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Texas trooper fired amid investigation into the horror of Uvalde school shooting
A Texas trooper who was among the first to arrive on the scene of the mass school shooting in Uvalde, Texas in May has been fired. The Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) fired Sgt. Juan Maldonado, the first trooper to be…
Larry Krasner’s office freed a convicted murderer last year who is now wanted for another murder
Philadelphia DA Larry Krasner has become a hero on the left for his aggressive attempts to free people who were wrongfully convicted. CBS profiled those efforts back in 2019, about a year and a half after Krasner took office.…
Feel-Good Friday: Dick Van Dyke caught on camera handing out cash to homeless in Malibu
Dick Van Dyke will always be Rob Petrie to me. In the TV Guide of my childhood, The Dick Van Dyke Show was a regular viewing favorite. He was funny and Van Dyke never shied away from doing physical comedy. Dick Van Dyke is 96…
U.S. supply chain looking mighty shaky right about now
When last we discussed the difficulties barges were encountering whilst trying to make passage on the Mississippi River (Monday as a matter of fact), I noted that the water was fast approaching a record low in Memphis, set a…
“Hasta la vista” to “I’ll be back”: BoJonator 2.0 looking more likely
At first, the idea of a Boris Johnson Restoration looked remote after his "hasta la vista" two months ago from 10 Downing Street. After the leadership collapse this week, rumors began circulating that Johnson wanted…
Nate Silver: Senate control looks like an even bet to me
If you look at the current FiveThirtyEight model for control of the Senate it looks like this.
Mainstream leftists are backing nutty protests
There was a time when The New Republic was a bastion of sanity in a sea of crazy Leftists.
Russian torture in occupied Ukraine was ‘arbitrary, widespread and absolutely routine’
A report published yesterday which documents the routine use of torture in Izium, a small city in eastern Ukraine which was recently recaptured after months of Russian occupation. The Associated Press sent reports to the city…
FAU poll: So much for Florida’s swing-state status, eh?
A new poll in Texas earlier today reaffirmed its status as a solidly red state, not just in its gubernatorial election but across all of its statewide races. If that is the metric for assigning red-state status, however, what…
Elon Musk says “vote Republican,” suddenly being investigated as a national security threat
Elon Musk has been a hero to liberals for years. Unsurprising, given that he pretty much single handedly created a real market for electric cars and is aiming to become a clean energy superpower using solar panels and battery…