Month: March 2022

Police: Student Kills Peer at South Carolina Middle School

GREENVILLE, S.C.—A 12-year-old student was shot and killed Thursday by another 12-year-old student inside their South Carolina middle school, authorities said. The shooter was found hiding under a deck at a home not far from Tanglewood Middle School in Greenville about an hour after the shooting and was still armed, Greenville County Sheriff Hobart Lewis…


Arizona Enacts Law Requiring Proof of Citizenship to Vote in Presidential Elections

Arizona’s governor on Thursday signed into law a bill that aims to strengthen election integrity with new requirements to ensure only U.S. citizens vote in Arizona’s elections. The measure, House Bill 2492, requires voters in Arizona to provide proof of citizenship and residency to be eligible to vote. Under the new law, if county recorders are…


Conservative Disney Employee Speaks Out Against Company’s Woke Agenda: ‘A Terrible Miscalculation’

Disney made “a terrible miscalculation” when it condemned Florida’s new parental rights law and alienated the non-woke “silent majority” within the company, according to Jose Castillo, a current Disney employee and Republican congressional candidate. Castillo, who is running in the Republican primary for Florida’s 9th Congressional District, said his employer’s decision to take a stance…


Australia to Send Bushmaster Military Vehicles to Ukraine

Australia has agreed to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s request for Australian Bushmaster military vehicles to aid in the armoured defence against Russian forces. Zelenskyy specifically requested the Bushmasters by name in a virtual address to Australia’s federal Parliament on March 31. “We have to stop any intention from Russia to bypass sanctions. Most of all,…


LA Unified Looks Into Tutoring As Parents’ Confidence in Education Quality Drops

LOS ANGELES—As Angelenos are losing confidence in the quality of education in the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), which is troubled by declining academic performance and enrollment, district officials are looking into tutoring as a potential solution for learning loss during the pandemic. The recent poll conducted by Great Public Schools Now, a nonprofit…


Price Gauge Used by the Fed Shows Inflation Increase of 6.4 Percent, the Highest in 40 Years

The Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE) price index, which is the primary inflation gauge used by the Federal Reserve, increased 5.4 percent from a year ago, the largest increase since April 1983, excluding volatile food and energy prices. The PCE index, when including gas and groceries prices, jumped 6.4 percent, the fastest pace since January 1982. On…


Fatal Distraction as Drivers Prioritise Phones over Safety

A South Australian Police (SAPOL) operation has found that twice as many drivers were caught using their mobile phones last week as compared to a week in January. Operation Fatal Distraction, conducted statewide from March 21 to 27, focused on motorists committing distraction-based offences related to mobile phone use. During the seven day period, 257…


Australia: The Unlucky Country?

Commentary In 1964, Donald Horne published his iconic book “The Lucky Country.” Horne controversially wrote that “Australia is a lucky country run mainly by second rate people who share its luck. It lives on other people’s ideas, and, although its ordinary people are adaptable, most of its leaders (in all fields) so lack curiosity about…


Civilian Army Leader Led Child Porn Ring, Risked US Security

SIERRA VISTA, Ariz.—David Frodsham was a top civilian commander at a U.S. air base in Afghanistan when he “jokingly” asked an IT technician for access to YouPorn, the video-sharing pornographic website. During his time in the war zone, Frodsham told one woman that he hired her because he “wanted to be surrounded by pretty women,”…


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