#Washington Post knocks White House for claim GOP defunded police

#Washington Post knocks White House for claim GOP defunded police

“#Washington Post knocks White House for claim GOP defunded police” The Washington Post took a dim view of the Biden administration’s recent claims that Republicans support defunding police departments across America, with one of the paper’s fact-checkers slapping “Three Pinocchios” on the talking point Wednesday. Top Democrats, including White House adviser Cedric Richmond and White…

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#It’s well-off whites who back far-left

#It’s well-off whites who back far-left

“#It’s well-off whites who back far-left” New York City’s notoriously incompetent election officials have not finished tabulating the votes in the June 22 Democratic primary, with its novel ranked-choice-voting system. But the first choices of voters — minus some 124,000 absentees — nevertheless reveal some important things about the differences between different segments of the…

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#Dye pack explodes on New Jersey bank robber

#Dye pack explodes on New Jersey bank robber

“#Dye pack explodes on New Jersey bank robber” A New Jersey bank robber was seeing red after a dye pack exploded on him as he fled the scene Saturday. Video released by police shows the suspect being trailed by a cloud of red smoke outside of a Capital One bank in Newark. The dye pack…

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#COVID didn’t cause it, and it’s not a ‘hysteria’

#COVID didn’t cause it, and it’s not a ‘hysteria’

“#COVID didn’t cause it, and it’s not a ‘hysteria’” Bill Neidhardt, press secretary for Mayor Bill de Blasio, tweeted that COVID led to a horrible shooting spike in cities across the country, but “NYC has fought back gun violence better than other major cities.” Neither of these statements is true. COVID is a global pandemic,…

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#Dems pushing police farce that GOP’s behind defunding

#Dems pushing police farce that GOP’s behind defunding

“#Dems pushing police farce that GOP’s behind defunding” This week, White House press secretary Jen Psaki unsheathed one of the most transparently ridiculous political talking points in memory, arguing that Republicans were the ones defunding the police because they failed to support the Democrats’ $1.9 trillion boondoggle COVID “rescue” package earlier this year.  For starters,…

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#Racism’s no cure for racism and other commentary

#Racism’s no cure for racism and other commentary

“#Racism’s no cure for racism and other commentary” Iconoclast: Racism’s No Cure for Racism Lori Lightfoot’s decision to talk only to “POC reporters” on her anniversary as Chicago’s mayor, Stanford’s “ ‘whiteness-accountability’ affinity groups” and President Biden’s debt relief for minority farmers are all “variations” on the debate “between newfangled equity and old-fashioned equality,” argues The…

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