Year: 2017

Chron – by  Heather Leighton

While Houston officials didn’t establish a mandatory evacuation for the entire metropolis, some residents fled to neighboring cities like Dallas, Austin, and San Antonio before the rains, tornadoes, and floods came to the city.

Now, many of those residents are wondering if it’s safe for them to head back into the city with reports of major roadways still being closed due to high water and damaged roads.

Chron.com reached out to DriveTexas, an organization run by the Texas Department of Transportation, to report on which routes Houstonians and others can take to get into the city safely.   Continue reading “Is it safe to drive to Houston after Hurricane Harvey? Here are the routes that are still closed”

Business Insider

On Wednesday evening, the sun is finally shining in Houston. But the city is still underwater, and Harvey has turned its destructive eye toward Louisiana.

The monster storm made a second landfall on the Texas border near Cameron, Louisiana, around 4:30 a.m. CT.

An additional 4 to 8 inches of rain were expected in eastern Texas, southwestern Louisiana, and parts of Tennessee and Kentucky, with some areas receiving up to 12 inches.   Continue reading “Harvey makes 2nd landfall on Louisiana border after pummeling Texas with ‘catastrophic’ flooding — here’s the latest”

Return of Kings – by Roosh Valizadeh

In the past couple of years I began to wonder about the fact that Jews are firmly in the middle of leftist movements centered around socialism, communism, and feminism. The Culture Of Critique by Kevin MacDonald answered why they are so heavily invested in leftist causes and how they have damaged traditional Christian ideals by treating America as a cultural laboratory to further their own group interests above those of gentiles (non-Jews).   Continue reading “The Damaging Effects Of Jewish Intellectualism And Activism On Western Culture”

LA Times – by Benjamin Oreskes and Paige St. John

Violence over this weekend by left-wing “antifa” activists in Berkeley has opened another chapter in the debate at the birthplace of the Free Speech Movement over UC Berkeley’s plan to host several conservative firebrands next month.

University officials have vowed to allow speakers, including conservative provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos, to come even under the threat of violence, which has occurred at Berkeley and other universities earlier this year.   Continue reading “After ‘antifa’ violence, Berkeley debates whether Milo Yiannopoulos and other conservatives are welcome”

USA Today, February 2017

Milo Yiannopoulos resigned from Breitbart News, the far-right website where he was a top editor, after video surfaced in which the controversial figure appeared to condone sex between men and underage boys as young as 13.

“My employer, Breitbart News, has stood by me when others caved,” Yiannopoulos said during a news conference Tuesday. “They have allowed me to carry conservative and libertarian ideas to communities that would otherwise never have had them. I would be wrong to allow my poor choice of words to detract from my colleagues’ important job, which is why I am resigning from Breitbart, effective immediately.”   Continue reading “Milo Yiannopoulos resigns from Breitbart over child sex comments”

McClatchy DC – by Alex Daugherty

WASHINGTON – Marco Rubio has spent months pushing the White House to expand a temporary program that would allow Venezuelans who have fled Nicolás Maduro’s regime to stay in the United States, according to a previously unpublished letter from Rubio to Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and then-Department of Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly.

The letter, dated March 20, asks Tillerson and Kelly to “review the existing conditions in Venezuela and consider granting Temporary Protected Status (TPS) to eligible Venezuelan nationals residing in the United States.”

“In light of the ongoing political, economic, social and humanitarian crisis in Venezuela, it is not in the best interests of the United States to deport non-violent Venezuelan nationals back to the country at this time,” the letter reads.
Continue reading “Marco Rubio calls for temporary protected status for Venezuelans”

Bloomberg – by John Follain

From his perch at a waterfront bar in the Italian port of Livorno, Marco Di Tanto sees far more despair than charm. Although the center of town—an area called New Venice—has scenic streets and winding canals similar to its namesake, the Tuscan city is still reeling from the shutdown of the vast Orlando shipyard in 2002 and the shift of most freight traffic to bigger container ports in Genoa and Naples over the past two decades. “There’s no real work in Livorno anymore,” says Di Tanto, 58, who in 2009 lost his job as a forklift driver at the docks and now picks up informal construction work when he can. “I’ve seen my old colleagues queuing at the soup kitchen.”
Continue reading “As Poverty Surges in Italy, Populists Propose a ‘Citizens’ Income’”

LA Times – by Michael Hiltzik

State and local officials in Iowa have been working hard to rationalize their handout of more than $208 million in tax benefits to Apple, one of the world’s richest companies, for a data facility that will host 50 permanent jobs.

The deal will help make Iowa an “innovation and technology” hub, Gov. Kim Reynolds gushed. It will ensure development of a big parcel of open land that otherwise would have remained fallow, local development officials said. It was a bargain, according to civic leaders in Waukee, the Iowa community that will host the data center — after all, Apple will be contributing up to $100 million to a local infrastructure fund, starting with money to build a youth sports center.   Continue reading “Iowa’s handout to Apple illustrates the folly of corporate welfare deals”

NPR – by Laurel Wamsley

Uber says it has ended its tracking of users after they complete their rides — a practice that caused immediate concern when the company added it in November.

A spokeswoman for Uber tells NPR that users will now have the option to share their location with the company only while using the app. That setting had been available before November’s change.   Continue reading “Uber Ends Its Controversial Post-Ride Tracking Of Users’ Location”