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Members of the press and Athens residents packed into the Athens-Clarke County Police Department headquarters Wednesday to discuss public safety and immigration with Mayor Kelly Girtz. The news conference followed the killing of University of Georgia student Laken Riley by Jose Antonio Ibarra, an undocumented immigrant from Venezuela, on Feb. 22 and was quickly taken over by questions about Athens’ stance on immigration. Girtz emphasized Athens’ lowering crime rates over the last several years, and said that data shows there is no link between immigration and crime. “I caution against conflating immigration and crime, the data demonstrates that the two...

In the category "Speech! Parts of Speech!", one of the contestants selected the $600 clue, which, as host Ken Jennings read, was "xem, xyrs, xemself." The same contestant buzzed in to answer "What are pronouns?", and Jennings awarded him the money, saying, "Those are pronouns, neopronouns." The prefix "neo" means "new" – neopronouns are new pronouns, typically ones that are used to avoid "he" or "she."

China's heavily state subsidized fishing fleet has been trashing South America's ample fishing beds, depleting fish stocks and leaving trash all over the place. According to a report from Breitbart News, citing EFE:The persistent threat of an invasive fleet of illegal Chinese fishing ships in Latin American waters is depleting fish stocks and impacting the regional economy, according to a report published on Sunday by the Spanish news agency EFE.The constant presence of illegal Chinese ships and their consequences to local fauna and economy have generated great concern among regional authorities, who are making efforts to curb the destruction of...

Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Tom Parker issued the following concurring opinion in a case last week that ruled 8-1 that unborn children are human beings and the state’s wrongful death law can include them when it comes to destroying human embryos at an IVF fertility clinic. PARKER, Chief Justice (concurring specially). A good judge follows the Constitution instead of policy, except when the Constitution itself commands the judge to follow a certain policy. In these cases, that means upholding the sanctity of unborn life, including unborn life that exists outside the womb. Our state Constitution contains the following declaration...

FOIA CONFIRMS: The FBI and the DOJ uncovered a massive 2020 election ballot fraud in MI +100,000 ballot applications falsified at Gov Whitmer’s election headquarters And the DOJ the FBI covered it up by passing it to another criminal who happens to be running it,

The systemic institutional antisemitism exposed by Rep. Elise Stefanik’s grilling of former Harvard President Gay is turning out to be a catastrophe for the oldest and formerly most prestigious university in the United States. The backlash of donors withholding funds appears to have created a cash flow crisis, forcing the university into the bond market at a time when interest rates are five times higher than the last time it issued bonds – to cover building projects -- in 2022. Kudos to Sidney K. Lee and Thomas J. Mete of the student-run Harvard Crimson for breaking this important story:Harvard announced...

Sen. Mitch McConnell's retirement announcement has rendered him into a lame duck that cannot effectively fight for America and stop the totalitarian "Democratic" Party. Who is going to try to make a deal with Mitch McConnell unless the deal entails McConnells preemptive surrender? This act of unnecessary self-castration by McConnell is emblematic of the disease epitomized by the Bush, Romney, and Cheney crime families. Only someone who wanted to lose would come up with a stupid stunt like this. The dirty fingerprints of the quisling wing of the Uniparty are all over this mess. As useless as McConnell already was...

The Biden administration’s legal justification for its attacks on Houthi militants in Yemen is “laughable,” Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) said at a Senate Foreign Relations committee hearing Tuesday on United States actions in the Red Sea. Speaking to defense officials, Kaine said though “Houthi behavior is abhorrent,” he has “grave skepticism” about the administration’s interpretation of presidential military powers under Article 2 of the Constitution. “A narrow mission to defend U.S. shipping, both military and commercial — that is Article 2 self-defense,” Kaine said. “Article 2 self-defense means you can defend U.S. personnel, you can defend U.S. military assets, you...

"Russian officials and state-run and state-affiliated TV channels likely refrained from commenting on the two-year anniversary of the start of Russia's full-scale invasion to avoid drawing attention to Russia's failures to achieve its stated strategic goals in Ukraine and its more immediate goals of seizing all of Luhansk and Donetsk oblasts, while also suffering high personnel losses," the ISW said... The think tank said a recent opinion poll, conducted by independent Russian opposition polling organization Chronicles between January 23 and 29, suggests that "Russian sentiments about the war in Ukraine have largely remained unchanged in recent months and that most...

Decca Records gave jazz artists Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong a global platform, and continues to shape jazz music in the 21st Century.Decca Records can boast a wonderful and eclectic back catalogue that includes The Rolling Stones, David Bowie, Vera Lynn, George Formby, Luciano Pavarotti… and Winston Churchill. But the label has also been home to some terrific jazz over the decades as well. The first trade adverts for the “Decca Record” appeared in the July 1929 edition of Melody Maker, and within two years, the record company had acquired the British franchises of Brunswick – bringing their first jazz...

President Joe Biden came in second place in Michigan’s Democrat primary in Dearborn to the ballot option “uncommitted,” underscoring his deep unpopularity with the predominantly Muslim and Arab American voter base in the community. The city of Dearborn’s election results show that “uncommitted” landed 6,432 votes, or 57 percent of the city’s total. It earned nearly 2,000 more votes than Biden at 4,526, which is 40 percent. The result in Dearborn – “home to the largest Muslim population in the U.S.,” as the Michigan Advance reported in October – comes as the war between Israel and Hamas has fractured the...

No, it's not a joke. The City of Denver has informed workers that it may be furloughing them--technically still employing them at 0 hours of work--to illegally hire illegal aliens without work permits... As Denver faces a budget crisis due to 40,000 illegal immigrants arriving in the last year, the city is using its resources to get the migrant population employed, warning hourly workers that they may lose hours to illegal immigrants and using the public school system to help the illegals get work permits, according to emails obtained by The Daily Wire. Denver’s 9 News reported on Monday that...

A 'controversial' theatre production about race, identity and sexuality in twenty-first century America will put on two nights for black audiences to watch the play 'free from the white gaze'. Slave Play, starring Kit Harington who is best known for his role as Jon Snow in the HBO series Game of Thrones, is coming to the Noël Coward theatre in London's West End from 29 June to 21 September. But on the evenings of 17 July and 17 September, the theatre will be open to an 'all-Black identifying audience'.

Radio Ga GaWill George Soros turn the airwaves blue?Unless you happen to live under a rock on a distant planet, you’re probably familiar with George Soros—and his politics.For the uninitiated, Soros is a Hungarian-American billionaire hedge fund manager and philanthropist. Politically speaking, he leans so far Left that he makes Bernie Sanders look conservative.Which makes Soros Fund Management’s recent $400 million investment in Audacy, the nation’s second-largest radio company, so worrisome. Audacy owns more than 220 stations nationwide, including New York’s WFAN and the Los Angeles-based KROQ.On February 20, Audacy was granted court approval to exit bankruptcy proceedings, with Soros’s...

A representative of the company told Russian news outlet RBC that the decision was made after Roscosmos lost almost 80 percent of its export income after losing orders and key partners due to the war in Ukraine. This year, it intends to sell its "non-core" assets ... Borisov said in December that the company had lost contracts worth 180 billion rubles ($1.9 billion) out of 230 billion ($2.5 billion) as a result of the ongoing conflict in Ukraine and subsequent sanctions imposed on Russia by Kyiv's allies... In October last year, Roscosmos appeared to admit that Russia's Luna-25 mission failed...

An actor who was hired to play Willy Wonka at a "shambles" of an event has described the experience as "where dreams went to die" - as a young "Oompa Loompa" was left disappointed he "didn't even get a Freddo". Willy's Chocolate Experience was brought to a halt on Saturday as parents demanded their money back amid complaints the event was not what was advertised. The £35-a-ticket experience at Box Hub in Glasgow was sold as a "chocolate fantasy like never before" where "dreams become reality". Despite promos pledging a "journey filled with wondrous creations and enchanting surprises", families were...

On this date* in 1616 the muffin man Vincenz Fettmilch was executed for a Frankfurt guild revolt that became a notorious anti-Jewish pogrom. One of the crown jewels of the Holy Roman Empire, Frankfurt am Main was at this time a predominantly Lutheran city of some 20,000 souls, governed by a council comprising the city’s wealthy patricians to the exclusion of her merchants and artisans. The city also boasted one of Germany’s largest Jewish communities, consisting of well over 1,000 people concentrated in a quarter known as the Judengasse (“Jew Lane”); living in Frankfurt under imperial protection, Jews of course...

Prince Harry will appeal after losing a High Court challenge against the Home Office over a decision to downgrade his taxpayer-funded personal security when he visits Britain, his spokesman said today. The Duke of Sussex took legal action over the move by the Executive Committee for the Protection of Royalty and Public Figures (Ravec) after being told he would no longer be given the 'same degree' of publicly-funded protection when in the UK. His lawyers had claimed he was 'singled out' and treated 'less favourably' in the February 2020 decision by the body, which falls under the Home Office's remit....

The Washington Post continues to outdo itself in generating downright idiotic takes to defend President Joe Biden’s trashy economic record, even if it means whitewashing the worsening border crisis. “The economy is roaring. Immigration is a key reason,” celebrated The Post in a nutty Feb. 27 headline. The leftist rag doubled down by claiming that “[i]mmigration has propelled the U.S. job market further than just about anyone expected, helping cement the country’s economic rebound from the pandemic as the most robust in the world.” Of course, the paper glossed over the fact that “all” the job gains in the fourth...

So where did the goats come from? "They got here at noon last Tuesday, and we expect them to be here for another week or so," said Michael Debrecht, the assistant director of Parks and Recreation for the City of Arlington. The City of Arlington partnered with a company to bring hundreds of goats to the Crystal Canyon Natural area to eat underbrush and invasive plants, like poison ivy and poison oak, in the park to clear waterways and reduce the fire risk. "They eat the species, and you’ll have them fertilize the land as well, so it's more...