You Think What?

Heather Mac Donald is a John M. Olin fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a Contributing Editor to City Journal whose articles run the opinion gamut from complaining about feminists to instructing how to interrogate terror suspects to her complaints about blacks who stand up for their rights in the U.S.

Mac Donald is one of those pundit suma cum idiots who is always citing statistics. They are presented in a manner that carries a tremendous persuasive power, but if you stop to think about it afterward, you realize no one has questioned her sources or the reliability of those sources.

We find this not so clever tactic to be annoying at best. It’s rhetoric that appeals directly to the feelings of her mass audience. It doesn’t even have to be logical to move the majority. It simply has to appear to be so, as long as it arouses the appropriate feeling of the masses who pay close attention to this fake intellectual.

In a recent article Mac Donald writes “Let’s assume the worst about Jena, Louisana and the charges of attempted murder brought against five black youths…that the district attorney’s indictments were motivated by rank racism and that the racial tensions in this town of 3,000 are exclusively the product of white animus against blacks. Does it follow that this latest object of frenzy on the media’s racism beat is emblematic of America’s judicial system or the state of race relations today?”

The answer to your question Ms Mac Donald is a resounding “YES!” The ghosts of de facto segregation, even Jim Crow policies are alive and thriving in 21st Century U.S. (more…)

All over America reports of human security personnel gone berserk. In airport terminals, hospitals, libraries at institutions of higher learning even in the public schools security personnel are exhibiting a heretofore unheard of or unseen show of excessive force toward citizens outside of the maximum security sections of a federal or a state penitentiary. (more…)