Mayor Richard J. Daley in 1968 said he ordered police "to shoot to kill any arsonist or anyone with a Molotov cocktail in his hand . . . and . . . to shoot to maim or cripple anyone looting any stores in our city."  Maybe this is why Chicago didn't become Detroit.

Thomas Sowell turned me on to a point:  By forcibly putting down riots with overwhelming force, lives are saved.

Egregious violations of basic privacy have erupted in recent days:  Falwell Jr's consensual sex life, Trump's sister's phone call.  And yet not a peep from anyone on behalf of privacy?

The liberal assumption, in this as in most things, is that to understand is to approve (or at least to pardon), and therefore my disapproval indicated a lack of understanding.  –Theodore Dalrymple