NPR: Crime in the U.S. fell in 2025. Will the trend continue?
Murders are down 20% from last year, and NPR can’t figure out why. All crimes are down, and it may not be too hard to figure out.
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Thomas Edison’s first wife, Mary Stilwell, died of “congestion of the brain”. That’s a phrase that shouldn’t have gone out of style.
Hardy Scandinavian immigrants were the right people to survive the harsh winters of Minnesota. They built a high-trust society that was safe, productive and thriving.
It’s hard to imagine what guilt or shame compelled people in the Minnesota government to settle refugees from the most incompatible countries in the world. A White savior complex or desire to virtue signal is toxic.
This sounds so much like The Hunger Games, I can’t wait to see how this works out.
How does the corporate media manage to make the Epstein story so boring?
Epstein was a guy who came up out of nowhere, amassed a fortune, was the friend of everyone important, had a party island designed for black mail and ‘committed suicide’ while the highest profile person in custody. Epstein didn’t kill himself, but everyone in power says that he did.
NYT: Biden Has Raised Little of What He Needs to Build a Presidential Library
Obama’s Presidential Center has a brutalist style that belongs in Mega City from the Dredd movie. Probably good for Chicago. The building will include a vegetable garden, a branch of the city library, and a basketball gym. That sounds nice. The top floor should have a penthouse lair.
Biden isn’t doing as well.
“The Biden staff, they ruined any type of good library for him,” Mr. Morgan said. “He’ll be lucky to have a bookmobile.”
Clinton’s library looks great, but there is money to go bigger.
As a point of contrast, Mr. Morgan said he had dinner with former President Bill Clinton last week to discuss a possible donation to his library for an expansion.
NYT: How Biden Ignored Warnings and Lost Americans’ Faith in Immigration
NYT admits how thoroughly Biden failed at immigration enforcement.
First, they underestimated the scale of migration that was coming. Second, they failed to appreciate the political reaction to that migration — believing that stronger enforcement would alienate Latino and progressive voters, and also that a border surge would not be an important issue to most voters.
NPR: FBI arrests suspect in investigation into pipe bombs planted near DNC, RNC before Jan. 6 attack
The FBI has spent years searching for the person who put bombs near the Democratic and Republican committee headquarters, hours before the assault on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
That probably isn’t true.
NYT: Rwanda and Congo Sign U.S.-Brokered Peace Treaty
Bongo, bongo, bongo, I don’t want to leave the Congo, oh no, no no no.
CBS News: Trump administration moves to roll back fuel economy standards set under Biden
If finalized, the plan would relax fuel economy standards by setting the industry average for light-duty vehicles at roughly 34.5 miles per gallon through the 2031 model year, lower than the 50 miles per gallon outlined by a Biden-era rule.
For fifty years, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) set fuel economy standards that car companies had to meet. It was a type of magical thinking. The NHTSA would issue a new fuel economy standard, and like Captain Picard on Star Trek, say, “Make it so.”
The NHTSA didn’t have to worry about physics, they just had to wish for it. The engineering teams had to figure out how to pull another rabbit out of the same old hat. The rabbits were getting smaller and harder to find.