Popular Mechanics,
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J. A. Maxtone Graham
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You sit in London Airport at one o'clock and eat a leisurely lunch of roast English beef and Yorkshire pudding; soon, your flight is called. You enter a long, pencil-slim fuselage. You buckle your seat belt. After 15 minutes-and 140 miles-of flight, you pass through the sound barrier, although you hear nothing. And, since the engine noise never catches up with you, you cruise silently 12 miles above the Atlantic; each second, you travel nearly half a mile.
The globe is barely visible; the whole sky is a deep but delicate purple, a Concorde sky. Before long, you are landing in New York;
InsideHook,
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Brad Thomas Parsons
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Without fail, Wisconsin remains one of the drunkest places in America. The beer-and-brandy soaked state consistently leads or places among the top contenders in America’s Drunkest States round-ups, and this past January, the Badger State clocked in with 12 of the top 20 entries of the Nation’s Drunkest Cities as compiled by 24/7 Wall Street. Overconsumption of alcohol is a serious matter and can be problematic on many fronts, and most states might try to quickly bury such headlines from the daily news cycle, but Wisconsinites wear this black eye like a badge of honor after a bar fight.
“Drinking is part of the state identity.
New York Sun,
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Editorial
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Well, son of a bitch. It turns out that there was plenty of concern within the Obama-Biden administration in respect of the dealings of the Vice President’s son, Hunter, in Ukraine. Not to mention the younger Biden’s dealings with Communist Chinese nationals. The tale is outlined in the new report released today by the Senate Homeland Security Committee and Finance Committee, chaired by Ron Johnson of Wisconsin and Charles Grassley of Iowa.
Forgive our French, but we use the ripe language above to circle back to our editorial “‘Well, Son of a Bitch’: Ukraine Scandal Is About Biden.” We issued that editorial a year ago, as House Democrats were getting themselves
Texas Monthly,
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Christian Wallace
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It may not look like it to the casual observer, but bull riding is a sort of dance. A good ride appears as one fluid motion of a rider in sync with a bucking ton of hoof, hide, and horn. It’s a lightning-fast choreography that’s as dangerous as it is beautiful. The basics of the sport are simple: hang on with one hand, keep the other hand free, and try to stay on for eight seconds. But actually doing all three, well, that ain’t so easy. Professional bull riders have to train both their bodies and minds to excel at this injury-prone sport.
Fox 4-KDFW,
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Lynnanne Nguyen
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FORT WORTH, Texas - A former Whataburger employee is filing a discrimination complaint against the fast food company after she says she was told her Black Lives Matter mask was inappropriate for work.
The employee says she’d worn the mask to work before, but she says it didn’t become a problem until a customer complained and threatened to notify corporate.
Makiya Congious says she was told her BLM mask was inappropriate for work after a customer complained at the Whataburger on Brentwood Stair Road in Fort Worth in August.
The Hill [DC],
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Aaron Dinin
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During a recent trip to southern Georgia to visit family, my wife described the area as “Trump Country.” Her observation was spurred by the numerous Trump billboards and intersections overflowing with Trump lawn signs.
The sheer volume of signs surprised me. While I’m certainly not a political junkie, I know enough about regional demographics to assume the southern part of Georgia leans Republican. So why would Donald Trump spend money on billboards in a part of the country that was already solidly his? Why did intersections look like flower beds full of re-electing Donald Trump signs? After all, those suckers are $20 a pop.
American Mind,
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Heather MacDonald
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The Black Lives Matter movement trades on Americans’ ignorance about the demographics of criminal offending. As long as that ignorance prevails, BLM’s anti-cop narrative will continue destroying the institutions of law and order. Activists and their media enablers present racial disparities in police activity—be it stops, arrests, or officer use of force—as prima facie evidence of police bias. They generate those racial disparities by comparing policing data to population ratios. In New York City, for example, a little over 50% of all pedestrian stops conducted by the New York Police Department have a black subject.
Inside Hook,
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Elyssa Goodman
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Reaching for a plump carrot, a tiny white-gloved hand on a slim grey arm extends from a hole in the ground, and shortly after, a star is born.
This was how Bugs Bunny made his screen debut in the animated short “A Wild Hare” on July 27, 1940. It was then that his first and now-immortal phrase, “What’s up, doc?” passed through his buckteeth and entered American iconography forever. Bugs has been capturing the imaginations of generations pretty much since that moment. He became, and remains, an instant classic. But what makes our love for the “wascally wabbit” such an enduring one?
Chicago Tribune,
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John Kass
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Grown-ups tell the truth. No. You will always be loved. No. If you work hard, you’ll get what you want? No. All boys grow up and grow old? No. I learned that one early.
But for me, and many others growing up in and around Chicago, there was one thing that was true. It was Gale Sayers saying these nine words: “Give me 18 inches of daylight. That’s all I need.”
It wasn’t true for us. It didn’t have to be. But it was true for him.
Real Clear Energy,
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David W. Kreutzer
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9/23/2020 9:35:46 AM
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Hot weather can raise you body temperature. One study found that the temperature of its participants rose by nearly a degree F above the normal temperature when the air temperature was 95 degrees F. Though the impact on core temperatures is very likely to be much less, it still would be evidence supporting the theory that hot weather adds to a fever.
Should this change the recommended therapy for a bacterial infection? That is, when presented with a patient suffering an infection should a physician recommend a climate policy as the cure? Of course not. First, none of the proposed climate policies would have any measurable impact on climate
Star-Telegram [Fort Worth, TX],
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Nichole Manna
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The house that Glen McCurley lived in for 30 years was empty on Tuesday morning. A single green chair sat in the manicured lawn, the recycling was on the curb and a tan van that practically matched the tan siding of the home sat parked in the driveway. No one answered when the doorbell rang.
Earlier Tuesday morning, a woman answered the phone associated with the house on Marks Place in southwest Fort Worth.
“I have no comment at this time,” she said in a low calm voice.
Neighbors said they later saw family gathering at the home and leaving with McCurley’s wife and some belongings.
Popular Mechanics,
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Vince Guerrieri
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Sid King had just sat down to dinner on September 18, 1980 when he got the call.
King was part owner of KGFL-AM in Clinton, Arkansas. He started the radio station after his previous employer, Dogpatch, a Li'l Abner theme park, went belly-up. At a station that small, King couldn’t afford to specialize. He was also the station manager and news reporter.
The station called King while he was eating at sales representative Tom Phillips’s home. They’d heard on the scanner there was something going on at Missile Complex 374-7, the Titan II Missile installation in nearby Damascus. Possibly a fuel leak.
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I hope no one runs into a paywall. This piece is just pure-dee fun. There's a short video. Watch youngsters learn to ride a bull. "Don't worry about your hat!!" "Remember, it's bull ridin', not bull sittin' "