Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
How to destroy an American family The Straters’ lives have been devastated by relentless cyberattacks. And there’s nothing they can do about it. By Aaron Sankin and William Turton “Mom is dead, and they did it.” An emergency dispatcher hears this message just before 4am on a Thursday morning. It’s been rendered anonymous by a…
Here’s an interesting factoid about contemporary policing: In 2014, for the first time ever, law enforcement officers took more property from American citizens than burglars did. Martin Armstrong pointed this out at his blog, Armstrong Economics, last week. Officers can take cash and property from people without convicting or even charging them with a crime —…
Photo Donald J. Trump on Saturday in Birmingham, Ala., where he said he had seen thousands cheering in New Jersey when the World Trade Center fell on Sept. 11, 2001. Credit Eric Schultz/Associated Press How alarmed were New Jersey officials by reports of Muslims dancing in the streets of Jersey City and Paterson on Sept….
At a campaign event in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, on Tuesday, Donald Trump, who has spent the past week advocating for a mandatory database of Muslim Americans, ushered his rabid supporters towards that old Tea Party favorite: President Barack Obama is a secret Muslim. “There’s some nastiness, there’s some meanness there. There’s something going on…
Update: Yes, I know there’s a cat in the picture; I took it from Slate, “The Cats of War.” I’ve used that image before, to lighten things up slightly. Apparently I didn’t succeed. Conventional wisdom on the politics of terror seems to be faring just as badly as conventional wisdom on the politics of everything….
Great news! Nobody was murdered when a big crowd of Black Lives Matter protesters got shot at by three white guys in Minneapolis last night. Five people were injured, with one having surgery on his stomach overnight, but nobody died. And that’s it for good news, all, because this story is rage. First up: Above…
A hundred years ago, if you were a pedestrian, crossing the street was simple: You walked across it. Today, if there’s traffic in the area and you want to follow the law, you need to find a crosswalk. And if there’s a traffic light, you need to wait for it to change to green. IN…
Five people were shot at a Black Lives Matter protest in Minneapolis late Monday night. The Associated Press spoke with Minneapolis police who confirmed the shootings. Police spokesman John Elder told AP all five have injuries that are not life-threatening. The local newspaper The Star Tribune reported that the five people shot were protesters. Black…
In 2001, two unlikely friends created a music festival in Mali that drew the likes of Bono and Robert Plant. Then radical Islam tore them apart. When Mohamed Aly Ansar studied international law at the University of Bamako, in the capital of Mali, he spent his days thinking about how to bring development to his…
Only NBC10’s Randy Gyllenhaal spoke with two Philadelphia men who were delayed from boarding a flight home from Chicago after they say another passenger complained about them speaking Arabic. (Published Friday, Nov. 20, 2015) A Philadelphia pizza shop owner and his friend had to call 911 in Chicago’s Midway airport Wednesday night in order to…