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As a former restaurant critic, I don’t get to go to dinner on assignment much anymore. But last week, I spent a grueling few hours in the private back room of a restaurant in North Beach, listening to a crowd gnash their teeth about “parental rights,” and the Trans Conspiracy to Destroy the American Family, while noshing on very dry garlic bread. Hosted by the San Francisco Republican Party, the event was billed by the group’s chairman John Dennis as “a reasonable conversation for parents who have concerns.” Speakers included Pamela Garfield-Jaeger, a Bay Area-based former social worker and a...

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro said antisemitism played “no role” in Vice President Kamala Harris’ opting against him as a running mate, and blamed Donald Trump for spreading that allegation. Shapiro, who is Jewish, made the remark in an interview on the first day of the Democratic National Convention, as he was making the rounds between meetings of state delegations. Shapiro had been considered a leading contender in Harris’ veepstakes, and faced a progressive campaign to tank his chances over his support for Israel. Critics of the effort called it antisemitic, but Shapiro told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency that antisemitism was...

CHICAGO, Illinois — A group of Hamas supporters flew the banner of the terrorist group at a pro-Palestinian rally outside the Democratic National Convention — but they flew it upside-down, and not on purpose. Roughly 3,500 people gathered in Union Park to protest against Israel — and to urge Vice President Kamala Harris to end U.S. support for Israel. Many present said they would not vote for Harris unless she complied with their demand. There were a broad spectrum of views represented — from peace activists to hard-core Islamists — though the crowd chanted for the Palestinian “resistance,” and repeated...

Kamala Harris's running mate, Tim Walz, has been sweet on socialism and even communism for pretty much all his adult life. After all, he did describe socialism as "neighborliness." He's the guy who let his city burn. The Washington Free Beacon's Alana Goodman did some digging and found this in an old news clipping: As a high school teacher in the 1990s, Democratic vice presidential candidate and Minnesota governor Tim Walz appeared to extol life under Chinese communism, telling his students that it is a system in which "everyone shares" and gets free food and housing. "It means that everyone...

Account of two Britons who went undercover in Northern France illegal migrant camp, claiming to be deserters from Foreign Legion going back to Blighty. Made the night crossing in a small boat. Got arrested in UK, cleared it up, reporting what they saw and heard. Link to transcript below video.

While traveling to Kentucky out of Indiana today, listening to Radio 970 AM, Louisville . . . . Heard Kamala Harris blaming private companies for inflation by price gouging . . . . Said that she will take, or take over, the patents of privately owned companies if she thinks their prices are too high. She boldly and arrogantly said, "We CAN do it." Then said, "We have the WILL to do it." The "We" in these statements, I suppose, refer to a Harris Administration.

If you want something done right, do it yourself. That includes protecting family, friends, and neighbors.Perhaps the greatest rebuttal to calls for confidence in police is the conduct of law enforcement officers at Robb Elementary School shooting in Uvalde, Texas. There, on May 24, 2022, almost 400 cops not only stood around while a lunatic murdered children and teachers, but they prevented parents from stepping in to do what those in uniform wouldn't. Now, new reporting gives greater insight into the depths of the officers' inaction that day, and just how unwise it is to rely on them for protection....

Could someone teach Kamala to laugh only when something is funny? It’s not the sound of Kamala Harris’s laugh that is so irritating although, to be fair, it is. It’s that she laughs when nothing remotely funny has been said. The blandest statements (usually her own) prompt her to explode into gales of laughter, doubling over, wide-mouthed, nose crinkled, her entire body shaking, often accompanied by handclapping and foot-stomping. These performances would be show-offy at a Dave Chappelle show, but Harris does it to punctuate a sentence. Here’s an actual transcript of some of her remarks at a recent Las...

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CHICAGO — Vice President Kamala Harris is calling for raising the corporate tax rate to 28%, her first major proposal to raise revenues and finance expensive plans she wants to pursue as president. Harris campaign spokesman James Singer told NBC News that she would push for a 28% corporate tax rate, calling it “a fiscally responsible way to put money back in the pockets of working people and ensure billionaires and big corporations pay their fair share.”

Vladimir Putin's forces have been caught red handed going on a looting spree in their own country amid the Ukrainian invasion of Kursk. The Russian 'defenders' took advantage of the chaos caused by the stunning cross-border incursion launched by Kyiv's forces almost two weeks ago to steal goods from a mobile phone shop. A quartet of Moscow's soldiers are seen helping themselves in a MegaFon store in frontline town of Glushkovo in shocking security footage. At least three of the four are thought to be from the elite Chechen assault force Akhmat, which was partially responsible for defending the border...

The station is the only one around for miles in the Mojave desert.This summer, gas prices are lower than they have been in the past. In some places though, some gas stations have a “I know what I have” attitude, resulting in some seriously high prices. One desert gas station is like this, and it doubles down on the pricing with a disclaimer for customers. Najah’s Desert Goods sits in the middle of absolutely nowhere in the Mojave Desert right at the intersection of Route 66 and Interstate 40. Well it’s not technically nowhere; it’s in a place called Fenner,...

In a concerning development, health authorities in Honduras launched a massive campaign against dengue this Friday, responding to a crisis that has claimed 105 lives and affected more than 99,000 people so far this year. The situation has prompted urgent action across the nation. Health ministry brigades mobilized throughout the capital’s neighborhoods, focusing on destroying mosquito breeding sites. This coordinated effort, which spans the entire country, has seen active participation from local residents joining the cause. Lorenzo Pavón, director of Epidemiological Surveillance at the Ministry of Health, provided sobering statistics to local media. “So far in 2024, we’ve recorded 105...

Hillary Clinton was on Martha’s Vineyard on Sunday, July 21, the day President Biden dropped out of the presidential race, when her phone rang. Her husband, former President Bill Clinton, had already received a call from the same number, so she knew who wanted to talk to her. Vice President Kamala Harris was calling to tell her she was running for president and hoping to build support as quickly as possible. Mrs. Clinton didn’t hesitate: She told the vice president she was all in. The Clintons rushed out an endorsement well ahead of many other party leaders, including the Obamas....

Biz admits turning human women into faceless, sexualized furniture was a 'tone deaf' marketing ployIf you attended the Black Hat conference in Vegas last week and found yourself over in Palo Alto Networks' corner of the event, you may have encountered a marketing gimmick that has since been heavily criticized for misogyny. Security architect Sean Juroviesky's LinkedIn post and accompanying image, which was subsequently shared by equally outraged conference delegates, attracted scores of angry cybersecurity pros all demanding answers from Palo Alto Networks (PAN). Why? The cybersecurity giant paid women – and only women – to stand at the...

On August 18, 1962, The Duke Ellington Octet featuring Coleman Hawkins were in a New York recording studio, busy making an album for the Impulse! label. Impulse! was still a relatively new imprint at the time, having issued its first four albums in early 1961. Joining Ellington and Hawk were Ray Nance (cornet, violin), Lawrence Brown (trombone), Johnny Hodges (alto sax), Harry Carney (baritone sax, bass clarinet), Aaron Bell (bass), and Sam Woodyard (drums). The result was Duke Ellington Meets Coleman Hawkins, an album the New York Times described as “one of the great Ellington albums, one of the great...

Day #8 of the Top 50 songs on my iTunes playlist -- ranked in reverse order by play frequency from #50 to #1 and presented here on a series of FR threads. I'm posting them here on a new thread that compiles the growing list one day at a time over the next couple of months. I only post them on weekdays and may miss a day or two here and there, so it will take at least ten weeks to do this. And to show my gratitude to the FR management for giving us all a forum to post...

In today’s video, we take a look at how Russian society reacted to the recent events in the Kursk region. Apart from looking at the responses of Russians directly affected by the Ukrainian invasion of Russia, we also look at Russian media and how they are attempting to create a favourable narrative for the Kremlin, despite the situation on the ground of the ongoing war with Ukraine showing that Russians in the Kursk region are panicking and fleeing from the region. How was the Ukrainian invasion narrated in the Russian media and in social media? Did the propaganda attack the...

On January 9, 1980, 25-year-old Susan Leigh Wolfe enrolled at the University of Texas Austin School of Nursing. On the same day, at about 10 p.m., she was kidnapped about one block from her home while walking to a friend’s house after having her house sprayed for bugs. A witness to the kidnapping watched as a car stopped and the driver exited grabbing Susan in a ''bear hug,'' placed a coat over her head, and forced her into the car. The witness also said that the passenger door opened, but he did not see what the passenger did during the...

Bank officials signal readiness to start interest rate-cutting cycle to ease pressure on households and businesses After a rollercoaster month in financial markets amid fears of a potential US recession, a majority of economists polled by Reuters said they did not expect a downturn to materialise, and that the Fed would cut borrowing costs by 0.25 percentage points at each of its remaining meetings in 2024. It comes after the heads of three regional Federal Reserve banks signalled growing readiness for the start of a rate-cutting cycle to help ease pressure on households and businesses from high borrowing costs. The...