by JACK MONTGOMERY at thenationalpulse.com Most Americans hold two caricatures of Ireland in their heads. One is a picture of a Guinness-chugging, ginger-haired, joker. The other is a picture of stone churches and strong families, rooted in tradition and Catholic social teaching. Those familiar with the annual Eurovision Song Contest will be surprised, therefore, to […]
by STAFF AND GUESTS at seattlemag.com NOVEMBER 17, 2016 – Had I been making predictions about the future back in the 1960s, I would have been wildly wrong. Monorails aren’t whisking us everywhere. Flying cars haven’t made freeways obsolete. The Kingdome didn’t outlast us all. Supersonic jets never caught on—in fact, not building them helped plunge Seattle […]
by Jeff Davidson at lidblog.com A word meme on the internet got me to thinking about how wedded we are, often unnecessarily, to what’s new and what’s highly touted. The meme said, “Imagine we lived in a world where all the cars were EVs.” Then, a new invention came along, called the “internal combustion engine,” […]
by Kaley at w ltreport.com Joe Biden held a rally in Atlanta, GA today. Hardly anybody showed up…except for some pro-Palestine protestors, it seems. Shortly after beginning his speech, Biden was quickly interrupted as a man in the crowd called out, “What are you going to do, genocide Joe? Tens of thousands of Palestinians are dead!” […]
by Jon Dougherty at conservativebrief.com Authorities have launched an investigation into the death of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s sister-in-law after she was found dead in a vehicle that was submerged in a pond near Austin, Texas. “This incident was not a typical accident,” the Blanco County Sheriff’s Office reportedly wrote in a letter to Texas Attorney […]
by Jim Hᴏft at thegatewaypundit.com A whistleblower report submitted to Congress on Friday alleges that the chief medical officer of Customs and Border Protection (CBP), Dr. Alexander Eastman, pressured employees to acquire fentanyl lollipops under the guise of needing them for emergency pain management during the United Nations General Assembly in New York held in […]
by Anthony Watts at wattsupwiththat.com A few weeks ago I mentioned that some big changes would be coming to WUWT in this post titled Thanks, and the Future for WUWT. Thanks to everyone for their support! One of the upcoming changes that I didn’t mention in that post is that we are forced to move to […]
by DONNA KING at carolinajournal.com An antitrust lawsuit was filed this week against legacy media giants and Big Tech companies that alleges they had a collusive agreement to shut down anti-vaccine coverage during the height of the COVID pandemic. Antitrust? Yes. Plaintiffs allege that a partnership called the Trusted News Initiative, formed by the Associated Press, Reuters, […]