Month: August 2022

Google is reportedly testing out digital identification features after an app update. Reclaim the Net reported last week that Google Wallet would implement the new technology. The app is currently popular for contactless payments, but digital IDs and health passes might not be too far away. Tech researcher Mishaal Rahman claims that Google Wallet could
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In what feels like a very mid-century optimism vibe, billionaires the world over are pioneering futuristic cities that combine forward-thinking technologies and social trends. The concepts might bring to mind terrifying Borg cubes for some of us (fair). But so long as residency in these self-contained high-density environments remains voluntary, the constructions would provide fascinating
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Congressional Democrats have handed Republicans two giant gifts. The deviously dubbed Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), and a worthy-but-failed amendment to it, supply the GOP a pair of tailor-made issues to hurl at tax-loving, tax-hiking, tax-collecting Democrats. Republican nominees should deploy them at once. First, IRA gives the Internal Revenue Service an $80 billion bonus —
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NBC is considering cutting back its longstanding primetime schedule, reports the Wall Street Journal. Some insiders consider the move a cost-cutting measure. However, Variety reports that its sources say NBC is “not mulling this as a cost-cutting move.” Instead, the change might be made to help the network improve its relationship with affiliates. Either way,
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The United States military announced on Tuesday that it launched airstrikes this week in northeastern Syria. The strikes were targeted at militant groups linked to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps. The U.S. carried out additional airstrikes on Shia militants in Syria on Thursday. The Pentagon said a total of four Iranian-backed militants had been killed
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New York Times Health and Science reporter Andrew Jacobs made the August 24 edition with a ridiculous and ideologically diseased story on monkeypox, “Racism, Stigma and Fear: Why Experts Want Monkeypox Renamed.” Are monkeys spreading monkeypox to humans? Researchers say the answer is no. But recently in Brazil, the unfounded fear that monkeys transmit the virus to
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A doorbell camera caught the moment that a man attempted to abduct a 6-year-old girl in broad daylight on Tuesday. Video shows that the child was able to evade being kidnapped by doing everything right. The young girl was taking out the trash in front of her home in Hamilton, Ohio. Video from the home’s
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Just like some movies lets viewers choose among multiple endings, I feel like offering a choice of headlines today. Because Elie Mystal, the resident rhetorical bomb thrower on Tiffany Cross’s MSNBC show, offered up a trifecta of terribleness—if that’s a word. So here are your options: Headline #1: “Why Ain’t This Dude In Jail?” With
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Arguing for keeping “presentism” out of history seems like a straightforward argument from an acknowledged history scholar, right? Wrong. Not these days. The president of the American Historical Association, James H. Sweet, published an essay last week arguing that scholars should bar “presentism” from history.  Sweet’s column in the American Historical Association magazine, Perspectives on
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JGI/Jamie Grill If you’re one of the millions of Americans with student loans, President Joe Biden‘s forgiveness plan may be welcome relief. However, there are some key things to know about the income limits, experts say. Biden will cancel $10,000 for most borrowers or up to $20,000 for Pell Grant recipients, limited to those making
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The anti-vax hits just keep on coming! On Wednesday, I wrote ‘Anti-Science Nutjobs’ Right Again: Majority of COVID Hospitalizations, Deaths in 25 States Were Vaxxed, in which we learned from an exclusive story by The Epoch Times that people who bent their knees, raised their sleeves, and took the vaccine are, in many cases, leading the
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Violent crime and shoplifting spikes across urban America are forcing businesses to shutter, one reason why conservative “red states” recovered faster from COVID-related shutdowns faster than blue states.  Brazen shoplifters walk free thanks to weak prosecutors — bankrolled by Democratic donors — creating a depressing urban blight that destroys neighborhoods and harms customers who are disproportionately
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Sydney Sweeney is an up-and-coming Hollywood actress with 49 acting credits already at the age of 24. However, her fans turned on the star of the HBO show “Euphoria” on Saturday after Sweeney shared photos of her mother’s birthday party on social media. Liberals attempted to cancel Sweeney because guests at the birthday party were
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Bizarre video shows an Arizona woman storming into the headquarters of the Mesa Police Department by ramming a cop cruiser. Bodycam video shows the police officer engaging the female driver who had stalked the cop. This week, the Mesa Police Department released bodycam footage and video from surveillance cameras from a wild “critical incident” that
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More liberal turnabout in the New York Times, as economics editor Deborah B. Solomon appeared in Wednesday’s Business section to defend yet another government agency from conservative “conspiracy theories,” this time the intrusive Internal Revenue Service: “I.R.S. to Conduct Security Review Amid Threats Agency and Staff.” The Internal Revenue Service, which has been under sustained attack by
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Whenever conservative media watchdogs aspire to an argument seeking to expose and correct the distortions of the liberal news outlets, they receive the argument of hypocrisy. “You can’t complain about bias,” they say, “because you’re awfully biased yourself.” This would be a more impressive argument if one was a mirror image of the media, insisting
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