The gun lobby is learning from Big Tobacco
Guns have been tied to American identity ever since the nation declared independence. But from Buffalo Bill to Rambo, the rugged, gun-toting individual has been mythologised by the gun lobby almost exclusively as a white male. And this myth was based on reality: five years ago, half of white men owned a gun — compared with a quarter of non-white men, and a quarter of women. A lot, however, has changed since then.
Amy Ko’s bio reads that is a “Professor at the University of Washington iSchool, where she studies humanity’s individual and collective struggle to understand computing. She believes in an equitable, sustainable, and liberatory future in which everyone has the freedom and resources they need to thrive as themselves. She views uncritical uses of computing as a threat to that future, but believes computing can be reimagined to help achieve it.”
“It was the week before December 25, midday on a mild Monday, and the muezzins of London were chanting the glory of Allah and how there was no other god but him…”.
This is how “1985”, the prophetic novel by Anthony Burgess, the author of “A Clockwork Orange,” begins. He wrote it in 1978 and it looks like the portrait of the West in 2023. Paradoxical and unpredictable, Burgess, writing in the Guardian of December 31, 1989, wrote that “the old opposition was between the free world and the communist world. The new opposition will not be with atheistic communism, but with fundamentalist Islam…”.
I have become increasingly alarmed at the proliferation of online videos featuring parents of young children, excited to share the news that their child is transitioning. It doesn’t take a psychologist to question why they might want to share this news with such exuberance, not least as most ordinary parents would find this a difficult or even distressing experience.
The U.S. Navy confirmed on Tuesday it has discontinued an online recruiting initiative featuring an enlisted drag queen that was aimed at bringing new sailors into the service.
In May, The Daily Caller revealed that the Navy brought on Yeoman 2nd Class Joshua Kelley — an active-duty drag queen who goes by the stage name Harpy Daniels and identifies as non-binary — to be a “Navy Digital Ambassador.” The Digital Ambassador Pilot Program, which ran from October 2022 to March 2023, was reportedly “designed to explore the digital environment to reach a wide range of potential candidates” for military recruitment.
Newly released figures from Frontex, the EU’s border protection agency, revealed on Thursday, September 15th, that over 114,000 illegal migrant crossings across the Mediterranean to Italy were recorded between January and August, twice the number recorded during the same period last year, accounting for half of the illegal border crossing detected in 2023.
The agency, in its latest press release, stated that the number of illegal border crossings along the bloc’s external borders jumped by 18% in the first eight months of 2023, exceeding 232,350 instances, and marking the highest total for the period from January to August since the 2016 migrant crisis.
Nice try, prime minister. But likely too little, too late and too transparently desperate to serve as a realistic government-salvage strategy.
In a Hail Mary course correction designed to stop the Liberal death spiral, Justin Trudeau resurrected the ghost of rejected promises past, took notes from opposition ideas minutes before their release and delivered an empty ultimatum for excessively profitable grocery chains to stabilize prices.
It was a startling act of political self-preservation by the chronically inactive Trudeau, a realization that his iron grip on the caucus was slipping with potential electoral annihilation foreshadowed in the polls.
TIFs (trans identifying females, aka women) almost all have the same voice. pic.twitter.com/j8Vhs4CNEj
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You read it here first: a thrilling announcement of epic proportions! An idea no Canadian newspaper has dared fathom until now. It’s entirely new; absolutely game changing. Prepare to be wowed.
Here it is: the National Post will continue to print columns on a daily basis. Our brand colour will continue to be yellow.
This is more or less the equivalent of what Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Housing Minister Sean Fraser announced this Wednesday, just hours after Fraser teased unprecedented measures to tackle the housing crisis. That morning, he told media, “Today’s going to be the first time we’ve done something like this in Canada.”
Missouri Dept of Health investigating Starbucks barista with diaper fetish after he filmed himself dispensing whipped cream into his diaper
He slammed the bourgeois intellectuals of his day for their intolerance and insularity. Sound familiar?
I recently re-read George Orwell’s 1941 essay, The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius, and I was taken by his description of the bourgeois, left-leaning intelligentsia of his time. They live in the shallowness of ideas, he writes, severed from the common culture and life experiences of the working class. They spend most of their time bickering with their chief enemy, the equally bourgeois ‘Blimps’ – archetypal red-faced imperialists. Though they despise each other, both the bourgeois intelligentsia and the Blimps are united in their mutual disdain for the working class.
The organization’s behavior strikes as profoundly creepy.
“The issue I think with the ADL is not a question of hate speech,” Elon Musk said told the All-In conference this week. “It’s not a question of antisemitism, obviously. It’s that the ADL and a lot of other organizations have become activist organizations, which are acting far beyond their stated mandate or their original mandate.”
Musk largely attributes the decline in X’s U.S. revenue to the Anti-Defamation League’s pressuring corporations and organizations to not advertise there.
Recent litigation points to parents’ rising frustrations with gender and sexuality curricula in public schools.
With active litigation on both coasts embroiling school districts in controversies over gender and sexuality issues, this academic year promises major battles in American public education.
First came a decision from the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, which reviewed a Maryland case in which parents challenged Montgomery County Public Schools’ “Guidelines for Gender Identity.” The guidelines feature a “gender support plan for students,” which includes “affirming” a child’s preferred name, pronouns, and other gender-related preferences, and authorizes schools to “withhold information about the plans from parents if the school deems the parents to be unsupportive.” Under longstanding Supreme Court doctrine that gives parents a constitutional right to raise their children, the parents sued.
About 13,000 US auto workers at Detroit’s big three firms stopped making vehicles and went on strike Friday after their leaders couldn´t bridge a giant gap between union demands and automakers in contract talks.
The United Auto Workers (UAW) union’s labor contract with Detroit’s big three automakers expired at 11.59pm on Thursday, with it is demanding a 40 per cent pay rise for its 146,000 members over four years and a four-day work week not met.
Automakers have countered with offers that are roughly half of that increase. Starting workers are currently paid around $18.04 an hour.
Syria is clearly on the verge of collapse in terms of the economy and humanitarian situation.
The country’s southern province of al-Suwayda’, whose population primarily comes from the Druze minority, is currently witnessing protests on an unprecedented scale. While the province has previously seen protests motivated primarily by the country’s deteriorating economic and livelihood situation, these protests are now far more widespread in the province and larger in scale.
