Column: A well-founded pessimism about our future
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Years ago I had a fishing buddy who was also a history professor. We usually cast our flies from opposite ends of a large aluminum scow; and when fishing was slow, we just trolled around the pond and talked. I learned more during those sessions about the details of building the Panama Canal than I ever gleaned from David McCullough’s excellent book
The Path Between the Seas, and more about the United States’ bullying of Peru over about $40 million worth of bird guano, than the average citizen needs to know.
Correction on South Carolina Open Carry; Confusion of Bill 3094 vs Bill 3096 Ammoland Inc. Posted on
South Carolina is inching closer to allowing open carry for CWP holders. IMG NRA-ILA
U.S.A. –-(AmmoLand.com)- In an article published on 13 May, at AmmoLand, there was a mistake made about the Second Amendment sanctuary provision of H3094. Both bills, H3094 and H3096, were available on the South Carolina website. Both had Second Amendment sanctuary provisions. The author had both bills open on his computer. Here is the H3094 (open carry with training) provision:
SECTION 9. A. Article 4, Chapter 31, Title 23 of the 1976 Code is amended by adding:
Republican leaders in the United States Congress are opposing a proposed bipartisan commission to investigate the January 6 Capitol riot by supporters of former President Donald Trump.
“After careful consideration, I’ve made the decision to oppose the House Democrats’ slanted and unbalanced proposal for another commission to study the events of January the sixth,” Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said on Wednesday.
Despite growing Republican opposition, the US House of Representatives voted 252-175 on Wednesday to establish a commission modelled on the one that investigated the al-Qaeda attack of September 11, 2001.
The bill would establish a 10-member bipartisan commission to investigate the causes of the Capitol riot, the security and intelligence failures that led to the breach as well as influencing factors including Trump’s role. The panel would be directed to release a final report by December 31.
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In a new video, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) claims that McDonald’s Corporation withheld information about its plan to raise wages to $15 an hour, even though it didn’t – and she demands that the company do something that it has no power to do.
On Wednesday, Ocasio-Cortez shared a video in which she claims that McDonald’s “didn’t say” the wage hike “was only for their corporate locations, which only covers about five percent” of McDonald’s stores:
“McDonald’s recently announced that they were going to be raising their minimum wage, quote-unquote, to $15 an hour.
“But, what they didn’t say is that it was only for their corporate locations, which only covers about five percent – five percent – of all of the McDonald’s across this country. Ninety-five percent of the McDonald’s locations are franchises.