Patrick Buchanan
WASHINGTON Within hours of Saturday’s shooting in Times Square where three bystanders, including a 4-year-old girl, were wounded, the two leading candidates to replace Mayor Bill de Blasio were on-site.
Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, a retired captain of the NYPD, and Andrew Yang, who declared:
“My fellow New Yorkers … Nothing works in our city without public safety, and for public safety, we need the police. … My message to the NYPD is this: New York needs you. Your city needs you.
“New York cannot afford to defund the police.”
The rush of Adams and Yang to the scene of the shooting, and the messages they delivered, tells us something about the state of play in politics and not only in the city of New York.
Within hours of Saturday s shooting in Times Square where three bystanders, including a 4-year-old girl, were wounded, the two leading candidates to replace Mayor Bill de Blasio were on-site.
Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, a retired captain of the NYPD, and Andrew Yang, who declared: My fellow New Yorkers . Nothing works in our city without public safety, and for public safety, we need the police. . My message to the NYPD is this: New York needs you. Your city needs you. New York cannot afford to defund the police.
The rush of Adams and Yang to the scene of the shooting, and the messages they delivered, tells us something about the state of play in politics and not only in the city of New York.
Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, a retired captain of the NYPD, and Andrew Yang, who declared: My fellow New Yorkers . Nothing works in our city without public safety, and for public safety, we need the police. . My message to the NYPD is this: New York needs you. Your city needs you. New York cannot afford to defund the police.
The rush of Adams and Yang to the scene of the shooting, and the messages they delivered, tells us something about the state of play in politics and not only in the city of New York.
Liberal mayors and urban politicians who enlisted in the Black Lives Matter defund the police movement after the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis last May, appear to have caught a wave that is now receding.
a- There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money, is an insight the famed biographer James Boswell attributed to Samuel Johnson.
Clients of the late Bernie Madoff, however, might take issue.
Over four decades, Madoff, acclaimed as the greatest fraudster of them all, ran a Ponzi scheme that swindled 40,000 people, including his closest friends, out of $65 billion.
But if getting money is among the most innocent of callings, America has more than its fair share of the goodly people who excel at it.
According to
Forbes s 35th annual ranking of billionaires, last year witnessed a population explosion. Some 660 new billionaires were added to the number for a total of 2,755.
WASHINGTON “Hear me clearly: America is not a racist country.”
So declared Sen. Tim Scott, a Black Republican, in his televised rebuttal to Joe Biden’s address to Congress.
Asked the next day what he thought of Scott’s statement, Biden said he agrees. “No, I don’t think the American people are racist.”
Vice President Kamala Harris also agreed with Scott, “No, I don’t think America is a racist country.”
What makes these rejections of the charge of racism against America significant is that Biden and Harris both seemed to say the opposite after Derek Chauvin was convicted.