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Chances are you haven’t yet heard about 17-year-old Hunter Brittain who, despite being unarmed, was shot dead by police during a traffic stop. It’s not that this isn’t a shocking and tragic story, but there has been a complete national media blackout on the incident because, unfortunately for Brittain’s family, they’re all white. Brittain was pulled over in the middle of the night last week in Cabot, Arkansas, for reasons that remain unclear. According to 16-year-old Jordan King, who was in the vehicle with Brittain, the truck was having gear trouble and would not remain in park, so Brittain exited...

As the Biden administration tries to sell Joe’s 3 zillion dollar socialism plan masquerading as infrastructure, the PR department is providing spin for his cabinet members. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg says that highways are racist so we need raise taxes and become a socialist country to fix that. Apparently nobody in the Biden administration understands effective sales techniques. Pete Buttigieg, a man with no experience in transportation, was made the Secretary of Transportation because he likes to play with trains and checks off the “gay” box on the diversity list. In an interview with black website The Grio, gay...

The redeployment of Indian troops has set alarm bells ringing in Beijing, as it continues to blame New Delhi for “increasing the military presence and encroaching upon Chinese territory”. “[This] is the root cause of the tense situation along the borders,” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian recently said at a media briefing in Beijing. China’s state-mouthpiece Global Times published an editorial, calling India’s policy “hardline and assertive” amid ongoing border tensions between the two neighbors. Nitpicking on India’s “weaknesses”, the daily said India is no match for China, militarily and economically. Accusing the US of pushing India away from...

Add "bottle of antifreeze" to the list of common objects law enforcement officers have mistaken for deadly weapons and then used to justify shooting—and, in this case, killing—an unarmed citizen... King told local ABC affiliate KATV news that the truck wouldn't properly shift into park, so Brittain went to the back of the truck with a jug of antifreeze to prop behind a truck's tire so that it wouldn't roll backward and strike Davis' vehicle. That's when Davis fired at Brittain, and according to King, Davis didn't tell him to stop or get on the ground. He just shot him.

White guilt is big business. That’s what professional race hustler Robin DiAngelo learned after she published “White Fragility,” an infamous New York Times Bestseller that catapulted her, and her libelous claim that white people are inherently racist, to national prominence. Not only did DiAngelo land segments with big corporate media outlets like CNN and MSNBC, she also netted large sums of money from speaking engagements, including a two-hour virtual event with Purdue University that cost the school $7,000, and an address at the publicly funded University of Wisconsin Madison that made DiAngelo a hefty $12,750, among other events. Now DiAngelo...

WELLINGTON, June 28 (Reuters) - New Zealand is considering making masks compulsory at high alert levels as well as compulsory scanning of QR codes to boost contact tracing in efforts to reduce the risk of coronavirus spreading, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said on Monday. New Zealand halted quarantine-free travel with neighbouring Australia last week as an outbreak of the highly contagious Delta variant triggered a lockdown in Sydney and renewed restrictions elsewhere. read more It also extended the COVID-19 alert level 2 in the capital Wellington until Tuesday, as authorities said there was still a risk that an Australian tourist...

Some scholars aren't happy with the "problematic" insect and animal names, and are calling for a large-scale reform. What are people saying about this? "There is no room for racism in science," University of Arizona Ph.D. candidate Earyn McGee — one of the scholars calling for reform — tells The College Fix in a statement. McGee, also a herpetologist, also says that she is firmly against honoring "racist people or racial slurs by naming animals after them." McGee adds she has high hopes for a new name for the Yarrow's Spiny Lizard — since celebrated ornithologist and herpetologist H.C. Yarrow...

Bill Cosby is set to be released from prison after Pennsylvania’s highest court overturned his sexual assault conviction on Wednesday.

If CNN’s show The Lead With Jake Tapper were a dinner party, you’d cancel it because so many guests bailed out. Just look at the viewership numbers. Tapper’s weekday show, which was just expanded to two hours in April has already lost 75% of its viewers. Worse, the viewership shrunk by 49% from the first to the second quarter of this year. Wait, the news gets even worse – or better, depending on your point of view – than that. Fox News reports that losing 3/4 of the audience is bad enough, but in the crucial demographic 25-54, CNN’s viewership...

In most portions of the U.S. economy, market competition puts downward pressure on prices, increases investment in innovation, and provides consumers a variety of options of purchases. The benefits of competition are obvious when Americans can shop around for automobiles at car dealerships or when walking the aisles of the supermarket. Competition in energy markets may not be as recognizable as cars or groceries, but Americans should know many of our country’s energy markets have been at the forefront of competition liberalization since the 1990s. As a result, monthly electric rates are lower or stagnant while consumers enjoy more options...

Proving once again that American taxpayers have been way too generous for our own good, the National Academy of Sciences has discovered that the air is racist. If you think that’s too stupid to be true and you’re waiting for the punchline… there’s no punchline. They really mean it. Liberal scientists have determined that the air itself is racist. According to USA Today and NPR – those two bastions of scientific innovation – the scientists practically stumbled on this new discovery by accident. Perhaps they were looking for those “racist dog whistles” that only liberals can hear and ended up...

China Daily was busted spending millions of dollars, and lying about it, to publish ads made to look like news stories in publications such as, you guessed it, the Washington Post and the New York Times. How many Facebook fights have you had with a lib-dolt who got his info from a Chinese propaganda “news story”? The New York Times sheepishly ended their lucrative deal with China Daily and began scrubbing the Chinese nonsense from their site.As of December 2019, the Chinese had published over 700 online ads and 500 ads printed in American newspapers, ads that were propaganda made...

Bloomberg News seems unaware that a principal underlying cause for both bumper crops and crop failures resides way out in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Climatologists and meteorologists point to a natural phenomenon known as “ENSO,” the El Niño-Southern Oscillation, while farmers around the Great Plains anxiously await tardy rains. What does ENSO mean in layman’s terms? Many have heard that El Niño (Spanish for “the boy”) weather events bring above-average moisture to the US grain belt. When that happens, certain other weather features naturally fall into place. Surface waters off the Pacific coast produce substantially more moisture from...

[Catholic Caucus] URGENT: The Abolition of Summorum Pontificum could come within days or weeks — declarations from Bishops and CardinalsAfter faithful of the abolished FSSP mission in Dijon came to complain in front of the Archdiocesan office building, on June 26, Abp. Roland Minnerath came to talk to them and had ominous menacing words.From Paix Liturgique:"You will have a new motu proprio in the upcoming days or weeks," Abp. Minnerath, Archbishop of Dijon, told on June 26 to the faithful of the Traditional Mass who came to display their discontent before the archdiocesan building. [Rorate: this declaration is on video]But...

Following in the footsteps of California, the U.K., and Japan.The government of Canada has announced its intention to ban the sale of any and all fuel-burning new cars and light-duty trucks from the year 2035, according to Reuters. This would outlaw hybrids, plug-in hybrids, and, of course, regular gas-only cars. It's all part of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's goal to get the entire country to net-zero emissions by 2050.If an EV-only future really does happen for Canada by 2035, it won't be an overnight transition which is why the government is also proposing yet-to-be-disclosed interim targets for 2025 and 2030....

Last week, Canada’s Liberal Party headed by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau proposed new legislation to criminalize “hate speech” online, punishable by a $50,000 fine (roughly $40,000 U.S.D.), paid to the government. Government officials, including the attorney general and the minister of public safety, announced the new bill on Wednesday. “Canadians expect their government to take action against hate speech and hate crimes. These legislative changes would improve the remedies available to victims of hate speech and hate crimes, and would hold individuals accountable. The actions we are taking today will help protect the vulnerable, empower those who are victimized and...

The Trump Organization and CFO Allen Weisselberg are expected to be charged on Thursday “with tax-related crimes stemming from a New York investigation into the former president’s business dealings,” sources tell the Associated Press. The pending charges reportedly involve “non-monetary benefits the company gave to top executives.” Trump’s tax records have been scrutinized for years by Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr., a Democrat. Former Trump advisor Jason Miller responded to the story on Twitter. “This is politically terrible for the Democrats,” Miller said. “They told their crazies and their supplicants in the mainstream media this was about President Trump....

Uh, say again? Fully autonomous cars are not here yet but they're coming. Vehicles like the Tesla Model S have helped pave the way forward with its Autopilot system. But different automakers have been offering different timelines as to when this will ultimately happen, and there's still a lot more R&D that needs to happen, as well as safety assurances and government approval. As this technology is being developed, new issues are being discovered that require solutions, and one of the latest discoveries is a bit controversial, to say the least. According to a new study from the Georgia Institute...

Republican leadership said Monday that fewer than 10 House GOP lawmakers would vote to support a bipartisan Senate infrastructure deal. House Republican leadership sources told Punchbowl News that fewer than 10 House GOP lawmakers would vote for the bipartisan infrastructure deal if it were to come up for a vote. Although there tentatively remains support from Republicans and Democrats in the Senate for a bipartisan infrastructure deal, it remains unclear how many Republicans could back such a bill. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) has a historically slim majority, and the bipartisan deal could fail to get support from far-left lawmakers...

The supply of cars for sale is likely to be restricted later this year as a result of the global shortage of semiconductor chips, a leading motor dealership has warned. Pendragon, which trades under brands including Evans Halshaw and Stratstone, is the latest to highlight how the shortage could soon filter through to consumer-facing businesses. It adds to similar warnings from rivals Inchcape and Vertu Motors. In a trading update - in which it highlighted strong sales in May and June - Pendragon said that "the extent of the impact of the well-publicised semi-conductor chip shortage is not yet clear"....