A Marine Corps. veteran who survived two tours of duty in Vietnam died of a heart attack after being beaten during a carjacking in Chicago yesterday. The horrible crime happened in broad daylight. Carjackings in the city began skyrocketing in 2015 when then-Mayor Rahm Emanuel decided to come down easy on mostly black juvenile car-purloiners. Can you guess what happened next? Teens began jacking more cars.
They want their children to maintain their privileged position
Critical Race Theory, or CRT, has dominated headlines in the US for months. Unsurprisingly, it is a fiercely partisan issue. In the blue corner, there’s MSNBC host Joy Reid stating that opponents of CRT are “steeped in white nationalism” and therefore must be held in the highest contempt. In the red corner, Tucker Carlson calls CRT a “civilisation-ending poison” that will “hurt your children”.
In Stanley Kubrick’s 1964 black comedy Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, the engine for the plot is Brigadier General Jack D. Ripper, a United States Air Force general, who goes completely off his rocker and launches a nuclear weapon at the Soviet Union. We may have our own, real-life General Ripper in the form of General Mark Milley, a product of the Ivy League and now chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. However, unlike General Ripper, who had the Russkies in his sights, General Milley is pretty sure that you are the enemy.
A tech company called TuSimple successfully tested its semi truck to transport watermelons from one state to another, Vice News reported.
However, what is perhaps most impressive is that the trip took 10 hours less than what it would have taken for a human. For most people, that trip would have taken around 24 hours to complete, Alt Driver reported, because human drivers require breaks during every so often.
Once the water recedes over the weekend, not only will the damage become visible, the politics will too
There is an interesting history to the politics of floods in Germany — and a possibility that history might be repeating itself. The official death toll in Germany has risen to 93 this morning, but 1,300 people are still reported missing in the region of Ahrweiler, in western Germany. This is without a doubt the most extreme natural disaster that has hit Germany in living memory.
Pope Francis announced that he will be restricting the traditional Latin mass in his latest attack against on the Catholic faith.
Francis made the pronouncement in his latest motu proprio that it will be the “exclusive competence” of a diocesan bishop “to authorize the use of the 1962 Roman Missal in his diocese, according to the guidelines of the Apostolic See.” This will allow Francis’ goons to shut down the traditional Latin mass, which is gaining momentum at a time when the Catholic Church is dying amidst child rape scandals.
President Joe Biden inherited an America that was a net energy exporter, something that had not been achieved even once in his 44 years in federal office. The GOP’s energy strategy was, quite simply, working. The results were not just lower energy prices and independence from unstable or adversarial countries; this also helped us lower carbon emissions.
As the International Energy Agency reported last year, the United States in 2019 led the world with the biggest one-year reduction in energy-related CO2 emissions, and since 2000 (our peak emissions year), we have had the greatest absolute drop in emissions reductions of any nation.
She sure has had a lot to say over the past 48 hours about how private tech companies should be running their businesses.
Yesterday the White House began its big push against vaccine misinformation, part of which involves calling on Big Tech to enforce its policies more rigorously against people spreading conspiracy theories about the vaccines.
More … ‘They’re killing people’: Biden says social media platforms responsible for COVID-19 deaths
President Joe Biden said people are dying because of coronavirus disinformation being shared on social media platforms.
“They’re killing people,” Biden said when asked to share his message to companies such as Facebook. “The only pandemic we have is among the unvaccinated. And they’re killing people.”
Hmmm… Psaki Gets Cornered with Fauci’s Facebook Misinformation: Should Those Posts Be Taken Down?
The Arizona Senate, led by Senate President Karen Fann, held a hearing on Thursday to discuss the preliminary results of the first phase of the audit in Maricopa County. The state senate heard testimony from three witnesses involved in the audit, Cyber Ninjas CEO Doug Logan, AZ audit Liaison Ken Bennett, and Ben Cotton, CEO and founder of Cytech Services. During the hearing, the auditors revealed that Maricopa County still has not provided many materials needed to complete the audit, including routers, chain of custody documentation, and images of mail in ballots.
h/t Marvin
When the Olympic torch is lit in Tokyo, it will happen in a country that wishes the Games had been extinguished.
With vaccination rates still low in Japan, the Olympics will be held as the city is in a state of emergency and there will be no spectators in the stands. Tourists won’t flock into the country, because international spectators were banned months ago, so there will be little to offset the more than $18-billion cost.
The Olympics are a money making scam for a few. I would never vote to host them here.
Because a functional communist state was always a figment of leftists’ imaginations.
Citizens charged their government with repression. The rebuttal came via a truncheon. Some people miss their own irony.
The Cuban government killed one protester, roughed up cameramen for the Associated Press, abducted citizens from their homes, and shut down the internet in response to demonstrations that erupted last weekend. “The order to fight has been given,” President Miguel Díaz-Canel announced. “Into the street, revolutionaries!”
For New York City progressives, not even violent crime warrants police intervention.
It’s an article of faith among New York City’s progressive leadership that punishment does not deter crime and that putting criminals in jail is at least as evil as whatever they did to get there. From this perspective, sending someone to jail is the worst thing that society can do: it not only destroys the life of the perpetrator but also creates a false sense of accomplishment, while ignoring the socioeconomic “root causes” of crime.
A federal judge in Texas on Friday ruled that the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program (DACA), which granted pseudo amnesty for illegal immigrants under the age of 30 who were brought to the United States as minors, is illegal, reports the Wall Street Journal.
How much personal information do you share on your social media profile pages?
Name, location, age, job role, marital status, headshot? The amount of information people are comfortable with posting online varies.
But most people accept that whatever we put on our public profile page is out in the public domain.
So, how would you feel if all your information was catalogued by a hacker and put into a monster spreadsheet with millions of entries, to be sold online to the highest paying cyber-criminal?
