- When TV talking heads keep describing street violence as “protest,” they sound like the world’s worst parents.
- Replacing city police units with unarmed social workers might conceivably work, but only if those social workers are powerful, wise, fearless, and have superhero invulnerability.
- Politicians and pundits who argue that the harsh conditions endured by citizens in places governed for decades entirely by Democrats are actually not the fault of Democrats should be assigned a special project: Read Alice in Wonderland, paying special attention to the Queen of Hearts.
- A tougher reading assignment for governors who angrily threaten churchgoers sitting in cars in a church parking lot or a couple kids playing catch, but offer no warnings to people occupying streets shoulder-to-shoulder: George Orwell’s 1984 and Animal Farm. On second thought, never mind. Reading Orwell requires ability in linear thought.
- I’ve always thought that people determined to defend their homes with guns were overly fearful and combative. Well, after the past couple weeks, I’m thinking “mea culpa.” That’s Latin for “oops.”
- Chicago’s mayor, who delivered a public “F – U” to the president, should think twice before exercising her threat to fire a policeman who made a public gesture of the same message to people screaming at him. By the way, mayor, give up your police detail.
- Looters and arsonists have destroyed many small businesses in Chicago and other cities — businesses that typically represent the life savings of brave, hard-working minority entrepreneurs — and crusading progressives have basically shrugged away such destruction. Maybe those progressives don’t deserve the fabled reward of “a special place in hell,” just special places as Democratic Party superdelegates.
- The 1968 riots left many inner city areas with half a century of sprawling “grocery store deserts,” also no pharmacies or clothing stores, just liquor stores. Looking toward the future, that’s something worth peacefully protesting.