What started as Austin city workers attempting to trim a Texas man’s unkempt lawn resulted in the homeowner shooting at landscapers, a house fire, and a standoff with police that ended with a deadly encounter. The owner of the property was reportedly notified during the summer that “weeds were more than a foot tall,” which
Month: October 2021
Colin Kaepernick has a new special on Netflix, where he equates being an NFL player to slavery. The internet unmercifully ridiculed the comparison. “Colin in Black and White” is a six-part docudrama series on Netflix “recounting his formative years navigating race, class, and culture while aspiring for greatness.” The series will detail “Kaepernick’s life growing
Chocolate bar maker Mars, Inc., is definitely embracing the creepiness of the Halloween season. In their latest Twix ad – which hardly has anything to do with chocolate – the candy company featured a short story about a cross-dressing six-year-old, with the intent to promote more transgenderism and gender-fluid nonsense. Sweet, huh? In the ad, which
Since the announcement, especially Jewish users poke fun at the name change. Meta is very similar to the Hebrew word for “death,” tweeted tech expert Nirit Weiss-Blatt. “The Jewish community will ridicule this name for years to come,” she wrote. Other twitterers also point out to Facebook the unfortunate choice of name. Facebook’s new name
Jodi Cook helps her son off the school bus in Brooklyn, N.Y., September 20, 2021. (Hannah Beier/Reuters) New York City public-school enrollment dropped by about 17,000 students this year, with a drop of roughly 64,000 since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, according to preliminary data released by the city’s Department of Education on Friday.
When I was 9 years old, my parents separated and then divorced. When I was 15, I announced to my mother that I no longer would go to church. Apparently, in doing so, I was living out a common phenomenon. As marriage declines, so does religious belief, John Van Epp and J.P. De Gance point
Spiders measuring three inches across (about 8cm) have multiplied in the US state of Georgia, unnerving residents and prompting anxious posts on social media. The Joro spider, native to east Asia, spins golden, wheel-shaped webs, some of them 10ft deep (three metres). Females have vivid yellow, blue and red markings on their bodies. In the
President Joe Biden on Oct. 29, 2021 in Rome, Italy. Antonio Masiello | Getty Images News | Getty Images A $1.75 trillion social and climate spending framework Democrats unveiled Thursday would reform the health-care market in several ways, expanding access and reducing costs for millions of Americans. Chiefly, the proposal would expand subsidies available for
In October, Katie Couric admitted that she hid awkward comments from an Ruth Bader Ginsburg interview in order to “protect” the late, far-left Supreme Court Justice. But this is by no means the first time Couric’s status in the corrupt media has been confirmed in public. Twenty four years ago, celebrity Whoopi Goldberg outed Couric
This has not been a good week for the Terry McAuliffe gubernatorial campaign. With the election just days away, the momentum is on Republican Glenn Youngkin’s side. Despite McAuliffe calling in heavy hitters like Barack Obama to help save his campaign, the race has tightened, with most polls showing the race in a dead heat
Regulations attempt to manage and control complex systems according to what has been deemed as appropriate behavior – and therein lies the problem. Complex systems are complex and what is “appropriate” is subjective and tends to be situationally dependent. For regulatory bodies that are on the outside looking in, data can be misleading and algorithms
Former Virginia governor Terry McAuliffe speaks in Washington, D.C., April 10, 2019. (Yuri Gripas/Reuters) Democratic candidate Terry McAuliffe has put the issue of COVID mandates front and center during the home-stretch of the 2021 Virginia gubernatorial election. As the Washington Post Fact Checker reported earlier this week, McAuliffe has been exaggerating the threat that COVID
Actress Debra Messing attempted to draw a parallel to the hate hoax carried out by alleged Democratic activists against Virginia Republican gubernatorial candidate Glenn Youngkin on Friday to the white supremacist “Unite the Right” rally that took place in 2017 in Charlottesville, Virginia. The actress turned Democrat activist reacted to the bizarre political stunt by
The city of Denver was shocked last may when an 80-year-old man named George Black was beaten to death in broad daylight while feeding pigeons outside the Colorado State Capitol. According to witnesses, 36-year-old Stephanie Martinez assaulted black in an apparently-unprovoked attack, punching him until he fell to the ground and struck his head, and
Saturday Night Live is still pulling its punches when it comes to the President of the United States. We’ve watched the sketch series sugar coat the first nine months of Joe Biden’s administration, a stark contrast to how SNL treated the previous White House dweller. Some shows barely mentioned the Commander in Chief up until
Starting tomorrow, a broad coalition of right-wing thought-leaders will be gathering in Orlando to chart a course forward. This year’s National Conservatism Conference, a delayed sequel to the first event held anno Domini 2019, draws together an eclectic group. TAC contributing editor Sohrab Ahmari is a prominent political Catholic, and other papist postliberals of varying
Democrat Maryland state lawmaker Terri Hill was fined by the Maryland Board of Physicians for participating in legislative meetings from an operating room. She did it twice. During one, she can be seen in a “surgical gown” and facemask. AP reported: TRENDING: Trump-Hating Lincoln Project Takes Credit for Tiki Torch False Flag Stunt Against Youngkin
(Cemile Bingol/Getty Images) The week of October 25: chaos, energy, inflation, taxation, stagflation, and much, much more (little of it good). Omnishambles is a neologism first used in the BBC political satire The Thick of Itin 2009. The word is compounded from the Latin prefix omni-, meaning “all”, and the word shambles, a term for
Attorney General Merrick Garland should resign or be fired or impeached for unleashing the FBI on public school parents, Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., told The Daily Signal in an interview. “We have all these problems with China that the FBI needs to be looking at,” Blackburn said in the interview Thursday. “We have problems at
Parts of East Coast America could be hit with severe flooding, with forecasters predicting some states could see the worst tidal flooding in almost two decades. Strong winds are pushing water into the Chesapeake Bay and Delaware Bay, moving water inland and flooding parts of Maryland, Virginia, Delaware and New Jersey. Flood warnings have been
In this article GME A person walks past a GameStop in the Manhattan borough of New York City, New York, U.S., January 29, 2021. Carlo Allegri | Reuters One of the GameStop‘s newly hired top executives stepped down this week as the video game retailer continues its digital transition. Chief operating officer Jenna Owens has
New York Times columnist Michelle Goldberg wrote offensively about a sexual assault of a girl that took place in a girls’ bathroom at school. The assault, committed by a fellow student, a boy in a skirt, happened at a school in Loudoun County, Virginia. But the story was initially hushed up, possibly to avoid criticism
Apple may be best known for its computers and the iPhone. But according to a new report from Hot Hardware, the Cupertino, Calif.-based technology company is looking to transform the augmented reality (AR) market. Traditionally, augmented reality and virtual reality hardware has relied on headsets that project an environment onto a lens. Apple is developing
Summary: President Joe Biden has the busiest day of his presidency on Saturday as he will greet the prime minister of Italy, take a photo with G20 leaders, attend two G20 sessions, meet with EU leaders, and attend a gala dinner. If only he ‘worked’ this hard on the supply chain, economic, domestic energy, and
U.S. President Joe Biden and Russia’s President Vladimir Putin shake hands during the U.S.-Russia summit at Villa La Grange in Geneva, Switzerland, June 16, 2021. (Denis Balibouse/Reuters) The White House ordered the Department of Defense to punt on a hypersonic-missile test in the lead-up to President Biden’s summit with Russian president Vladimir Putin in June,
President Joe Biden said that Pope Francis told him he was a “good Catholic” and said he could continue to take communion despite the objections of many U.S. bishops. Biden made the claim after a private meeting with the pontiff at the Vatican on Friday. “We just talked about the fact he was happy that
Hunter Biden’s art dealer Georges Bergès is predicting that the prices currently being discussed for the pieces created by President Joe Biden’s son will seem “cheap” a decade from now. “Mark my words,” Bergès said, according to Artnet News, “all the prices that people are saying he’s worth right now, 10 years from now that’s
On Friday’s PBS NewsHour, they lamented the close race for governor in Virginia in their weekly roundup, and Washington Post columnist and MSNBC host Jonathan Capehart spat out that “white grievance” was to blame, and “whiteness is a hell of a drug.” Anchor Amna Nawaz sounded like AP, that “Democrats haven’t a lost statewide race since
The Family Roe: An American Story, by Joshua Prager (W.W. Nortan and Company: 2021), 672 pages. Joshua Prager researched The Family Roe: An American Story for 11 years, so he cannot have known that the book’s publication this September would align with the Supreme Court’s hearing of a case that could finally overturn the most contentious
When it comes to polling, Joe Biden is a drowning man. It’s hard to remember a time when a president sank so far, so fast. It might be even worse than it looks on paper. One political analyst is suggesting that if you drill down into the numbers behind the polls, Biden is doing even
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