Politics

by Frank Furedi, originally appeared at Spiked

A new culture of groupthink is emerging, and it is causing mass psychosis.

One of the most distinctive things about the eruption of Black Lives Matter protests across the world is the speed with which they were endorsed by virtually…

The LNP editorial board – some of the most coddled and out-of-touch leftists this side of the University of California Berkeley campus – would rather see local businesses shuttered than someone not bow to their political agenda.

In this case it is the owners of the acclaimed restaurants Luca…

How many levels of humiliation are possible? If you’re an observer of Monday’s protest in the park next to the Lancaster police station, it’s hard to keep track.

For the protesters in general, their numbers are down from more than a 1,000 just eight days ago to maybe three…

This week may decide whether Democrat Gov. Tom Wolf’s lockdown and phased reopening of the Keystone State continues indefinitely or ends for good.

As the legislature resumes session this week two bills are on the floor of the house and senate, one of which Republicans say they will pass.

Legislative…

Public schools are already a mess – we’re at the point where colleges are having to drop SAT and standardized testing entirely.

And the worst public schools are those who indoctrinate, rather than educate.

Look at Lancaster County’s absolute worst school district – the School District of Lancaster.

Per…

Lancaster police arrested a man accused of threatening to burn down the police station during protests over the weekend.

According to police, they were told that Gerald Grauert, 35, was making statements about burning down the police station later Sunday night.

According to police records:

On Sunday May 31,

Day 6 of the George Floyd protests in Lancaster was, if anything, more sparsely attended and, honestly, whiter than Day 5.

The same chants, the same bunch of younger, scrawny white guys in communist or anarchist t-shirts, out of shape girls with cotton candy colored hair, and about 10% of the…

Editor’s Note:  In light of the arrest this morning of a suspected Antifa agitator who threatened to burn down the Lancaster police station, Lancaster clearly has a problem. The police department, mayor’s office, and LNP newspaper are in denial about Antifa’s presence in Lancaster County.

Here’s a good article…

Just a quick update for the morning.

1) “If you tell a lie often enough, it becomes the truth” seems to be the guiding purpose as the LNP keeps trying to blame right-wing agitators instead of Antifa for the violence at Lancaster protests. Even the police chief who

At least as of 5 p.m., the ongoing protest at the Lancaster Police Station on Chestnut was pretty quiet.

About 100-120 protesters, mostly young and about 90% white, marched through downtown with the standard BLM chants, and then heard from speakers.

A lot of white protesters took the bullhorn to…