July 4th Mass Shooter Was ‘Known to Law Enforcement’
Another deranged gunman stunned America yesterday when he fired on a crowd at a Fourth of July parade in a Chicago suburb. Authorities say that Robert “Bobby” Crimo III, 22, killed six parade-goers and wounded over 30 with his indiscriminate gunfire that echoed through downtown Highland Park, Illinois. After several hours of residents on edge, […]
Debunking the More Guns, More Unintended Consequences Fallacy
Professor Carl Moody and Dr. John Lott have written up some comments on the latest Donohue et al. paper on concealed carry. For some perspective, you can see the academic literature on the issue here and the Amicus brief that we filed with a literature survey here. Overall, Donohue uses dramatically different specifications and control variables across his […]
ICYMI: Democrat Anti-Police Louisville Mayor Violently Assaulted
ANALYSIS – Karma? Can this be more ironic? The notoriously anti-police and pro-BLM Democratic mayor of Louisville, Kentucky – Greg Fischer – was punched in the face and knocked to the ground by a black suspect at a Juneteenth event on Saturday, June 18 in the city’s downtown area. His security detail did not prevent […]
Recession Fears Drive Team Biden to Distraction, Distortion and Worse
The “R” word” – recession. Next to “inflation,” it’s the one word that drives politicians to distraction, distortion and worse. There’s been a lot of “R” word talk in the markets lately, with recent data, such as the May consumer spending numbers, showing a slow down as inflation settles in: Consumer spending cooled to a […]
Russia Smirks as Gas Crisis Consumes Hapless White House
A sure sign of the political panic that high domestic gasoline prices have created inside the Biden administration comes from Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen. Yellen, former head of the Federal Reserve and an accomplished labor economist, pushed for the U.S. and other G-7 nations to impose price caps on Russian oil exports. The supposed goal: […]
No One is Buying Chinese Weapons, and Now Fewer Russian Ones
The relatively poor performance of Russian forces and weapons in Ukraine has impacted how the world views Russian military hardware, affecting its foreign weapons sales. But is it having an effect on Chinese weapons too, most of which are Russian-made or have origins in Russian designs? It may be too soon to tell, but except […]
Could Trump Have Lunged at His Presidential Vehicle’s Steering Wheel on Jan. 6?
ANALYSIS – On Friday I wrote about whether former President Trump wanted to lead an armed mob to the Capitol on Jan. 6 as some of the media have claimed based on the explosive testimony of former Trump chief of staff aide Cassidy Hutchinson. My conclusions on that question can be read here. Since then, much of the media […]
Big City DAs: No Crime Big Enough to Do Time
The wave of new progressive district attorneys including the likes of George Gascon – who won election in November of 2020 to become the Los Angeles County district attorney and recently recalled San Francisco DA Chesa Boudin – are among the many backed by globalist liberal billionaire George Soros. The “megadonor” leftist has sought to […]
When in the Course of Human Events
Monmouth Beach, N.J. – On July 3, 1776 – the Second Continental Congress having the day before enacted a resolution declaring the political ties between United Colonies and Great Britain “totally dissolved” – an excited John Adams, a delegate from the Massachusetts Bay colony wrote a letter to his wife Abigail, then living with their children […]