Ranking first this last week was Steve Sailer’s lengthy discussion of the astonishing outcome of a murder trial in South Carolina.  A young black man decided to carjack a 77-year-old retired volunteer fire chief one morning at 9am, and when the unarmed victim attempted to escape, fatally shot him, firing all eight rounds in his handgun.  Seen by witnesses and with the attack leaving considerable physical evidence, the killer was soon caught by police and later provided a full videotaped confession.  Yet when brought to trial in the heavily black town, the jury took just two hours to find him innocent of all charges.  This bizarre case quickly provoked over 400 comments totaling nearly 30,000 words.

Close behind in second place was my own latest installment on the origins of the global Covid epidemic, I which I note the utterly Orwellian reversal of the mainstream media on the topic.  For more than a year, the MSM had dismissed and ridiculed any claims that the virus was artificial as a “conspiracy theory” and even persuaded Facebook and other social media outlets to ban all such discussion.  Yet in just a couple of weeks following the appearance of Nicholas Wade’s self-published article providing a difference analysis, the Wuhan lab-leak theory has become absolutely respectable and even dominant, with Facebook reversing its policy.  However, I note that my own far better supported third possibility, namely that the outbreak was an American biowarfare attack against China (and Iran), still remains totally unmentionable in almost all venues.  The ensuing discussion has already passed 450 comments totaling 65,000 words.  Lance Welton’s fifth ranking column also discusses this sudden media reversal on the origins of Covid.

Our third most popular article was Taxi’s perspective on the aftermath of the recent Israel-Hamas military conflict, in which she argues that the Palestinian cause has now gained ascendancy, and escalation-dominance.  This topic soon attracted a massive outpouring of lengthy comments, over 750 in number and totaling well over 100,000 words.

Fourth place was held by John Derbyshire harsh critique of what he characterizes as the “Cult of St. George Floyd,” the bizarre politically-correct veneration of a lifelong petty criminal who seemingly died of a drug overdose, but was transformed by media-magic into a saintly exemplar of the victims of American racism.

Finally, rounding out our most popular featured articles was Prof. Michael Hudson’s discussion of the politics of the student loan situation, and why President Biden won’t take the reasonable step of cancelling existing the burdensome debt.