"A man tried to stab Congressman and gubernatorial candidate Lee Zeldin in the neck with a sharp metal object yesterday after New York Governor Kathy Hochul sent out locations of her opponent’s rallies,encouraging supporters to “RSVP” where “far-right extremists” will be gathering.
It was a crystal clear dog whistle intended to stoke disruptions, but one supporter took it to the next level..."
Thursday indicted an undocumented immigrant on two counts of rape for allegedly sexually assaulting and impregnating a young girl, who was then forced to cross state lines to seek an abortion in Indiana, where the procedure is still legal.
The indictment revealed that the alleged rape victim was just 9 years old when she was assaulted — contrary to previous reports saying she was 10 at the time she had her pregnancy terminated.
The girl’s case became a lightning rod in the national debate over abortion rights, with President Biden publicly invoking the child’s plight to highlight the detrimental effects of the Supreme Court’s 6-3 decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.
The man accused of attacking Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY) with a sharp weapon has already been released back into society.
Zeldin, the Republican nominee for governor, was campaigning in Perinton, New York, Thursday night when the suspect, identified as 43-year-old David G. Jakubonis, walked across the stage, stopped in front of Zeldin, and appeared to thrust a weapon towards Zeldin’s neck. Zeldin blocked the first thrust.
Then the suspect was tackled.
“His fingers were like two finger holes in the blade and lunged at the congressman. And Congressman Zeldin blocked the first lunge. And then as he tried to lunge again, I grabbed him from behind and tackled him down to the ground and held him on the ground.”..."
House Democrats blocked a motion Wednesday that would have prevented President Joe Biden from selling oil drawn from the United States Strategic Petroleum Reserve to entities controlled by the Chinese Communist Party.
"I heard about President Biden's COVID diagnosis and found it interesting that contact tracing was unable to discover the source of his infection.
If contact tracing can't provide clarity for the most protected, observed and scheduled human on the planet it leads to a bit of humility when one thinks about applying it to an entire population. I wonder if all the emphasis on it during 2020 overestimated its efficacy or underestimated the airborne virus.
Just processing what lessons should be learned while I stain my deck today."
1715 - The first lighthouse in America was authorized for construction at Little Brewster Island, Massachusetts.
1827 - The first swimming school in the U.S. opened in Boston, MA.
1829 - William Burt patented the typographer, which was the first typewriter.
1904 - The ice cream cone was invented by Charles E. Menches during the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis, MO.
1958 - The submarine Nautilus departed from Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, under orders to conduct "Operation Sunshine." The mission was to be the first vessel to cross the north pole by ship. The Nautilus achieved the goal on August 3, 1958.
1985 - Commodore unveiled the personal computer Amiga 1000.
Rep. Lee Zeldin, the Republican nominee for governor of New York, was reportedly attacked at a campaign stop in Fairport, New York, by a man with a weapon on Thursday evening.
Manger condemned the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia for not criminally charging the production crew despite the ample evidence showing they broke the law.
"It is unfortunate that despite all of the evidence the Department presented, including that the group or its leader had been told several times that they could not be in the buildings without an escort, that the U.S. Attorney’s office declined to prosecute any members of the group for Unlawful Entry," Manger said.
"Newspapers and television stations often prefer to interpret events in the light of a popular set of beliefs, instead of simply telling us what has actually happened.
The wildfires which were widely publicised following a very hot summer’s day are a perfect example of how this is done."
President Joe Biden’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has confirmed that the administration this year has allowed nearly 1,000 illegal aliens to use arrest warrants and deportation notices as forms of identification to board domestic commercial flights in the United States..."
"Science cannot long remain unfettered in a social system which seeks to exercise control over the whole spiritual and intellectual life of a nation. The correctness of a scientific theory can never by adjudged by its readiness to give the answers desired by political leadership". --Charles A. Leone, "Lysenko versus Mendel," Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science, 1952.
Whenever I hear that some political figure has attempted to legislate science to suit the convenience of their political beliefs—and this happens fairly frequently, even here in the United States—I think back to biology class and the story of Trofim Lysenko in the early years of the Soviet Union.
Lysenko, Joseph Stalin's director of biology, was head of a group of animal and plant breeders who rejected the science of genetics... Michurinist biology, which later morphed into Lysenkoism, was convenient for a Soviet government trying to engineer the perfect social utopia. Under this system, they thought they could quickly force plants and animals, even the Soviet people, into forms that could serve practical requirements...
Lysenko came to dominate Soviet biology with a 1948 speech—prepared in part by Stalin himself—in which Lysenko denounced Mendel and declared proponents of such science to be enemies of the people. Scientists who disagreed with Lysenko's theories were purged—some were sent to the gulags while others simply disappeared..."
World leaders are openly mocking America in response to a photo of Biden’s deputy assistant Nuclear Energy Secretary Sam Brinton and Assistant Health Secretary Rachel Levine at French ambassador Philippe Etienne’s home that went viral last week.
"Fox News contributor Joe Concha joined 'America's Newsroom' to discuss Katy Tur's remarks and the Pulitzer Prize board's reaction to Donald Trump's request to rescind awards."
"...Both men were from Washington state and when police performed a search of their vehicle they found 150,000 fentanyl pills.
...Boudreaux says the men brought the pills from Mexico and planned to take them to Washington State. ...In addition to the fentanyl, they also had two kilograms of cocaine in the vehicle.
Based on the amount of drugs involved, they were booked into jail with a bail amount of $1 million each. Unfortunately, that wasn’t the end of the story. …when Tulare County Probation Department submitted a pre-trial risk assessment of the suspects to the Tulare County Superior Court, the men were classified as “low risk” and released on their own recognizance.
...The men are expected back in court on July 21. After being released from jail, law enforcement officers haven’t been able to locate the defendants. So today is July 21, the day the defendants were expected back in court. Big surprise, neither one of them showed up. The Sheriff believes they have fled the country..."
"To make earth cleaner, greener and safer, which energy sources should humanity rely on?
Alex Epstein of the Center for Industrial Progress explains how modern societies have cleaned up our water, air and streets using the very energy sources you may not have expected--oil, coal and natural gas."
Diesel fuel is a staple for the farmers and truckers who supply Americans with their essential needs – and its price has skyrocketed in recent months, driven by inflation to far outstrip regular gasoline in price hikes.
AP reports diesel fuel was averaging $5.52 a gallon nationally Tuesday — up a dizzying 68 percent from a year ago, when it was selling for just $3.28. By comparison, a gallon of regular gasoline is averaging $4.50, up 42 percent from a year ago.
Harsanyi: Biden Has No Right To Declare a National Climate Emergency "The Washington Post reported Monday night that President Joe Biden is “considering whether to declare a national climate emergency” to “salvage his stalled environmental agenda and satisfy Democrats on Capitol Hill.”
...Bloomberg reports that an emergency declaration would “unlock” the president’s power to redirect “federal funding to clean-energy construction.”
...Which brings us to another small problem: There is no emergency.
Politicians might treat every hurricane, tornado and flood as an apocalyptic event—and then conveniently blame their political opponents for failing to rein in nature—but by every quantifiable measure humankind is less affected by climate than ever before.
Despite the massive expansion of fossil fuel use, despite the explosion of the world’s population, far fewer people die from the climate..."
Massive cricket-processing facility comes online in London, Ont. | CBC News "In the next few days, the first farmed insects will arrive at a new massive cricket-processing facility in London, Ont. ...This week, the federal government announced it was investing up to $8.5 million into Aspire's London facility. The plant comes with lofty goals. The chief executive officer hopes it will help tackle the planet's food insecurity problems. "Crickets have this incredible ability to convert what they eat into protein biomass," said Mohammed Ashour, co-founder of Aspire Food Group..."
On the other hand, NeverTrump Republicans, heavily represented at National Review, told us that this geriatric incompetent was indisputably a better choice than Trump, who was neither geriatric nor incompetent.
What’s more, this was a view rooted largely in aesthetics, class loyalty, and self-importance.
Everything that has gone wrong in the Biden era was predictable, and in fact was predicted, by those not blinded by Trump-hatred.
Officials in charge of Liwan district in southern China’s Guangzhou city apologized Monday for “unlocking 84 houses of residents” who were under state-mandated Chinese coronavirus quarantine at the time, the Global Times reported, noting that officials admitted the action demonstrated “violent” behavior.
...Bloomberg reports that an emergency declaration would “unlock” the president’s power to redirect “federal funding to clean-energy construction.” 
