President Obama wept while announcing his new executive actions that will supposedly protect Americans from guns, demonstrating that honest emotion is often the poorest of guides to both good politics and good policy, a lesson that today’s liberals are notably loath to learn. There was a time when liberals were smart about gun control. They…
Tag: William de Blasio
What de Blasio did wrong
In recent days I’ve been razzing, pretty heavily, on the New York City Police Department. Recently, the New York Times ran a nice article by Michael M. Grynbaum, J. David Goodman, and Al Baker listing all of Mayor William de Blasio’s missteps with the police, strongly suggesting that de Blasio came into office as lazy,…