Showing posts with label Urban Policy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Urban Policy. Show all posts
Friday, May 28, 2021

Infrastructure! Infrastructure! Infrastructure! (VIDEO)

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The statistics are truly mind-boggling! Portland's seen an 800 percent increase in homicides since last year --- 800 percent! --- and po...
Sunday, May 9, 2021

Eric Adams for New York City Mayor! (VIDEO)

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No need to block-quote the whole thing. This dude's the real deal, and while I have no idea whether he'll take the top executive off...
Monday, September 2, 2019

Pete Buttigieg Was Rising. Then Came South Bend's Policing Crisis

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Identity politics. You can never win. At McClatchy, via Memeorandum, " plans to beef up campaign staff ." And NYT: Pete Bu...
Saturday, August 3, 2019

Trump Targets Cities as Bastions of Crime, Poverty, and Corruption

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Democrat crime, corruption, and poverty. If leftists stick with Democrats on this issue, you know politics isn't about improving the liv...
Wednesday, January 24, 2018

The Prosperity Paradox

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From Ronald Brownstein, at CNN, " The prosperity paradox is dividing the country in two ": "The big blue metros believe t...
Sunday, December 18, 2016

William Julius Wilson, When Work Disappears [BUMPED]

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Professor Wilson's work is increasingly in vogue. Lots of folks are citing it, from J.D. Vance to Katherine S. Newman and Hella Winston....
Wednesday, June 22, 2016

Joel Kotkin, The Human City

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New, from Joel Kotkin, at Amazon, The Human City: Urbanism for the Rest of Us . Plus, The New Class Conflict .
Thursday, September 3, 2015

Freddie Gray Protests Erupt as Hearing Held for Indicted Baltimore Police Officers (VIDEO)

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Here's the background, at Baltimore Sun, " Judge orders six separate trials for the officers charged in #FreddieGray's death ,&...
Sunday, August 9, 2015

Democrats Stoking Black Anger (Which May Mean Riots) to Keep White House in 2016

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No doubt. From Steve Sailer, at VDare .
Saturday, August 1, 2015

The Culture War Returns

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Well, it's not just now returning, although no doubt he's onto something. From Jacob Heilbrunn, at the National Interest ": ...

C-Span of the Streets

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At the New York Times, FWIW, " Glare of Video Is Shifting Public’s View of Police ." This is a terrible report, mainly because i...
Sunday, July 12, 2015

The Berkshire Eagle Under Fire for Publishing Perfectly Reasonable Op-Ed on the Breakdown of America's Black Community

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Seen just now at Memeorandum, from D.R. Tucker, at the Washington Monthly , " All the Views Unfit to Print ." It turns out that ...
Tuesday, June 16, 2015

Brace Yourself: Huge Majority Expects Nationwide Racial Unrest This Summer

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The poll's from April, " Baltimore Riots: Poll Finds 96% Expect More Racially-Charged Unrest Nationwide ." But John Fund'...
Monday, June 15, 2015

Leftists Explain Away 'Ferguson Effect' Crime Wave

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This is one of those "just wow" pieces that makes you shake your head. Man, I still get flabbergasted as the left's shameless ...

Ferguson Businesses Struggle to Rebound After Radical Left-Wing Riots and Destruction

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One more of the "Ferguson effects" now savaging communities across the United States. Of course, in this case, it is Ferguson, st...
Friday, June 5, 2015

Mayor Bill de Blasio Is Unpopular With White Voters

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Heh. The Democrat-left, still dividing the country along racial lines and pissing off voters. Good job progs! At WSH, " New York Ci...
Friday, January 30, 2015

Democrat-Funded Law Firm, the 'Bronx Defenders', Involved in Rap Video Calling for Police to Be Killed

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At the Los Angeles Times, " New York City-funded law firm involved in video calling for police to be killed ": Bronx law firm th...
Sunday, January 25, 2015

New Jersey High School Student Slams 62-Year-Old Teacher to Floor Over Cellphone

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It's something that I would never do (confiscating a phone), since a student's phone is private property. But that said, this is abs...

Insane Ferguson Looting Video

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When law enforcement is completely absent, anarchy reigns. And there is no moral force powerful enough to restrain the literally primitive b...
Tuesday, December 30, 2014

New York Arrests Plummet Following Execution of Cops

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This is exactly what the anti-cop protests are all about --- hindering police effectiveness (which allows crime to flourish) and seeing more...