High Ground Underground

As a P.S. to my last post, Dennis Prager today had Larry Elder (A Black Libertarian lawyer & podcaster – the “Sage from South Central” (L.A.)) on & he discussed Elder's article on the ludicrousness of Holder’s Ferguson report statistics (link below).  A great counter-example was the NBA’s racial composition, 73% Black, but Blacks are only 13% of the U.S. population – reverse discrimination against whites, or could there possibly be another explanation? And the statistics tha t for the 73% of Black kids who are born without fathers, they are 5 times more likely to be poor, 9 times the drop-out rate, and 20 times more likely to end up in jail. (These are the stats that should be given attention). Given those figures, and the 67% of Ferguson that’s Black, wouldn’t you expect higher than 67% arrest frequency – the actual figure is 93%? And it’s actually much better in Ferguson than NYC, where the 25% who are black account for 55% of arrests. I guess the white Democrat ma...

A False Race Narrative Yields Negative Results Just as not acknowledging the root causes of terrorism and not naming it avoids addressing and resolving it, so too it is with racial issues.   The administration and recent events keep reminding us of the need for a dialogue on the subject – a dialogue we’re scolded for avoiding.   So let’s have one.   Here, then, is another of my installments on the subject. Eric Holder held a news conference to share the results of a Justice Dept. investigation of the Ferguson Police Dept., where the Brown shooting occurred, the police officer was acquitted, and rioting followed there & elsewhere.  The chant of “hands up, don’t shoot” went national, including in Congress.  Only that was based on the false narrative from few witnesses that went against all the many other witnesses, and against the forensic evidence.  That didn’t matter to the race-peddlers, who perpetuated the narrative for their own purposes ...

An Alternative to a Bad Iran Deal – and War I’d note that while Netanyahu was in Washington pleading for sanity and hope for survival for his people, vice president Biden was in Switzerland negotiating with terrorists – Iran being the foremost state sponsor of terrorism in the world – sponsor of Hamas & Hezbollah, Houthis in Yemen, Assad in Syria, etc.  Who says we don’t negotiate w. terrorists?  And bargain away Israel’s security?  This president continues to bend over backwards to legitimize rogue regimes, and de-legitimize those like Israel that are the closest to having our values. I watched Netanyahu’s speech and found it powerful and persuasive.  The 50-odd loud, long applauses & standing ovations I think were symptomatic of the need or thirst for leadership in such a dangerous world – a leadership we haven’t found in our president.  It was, as some I think have rightly said, Churchillion and Reaganesque. In keeping with all his ...