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First, by now the NFL’s #TakeAKnee controversy is probably already growing long in the tooth and so I apologize if I’m belaboring it. What is below is fairly important, though, as it’s a hell of a good response to the Michael Bennetts, Kenny Vaccaros and Marshawn Lynches of the world. And second, another hell of a good response was given by Heather Mac Donald at City Journal on Monday. Mac Donald looked through the FBI’s recently-released crime statistics and found scant evidence to support the underlying cause for #TakeAKnee. As in… Contrary to the Black Lives Matter narrative, the police...

Lost in the imbroglio over the NFL’s disrespect for our national anthem is the irony of the original impetus for Colin Kaepernick’s antics. New data shows there is a growing epidemic of violent crime in America, which is likely the result of dissuading police from proactive law enforcement work. Sadly, the biggest victims of this rebounding epidemic are African Americans. Where is the protest or outrage over violent crime in inner cities rather than the police response to it (or lack thereof)? It’s hard to overstate the importance of yesterday’s release of crime data from the FBI showing a second...

The merger of the police-hating Black Lives Matter thugs and the America-hating thugs of the National Football League will ultimately prove to be a disaster for the NFL. Their "kaepernicking" will be the death of their jobs. It was probably inevitable that a major sport’s players would take their turn in the crosshairs of a totally WOKE, White American, super-majority. We are fed up with being attacked, disrespected, spit upon and the subject of never ending demands for more and more free stuff. We showed we didn’t need anybody else but ourselves to win last November. We lost the Black...