Month: April 2021

Convicted Sex Offender Sentenced to Life for Murdering Two 6-Year-Old Boys

POMONA—A convicted sex offender was sentenced April 27 to life in prison without the possibility of parole for the murders of two 6-year-old Southland boys in the 1980s. The sentence for Kenneth Kasten Rasmuson, now 59, was handed down following a series of emotional statements from the families of Jeffrey Vargo and Miguel Antero. Jeffrey…


Hong Kong and Taiwan Commemorate a Peaceful Protest That Led to the Persecution of Millions

On April 25, when Liu Huiqing and three other Hong Kong Falun Gong practitioners demonstrated in front of the Liaison Office, Beijing’s representative office in Hong Kong, over ten police officers in plain clothes or uniforms and office security guards watched alertly. They came to commemorate the 22nd anniversary of a historical appeal for freedom…


LAPD Officer Hopes ‘Hatred’ From LeBron James Will Stop, Requests to Meet and Talk About Policing

A police officer in Los Angeles has reached out to LeBron James in relation to a post the LA Lakers star shared on social media about a police-involved shooting that happened in Ohio.


Nigeria Urges US to Move Africa Command Headquarters to Continent

ABUJA—The United States should consider moving its military headquarters overseeing Africa to the continent, from Germany, to better tackle growing armed violence in the region, Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari said on Tuesday. Nigerian security forces face multiple security challenges including school kidnappings by armed gangs in its northwest and piracy in the Gulf of Guinea…


The Finnish Cheese That’s Baked Like Bread and Dunked in Coffee

At the Dane County Farmers Market around the state Capitol in Madison, Wisconsin, you can find a lot of local cheese, as you can imagine. One of them is a bit of a delicious spectacle: Brunkow Cheese draws a crowd around a large vendor tent, where folks line up, toothpicks in hand, to skewer samples…


Impending Online Hate Speech Legislation Worries Free Speech Advocates

A federal bill to combat harmful content and hate speech online is expected to be tabled soon, but free speech advocates are concerned that it may be too restrictive. Critics are also sounding the alarm on amendments to the existing Bill C-10 that seeks to regulate video content on platforms such as YouTube and Facebook….


Safe Spaces Are Creating a Generation of ‘Snowflake Tyrants’: Dr. Everett Piper

Dr. Everett Piper, author of “Grow Up: Life Isn’t Safe But It’s Good,” told Epoch TV’s “Crossroads” Program that cancel culture’s relentless demand for safe spaces is making America’s youth emotionally fragile, less able to cope with hardship, and more prone to advocating for an ever bigger government role in allaying insecurity and providing safety at…


How Germany’s ‘Deal With the Devil’ Backfired and Changed History

On April 16 in the fateful year of 1917, the Russian communist Vladimir Lenin arrived in Petrograd (now St. Petersburg) from exile in Switzerland. The Germans, with whom Russia had been at war since the summer of 1914, secretly arranged his return, granted him safe passage through Germany, and even gave him millions in gold….


China Mandates Vaccination of All Military Personnel Despite Numerous Reports of Vaccine Related Deaths and Low Vaccine Efficacy

Despite numerous reports of deaths caused by Chinese vaccines in Hong Kong and the mainland, Chinese authorities have ordered all members of the military to be vaccinated. The death of a Chinese soldier who received China’s Sinovac vaccine, and other vaccine related death cases, are hotly discussed on Chinese social media. On April 15, a…


Critical Race Theory Is About to Face Its Day(s) in Court

As recently as last summer, few people outside academia had heard of critical race theory, whose central claim is that racism, not liberty, is the founding value and guiding vision of American society. Then, President Trump issued an executive order last September banning the teaching of this “malign ideology” to federal employees and federal contractors….