speech.” The Editorial Board is aghast that the Trump Administration has done radical things such as “The National Park Service (having) erased the letters T and Q: from L.G.B.T.Q. references on its website describing the Stonewall National Monument in New York City.” I responded:

On November 29, 2018, the Times gave OpEd space to Chad Malloy[1]Chad Malloy is a man male who claims to be a woman who goes by the faux name “Parker” Malloy. to write, “How Twitter’s Ban on ‘Deadnaming’ Promotes Free Speech.” On October 4, 2019, the Times gave OpEd space to Andrew Marantz to claim that “Free Speech Is Killing Us.” When Elon Musk bought Twitter, promising to promote greater free speech, Times Editorial Board member Greg Bensinger told readers that “Twitter Under Elon Musk Will Be a Scary Place.”

The Associated Press’ Stylebook mandates that ‘black’ be capitalized when referring to race, but not ‘brown’ or ‘white.’ More, the AP Stylebook has media all across the country referring to the transgendered by their preferred, fake names and the pronouns of what they claim to be, rather than what they actually are.

The left have been attempting to control the debate by controlling the use of language for as long as I’ve been aware of it.

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↑1 Chad Malloy is a man male who claims to be a woman who goes by the faux name “Parker” Malloy.
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I check Bluesky so you don’t have to! They can't handle the truth!

One of my morning self-assigned ‘duties’ is to check my two favorite sites, William Teach’s The Pirate’s Cove, and Robert Stacy McCain’s The Other McCain. I have been using Twitter — I refuse to call it 𝕏 — and recently Bluesky to publicize my friends’ articles.

That seems to have angered a Mr Alan G Nixon — or so I assume his name to be from his Bluesky address — of New South Wales, who has the hashtag #ClimateActionNow in his Bluesky bio. He reposted my Bluesky skeet publicizing one of Mr Teach’s articles with a #BlockList hashtag, a method of encouraging his roughly 1,100 followers to not see my skeets, because the anti-global warming climate change activists are too much Special Snowflakes™ to handle anything in opposition.

They can’t handle the truth, but, more than that, they can’t handle what they believe to be true being challenged. Continue reading →