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Chicago’s most iconic and picturesque roadway has a new name — and it’s a mouthful of history: Jean Baptiste Point DuSable Lake Shore Drive. The Black man of Haitian descent who was Chicago’s first non-indigenous settler finally got the honor his champions say he has long deserved, thanks to an on-again, off-again compromise that was back on again — and approved — at a City Council meeting Friday. Three Hispanic aldermen joined 12 white aldermen in voting against the compromise.

The man who shot a Daytona Beach, Florida, police officer in the head Wednesday night has been arrested.Daytona Beach Police shared the news on Twitter Saturday morning, writing, "Othal Wallace has been captured!"At a press conference at 5:30 a.m. Saturday, Chief Jakari Young said police found Wallace in a property located in a wooded area, in Atlanta.In the area next to the main house were a trailer and a treehouse. Wallace was hiding in the treehouse with flash bangs, Young said."Rifle plates, body armor, two rifles, two handguns and several boxes of ammunition were also in the treehouse," he said....

Barack Obama turns 60 over the summer. The AARP cover with Barry posing next to a basketball and a shelf of bestselling non-fiction books he hasn’t read can’t be too far away. Once the symbol of youthful hipness, the former boss of Hope and Change now lectures “young people” on what they should be doing. His legacy is being carried forward by 78-year-old Biden and the 81-year-old Pelosi. That’s above the average age of 80 of the House Dem leadership. The average age of the Biden cabinet is two years older than President Trump’s cabinet. The gerontocratic technocracy uses AOC...

Presenter: Nancy Flynn Event Date: 07/20/2021 Time: 3 pm ET | 2 pm CT | 1 pm MT | 12 pm PT Does your healthcare company have a diversity & inclusion (D&I) policy in place? Have you taken steps to ensure employees -including remote staff -support (rather than sink) your commitment to operating an unbiased respectful culture, free from harassment and discrimination? All it takes is one racially insensitive tweet or gender-biased text to turn off patients, employees, recruits, and the community. Don’t allow insensitive email, prejudiced posts, vitriolic video chat, bullying blogs, or confrontational conversations to undercut your D&I...

Wurzburg (Germany) (AFP) - Investigators were racing Saturday to pinpoint the motive of a man who went on a knife rampage in the German city of Wuerzburg, killing three people and leaving five seriously injured. The suspect, a 24-year-old Somali who arrived in Wuerzburg in 2015, staged the attack in the city centre on Friday evening, striking at a household goods store before advancing to a bank. He was later overpowered by police after they shot him in the thigh, Bavaria's interior minister Joachim Herrmann said. Investigators found records showing that the man had been treated at a psychiatric institution,...

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The U.S. Postal Service is the only package delivery service that continues to deliver to every address in the nation. Without its dependable delivery of life-saving medications, essential goods and other necessities to any and every door throughout the pandemic, many Americans would have had nowhere else to turn but to a private carrier like UPS, which was all too willing to hike up surcharges at the height of the pandemic. Supply chain strains, store closures and unprecedented demand for delivery services threw previous industry projections to the wind this past year. Despite these factors, the U.S. Postal Service was...

Every piston-powered brag must now come with an asterisk; every Cars and Coffee, a sacrament of denial. While much has been made of the Plaid’s straight-line acceleration—0-60 mph in 1.99 seconds and ¼-mile time of 9.2 seconds, both records for a series-production automobile—not enough has been said about its lateral acceleration, its race car-like roadholding and mechanical grip. Forget planking. Route 299 is the core workout you’ve been looking for. At a 250 kW Supercharger, the Plaid can recharge at a rate equivalent to 1,000 miles of range per hour—or 187 miles gained in 15 minutes. One last, unfathomable number:...

Authorities in Colorado on Friday released chilling excerpts from the twisted writings of the killer of Arvada police Officer Gordon Beesley, who was slain Monday. The remarks were contained in a four-page letter seething with hatred for police officers. The existence of the letter had been confirmed by a source to FOX 31 of Denver earlier in the week but Friday was the first time the station saw the letter."My goal today is to kill Arvada PD officers," shooter Ronald Troyke, 59, wrote, according to the letter.Other comments in the letter were equally frightening."Hundreds of you pigs should be killed...

On March 5, 2021, the Guardian’s editorial team made a scathing attack on Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro in an article titled “The Guardian view on Jair Bolsonaro: a danger to Brazil, and the world.” This is the latest of a string of attacks that the mainstream media (MSM) have carried out on Bolsonaro ever since he became President. The MSM and radical environmentalists have often criticized, and even ostracized him. In the past, many of these criticisms were aimed at his policy decisions on natural resource utilization. The Guardian, in 2021, called Biden’s negotiations with Bolsonaro “Negotiating with your worst...

US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, during a meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris on June 25, discussed the countries' joint commitments to Transatlantic security and to the enduring NATO Alliance. This was announced by the press secretary of the US Department of State Ned Price. "Secretary Blinken and President Macron emphasized the shared goals of establishing a stable and predictable relationship with Moscow while addressing Russia’s aggressive and irresponsible behavior, including towards Ukraine," the statement said. Related: US, Germany working on Nord Stream 2 agreement to protect Ukraine from risks, - Blinken In addition, among the topics...

Living in Northern Virginia for years, I have seen firsthand the perils of injecting critical race theory into our schools. A generation of young men and women are being taught that race is the lens through which all other issues are examined, whether history, math or science. In a recent commencement speech, Abrar Omeish, a Fairfax County school board member, articulated this ideology, asserting, "You understand that social justice is only political for those that can afford to ignore it. You understand that 'neutral' is another word for complicit. And you have made a choice to take a stand." This...

The government has handed Elon Musk the keys to the city once again. The Federal Communications Commission recently awarded a nearly $1 billion subsidy to Elon Musk’s SpaceX, and the company is now ready to use it to litter the sky with thousands of the company’s new Starlink satellites. With these new satellites, Starlink hopes to bring internet to thousands of places across the world. But some are concerned that this government subsidy could lead to a slippery slope of a space monopoly. Because of the number of lower-Earth orbit satellites that Musk wants to launch, the sky could quickly...

It is if you’re a general who is more interested in defending leftist shibboleths and trendy racism than in the Constitution. General Barry McCaffrey (retired, thank God), graduated from West Point, served in Vietnam, and put an end to his honorable career by attaching himself to the Clinton White House. Instead of fading decently away as old generals should, McCaffrey continues to insert himself into military politics, always with an eye to tilting the military towards the left. His latest opinion is that Tucker Carlson, a civilian, should be fired for daring to say that General Mark Milley, who is...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Republican Gov. Mike DeWine has questioned the need for a legislative ban on transgender girls competing in sports. The proposal, titled the Save Women’s Sports Act, would require schools and higher education institutions in the state to designate “separate single-sex teams and sports for each sex.”

The infantilization of black and Hispanic Americans by Democrats has been on overdrive this week as they have tripped over themselves to show how phony their new “anti-racism” act really is. President Joe Biden led the way for his party, using the “Latinx” label to refer to Latinos despite the fact that 76% of them have never heard of the term and 97% of them don’t use it. On top of that, Biden implied that all Latinos in the United States are here illegally. Not to be outdone, conspiracy theorist Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse defended his membership in an allegedly exclusionary...

“Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of a fool than of him” (Proverbs 26:12).

Just affirm that this is an awful, racist country and that you are the beneficiary of white privilege, and you can escape lengthy imprisonment for “parading” in the Capitol. Anna Morgan-Lloyd, the 49-year-old grandmother from Indiana who strolled into the US Capitol and spent several minutes peacefully walking around, got the same message that was delivered to Chinese dissidents and “bad elements” during Mao’s Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution: confess to thought crimes, embrace the state-sanctioned ideology, and you will be shown mercy. In the case of Morgan-Lloyd, the message was delivered to her by her own defense lawyer, a public...

Progressives love to congratulate themselves on being morally superior. But in fact, the opposite is true. Progressivism is an immoral, destructive ideology, to the extent it can be described as a coherent ideology at all rather than a set of irrational impulses. And its victims are disproportionately women and children. Consider the current craze (and I mean that literally) of “transgenderism,” which I define as the belief that men are better than women at everything, including being women. It’s true that women who believe they’re men are just as delusional as men who believe they’re women. But the former have...

Rank-and-file boosters of communism don't tend to do so well once the Reds have taken over. As the Marxist revolution oozes forward, I occasionally wonder what will happen to the useful idiots when the commies seize absolute power in this once great Republic. I believe that most AT readers are familiar with the term, but for those who need a brief refresher, a useful idiot, as defined by Wikipedia, "is a derogatory term for a person perceived as propagandizing for a cause without fully comprehending the cause's goals, and who is cynically used by the cause's leaders." In my opinion,...