Saturday, May 08, 2021
Mark Levin: Here's what you're not being told about Biden's 'tax the rich' plan - TheBlaze
Portland BLM/Antifa Draw Guns on Drivers to Enforce No-Go Zone in Broad Daylight
"Portland’s revolutionaries from Black Lives Matter and antifa took over a busy street at noon on Wednesday and pulled guns on drivers who dared try to dart past the mob.
BECAUSE WE’RE PAYING THEM GENEROUSLY NOT TO WORK
UPDATE (FROM GLENN): Even at the NYT, this is a high-rated comment:.
“Maybe paying people more to be unemployed than to work has consequences? I’ve been out to eat with 2 waiters working an entire establishment. No one wants to work now. Same thing with Lyft and gig work. Bring back proof of looking for employment and curtail unemployment benefits when we have this many job openings. Helicopter money is temporary, not permanent.”--Posted by
Kamala Harris: Latin America Needs 'Climate Adaptation' to End Border Crisis
...She spoke about people in Central American countries who had their homes washed away by hurricanes or were fearful of cartel violence and poverty...Read all.
WATCH: Ron DeSantis bashes CDC over school and cruise policies: 'That's not science, that's politics' - TheBlaze
History for May 8
- 1794 - The United States Post Office was established.
- 1846 - The first major battle of the Mexican War was fought. The battle occurred in Palo Alto, TX.
- 1847 - The rubber tire was patented by Robert W. Thompson.
- 1886 - Pharmacist Dr. John Styth Pemberton invented what would later be called "Coca-Cola."
- 1914 - The U.S. Congress passed a Joint Resolution that designated the second Sunday in May as Mother's Day.
- 1943 - The Germans suppressed a revolt by Polish Jews and destroyed the Warsaw Ghetto.
- 1958 - U.S. President Eisenhower ordered the National Guard out of Little Rock as Ernest Green became the first black to graduate from an Arkansas public school.
- 1959 - Mike and Marian Ilitch founded "Little Caesars Pizza Treat".
- 1985 - "New Coke" was released to the public on the 99th anniversary of Coca-Cola.
Friday, May 07, 2021
Permitless carry of a handgun in Texas nearly law after Senate passes 'constitutional carry' bill - TheBlaze
A Deep Dive into Mass Shooting Data
- Sun’s Out Gun’s Out! Mass shootings are back in the headlines. If the current trend continues, this could be the bloodiest summer in decades.
CNN wants us to think white supremacists and their cursed AR-15s are shooting up our restaurants, playgrounds, and nightclubs.
The U.S. saw a nearly 50% mega-jump in mass shootings last year over previous years:
- 2017: 347 shootings
- 2018: 336 shootings
- 2019: 417 shootings
- 2020: 610 shootings
- 2021 looks to dwarf 2020. March of 2020 spawned 25 mass shootings whereas in March of this year we had a whopping 45. If the lefty media is correct, “angry Trump-lovin’ white men” have been busy beavers.
WHAT IS A MASS SHOOTING
For this article I’m using the same definition used by the Gun Violence Archive: four or more people shot, not including the shooter, in a fluid situation. This can include drive-by shootings, gunfights between gangs, or two or more shooters redecorating a bar.
WHO SHOT WHOM...
...FINAL SHOOTING STATS
30.5 black or likely black shootings (67.7%)
7.5 Hispanic or likely Hispanic shootings (16.6%)
2 white or likely white shootings (4.4%)
1 Muslim (2.2%)
4 too little info to make a call (8.8%)...Read all.
How did the CDC get this power???-----Don Surber: Highlights of the News
"...ITEM 8: Reuters reported, "A federal judge on Wednesday threw out the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s nationwide moratorium on evictions, a setback for the millions of Americans who have fallen behind on rent payments during the coronavirus pandemic."
The judge is Dabney Friedrich, a Trump appointee. She wrote, "The question for the Court is a narrow one: Does the Public Health Service Act grant the CDC the legal authority to impose a nationwide eviction moratorium? It does not."
A pandemic does not void the Constitution, either.
We fought the War of Independence during a continental small pox epidemic, which killed one-third of the people who contracted it...Read all.
Former NFL player says bringing God into schools is the only way to solve racism, economic division - TheBlaze
In an interview with the Daily Wire, Brewer — an outspoken conservative and founder of the Jack Brewer Foundation — said that educating children early will help prevent the spread of racism and more.
"Back in 2016, when [Colin] Kaepernick started kneeling, I said, 'There is something we gotta do to bring law enforcement and community and sports to be that vehicle,'" he said. "And so we started that program and partnered with a number of police athletic leagues around the country to kind of bridge that gap.
We've had proof the "experts" are self-serving charlatansfor years. Why are they still "charming" the media?-----The suicide of expertise: Glenn Reynolds
- Americans might look back on the last 50 years and say, “What have experts done for us lately?”
It was the experts — characterized in terms of their self-image by David Halberstam in The Best and the Brightest — who brought us the twin debacles of the Vietnam War, which we lost, and the War On Poverty, where we spent trillions and certainly didn’t win. In both cases, confident assertions by highly credentialed authorities foundered upon reality, at a dramatic cost in blood and treasure. Mostly other people’s blood and treasure.
And these are not isolated failures.
- The history of government nutritional advice from the 1960s to the present is an appalling one: The advice of “experts” was frequently wrong, and sometimes bought-and-paid-for by special interests, but always delivered with an air of unchallengeable certainty.
- In the realm of foreign affairs, which should be of special interest to the people at Foreign Affairs, recent history has been particularly dreadful. Experts failed to foresee the fall of the Soviet Union, failed to deal especially well with that fall when it took place, and then failed to deal with the rise of Islamic terrorism that led to the 9/11 attacks. Post 9/11, experts botched the reconstruction of Iraq, then botched it again with a premature pullout...
- It was experts who brought us the housing bubble and the subprime crisis. It was experts who botched the Obamacare rollout. And, of course, the experts didn’t see Brexit coming, and seem to have responded mostly with injured pride and assaults on the intelligence of the electorate, rather than with constructive solutions...Sadly, many more examples. Read all.
Yet, we are bigots to call it the China-virus?-----Map: Track the spread of the Covid-19 variants across the United States
- U.K. variant, the
- South African variant and the
- Brazilian variant.
