Tag Archives: Mayor Ted Wheeler

What Could Go Wrong?

It’s hard to get excited over the insurrection in Washington D.C. after a year when rioting became acceptable in the U.S. If it’s OK to go on a rampage in service to Black Lives Matter, why can’t a QAnon freak like Jake Angeli roam the Senate floor showing off his bare chest, painted face and […]

Portland: A City of Nobodies

Here’s a glimpse into the future of law enforcement in Portland, Ore.: A hand-scrawled cardboard sign taped outside the wall of the Stevens-Ness Law Publishing Co., “Per Rico and Riot Ribs please don’t vandalize.” Will Portland’s nationally-recognized protests, which have included vandalism and looting, devolve into a protection racket? The Stevens-Ness store is a block […]

Turning Police Into Uber Drivers

Coming soon to Portland, Ore.: A touch of Baltimore ghetto. In 2019, Portland’s white progressives can bask in the glow of Jo Ann Hardesty’s dark brown skin and let it hide their own pale provincialism. These are people who love to bemoan Portland’s whiteness – but don’t have the guts to move some place where […]

A Good Shoot or Bad Shoot?

The loss of a life isn’t always tragic. Sometimes it makes perfect sense. Take John A. Elifritz, for instance. On his last day on earth in Portland, Ore., Elifritz, 48, acted like a man with a long criminal history and a meth habit. After several hours of threatening to cut his own throat, menacing other […]

Wheeler and the Jive-Talkers

The tidy, black girl didn’t look much older than 10. She was dressed in what looked like, at the time, the standard blue-and-white Catholic school uniform. She sat towards the front of a public transit bus as it made its way through Oakland, Calif. Given the late afternoon hours, she was probably headed home. She […]

Portland’s Brand of Progressive Hate

Years before Donald Trump was elected president, Jeremy Joseph Christian was building a criminal record that included convictions for robbery, kidnapping and being a felon in possession of a firearm. The Portland man is now accused of whipping out a knife on a commuter train and slashing the throats of three men, killing two of […]