Rick Slayman is a lucky man. Thanks to doctors willing to think outside the box, he is alive and home after he received a lifesaving transplant using a genetically modified pig kidney. That’s right – a pig kidney. He is the first living recipient. The groundbreaking surgery took place last month. The transplant was performed […]
Squatters have become big news in the past month and some news outlets seem eager to make the case that incidents of squatting are so rare they are hardly worth noticing. For instance, here’s the Washington Post from earlier this week. The national conversation around “squatters” has reached a fever pitch in recent weeks, spurred […]
Let’s be frank: the flood of Muslim refugees into Europe has not been an unalloyed success. It’s not that all Muslims are incapable of integrating into Western cultures. Really, it’s not. It’s just that a lot of them can’t, especially when they emigrate from medieval societies and are dumped into the modern world. Their reaction […]
This week the New Yorker published a lengthy story about the meltdown taking place at a Middle School in Amherst, Massachusetts. Amherst is described as a town where there are more BLM signs than there are black people. The city is 70% white and about 12% black and Hispanic, but the public schools have a […]
There are 225 McDonald’s restaurants in Israel. McDonald’s says it will buy back all of its outlets from franchisee Alonyal. The timeline has not been announced. Sales have dropped since the Israel-Hamas war began. There is a boycott due to the fast food chain’s perceived support of Israel. McDonald’s was criticized after the Israeli franchise […]
Statistics are great–no matter what they say, they are easy to manipulate to create whatever impression you want. Case in point: today’s unemployment numbers from the federal government. On the surface the jobs numbers released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics looked fantastic. Jobs jumped by 330,000. That’s almost enough to keep up with the […]
The Genius, Ray Charles, released Born To Lose back in 1962, which was a cover of a 1943 Ted Daffan song. It was from the first record Charles recorded that showed he could shift seamlessly from R&B to Country and Western. If you haven’t heard the song before, it’s an ode of lament about a […]
Ksenia Karelina, a resident of Los Angeles, is being detained in a Russian prison on the charge of treason. She is a dual American-Russian citizen. She allegedly raised money for a Ukrainian organization that bought weapons and equipment for Ukraine’s military. She is alleged to have donated $50 to Ukraine for the war effort, as […]
Texas Governor Greg Abbott was in New York City to attend a Republican fundraising gala on Thursday. NYC Mayor Eric Adams welcomed him to the city with some snark. Asked about his visit by a reporter, Adams said that the governor was welcome to sleep in a shelter for illegal aliens. He suggested Abbott stay at […]
It’s not exactly news that public schools are disaster zones in many parts of the country, but it’s dispiriting that we get slapped in the face every day with news about just how corrupt the schools actually are. Case in point: Portland public schools covered up the rape of a 9-year-old girl, suspending the perpetrators […]
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