Teresa Mull reports at Gunpowder Magazine that 8 mass shooting suspects were stopped by American citizens in 2016 and 2017. She writes: “The FBI has designated 50 shootings in 2016 and 2017 as active shooter incidents. Twenty incidents occurred in 2016, while 30 incidents occurred in 2017,” the report says. Of the 50 mass shootings (defined as “three or more killings in a single incident”) that happened in 21 states, 14 incidents ended with the exchange of gunfire between the shooters and law enforcement, 13 shooters committed suicide, 11 shooters were killed by police, 18 shooters were … [Read more...]
Behind the Drums: Hal Blaine Playing Paul Simon’s: The Boxer
You know the artists who have the power to take you back in time by name. Paul Simon is certainly one of them. How did his songs come to life? “Some of the best sections of this book go behind the scenes at key recording sessions. Mr. Hilburn describes how percussionist Hal Blaine got that amazing drum sound on ‘The Boxer’—it sounds like a cannon firing!—by using the resonance of an empty elevator shaft,” writes Ted Gioia at the WSJ in his review of the Paul Simon biography, Paul Simon: The Life, by Robert Hilburn. … [Read more...]
Happy Mother’s Day
One of the more important gifts a mother can give to her children is educating them about money. Growing up, my mother was always talking to my sister and me about money. Just the other day she asked: “E.J. what’s going on with GNMA?” As a sixth-grade teacher my mom made investing fun for her students. Every year she would hold an investing contest. The students would pick their stocks and then, through the course of the school year, excitedly comb through The Wall Street Journal for quotes, pumping their fists and letting out a “YES!” for the winners or pressing their ink-stained finger … [Read more...]
A Code to Help Your Survival
Originally posted October 10, 2017. Over the weekend we were at our log cabin in New Hampshire. An article on the front page of the local paper, The Conway Daily Sun, caught my interest. It was about hiking safely in the White Mountains. According to the New Hampshire Fish and Game Department, hiker rescues were at above average levels this summer but tapered off after a busy start. One of the reasons for the reduction in rescues of late, might have something to do with the New Hampshire’s hikeSafe program. The program, which puts stewards at five trail heads, provides a Hiker … [Read more...]
How Many Times Can SpaceX Reuse a Rocket?
A new very of SpaceX's Falcon rocket, the 9 Block 5 is "designed to be capable of 10 or more flights with very limited refurbishment." The company is striving for "rapid reusability and extremely high reliability." Improvements in efficiency for rockets are paramount to making any commercial rocket program a success. In the past rockets were taxpayer funded, and therefore little attention was paid to the profitability of their operation. But with SpaceX and Blue Origin vying with traditional rocket builders like Boeing to become American alternatives to Russian launch operations, every … [Read more...]
The Mormons Cut Ties with the Boy Scouts
With an ever increasing focus on political correctness as opposed to scouting, the Boy Scouts of America organization has pushed away one of its strongest allies, the Mormon church. Brady McCombs of the Associated Press reports: For more than a century, the Boy Scouts of America and the Mormon church formed an ideal pair as they helped each other expand their organizations and build their brands while molding countless young men through bow knots, pinewood derby races and campouts. But as the calendar flipped to the 21st Century, the longtime partners originally drawn to each other by … [Read more...]
Le Bristol Paris
Visit the website of Le Bristol Paris here. … [Read more...]
Is Neil Gorsuch to Blame for the Supreme Court’s Slow Pace?
Ilya Shapiro, The Cato Institute's senior fellow in constitutional studies, writes that the court's slow pace in decisions this Spring has less to do with its newest appointed justice, Neil Gorsuch, and more to do with the full slate of complicated decisions sitting before the court. Despite that, Shapiro says the decisions handed down thus far have shed some light on what type of justice Gorusch will be, and how he differs from others on the bench. Shapiro writes: The Supreme Court is on a record slow pace for deciding cases this term, leading to speculation that the justices are having a … [Read more...]
Forbes: Powell’s Fed Still Believes in Funny Money
In an editorial appearing in his eponymous magazine, Steve Forbes writes that the Federal Reserve's new chairman, Jerome Powell will continue the same bad policies that have done so much harm to the American economy. Forbes lists a number of these misguided approaches, but the first is the belief in what he calls "funny money." He writes: THE FEDERAL RESERVE'S new chairman, Jerome Powell, recently presided over his first meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee, which sets central bank policy, most particularly the level of interest rates. Powell looks to continue the same destructive … [Read more...]
Crepes at Breizh Café Paris
Located in Le Marais at 109 Rue Vieille du Temple. Bon appetit! … [Read more...]
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