MEA CULPA

Yes, I realize that I have been blogging a lot lately. Just remember--I blog for my own mental health.

TRENDING

"STUDY:  Most prefer to get revenge on others immediately." Drudge Report

"PEPSI releasing alcoholic Mountain Dew." Drudge

THE PLEDGE

"Public school starts day with Pledge of Allegiance to Dr. Fauci." Babylon Bee

THERE IS NO PLACE LIKE CHICAGO . . . 

"Chicago is grieving. The city saw 105 murders in July and has 445 this year, more than any other major city in the country. One 29-year-old police officer is dead after she was shot while conducting a traffic stop on Saturday. Chicago hasn’t experienced anything like the murder surge of the last year and a half since the 1990s, when the demolition of major public-housing projects precipitated turf wars among displaced gang members. So what is happening here?

"Some reasons for the spike will be familiar to residents of other big cities that have recently experienced a violent-crime surge. These include the isolation and economic carnage of the COVID-19 pandemic, alienated young people, and demoralized police. Some point to root causes such as generational poverty and discrimination against communities of color. These, too, are not unique to Chicago.

"But Chicago stands out in one way: Put simply, politics trumps professionalism when it comes to public safety in the Windy City. And as a result, two keys to effective crime-fighting — constitutional policing and community policing — are absent here." Ed Bachrach & Austin Berg, National Review Online, 8/10  

"A group of Chicago police officers turned their backs on Mayor Lori Lightfoot on Saturday during her visit to University of Chicago Medical Center, where two officers were hospitalized after being shot at a traffic stop.

"One of the officers, Ella French, 29, later died of her injuries. The father of the second officer, himself a retired member of the Chicago police, berated Lightfoot and blamed her for the incident, a source told the Chicago Sun-Times." Zachary Evans, NRO 8/10. Lois & I lived in Chicago from 1975-1980.

. . . LIKE OKLAHOMA

"A 'war zone' that 'smelled lovely.' Explosion of women's deodorant rocks truck stop. About 27,000 lbs of Degree women's spray deodorant exploded in Northeast OK after a semi-truck caught fire on FRI." Fox News, 8/9

. . . LIKE MARYLAND

"A federal appeals court on WED affirmed a Maryland beach town's right to ban women from topless bathing. A 3-judge panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond ruled unanimously that Ocean City's law, which allows mento be topless but not women, is constitutional." Norfolk Daily News, 8/9

. . . LIKE CALIFORNIA

"In blistering drought, CA farmers rip up precious almond trees." Drudge Report

CLIMATE CHANGE

"John Kerry family jet already emitted estimate 30 times more carbon in 2021 than average vehicle does in year." Fox News

LIBERALS

"Essentially, liberals are ready and eager to believe anything and everything bad about this country. That’s how you get Jussie Smollett. It’s how you get the Covington kids story. it’s how you get hoax after hoax reported as fact and screamed from the mountain tops, only to be corrected in the dark in the hopes that no one will notice that no one bothered to do any journalism in the process of reporting.

"Democrats hate you, whether you’re doing anything they disapprove of or not. If you aren’t with them 100 percent, you are their 100 percent enemy. It’s not a matter of degrees, it’s a matter of fact. It’s better to start living and voting like it, and working to influence the votes of others now, before they turn the whole country into that baseball game and its aftermath. Because there won’t always be footage to prove them wrong, and common sense will never override the liberal narrative without irrefutable proof." Derek Hunter, NRO 8/10