The best news I can report at the moment is that spring has been amazing so far in upstate New York. We’ve had a handful of seventy-degree days that have been sublime. We know that we are going to get another snowstorm, or Second Winter, at any moment but while it’s lasting we’re all out
When authorities in Boulder, Colorado named the supermarket shooter this week, there were a whole lot of people on the left who had egg on their face. That’s because many had wrongly assumed the shooter must be white. I wrote an entire post based on a Twitter thread just collecting some of the many blue
A bisexual, non-binary, transgender woman tore into “transphobic” TSA in a viral video over a TSA scanner that she said sensed an “anomaly between my legs that sets off the alarm.” Montoya said the TSA agent reportedly asked “if I had anything in my pants and I told her ‘no’ and she’s like, ‘Well, maybe
Having written this week and last about the many successes conservative organizations are having educating public-sector union employees about their Janus rights, it’s a pleasure to see that our friends at the Bradley Foundation have, as the star of its most recent “We the People” interview, none other than Mark Janus, who joins his Liberty
A trustee in Ohio’s West Chester Township delivered a powerful reaction to Asian American discrimination this week, as the nation grapples with a spike in hate crimes against the minority over the past year. Lee Wong, a 69-year-old Army veteran, took off his suit jacket and shirt during a town hall he was chairing, exposing
A Los Angeles grandmother was stabbed to death along with her dog while out on a walk in broad daylight Thursday afternoon, and the alleged perpetrator was reportedly stopped from hurting others when another would-be victim chucked a rock at the suspect’s face and knocked him out. What are the details? Jeanne Edgar, 66, was
The first press conference for President Biden seemed more like a “press massage.” Yamiche Alcindor of PBS told Biden that immigrants were rushing across the border because the perception he’s a “moral, decent man” who can be trusted with unaccompanied minors. The whole event was embarrassing. That sugary prose did NOT make the NewsHour on
Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s longest serving prime minister, appears to have eked out a slim electoral victory in the March 23 parliamentary elections, but he faces a difficult task in forming a coalition government for the seventh time. Netanyahu’s conservative Likud Party won the largest number of seats in the Knesset, Israel’s parliament. But no party
In May 2019, the United States Attorney General William Barr appointed John Durham to oversee the investigation into the beginnings of the Russian affair investigation and found an answer to the question of whether gathering evidence against Trump’s campaign was “legal and justified.” Durham is reportedly still investigating the attempt by Deep State operatives to
Freeway interchange in Los Angeles, Calif. (Eric Thayer/Reuters) Over at Reason, Walter Olson looks at why building infrastructure has become so much slower and costlier in the United States than it used to be, and than it is in many other developed countries. Costs per mile of new interstate highways, for example, tripled between the 1960s and 1980s.
In this article FTXL Giannis Antetokounmpo #34 of the Milwaukee Bucks drives to the basket against Bam Adebayo #13 of the Miami Heat during the second half at American Airlines Arena on March 02, 2020 in Miami, Florida. Michael Reaves | Getty Images A city trying to rebrand itself as the center of the crypto
A man has accused his former employer of a “childish” move – after he received his final payment of $915 (£666) in pennies. Andreas Flaten discovered the haul of 90,000 coins – which were covered in an oily, greasy substance – at the bottom of his driveway. On top of the pile was his final
The New York Times economist Paul Krugman tried to hoodwink Americans by downplaying inflation concerns brought on by President Joe Biden’s massive $1.9 trillion stimulus package. Krugman’s new op-ed was headlined, “How Not to Panic About Inflation.” The article was published just a few days before Axios released a story headlined, “77% of Americans are worried
Why is anyone asking Bill Gates about a viral epidemic in the age of “experts,” which generally means someone with deep knowledge of a narrow issue? Or global warming? Or what we should eat? This man basically wants you to go back to living an agricultural existence in deference to Gaia, eating only leaves and
Jazz wrote about this mystery on Tuesday and now print media is sniffing around it too. On March 2, Greg Abbott announced that he would lift the state’s mask mandate and reopen most businesses at 100 percent capacity on March 10. That seemed rash at the time given the spread of more contagious variants across
In a new video circulating online, Speaker Nancy Pelosi said that she has the right to control who is seated in the House of Representatives and who is not. Specifically, she said that she reserves the right to refuse to seat any of the Republicans if she wished. The comments came as Pelosi responded to
1. Covid Has Traumatized America. A Doctor Explains What We Need to Heal — an interview with Dr. Diane E. Meier, director of the Center to Advance Palliative Care, at Mount Sinai Hospital: But couldn’t we always say that if people had access to better care then they wouldn’t consider this other option? What if
Sharon Stone is fed up about cancel culture. The 63-year-old Hollywood actress vehemently spoke out against the popular practice of people dog-piling on an individual or company to silence or deplatform them for behavior or speech that some deem to be offensive. Stone made an appearance on SiriusXM’s “Just Jenny” radio show, where she railed
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) vowed on Thursday to fight to “break up Big Tech” companies so they are not powerful enough to “heckle senators with snotty tweets.” Warren advanced this anti-free speech argument after the Twitter account for Amazon News challenged the progressive senator when she falsely asserted that Amazon paid “close to nothing” in
On Tuesday, Washington Post “Fact Checker” Glenn Kessler promoted a very questionable Washington Post article using the headline “There’s no migrant ‘surge’ at the U.S. southern border. Here’s the data.” After an uproar about their border “denialism,” the headline was revised to “The migrant ‘surge’ at the U.S. southern border is actually a predictable pattern.” (In other
Majority rule is a conservative principle. Filibuster reform is possible, but any further restrictions should be cautious. Demands for alteration of the filibuster rule in the Senate are not unreasonable. The Constitution does not require supermajorities for ordinary legislation, but only for matters relating to constitutional structure: constitutional amendments, ratification of treaties, impeachments, expulsion of
Lawmakers questioned CEOs of three of the world’s most powerful tech companies Thursday about censorship and false information on their platforms. Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, Twitter’s Jack Dorsey, and Google’s Sundar Pichai answered questions from members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee. During the House hearing, lawmakers asked the three CEOs about their roles in
Dominion Voting Systems sued FOX News on Friday for $1.6 billion in a defamation lawsuit. Back in November FOX News host Dana Perino urged Dominion Voting Systems to sue Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell. FOX News Dumpster Fire: Dana Perino Urges Dominion Voting to Sue Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell — Attorney Lin Wood Responds
In yesterday’s hearing before the House Judiciary Committee, titled, “The Importance of a Diverse Federal Judiciary” I was the only witness on the panel to assert that race should not be a factor in the selection of judges. I then noted that I’d filed a brief (along with my Commission colleague Gail Heriot) in the
piola666 | E+ | Getty Images Some £7.5 million ($10.33 million) of public funding will be used to support the development of eight wave energy projects led by U.K. universities, including one inspired by marine life, in a bid to boost the sector’s efficiency and resilience over the coming years. The money will come from
At least five people have died after a series of tornadoes tore through Alabama. Officials believe that as many as eight twisters passed through the US state – leaving a trail of destruction in their wake. The only confirmed deaths were from Calhoun County – but the extreme weather struck other areas in the region.
President Joe Biden just had his first ever press conference on Thursday and boy was it a snoozefest. The old man was tossed softball after softball question by his close journalist friends and even then he could hardly make it through a complete thought without his brain almost having to reboot. Of course, that’s textbook
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As targets go, it’s second only to You Know Who, but the fights get tougher as Dominion Voting Systems goes up in weight class. The company filed a $1.6 billion defamation claim against Fox News this morning — the first time it’s gone after a media company: Dominion Voting Systems on Friday filed a $1.6
Social media companies have policed coronavirus-related content based on information from top health organizations, even as those organizations have contradicted themselves. “We’re removing known harmful misinformation related to COVID-19, and when someone taps on a hashtag related to COVID-19, we show resources from WHO, CDC and local health authorities,” Facebook subsidiary Instagram’s policy stated. But