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Man who beat woman into coma with fire extinguisher in Dallas parking garage pleads guilty David Cadena’s attack sent his victim to the hospital in a coma, and he now faces up to 25 years in federal prison for the crime. Prosecutors say it’s the second time he violently assaulted someone with a deadly weapon. A hotel employee walking to her car in September 2019 was attacked by a man who beat her in the head with a fire extinguisher. David Cadena has pleaded guilty in federal court to the violent carjacking.(Staff Photographer / Irwin Thompson) The last thing Jonna King remembers was hav...

Apr 9, 2021 Robert Scott Beard was born on August 24, 1964, and passed away on March 28, 2021. Dr. Beard was the Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs at Shepherd University and was a nationally recognized pianist, teacher, clinician, author and recording artist. Before becoming Provost at Shepherd, he served the university in several positions, including Professor of Piano, Coordinator of Keyboard Studies, Dean of Graduate Studies and Associate Provost. Scott, as he was known, was born in Richmond, Virginia to Charles Beard and Carolyn Elizabeth (Toler) Beard, and raised in...

When I think of Cornell Professor Walter Lafeber these days I also think of legendary basketball player Michael Jordan. It’s not that Lafeber was a global icon (although he should be) or that he had superhuman leaping abilities (although Lafeber was a star basketball player in high school in Indiana in the 1950s). It’s because to watch Lafeber perform his craft — university teaching and scholarship — left you in awe of his talent. His lecturing skills were leaps and bounds above his mere mortal colleagues on the Cornell faculty. His soaring oratory mesmerized students and ...

By Gordon Duff and New Eastern Outlook of the Russian Academy of Science (EST. 1816) [ Editor’s Note: I added in this classic George Carlin video at the end of the article due to Ferdinand’s comment,  “All there in a 4 minute blurt of genius”. We always love to see readers adding in comments help take an article deeper First published on VT … March 05 2021 The world largely stopped trusting America under Trump, with some exceptions, certainly Israel and Saudi Arabia. Even with Trump gone, the fear of Trump returning is pushing nations like Iran into a negotiating stance on the JCPO...

American Pop Culture Feeds the War on Peace The U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds Demonstration Squadron flyover during the Super Bowl LIII Pregame at Mercedes-Benz Stadium on February 3, 2019, in Atlanta, Georgia. Kevin Mazur / WireImage . The old cliché about a fish not knowing it’s in water has survived for a reason. Our cultural currents can drive us toward normalizing or, worse, glorifying what we might otherwise find objectionable. This can take shape in blatant or subtle ways, but there can be no doubt that by underscoring certain narratives and opinion to the exclusion of others, culture...