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College softball versus the WNBA
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When college kids showed more class than the WNBA I came across a very inspirational story yesterday. It was interesting because it provided a stark contrast to another story that’s been unfolding over the last few weeks. And the words “stark contrast” don’t adequately describe it.
The inspirational story involved a game between two women’s college softball teams that took place in 2008. This was a crucial conference game that had playoff implications. A young woman named Sara Tucholsky, playing for Western Oregon, hit her first career home run. There were two runners on base and two outs. Ms. Tucholsky was a senior,
Texas Senate candidate James Talarico is now endorsing reparations for slavery to black people as the Democrat continues to be haunted by allegations of racism first hurled against him during the final weeks of his primary campaign against Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D., Texas).
Claiming Texas still suffers from the "reverberations of slavery," Talarico threw his support behind reparations for black people during a town hall event, saying he would enact tuition relief, homeownership, and baby bonds for black people to help build generational wealth.
Sen. Jon Ossoff (D., Ga.) has spent thousands of dollars in campaign funds on "makeup services" in 2026, and his artist of choice has a long list of Hollywood credits, including The Notebook and The Hunger Games, a Washington Free Beacon review found. (snip) The Georgia senator who is running for reelection against Republican Rep. Mike Collins (Ga.), has reported spending more on makeup than any other candidate this year, beating out the likes of far-left Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.) and Rashida Tlaib (D., Mich.).
On an island in the Bering Sea 1,200 miles from Anchorage sits an abandoned house on an abandoned Navy base. There is no furniture, and the wind blows through broken windows. The last people to live here moved away long ago. Yet a bright orange pipe with a black fiber-optic cable inside runs down into the surrounding soil. The cable was installed to connect the home to the internet after the base closed. It costs more than $340,000 per year to provide this building and hundreds of others with internet access no one says they use. The multibillion-dollar Universal Service Fund pays for customers who no longer use it.
The Trump administration has imposed new tariffs of at least 10% on imports from 60 countries over claims they failed to prevent forced labour. The duties, ranging from 10% to 12.5%, target trading partners that make up the majority of US imports - including the UK, Canada, China, Mexico and the EU - and will come into effect as the current levies are set to expire. The Office of the USTR, acting under the president's direction, said the new measures had been introduced after an investigation found the impacted economies to have failed to "impose and effectively enforce a prohibition on the importation of goods produced with forced labour".
Vice-President JD Vance has become a victim of sabotage by the one of the very people sworn to protect him and his family from harm.
As CNN reported, a Secret Service agent serving on Vance’s detail has been placed on administrative leave after being caught allegedly spilling very sensitive information about him to a notorious far-left outlet.
A source told CNN that officials had identified the person believed to have been ratting out Vance. The Secret Service agent has not been named at this point.
CNN notes that the suspension centers around story published last week by MSNOW.
As The Daily Mail notes, the MSNow story painstakingly described Vance’s and his family’s planned travel.
A small local Kentucky paper is going viral after publishing serious direct threats to the lives of President Trump, members of his administration, and his supporters in what is either a lazy oversight or something more sinister.
On Thursday, Libs of TikTok discovered that the The Mountain Eagle, a newspaper in Whitesburg, KY, had published two death threats in the paper’s “Speak Your Piece” section, which allows readers to anonymously sound off on what is on their minds.
One recent comment calls for not only throwing Trump out of office but also executing him and all his fellow “cultists.”
The European Union has approved the UKʼs participation in a €90 billion loan to support Ukraine, which is planned for 2026 and 2027.
This was reported on the website of the European Council. Ukraine will be able to purchase defense products not only from manufacturers in EU countries, but also from British defense companies. The structure of the loan remains unchanged: €60 billion is earmarked for defense-industrial needs, and another €30 billion for budget support. The loan will be repaid with proceeds from frozen Russian assets in European banks.
A historic church in Buffalo, New York, caught fire again this week, and it was determined to be the result of arson.
St. Ann’s Catholic Church was built in 1886.
It permanently closed down in August 2024 and was sold to an Islamic community for $250,000.
There is now a push to turn the historic Catholic church into a mosque. On Tuesday, a second fire tore through the church in one week.
Last weekend, firefighters battled a three-alarm fire at the church. On Wednesday, investigators determined the fire was the result of arson.
WGRZ reported:
On Wednesday, President Trump held a rally at Wheeler High School in Marietta, GA, to highlight the administration's economic policies and promote the candidacies of Republican gubernatorial nominee Rick Jackson and Republican nominee for United States Senate, Rep. Mike Collins (GA-10).
After remarks from Jackson, Secretary of Education Linda McMahon, and SBA Administrator Kelly Loeffler, Trump took the stage to rousing applause and greeted the crowd in Wheeler Auditorium.
Trump began:
New York City has roughly 57,000 vacant rent-stabilized "zombie apartments," many of which landlords say cost more to repair and maintain than they could legally recover in rent.
To illustrate the growing problem, a group of small property owners had actors dressed as zombies march outside a Rent Guidelines Board hearing in mid-June, warning that rising taxes, insurance, utilities, unpaid rent, and court delays are pushing their buildings toward insolvency.
The board responded by approving a zero-percent rent increase, delivering on socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani's campaign promise to freeze rents while doing nothing to reduce landlords' underlying costs.
According to the latest poll from Insa, the AfD’s support climbed to 29 per cent, up half a percentage point from the previous week. Meanwhile, the governing centre-right Christian Democratic Union/Christian Social Union (CDU/CSU) in Bavaria fell by another full point to 20.5 per cent. This means the gap now stands at 8.5 per cent, the largest lead ever recorded by the polling firm for the upstart anti-mass-migration party, Die Welt reported.
Meanwhile, the CDU’s leftist coalition partner, the Social Democrats, improved slightly to just 13 per cent, putting them on par with the Greens and just ahead of Die Linke (The Left),
Here’s my minority position – I think Republicans are set to do surprisingly well in the 2026 midterms and very, very well in 2028. Oh, I don’t put it beyond the Republicans to screw up any advantage they’ve been handed. Republicans have the uncanny ability to squander a good thing, but what the Democrats are handing over is pure electoral gold. If you look at the relative positioning of both parties in terms of future electoral success, there is zero question that the Republican Party is much better situated to begin a lengthy sojourn in power. The Democrats have walked themselves into a minefield, and they’ve got no map.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky spoke Wednesday with President Donald Trump’s envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner about how to resume diplomatic efforts to end Russia’s war against Ukraine, according to a report Wednesday. Axios correspondent Barak Ravid said the two sides talked through ways to get negotiations moving again. He cited a source who knew about the call. Zelensky himself confirmed it hours later on X and made a point of saying Ukraine wants peace.
Zelensky framed the call as an effort to breathe life back into the peace process. “It was a good, important conversation on how to reinvigorate diplomacy and bring peace closer,” he wrote.
The scorching heat waves plaguing the U.K. and Europe this summer are primarily driven by a recent reduction in air pollution, according to a new study conducted by the Met Office — the U.K.’s climate change and national weather service — in conjunction with Spanish researchers.
Europe has warmed at twice the rate of the rest of the world since the 1980’s, resulting in deadly heatwaves that environmental activists and politicians have attributed to carbon emissions. But according to the study, the opposite is true: Much of the increase in temperature can be attributed to Europe’s recent success in reducing
Break Google’s Monopoly for Good
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The company has grown gargantuan in size. Its parent company, Alphabet, is worth hundreds of billions of dollars. Worldwide, Google’s Search function comprises over 90 percent of all search engine usage. Its browser, Chrome, takes up almost 70 percent of the browser market (Apple’s Safari, which comes on all Macbooks, takes up 16 percent – meaning Google is effectively the default for all non-Apple computers and plenty of Apple computers). Gemini, its AI, is built into its search. Alphabet even owns 14 percent of Anthropic, the second-largest corporate shareholder after Amazon.
Don't call it a library.
The $1 billion Obama Presidential Center opened with huge fanfare last week in a park near the shore of Lake Michigan, but critics say what the public thinks is a library will function as the headquarters of Barack Obama’s private foundation, promoting the 44th president's left-wing worldview to future generations. (snip)The sprawling 19.3-acre campus will host various leadership programs, while spaces there include a "Democracy in Action Lab," conference facilities, foundation offices and a major athletic complex designed for youth sports and community programs — features not typically associated with a presidential library.
The Los Angeles Times recently published a "News Analysis" headlined: "Trump, long a critic of 'forever wars,' may be stumbling into one with Iran."
The analysis offers legitimate grounds for criticizing President Donald Trump. He has described the objectives of the war against Iran in different ways. He has made changing predictions about its duration. He has repeatedly suggested that an agreement was near, only for negotiations to collapse. He promised no more endless Middle East wars, yet the conflict has continued for months, American servicemembers have died, and the administration has not clearly defined what victory looks like.
Weeks after the Obama Presidential Center’s star-studded opening in Chicago, a subcontractor who previously claimed his company was stiffed for nearly $4 million has shut down operations and laid off 25 union workers.
Mike Owen, the owner of Chicago-based Adamson Plumbing Contractors, told Fox News Digital that the financial fallout forced the company to abandon about half a dozen other construction jobs and left it on the verge of collapse. Owen described the shutdown as a painful decision he believed was necessary to save the company from bankruptcy.
I have not written about the recent events in/around Ukraine because none of it makes sense and all of the information flows through the prism of ‘western’ intelligence propaganda.
According to Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy {SEE HERE}, he has removed and replaced the entire leadership apparatus of the Ukraine military. This follows his removal of 35-year-old Mykhailo Fedorov from the defense ministry last week {CITATION} that led to massive protests against Zelenskyy and armed forces Chief Gen. Oleksandr Syrskiy, who was also eventually replaced.
The Federal Communications Commission is wasting no time unleashing the spectrum made available by President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act. Chairman Brendan Carr announced that the agency is preparing to auction 160 megahertz of Upper C-Band spectrum, one of the largest blocks of mid-band spectrum ever brought to market, and he’s doing it faster than anyone expected. That’s great news for customers, businesses, and the U.S. economy.
Restoring the FCC’s authority to auction spectrum licenses to the private sector was one of the many fantastic provisions of the Big Beauty that went largely unnoticed
Not so long ago, I suggested that Hunter Biden is testing the waters for a presidential run.
I was half joking, half not, as Mr. Biden has spent an inordinate amount of time out in public and on podcasts discussing politics and other matters, despite his claims that he is not running for office.
I'm not the only one who has noticed. (X) Discussion about a potential Biden run is still confined to the fringes, but Biden himself has been out and about quite a bit, appearing on podcasts, promoting his paintings, talking about addiction (ah, a redemption story!), and opining about politics.
A lot of opining about politics.
Back in June, we called on the mainstream media to pressure Democrats into answering questions about the increasingly radical Democratic Socialists of America platform.
“With the rapid takeover of their party by the Democratic Socialists of America underway,” we wrote, “it’s time for every Democrat to answer for what the DSA believes in.” (See: “10 Questions Every Democrat Must Now Be Made To Answer.”)
We’re glad that one news network, at least, has taken us up on our advice.
Georgia Republican gubernatorial candidate Rick Jackson said he will match the $1,000 Trump accounts for Georgia children if elected.
Jackson joined second-term Republican President Donald Trump on stage at Cobb County's Wheeler High School, where the president spoke on the accounts. American families with children born between Jan. 1, 2025, and Dec. 31, 2028, can claim a $1,000 Trump account, according to the White House. They can add up to $5,000 to the account.
"And I believe our Legislature will approve that, but if they don't, I will personally donate it myself," Jackson said.