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The Zone: One of the largest homeless camps in the nation will be cleared after a lawsuit
The Zone is the name given to a homeless camp in Phoenix which holds somewhere between 900 and 1,100 people. It had completely taken over the area near Joe Faillace's sandwich shop, Old Station Sub Shop. The place has…
When Irish mouths are gagged: A new era of secular blasphemy law in Éirinn
When Ireland voted out its blasphemy law five years ago in a constitutional referendum, advocates celebrated it as an example of freedom and enlightenment. So what are we to make of a new effort by progressives to criminalize…
“Bigger = better” isn’t working out for wind
Back in February, I had a post on the troubles the wind industry was having with excessive warranty claims. Companies who pioneers in wind turbines, like Siemens and Vestas, had noted huge losses in their quarterly profit…
We may have finally broken ChatGPT
When I say "broken," I don't mean we've cracked the code. I'm talking about finding an input for the chatbot where it simply fails to perform in response. As I've said previously, I don't…
Oklahoma governor defunds PBS and makes no apologies
This isn't 1957, why do we need public television? That is the question posed by Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt. The governor defunded PBS in his state citing 'really problematic' LGBTQ content on the station.…
Was Kim Gardner a reformer beset by enemies on all sides or just a terrible manager?
Last Thursday, embattled Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner announced she was resigning from office at the start of next month. In case you missed all of that, Gardner had been sued by the state's Attorney General who was…
Return of the 1970s
I came of age in the 1970s. It was the worst of times during my lifetime, although the 2020s promise to exceed the awfulness of that decade.Read More
Are Tucker Carlson and Elon Musk cooking something up?
It's been a few weeks since Fox News fired Tucker Carlson (ahem... I meant to say "reasonably agreed to part ways") and many of us thought we would have some idea of where his new show would land by now. But…
Texas mall shooting suspect identified (Update: Social media posts)
You've probably heard by now there was a mass shooting at an outlet mall in Allen, Texas on Saturday. Eight people were killed and several more were injured by a gunman with an AR-15. Yesterday the shooter was identified…
Newsom let CA default on $18.6B in fed unemployment loans
For a man who likes to play an unctuous super genius in commercials when he's pinging on more accomplished governors for unsophisticated, lo-information audiences (no doubt on the state's dime)...Read More