WE: Immigration in Springfield Ohio
This article is like the rest of the news reports that are presented if “Haitian immigrants Springfield Ohio” is Googled. All the articles emphasize that Haitians are not eating cats and dogs, or killing geese and ducks. The residents are being pressured into making enthusiastic statements about the Haitian immigrants or get accused of being a racist.
Nobody asks about life in Springfield.
College Fix: Ohio State’s new intellectual diversity director
Legal scholar Lee Strang is now at Ohio State University to lead the Salmon P. Chase Center for Civics, Culture and Society. It is one of five new “intellectual diversity” centers at public Ohio universities that are in the works. They will work to promote “civic thought and leadership,” according to Strang, a former University of Toledo professor.
Intellectual diversity is important to get all sides of an issue. This sounds like a good move, but we’ll see what this center actually accomplishes.
It’s been five days since the Appalagee High School shooting, and the details are starting to come out. A few items are notable.
Bri Jones, 14, was in second period Wednesday when Colt Gray left the classroom, Jones said. “We didn’t notice he left,” Jones said, adding that he was “always quiet.” But Gray came back and knocked on the door, Jones said. Bri said she peeked out the door before she opened it because that’s what her mom taught her to do. “As I was looking at the door, he was pulling his gun out, and then I froze up, like I froze up and I said ‘no’ to myself,” she said. The teacher asked for the door to be opened, Bri said, “because she didn’t know he had a gun because she was at her desk.” As she went to open the door, “I was like, ‘No, he has a gun,’” Jones said.
Everyone in that classroom owes their lives to Bri Jones. Generally, 14 year-olds are awfully dumb. Bri should get a statue or t-shirt or something.
RCS: Germany’s Disastrous Switch Away From Nuclear
It’s interesting to watch a country intentionally destroy itself. Germany presents itself as a technically-minded country with high-quality manufacturing, not a country that makes uninformed and impetuous decisions.
That didn’t take long. Cheatle should have resigned the day before the hearing, rather than the day after.
I’m watching a portion of the Congressional hearings on the Secret Service and the Trump assassination attempt.
If the Secret Service Director, Kimberly Cheatle, was ever going to resign, I bet she wished she had resigned yesterday. Every congressman is ripping into her. For the most part, it isn’t possible to distinguish between a Democratic or Republican congressman. They are all personally pissed off that people died and a presidential candidate was shot. They all ask for her resignation. It’s gratifying to see.
Surprisingly, Ocasio-Cortez did a good job. She isn’t a quick thinker or smooth talker, but she was informed, had good questions and was impressively indignant. A couple of congressmen tried to make some unrelated political points, but it was a soft-sell. Several congressmen are grandstanding by demonstrating their personal knowledge, but that makes the hearings less repetitive.
Most congressmen imply that 20 year-olds are insipid morons and that makes the Secret Service look even worse. Cheatle isn’t answering many questions, fewer questions than in the ABC interview, and that makes her look terrible.
Cheatle should have resigned, she doesn’t have a friend on the Hill. She won’t remain in that position.
Peggy Noonan was a speech writer for Ronald Reagan, and then was an insightful commentator until she got Trump Derangement Syndrome. After the 2024 RNC Convention, she can’t quite come around.
Scott Adams is the creator of the Dilbert comic strip and the first person of notoriety to predict that Trump would win the 2016 presidential election. This was very early on, when there were 16 people in the Republican primary. Adams was careful not to endorse Trump, he just recognized that Trump had a gift for persuasion.
NBC News: Secret Service is appalled.
Anthony Guglielmi, the Secret Service’s chief of communication, said in the statement: “We stand united against any attempt to discredit our personnel and their invaluable contributions to our mission and are appalled by the disparaging and disgusting comments against any of our personnel.”
The Secret Service doesn’t get to be appalled after their appalling inability to keep Trump safe.
ABC News: Secret Service Director Interview
This post won’t be relevant for long, but Trump was shot 3 days ago and this is the first interview of the Director of the Secret Service. Even in her own words, Kimberly Cheatle sound unfit for duty.
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