All in Rants & Raves
You know how this works, right? The cashier has been instructed to ask loudly for a donation, which has the effect of shaming the shopper into giving. I mean, who wants to look like a miser to the rest of the schlumps waiting in line? Especially if your basket is full of wine or steak. Once one person has been goaded into giving, everyone else is more likely to follow suit. There's some kind of mass psychology at work here.
I have no idea if the man who was arrested for this shooting is guilty. The case is being sent to a grand jury. But someone did commit a serious crime. If there’s a conviction in this case, the criminal deserves no mercy.
As usual, Northam’s edicts had nothing to do with science or data, despite his insistence that he was being guided by both.
National polling shows that American support for Black Lives Matter has cratered and “safe cities” is sharply rising as a concern of voters.
The heavy-handed behavior by mindless heath district factotums had nothing to do with HEALTH or with protecting the community from Covid-19. It was about power.
Putting aside the decades of unimaginable filth that’s incubating in those movable Petri dishes, why did the city wait until 43,676 had been hospitalized and 13,938 New Yorkers had died to thoroughly scrub what has to be the source of many infections?
The person spreading fear and misinformation on Friday was one of Northam’s lieutenants. He ought to be sacked.
What initially seemed like overly cautious decisions by a risk-adverse governor is starting to look like something else: Meglomania.
If the governor keeps the beaches closed beyond June 10, it will be catastrophic. He has to stop moving the goalposts.
Some residents are living three-to-a-room at the Canterbury Rehabilitation & Healthcare Center outside of Richmond.
I don’t know who’s advising this out-of-touch octogenarian, but that knothead should be fired.
Where are the brave defenders of civil liberties when ordinary Americans need them? Their silence is deafening.
This is tyrannical behavior by Norfolk police that does absolutely nothing to protect the public’s health or safety.
The rest of the women of Chicago can look like a dog’s dinner, for all Lightfoot cares. SHE will be well groomed.
No one wants to see the leader of the Free World huddled behind his desk wearing a surgical mask any more than we wanted to see Jimmy Carter shivering in a cardigan because he’d lowered the White House thermostat to save energy.
These are not journalists, they are social provocateurs on a mission that has nothing to do with informing the public.
By Thursday morning, with a winter storm warning due to take effect, supermarket shelves were empty, events were canceled and we were huddled in our homes, fearfully watching the sky.
