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A couple years ago, Mikala Sposito applied for a work ethic scholarship from my foundation. She asked for $2,700.00 to help realize her dream of becoming a welder. (Actually, her first dream was to become an Olympian. As a kid, she excelled at horseback riding, dance, soccer, and track, but not quite at the Olympic level. So, Mikala adjusted her dream and focused on something within her reach. Precisely the kind of commonsense approach to making a living we try to encourage.) Toward that end, Mikala filled out the application, jumped through all the necessary hoops, and signed the...

“What the K-shaped economy gets right, what it exaggerates, and what believing the worst version is costing a generation.”The bottom half of American households owns about 2.5% of the nation’s wealth. That number is real, and it ought to bother you. However, that number is also higher than it was in 2019 and 2015, and roughly six times higher than the 0.4% low it hit in 2011. You will not read that in many places because it doesn’t “fit the narrative.”Unfortunately, the K-shaped economy headlines have settled into a single unvarying note, and after a while, people stop hearing anything...

NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依@japan_nobunaga·12hMarch 2011. An entire Japanese island was CUT OFF.Kesennuma Oshima. 3,000 people trapped.No power. No water. Harbor obliterated. Freezing cold.The experts said: "No ship can dock. It's impossible."The US Marine Corps looked at the raging sea and said:"Watch us."They fired up the LCACs.Massive hovercrafts built for storming hostile enemy beaches.Ripping across the debris-choked water at 40 knots.Huge jet engines roaring. Spray flying 50 feet into the air.They didn't wait for a harbor.They rammed right onto the frozen sand.Out rolled bulldozers. Generators. Hot water units. Clean food.Marines jumped into the freezing mud to rebuild the power lines.Why?"Because the children need a...

NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依@japan_nobunagaWhen Fukushima exploded, foreign embassies told everyone to FLEE.Commercial planes turned around. Ships steered away as fast as they could.An invisible radiation cloud was drifting across the ocean.And where was the USS Ronald Reagan?STEERING DIRECTLY INTO IT.AT MAXIMUM SPEED.The radiation alarms were screaming on the bridge.Every textbook said: "Turn back. Save yourselves."The Captain and his crew said:"There are Japanese families shivering on rooftops out there. WE DON'T TURN BACK."24 hours a day, in freezing sleet, they ran their desalination plants to the brink of failure.Sailors gave up their OWN fresh water.They stopped taking hot showers.They ate cold rations.Why?To produce tens...

Ultimately, the purpose of this website is educational: to chart communism's human-rights violations in a format in which its horrors can quickly and accessibly be comprehended.

Officials who spoke with The Post expressed frustration that the additional loss of life in the Middle East is not reflected in the Defense Department’s casualty database.More American service members have died in the Middle East during the ongoing Iran war than the Pentagon has disclosed publicly, according to six U.S. officials familiar with the Defense Department’s internal casualty accounting data. Five of the officials said there have been at least 22 military fatalities — four more than what appears in the Pentagon’s public database, known as the Defense Casualty Analysis System, or DCAS. A sixth official, who like the...

Stephen Adams tells the court he has spent nearly 2 years in jail with almost no contact from appointed counsel and says he still hasn’t seen the evidence against him. Judge Stevens reacts with disbelief and demands answers over the apparent breakdown in representation and due process.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. – On Sept. 18, the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) joins a grateful nation in celebrating the 79th birthday of the United States Air Force and honoring the generations of airmen whose service and sacrifice have helped defend America at home and around the world.Born from the U.S. Army Air Forces, the Air Force was established on Sept. 18, 1947, with the signing of the National Security Act of 1947. In the nearly eight decades since, airmen have built a proud legacy of courage, innovation and excellence while answering the nation’s call in times of war and...

An illegal immigrant rideshare driver accused of sexually assaulting a teenage female passenger in Maryland has a history of sex abuse in New York, federal authorities said. Abdoulaye Dia, of Lanham, Maryland, was charged with first-degree rape, kidnapping, second-degree assault and third-degree sex offense, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said. On Tuesday, Montgomery County Police officers were called to a hospital where an underage teen girl reported a rape. She told police she was raped by an Empower rideshare driver. Dia, a citizen of Guinea, took her to a parking lot in Silver Spring, where the alleged assault occurred....

He’s the Doogie Howser of the dorms! A 13-year-old Long Island whiz kid with an Einstein-level IQ has been accepted to NYU’s master program — after overcoming cancer and Tourette’s syndrome, according to school officials and his mom. Pint-sized prodigy Joe Petraro-Hyppolite plans to study sports medicine at the university next fall and will likely be the school’s youngest grad student ever, according to reports. “My IQ is 168,” Joe Petraro-Hyppolite, of East Rockaway, told CBS. “Whenever I tell people, it’s like, ‘Oh, Young Sheldon, Doogie Howser.’” By comparison, Albert Einstein’s IQ is believed to have been around 160, which...

WASHINGTON — President Trump announced Friday that all 50 states along with Puerto Rico and DC have opted into his “most favored nations’’ drug-price initiative to lower prescription costs for Medicaid recipients. The president strong-armed 26 major pharmaceutical companies into enacting the special drug pricing for federal agencies to match the rates paid in eight other high-income nations, including Canada, Germany, Japan and the UK. “They all succumbed to the dollar,” Trump said of the US states and others who have now joined what he called his “GENEROUS” initiative, passing along the cost saving to state-administered Medicaid programs covering roughly...

White College Girls Speak Out After Being Attacked by Mob

Never Forget Dailey@teamreal321·10h18 September 1944 — PeleliuCol. Lewis B. “Chesty” Puller, CO of the 1st Marines, greets a Navy admiral at his command post. Shirt off. Coral dust. Heat that could cook a man. Third day of the fight for Bloody Nose Ridge.His regiment landed on White Beach 15 September and took the worst of the island. In ten days they lost more than half their strength. He stayed forward with them.By then he already had four Navy Crosses:Nicaragua, 1930Nicaragua, 1932Guadalcanal, 1942Cape Gloucester, January 1944The fifth came later at the Chosin Reservoir, 1950. Only Marine ever awarded five.Good night, Chesty....

WASHINGTON (TNND) — Protesters are planning to link hands around the Kennedy Center in a public show of opposition to what organizers describe as political interference in the arts and changes at the landmark Washington venue. Hands Off the Arts will host a “Hands Around the Kennedy Center” rally, beginning with a gathering on the Kennedy Center steps and culminating with a human chain around the building. Organizers say the event is meant to protest the “President’s defacing of JFK’s memorial, his removal and censorship of art, and his threat to demolish the Center if he can’t remake the site...

At least three Georgia counties were listed on an internal memo of jurisdictions across the country that offer election materials in languages other than English, according to internal records from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Gwinnett, Cobb and DeKalb counties were all listed in the report, which was emailed to a number of top officials at the department in December, though the memo noted there could be other jurisdictions in the state that translate election materials. The email said the list was “outlining requirements for prosecution of voter related charges,” and was signed by the department’s acting director of...

Hundreds of thousands of Iranians flooded the streets of Tehran on Friday for a government-organized rally calling on civilians to join the military and prepare to “sacrifice their lives.” It was the largest demonstration in the country since the United States and Israel attacked Iran in February. Dubbed “Janfaday-e Iran,” or “ones who sacrifice their lives for Iran,” the rally was designed to project national unity as Tehran faces a worsening economy amid US sanctions and a naval blockade of Iranian ports. But the spectacle was also a show of force for Iran. Iranian state media said more than 300,000...

If you want to see Michelle Obama next month in Fort Worth, it'll cost you. Tickets for the National Juneteenth Museum's "A Conversation with Michelle Obama" start at $300, according to ticketing information obtained by The Dallas Morning News. "Premium seating" is on sale for $750 and "Preferred seating" is available for $500.

A top Missouri prosecutor was found dead inside a county courthouse — reportedly killing himself inside the building months after saying the job brought him “considerable pain.” Eric Zahnd, 53 — the longest-serving prosecutor in Platte County history — was found dead inside Platte County Courthouse at around 2:15 p.m. Thursday, the local sheriff’s office confirmed, according to FOX 4. The courthouse was immediately closed, and remained sealed Friday. Officials have not released details about his death but sources told the local station KCMO that Zahnd took his own life inside the courthouse. Zahnd, who has served as the county’s...

Attorneys for an Orange County family said Uber has been ordered to pay $40 million over the death of a 23-year-old woman who was struck and killed by a vehicle in 2023 after her driver kicked her out of his car on the side of a busy freeway. The woman’s parents really want to get the word out about the case and hope things change with Uber in respect to how they treat their customers and their safety procedures. Following a night out with a friend, Emily Normandin-Parker chose not to drive and called an Uber for what was supposed...

The countries, along with Israeli firms, combined Chinese open-source A.I. models and A.I. agents for the campaigns, foreshadowing future online manipulation. Iran, China and groups in Israel used artificial intelligence in novel ways in recent months to create first-of-their-kind influence campaigns on social media, ratcheting up concerns among U.S. officials and security researchers about the fast-evolving technology. The countries and groups combined A.I. tactics to ramp up the speed and scale of online campaigns beyond what people could easily achieve and with minimal human interaction, U.S. officials and security researchers with knowledge of the efforts said. First, the countries and...