A television ad for Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign now airing in South Carolina shows the candidate declaring that “too many encounters with law enforcement end tragically.” She later adds: “We have to face up to the hard truth of injustice and systemic racism.

It was one of the more effective training exercises that I saw during my years in the New York Police Department.

The left wants to blame black criminality on racial animus and ‚the system,‘ but blacks have long been part of running that system.

War das «progressiv»? War er gar ein Linker? Fehlanzeige. Den idealistischen Ruf nach Gerechtigkeit konterte er mit einem kühlen «Gerechtigkeit gibt es nicht». Und vom Rechthaben und Rechtbehalten hielt er erst recht nichts. Was man in einem Rechtsstaat erwarten könne, sei Verfahrensgerechtigkeit.

Gutes zu tun, kann man nicht an den Staat delegieren, Gutes kann auch nicht «in die Wege geleitet» werden. Gutes muss man selber tun. Und die einzige Voraussetzung, die es dazu braucht, ist Freiheit.

_And the financial crisis goes on … And the politicians still think they can avoid the painful solution and try to sustain asset prices. But the prices of many assets are bubble prices and these prices need to fall to market levels.

BILYI KAMIN, Ukraine — The vast collectives that fed the Soviet Union are now a patchwork of tiny gardens, fields and vacant lots. But combined, they could help feed the world: Russia, Kazakhstan and Ukraine have fertile yet untilled land the size of Idaho.