As Democrats rush to find the nearest cameras and microphones to politicize the sickening shooting of 19 children and two teachers at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, the NRA is scheduled to host their annual convention in Houston beginning on Friday. But two Republican lawmakers who were scheduled to attend the convention have suddenly … Read more
The core of both day and swing trading is to search for momentum in stock price movement. The more you focus your research on this strategy consistently, the better your chances of earning money in the market. In order to uncover these stocks poised to trade higher, you need to learn the basics of how … Read more
Twice Accused of Threatening to Shoot a Woman, Herschel Walker Highlights Republican Disregard for Women’s and Children’s Lives Every month, an average of 70 women are shot and killed by an intimate partner, according to data collected by Everytown. Abusers with access to firearms are five times more likely to kill their victims. In the … Read more
Music journalist Grayson Haver Currin really wants you to know that stoner metal pioneer Matt Pike—best known for his shirtless live performances, bigfoot hunting videos, and hour-long, single-song concept albums about pot-smoking mystics traveling across an alien desert— harbors some weird, problematic, and even “dangerous” beliefs. Last week, NPR published Currin’s lengthy profile of Pike, … Read more
Former Hillary Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook recently testedified that Hillary OK’d the dissemination of unproven ‘Russia collusion’ rumors to the media during the 2016 Presidential campaign. Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who has been on something of a spiritual or political awakening in recent months, took to Twitter to vent his anger over the bombshell … Read more
The White House has announced that President Biden will sign a historic executive order increasing police accountability, banning chokeholds and no-knock entries. Via a White House Fact Sheet provided to PoliticusUSA: Promotes Accountability Creates a new national database of police misconduct. The EO orders the Attorney General to establish a National Law Enforcement Accountability Database, … Read more
How the World Really Works: The Science Behind How We Got Here and Where We’re Going by Vaclav Smil, Viking, 336 pages, $28 For techno-optimists like me, Vaclav Smil’s How the World Really Works is something of a downer. But it’s rough on the catastrophist crowd too. Smil has done interdisciplinary scholarship on food, energy, … Read more
I’m fairly certain someone at the Washington Post is back on the job search today after the outlet inaccurately claimed that George Floyd was shot and killed by police: On May 25, 2020, George Floyd was shot and killed in police custody. His death sparked outrage, wide scale protests and calls to change policing. Two … Read more
Twice Accused of Threatening to Shoot a Woman, Herschel Walker Highlights Republican Disregard for Women’s and Children’s Lives Every month, an average of 70 women are shot and killed by an intimate partner, according to data collected by Everytown. Abusers with access to firearms are five times more likely to kill their victims. In the … Read more
It’s hard to know what to say about yesterday’s tragedy in Uvalde, Texas, during which at least 19 children and 2 adults were killed by 18-year-old gunman Salvador Ramos. Ramos reportedly shot his grandmother before crashing his car and getting into a shootout with police before running into Robb Elementary School, going on a killing … Read more