Tag: Eric Garner

The current crop of race riots will not make ordinary Americans more sympathetic to the plight of American blacks

The current crop of Michael Brown and Eric Garner themed protests apparently have as one of their goals educating white Americans about the horrors of racism in America.  (I say as one of their goals, since their primary goals seem to be twofold:  the rapture of riot and the opportunity for looting.)  I  strongly believe

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The Bookworm Beat 12/6/14 — Saturday sweep-up edition, and Open Thread

A cold has been making the rounds in my neighborhood and it finally caught up with me. I don’t feel particularly ill, but I feel congested and quite desperately sleepy. I had a great deal to do today, and mostly managed to re-read Agatha Christie’s Mrs. McGinty’s Dead, which wasn’t

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The Bookworm Beat 12/5/14 — “Now It All Makes Sense” edition, and Open Thread

A fellow conservative and I spoke last night about the primary emotion driving limousine liberals’ politics: Their politics announce to the world that each is “a good person.” It’s an extension of that saying that “conservatives view liberals as misguided; liberals view conservatives as evil.” The unspoken corollary to that

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