October 15, 2024 — Lloyd Billingsley
Frontpage has proclaimed Tanya S. Chutkan number one in their series on the ten worst judges in America. An Obama pick for the DC District Court, Chutkan goes easy on Islamic terrorists and violent criminals but cracks down hard on the January 6 defendants. Her handling of the Imran Awan case failed to get the attention it deserved. Of all the IT people in all the IT firms in all
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October 13, 2024 — Lloyd Billingsley
“Nasir Ahmad Tawhidi, 27, conspired and attempted to provide material support to ISIS and obtained firearms and ammunition to conduct a violent attack on U.S. soil in the name of ISIS,” explains an October 8 press release from the Department of Justice. Tawhedi is “a citizen of Afghanistan residing in Oklahoma City” and FBI director Christopher Wray explained: This defendant, motivated by ISIS, allegedly conspired to commit a violent attack,
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October 12, 2024 — Lloyd Billingsley
Get the Jew is the title of Michael Pack’s new film about the Crown Heights riot in 1991, portrayed as the worst anti-Semitic race riot in American history. Here viewers meet Leonard Jeffries of the department of “black studies” at the City University of New York, who charged that Jews ran the slave trade and whites were an inferior breed of “ice people.” The mainstreaming of this racist dogma is the
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October 11, 2024 — Lloyd Billingsley
“Former President Barack Obama sternly chided Black men over ‘excuses’ to not vote for Vice President Kamala Harris,” ABC News reports. This recalls Joe Biden’s charge that blacks “ain’t black” if they failed to support the Delaware Democrat. On the left being “black” is a matter of politics, and that recalls one of the many attacks on author Thomas Sowell. Back in the 1990s Clinton civil rights pick Lani Guinier
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October 11, 2024 — Lloyd Billingsley
Ta-Nehisi Coates is reportedly an admirer of author and critic Stanley Crouch but readers have cause to wonder. Crouch, who passed away in 2020, would not have approved Coates’ equation of Israel with the Jim Crow south in his new book The Message. Crouch would also deploy his considerable powers against the current surge of anti-Semitism. Should that be doubted, consider “Nationalism of Fools,” Crouch’s 1985 essay in the Village
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October 9, 2024 — Lloyd Billingsley
Naomi Klein, climate-justice professor at the University of British Columbia, is the author of “How Israel has made trauma a weapon of war,” a 6000-plus-word essay in the October 5 Guardian. Back in 1990 in The Varsity, a University of Toronto publication, Klein authored “Victim to Victimizer,” subtitled “What Israel has become: Racism and misogyny at the core of its being.” As the author explains: When I speak out on
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October 8, 2024 — Lloyd Billingsley
On Sunday night, fans saw the Dallas Cowboys defeat the Pittsburgh Steelers 20-17. What they didn’t see was Elon Musk in the stands, fresh off his appearance with Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, to commemorate the July 13 assassination attempt. “NBC choose not to show Elon Musk at the Cowboys vs Steelers game,” posted former Steeler Antonio Brown, noting that “Taylor Swift gets shown every game she’s at.” Brown, a Super
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October 8, 2024 — Lloyd Billingsley
A slick, high-priced television production. Speeches from top officials. A live audience of thousands. A unified show of collective sorrow and military resolve. That is how the Israeli government hoped to mark the passing of one year since Hamas’s surprise and bloody attacks last 7 October. That is from “How Israel has made trauma a weapon of war,” an October 5 Guardian essay by Naomi Klein, “professor of climate justice
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October 6, 2024 — Lloyd Billingsley
“71 will support research to find cures for diseases that affect millions of people, including cancer, diabetes, Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. Please support the effort to find cures. . . It could save the life of someone you love.” That was actor Michael J. Fox in an ad for Proposition 71, the Stem Cell Research Initiative, also supported by Christopher Reeve and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, whose father-in-law Sargent Shriver was afflicted
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October 6, 2024 — Lloyd Billingsley
Kamala Harris has learned that Magic Johnson’s number was 32, and that this coincided with the number of days to the election. “In prehistoric times,” Scott notes, “Johnson was a star on a Michigan State team that won a national championship.” His professional team is another story. The Minneapolis Lakers won five NBA championships and made the move to Los Angeles in 1960. Beginning in 1961 their broadcaster was Francis
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October 4, 2024 — Lloyd Billingsley
Saxophonist and composer Benny Golson, who passed away last month at 95, was one of the jazz musicians in the famous Art Kane photograph for Esquire in 1958 (below). Golson is up near the top, a place he surely deserved. “He had it all,” explained vibraphonist Terry Gibbs. “Very good arranger, very good tenor player.” Golson came up through big bands and formed influential combos such as the Jazztet. The
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October 4, 2024 — Lloyd Billingsley
Back in 2017 in Minneapolis, Justine Ruszczyk Damond, a dual citizen of Australia and the United States, heard a woman being assaulted and called 911. When police arrived, Damond approached their car and Somali-born officer Mohamed Noor shot her dead. Expert witnesses testified that Noor’s use of force was objectionable, unreasonable and violated police policies and training. The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA) drew criticism for its investigation of
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September 30, 2024 — Lloyd Billingsley
“Terry Teachout published more pieces in Commentary than any other writer in the magazine’s 76-year history,” wrote John Podhoretz in January of 2022 after Teachout passed away at 65. “The loss to his loved ones, the loss to the American theatre he both championed as a critic and mastered as a playwright, and the loss to the broader American culture he knew more fully than anyone else in our time
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September 30, 2024 — Lloyd Billingsley
In March of 2021, Joe Biden appointed Kamala Harris to take charge of the border. Since then, the Biden-Harris administration ushered in some 10 million illegals, with no criminal background checks. With crime by these illegals a raging issue with voters, Harris made a rather odd choice to introduce her at an event in Douglas, Arizona, last Friday. Doing the honors was Tori Verber Salazar, former district attorney of California’s
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September 28, 2024 — Lloyd Billingsley
Joe Biden recently left his beach chair for a guest-star appearance on “The View,” a pre-scripted show with a strong supporting cast. “I always felt you were going to probably do four years and then try to figure out where to go with Kamala,” said Whoopi Goldberg. But on the other hand, that Donald Trump “just wouldn’t – he was like a bug. He just kept being there. He was
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September 27, 2024 — Lloyd Billingsley
In 2019, the Trump Administration set a course to address chronic disease, funding earlier interventions to curb the growing crisis. Five years later, this issue is exactly where it needs to be: at the center of the presidential debate, now in a unique partnership to heal our children, a president must see the possible and lead our nation to act. After more than 40 years in the public health arena,
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September 26, 2024 — Lloyd Billingsley
Kamala Harris’ plan to visit the border has recalled her support for illegal alien Sergio Garcia to obtain a license to practice law, a move opposed by the Obama DOJ. Garcia is now the poster child for the policies Harris would apply as president. The media spin it as a feel-good story, but some facts need clarification. Garcia’s parents brought him to the United States as a toddler but when
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