You know that newspaper, “Street Spirit,” that homeless people sell on the street? It’s actually a pretty decent read, although it does get tiresome from repeating the same old tired arguments we always hear from homeless advocates.

I agree with those Americans who regard Daniel Penny as a hero. The man he accidentally asphyxiated, Jordan Neely, was a multiple repeat criminal, a psychopath who terrorized innocent people on that New York subway car. Penny, an ex-Marine, was the only one courageous enough to stop Neely. The jury that found Penny innocent is to be commended.

Harry Truman, one of the great Presidents, was a student of Western history, going back to the Greeks and Romans. He gave a lot of thought to leadership, and why and how some people rise to it while others don’t. His view, with which I concur, gets to the essence of our American democracy, in which all men are created equal—but that doesn’t translate into all men having equal outcomes in their lives.

It’s been a while since I wrote about Grants Pass, the Supreme Court decision that essentially told cities that they don’t have to provide shelter to homeless people in order to compel them to leave illegal encampments. But it’s time to revisit this topic, because what Oakland is doing is exactly what Dr. King denounced in his I Have a Dream speech.

So Price is out there, following her recall, trying to rehabilitate her wrecked reputation by blaming Oakland’s gun violence on “pandemic-era cuts to violence prevention programs.”