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Officially back in 2019 Secretary of Transportation Elaine L. Chao represented the United States at the proclamation of the enthronement ceremony of His Majesty the Emperor of Japan. While in Tokyo, Secretary Chao met with Embassy officials, including Chargé d’Affaires ad interim Joe Young, and paid a courtesy visit to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at the Akasaka Palace. Between high-level bilateral meetings, Secretary Chao and U.S. Department of Transportation officials also toured Japan’s high-speed rail system at Tokyo Station. The U.S. government had initially made arrangements to send Vice President Mike Pence to the ceremony on Oct. 22, in which...

Mainstream media show an ‘absolute refusal to grapple with the data’. Amid nationwide Black Lives Matter protests, riots, looting, and calls to defund the police, a Harvard economist has found that proactive policing saves black lives. Roland Fryer the youngest African-American professor to receive tenure in Harvard history, Fryer uses a data-driven approach on fraught social issues. He made waves four years ago with his research on use-of-force incidents by race. It found that black suspects were less likely to be shot by police than white suspects. This news wasn’t well-received by the mainstream media so they decided to ignore...

Watching someone shoot a .50 BMG is always exciting. Of course safety should always be adhere to. This also includes having a great backstop. When a .50 projectile skip off the ground, they can take off in any direction. Its a good thing this shooter is on a gun range thats out in the middle of nowhere. This is the case with this shooter on Youtube who is armed with a rifle chambered in the mighty .50 BMG caliber. When he fires a tracer round, the bullet skips off the ground and ends up arcing up into the air with...