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Seems to be a theme here. New York values.

 

We rescued the world from authoritarian tyranny in 1945.

Who will rescue us?

 

That's why it cracks me up. The outraged people have become the same people they mocked -- and they don't even realize it.

 

I remember when you were down
You would always come running to me
I never denied you and I would guide you
Through all of your difficulties
Now I'm calling all citizens from all over the world
This is captain America calling
I bailed you out when you were down on your knees
So will you catch me now I'm falling

 

And as the windshield melts
And my tears evaporate
Leaving only charcoal to defend
Finally I understand,
the feelings of the few,
Ashes and diamonds,
foe and friend,
We were all equal
In the end.

 

But Hillary Clinton finally got hers for being an uppity woman, so it was worth it.

 

If you've been in the area for the last several years, it comes as no shock Paladino is a complete fucking racist, unhinged asshole. Hopefully this is the end of him, career-wise.

 

People got really worked up, and tried to deny it, whenever Trump would say that murder and crime was up in cities -- and especially in African-American neighborhoods.

But, it's pretty clear that it was true, that it's been rising, and is still rising.

The Black Lives Matter crusade against the police continued to cost lives and destroy civil peace in 2016. Two recent estimates of violent crime in the nation’s largest cities show that murders and shootings remained on an upward trajectory this year, as officers backed off of proactive policing. The Brennan Center for Justice projects that murders in the 30 largest cities will be 14 percent higher in 2016 compared with 2015, a stunning increase coming as it does on top of 2015’s already massive homicide rise, which was 14.5 percent in all cities with populations over 250,000 and 20 percent in cities with populations from 500,000 to 1 million. The Wall Street Journal found that homicides increased in 16 of the 20 largest police departments in 2016. Meanwhile, gun murders of police officers are up 68 percent through December 23, compared with the same period in 2015.

Medium-sized cities that don’t show up in the Brennan Center or Wall Street Journal analyses are also in distress. Cleveland’s murder numbers, for example, are up again in 2016 over 2015, which, with a 15 percent spike over 2014, was already one of the deadliest years in a decade. By early December 2016, Richmond had logged a 40 percent increase in homicides over 2015, making this year Richmond’s deadliest in a decade. And even in some cities where homicides decreased modestly over the previous year’s violent crime surge, the drop may simply reflect the vagaries of emergency-room treatment, ambulance speeds, and gangbangers’ shooting skills. Non-fatal shootings are up in Baltimore, though homicides are down slightly compared with 2015. Measured on a per capita basis, 2016 will still be Baltimore’s second deadliest year in its history.

 

Tell me more about liberal bias in journalism.

 

People got worked up because Trump overplayed the inner-city crime rate deal. He made urban life in the USA sound like Aleppo was a vacation spot.

 

The City Journal doesn't pretend that it isn't conservative.

 

Heather MacDonald, the author of the piece, is what I'd call a ferocious conservative, who just wrote a book titled The War on Cops.

Just wanted to offer some context.