Sharpton Documents Lost in Mysterious Fires
Today at National Review Online, Jillian Kay Melchior revisits two mysterious fires at Al Sharpton’s offices, in 1997 and 2003. In both, important documents were allegedly destroyed. Melchior deserves...
View ArticleNASCAR Asked to End Sharpton Support in Wake of Ferguson Police Shootings
I have sent this letter to Brian France, Chief Executive Office of NASCAR:We ask that NASCAR end its financial support of Al Sharpton and his organization, the National Action Network (NAN). According...
View ArticlePolice Shootings in Ferguson Bear Mark of Holder, Sharpton
If civil rights activism is now the art of establishing guilt for self-defense (by whites) and innocence for assault (by blacks), Ferguson, Missouri is the primary testing grounds. The reaction by the...
View ArticleSharpton Visits South Carolina; Will Violence Follow?
Like clockwork, Al Sharpton, race-hustler extraordinaire, is positioning himself as an “adviser” to the family of Walter Scott, the black man fatally shot from behind on April 4 by a white police...
View ArticleBaltimore Violence is Obama’s Failed Legacy on Race
As our first African-American president, Barack Obama had the opportunity to personify the final triumph of civil rights, and in the process, become a celebrated and historic figure. Instead, his...
View ArticleWill Rush to Judgment in Baltimore Lead to More Rioting?
In Baltimore, the ashes have cooled; the curfew has ended; the National Guardsmen have left; and Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson have gone home. But the appearance of normalcy is misleading. For the...
View ArticleSharpton Daughter Sues NYC for $5 Million over Sprained Ankle
“The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree,” goes the adage. In Al Sharpton’s family, the words are doubly true. This past weekend, Dominique Sharpton, the eldest of Reverend Al’s two adult daughters,...
View ArticleSharpton Launches Capitol Hill Lobbying Blitz
“I want to make a difference” is a common statement of purpose for coming to work in the nation’s capital. Al Sharpton, no stranger to Washington during the Obama years, wants to make a difference....
View Article'Civil Rights' Activists, DOJ Distort Reality in Death of Georgia Black Teen
Railroading innocent persons into prison, or extracting outsized cash settlements from them, is now a defining feature of what passes for civil rights in America. The possibility of such an outcome...
View ArticleBlack Lives Matter Activists Sabotage Public Order, Intimidate Critics
The politics of racial grievance took center stage in 2015. Leading the way was an ad hoc nationwide group known as Black Lives Matter (BLM). Menacing, confrontational and adept in social media, its...
View ArticleThe Nonexistent Case against Oscar 'Whiteness'
When the curtain rises on the 88th annual Oscar film awards next Sunday evening, February 28, tens of millions of TV viewers, along with the 3,400 attendees at the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles, will...
View ArticleObama Fetes Black Lives Matter Leaders at White House Summit
Anyone doubting the influence of the loosely-knit band of demagogues known as Black Lives Matter probably wasn't at the White House last Thursday, where President Obama met with black leaders to...
View ArticleLatest Sharpton Confab Rakes in Corporate and Union Dough
Al Sharpton, shakedown artist extraordinaire, never has lacked energy in advancing the profile of his New York-based nonprofit, National Action Network (NAN). Thanks to corporations and unions, he...
View ArticleLabor Unions and Al Sharpton: An Enduring Partnership
With few exceptions, unions are powerful engines of egalitarian policy and its most potent political vehicle, the Democratic Party. As the party platform now heavily overlaps with that of demagogic...
View ArticleMainstream Media Enable Black Lives Matter, Legitimize Cop-Killing
The ambush murders of five Dallas police officers on July 7, followed ten days later by the murders of three Baton Rouge cops, outraged the nation. To the social media network of provocateurs called...
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