Quote of the day - Will Durant; Lorenzo De Medici; Florence

The merchants preferred economic prosperity to political freedom; the proleteriat was kept busy with extensive public works, and forgave dictatorship so long as Lorenzo [De Medici] supplied it with bread and games.  Tournaments allured the rich, horse races thrilled the bourgeoisie, and pageants amused the populace.

Will Durant, The Renaissance, p. 117 (writing of Florence circa 1480-1490).

Quote of the day - Daniel Greenfield

Al Sharpton, MSNBC’s in-house bigot and hate-crime king, had his usual words of wisdom to offer after the Zimmerman verdict.


“What this jury has done is establish a precedent that when you are young and fit a certain profile, you can be committing no crime… We had to march to even get a trial and even at trial, when he’s exposed over and over again as a liar, he is acquitted.”

Sharpton should be quite familiar with this state of affairs from the Crown Heights Pogrom, which he led, back in 1991. Mobs incited by Al Sharpton attacked anyone who looked like an Orthodox Jew.

Anthony Graziosi, a 67-year-old Italian man with a white beard, whose only crime was looking like an Orthodox Jew was murdered. So was Yankel Rosenbaum, who actually was an Orthodox Jew.

While liberal White Privilege shouters insist that only black people get killed for how they look, these two men were killed by black people for looking like Jews.

Lemrick Nelson, Rosenbaum’s killer, got away with it, despite stabbing Rosenbaum after shouting “Kill the Jew”. He was acquitted by a majority black jury, some of whose members then went out to party with the killer’s lawyer.

Daniel Greenfield - July 20, 2013

Quote of the day - Jim Treacher

"Trayvon could've been me, 35 years ago [quoting Barack Obama]." This is big. Can we track down the Hispanic guy he beat up for being gay?

Jim Treacher - 7-19-2013