One of the survivors of the 2015 Berkeley balcony collapse, Aoife Beary, has died at the age of 27. Six Irish students were killed and several others were injured when a fourth-floor balcony in Berkeley, California, collapsed causing those on it to fall about 40ft (12.2m) to the ground. Most of the students were in
Month: January 2022
The Washington Post touts itself as the activists who live by the maxim Democracy Dies in Darkness. But in reality, when it comes to issue like climate change, the Left doesn’t trust Democracy to get anything accomplished. The literal poster child for this view is teenaged radical Greta Thunberg, honored on the cover of Sunday’s
In a video that has gone viral on Twitter, a transgender TikTok user accuses a baby of being transphobic because the baby seems to like him more when he wears his long-haired wig, which makes him look more feminine. “I have talked about the transphobic baby at work before. So I went in a room with
Federal offices will be closed in Washington, D.C., on Monday due to a winter storm that could drop as much as eight inches of snow across the nation’s capital. The Office of Personnel Management made the announcement late Sunday, hours before the storm began early Monday. It made an exception for emergency employees, whom the
(kasto80/iStock/Getty Images) Do colleges and universities still need tenure? At one time, it might have served a good purpose by protecting faculty members from dismissal because they advanced unpopular ideas. Today, however, its main function might be to insulated the tenured from adverse consequences of indifferent teaching and to make it hard for institutions to
The Dallas Morning News was sharply criticized after amplifying a tabloid-like story about the 13-year-old daughter of Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), which seemingly attempted to pit the young teenager against her father by highlighting differences in political opinion. What are the details? The Dallas Morning News published a story last Thursday claiming Cruz found himself
Authorities say that the mother of a murdered 5-year-old girl reportedly sold her child as a sex slave before the child was brutally murdered. Police charged 37-year-old Jeremy Tremain Williams in connection with the child’s death and charged 35-year-old Kristy Marie Siple with murder during a kidnapping, murder during rape, murder during sodomy, and human
Suddenly so forgiving, that Joe Scarborough! On today’s Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough admitted that last week, he felt the Biden administration had “terribly botched” things “as far as [COVID] testing goes.” But on second thought . . . nope! Don’t blame Biden for botching the availability of testing. Because . . . testing isn’t necessary!
Joe Biden dropped a little Christmas present in the punch bowl in late December. He extended the “pause” on student loan payments for another six months. It’s clear Biden remains under pressure to cancel student loan debt, a Democratic white whale. Whatever happens next will not be the last of this, especially heading into the
Shortly after taking office as secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Dr. Ben Carson recruited a retired finance and strategy expert to become the agency’s chief financial officer. Irving Dennis, appointed by President Donald Trump in late 2017, stepped into the job and quickly discovered the mess he inherited. Dennis spent
This guy has the nuclear codes. Joe Biden appeared confused when he was asked if he will travel to Colorado after wildfires destroyed nearly 1,000 homes. Advertisement – story continues below Despite speaking on the phone with Colorado Governor Jared Polis, Joe Biden seemed extremely confused when he’s asked if he will travel to Colorado
A new year is upon us, and with it the new Winter 2022 issue of National Affairs. Among the offerings this time: Rick Hess on what the pandemic should teach us about education Ryan Streeter on the actual case for dynamism in American life Abby McCloskey on the future of family policy Chris Pope on
While Michelin-starred meals can cost just $1.50 per plate, most restaurants that have earned the prestigious award charge much more. Many cost $300-$400 for one meal, but some command even higher rates. To find the most expensive Michelin-starred restaurants, the cooking website Chef’s Pencil researched dinner tasting menus in more than 450 restaurants around the
A confidential settlement between Jeffrey Epstein and Virginia Giuffre, which could be key to a legal case involving Prince Andrew, is set to be made public today. The 2009 agreement between Epstein – the late disgraced financier – and Ms Giuffre, formerly known as Virginia Roberts, is due to be released following an order by
2022 is the Biden Administration’s first (and maybe only?) midterm election year The result of which will ultimately decide the fate of the rest of the Democratic Party’s agenda. Knowing this, ABC’s Good Morning America decided to lie to their viewers on Sunday and bemoan election integrity laws that are being passed in certain states around
Here is the final installment of “Beyond the Briefing” for 2021. I recorded this a day before the Betty White stuff hit the fan. Anyway, here’s a modest little wish list that includes my fervent desire that Anthony Fauci be sent into permanent exile. You have to watch to find out where I want him
“Don’t steal, the government hates competition.” That was a bumper sticker Ron Paul had on his desk in Washington, D.C. as a Republican Congressman from the 14th district in Texas. In recent months, we’ve heard plenty of stories about crime on the rise. On Tuesday, Zero Hedge reported that Hollywood elites are installing panic rooms
Farida Nabourema at a meeting of the Oslo Freedom Forum in New York, September 2018 (Jay Nordlinger) One of the most impressive people I know is Farida Nabourema, a young woman from Togo. A few days ago, I podcasted with her, here. We also podcasted in 2018, and I wrote a piece about her: “Daughter
Nearly two-thirds of the staff based at the Princess Elisabeth Polar Station in Antarctica have been infected with COVID-19 despite having strict health protocols in place to try to stop the spread of the respiratory disease. Since Dec. 14, at least 16 of the 25 workers at the Princess Elisabeth Polar Station have caught the
As the profile of Gov. Ron DeSantis has grown – mostly from bucking the pandemic restrictions that other governors have enforced – Democrat politicians, the corporate media, and liberals have targeted the Florida governor, even for taking his wife to cancer treatment. In what may be the most egregious and flimsy attack on the Republican
Funding for faith-based groups increased in record numbers in 2021. PitchBook Data said funding for religious apps, primarily Christian, went from $6.1 million in 2016 to $175.3 million in 2021. Religious apps received $48.5 million in 2020. Catholic prayer and meditation app Hallow raised $50 million in 2021. CEO and Co-founder Alex Jones said the app’s
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – JANUARY 01: Eric Adams is sworn in as the 110th mayor of the city of New York on January 01, 2022 in New York, NY. Due to a surge in COVID-19 cases, the official inauguration has been postponed, and Adams chose to be sworn into office in Times Square following
White House press briefings will be limited to just fourteen reporters according to an announcement Sunday by the White House Correspondents’ Association because of fears about the Omicron COVID variant. Last week the WHCA was calling for the briefings to be done by remote, a request that was rejected by the Biden administration according to
(Jeenah Moon/Reuters) But politicians resist term limits, the most popular idea to help do that. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE A lot of polls have been taken in the run-up to Thursday’s anniversary of the storming of the U.S. Capitol, and they make for sobering reading. A CBS/YouGov poll finds that 68 percent of respondents see the
In this article TSLA Visitors looking at a China-made Tesla Model Y electric vehicle at the Auto Shanghai 2021 show in Shanghai, China, on April 27, 2021. Qilai Shen | Bloomberg | Getty Images Tesla said on Sunday that it delivered more than 308,000 electric vehicles in the fourth quarter of 2021, beating its previous single-quarter
Twitter has permanently suspended the personal account of US politician Marjorie Taylor Greene for repeated violations of its COVID-19 misinformation policy. Ms Greene has been kicked off of Twitter after being issued a “fourth strike” in August when she was suspended for a week for saying that vaccines were failing. She claimed in July that
Media company Grabien was reportedly suspended on Twitter after it posted a quote from a congressman. Grabien shared comments from Rep. Biggs about COVID-19 treatments. “Rep. Biggs: Big Pharma Won’t Consider Therapeutics Like HCQ or Ivermectin Because of Economic Interests,” the tweet that led to the ban read, with a link to a video of
“As we enter the height of election season, President Trump should assure us all that the White House will respect the independent authority of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to decide, free from political pressure, if the vaccine is safe and effective,” Biden said in a statement in July 2020. Kamala Harris outright said
In this installment of their weekly Sunday Six conversation, PF Whalen and Parker Beauregard of The Blue State Conservative discuss six reasons for those of us on the right to be optimistic as the new year begins. #6: America’s cultural ‘center’ is shifting to the right. PF: The future of our country will be decided
(romaset/Getty Images) Eugenics is alive and well with prenatal testing deployed to detect conditions — such as Down syndrome and dwarfism — toward the frequent end (and often, purpose) of ensuring that offending babies are never born. Iceland, thus, brags that almost no Down children make it to birth. What a tragedy for the babies,