The Left’s Insulting Exploitation of Emmett Till
It has never been more dangerous to be a black boy from Chicago than it is today. As of June 2023, 172 young people under 18 have been shot in Chicago just this year, 29 of them fatally. Roughly 80% of those shot have been black, roughly 85% male. Five of those killed were 12 and under.
Seeing no political advantage in addressing today’s crime, President Joe Biden last week chose to exploit the Mississippi murder of a Chicago boy 68 years ago. On Tuesday, Biden signed a bill creating a series of three national monuments in Illinois and Mississippi honoring Emmett Till, the 14-year-old murder victim, and his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, an outspoken advocate for her son.
Said Biden in a shamefully dishonest effort to secure the black vote, “At a time when there are those who seek to ban books, bury history, we’re making it clear – crystal, crystal clear: While darkness and denialism can hide much, they erase nothing.”
How climate change has affected the heartland – in just one month
In late June I left Kansas City by car on my annual jaunt to New York and to my native New Jersey. The day I left it was 97
degrees, with hotter weather forecast for the next several days following.
It had been weeks since we had had any appreciable rain, and the landscape reflected it. All across northern Missouri, central Illinois and Indiana the lawns were withered, and the corn seemed to be hanging on for dear life.
Worse, on day two of the trip, a brown haze, smellable and all but tangible, obscured my vision. As I drove across Ohio, I felt as if I were driving into a dystopian future as fast-tracked by Justin Trudeau and his Royal Canadian mountebanks.
For the month I was gone, I shut out news from Kansas City, but it was hard not to hear rumbles about searing heat and global warming, coming not just from friends but from Kansas City, Missouri’s, City Hall.
Is Dems’ race blitz softening the ground for Michelle?
On Twitter this week, Republican congressional candidate Lavern Spicer, a black Floridian, recalled a conversation she had with a California cousin. According to Spicer, the cousin told Lavern she should leave Florida because it was “racist and homophobic,” citing a recent NAACP travel ban.
The Republicans, the cousin insisted, wanted to put blacks back in chains and “make us slaves again.” Said Spicer in response, “Y’all Democrats need to start thinking for yourselves and stop letting the News make you stupid!” Working through their allies in the news media, the Democrats have of late been stupefying their voters with a barrage of racial nonsense.
The Perils of Race Baiting a Kennedy
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is learning that, as an enemy of the state, everything he says can and will be held against him. Democrats are learning, however, that RFK Jr., unlike most of their targets, is no punching bag. He can and will punch back.
During a press event at a New York City restaurant a week back, Kennedy introduced the concept of ethnically targeted bioweapons. He began this discussion with the phrase “There is an argument that,” thus distancing himself a bit from the validity of the claim to follow, namely that the People’s Republic of China is developing bioweapons to target Blacks and Caucasians.
In this discussion Kennedy noted that the people seemingly most immune to the COVID-19 virus were Chinese and Ashkenazi Jews. Although he confessed his uncertainty about whether Blacks and Whites “were deliberately targeted,” he strongly suggested that China was capable of doing just that. He never implied that Ashkenazi Jews, who are uniformly Caucasian, were in any way involved in the plotting. Kennedy did say, however, that the United States has been doing similar experiments in regards to the Chinese, an assertion that should have taken race out of the conversation.
The Semantic Burden of Speaking While White
As I read in the Guardian, an operation called “Reframing Race” has accepted as its mission the task of teaching people, white people in particular, the semantic niceties of racial etiquette.
Some of the stuff we have heard before, such as the need to avoid words that associate whiteness with purity or cleanliness and blackness with evil and destruction. But the reframing regime goes deeper. One particular paragraph in the Guardian caught my attention:
Other recommendations include avoiding the phrase “white working class” and rather using “multi-ethnic working class” or “working-class people of all ethnicities” because the use of the former wrongly excludes black and minoritised people from the class group.
Left unsaid is the phrase that should be used when members of this “multi-ethnic working class” are driven from their neighborhoods by rising crime and deteriorating schools.
The spectacular hypocrisy of Michelle Obama
This past Sunday I did my presentation for Book-TV at an American Legion Hall in Ocean County, New Jersey. I chose this site because so many refugees from my native Newark and other collapsing New Jersey cities – Camden, Trenton, Patterson, Passaic – found refuge in this county.
For these refugees, Ocean County was not nearly as glamorous as it sounds. Most settled far from the sea in the slapdash suburbs being carved out of the Pine Barrens.
If workers had to drive 60 or so miles to their jobs, so be it. They could not afford the established suburbs surrounding a city like Newark and could not remain in neighborhoods whose living conditions had become, in the words of one childhood friend, “untenable,” the title of my latest book.
What TWA 800 Had in Common with Hunter B’s Laptop
On July 17, 1996, TWA Flight 800 left JFK airport in New York City heading east to Paris. Twelve minutes after its 8:19 departure the doomed 747 blew up off the south coast of Long Island, killing all 230 
souls aboard.
On August 23, 1996, the New York Times reported on its front page, above the fold right, “Prime Evidence Found That Device Exploded in Cabin of Flight 800.” According to the Times, only the FBI’s uncertainty about whether the device was a bomb or a missile kept it from declaring TWA 800’s destruction a crime. On that same day, above the fold left, was the headline, “Clinton Signs Bill Cutting Welfare; States in New Role.” The Clintons had an election to win. One of those storylines would have to go. A month later, the administration started floating the possibility of a mechanical failure, and the bomb and missile story lines, despite the “prime evidence,” were allowed to die.
Physicist continues fight for truth about TWA 800
Monday of next week, we acknowledge an historic anniversary about which the media will be mum, the 27th anniversary of the destruction of TWA Flight 800.
As a quick refresher, TWA 800 left JFK airport in New York en route to Paris on July 17, 1996. Twelve minutes after its 8:19 departure the ill-fated 747 blew up off the south coast of Long Island, killing all 230 souls aboard. No one has pursued the truth behind this disaster more relentlessly than physicist Tom Stalcup. I first met Stalcup when I interviewed him for a documentary on TWA 800 called “Silenced” that James Sanders and I produced in 2001. Stalcup had been deeply involved in the case from very nearly the beginning and remains committed to this day. He is likely the only independent researcher to catch the attention of the New York Times
Down with the Andrew Jackson statues, up with Chairman Mao’s in Kansas City’s own ‘cultural revolution’
On an ordinary Monday in July, the Jackson County, Missouri, legislature voted 7 to 1 to begin the process to remove the statues of President Andrew Jackson from the front of its two county courthouses.
The days of beheading Christopher Columbus statues may be over.
This took some moxie. Less than three years earlier, the voters of Jackson County – named after the aforementioned president – voted by a 65 to 35 percent margin to keep the statues in place.
The turnout was high, given that the statue referendum was on the ballot in November 2020, a presidential election year. For the record, Democrat Joe Biden carried the county by a 60-38 percent margin. As a reminder, this election was held months after George Floyd mania inspired our nation’s homegrown Red Guard to tear down statues of white men from Christopher Columbus to Abraham Lincoln. In the November vote, at least in Jackson County, sanity had reigned.
