I RECENTLY BOUGHT THE SIG WITH THE ROMEO RED-DOT SIGHT ALREADY MOUNTED: How to Choose the Right Handgun Red Dot Mounting System.
Thanks to a battery failure, I wound up shooting it with the iron sights yesterday. Conclusion: Accuracy is just as good with iron sights, but target acquisition — really reacquisition after the first shot — is significantly faster with the red dot. Also you can keep both eyes open with the red dot, which probably improves situational awareness.
BE KIND, REWIND: Murder rate jumps back to 1990s levels, data show.
“We’ve never seen an increase like that. Previously the biggest one-year increase in murder was a 12.5% increase in the 1960s,” statistician and crime analyst Jeff Asher told the Washington Examiner. “We’re really talking about unprecedented increases in murder.”
Asher concluded, using the FBI data, that the murder rate for 2020 sat at roughly 6.22 per 100,000 people. Not since 1998 has the country seen a murder rate that high.
In 2019, the murder rate was an even 5 per 100,000 people, a slight dip from 5.1 in 2018.
Gosh, what changed in 2020?
AT PJ MEDIA: ‘Build Your Own Platform,’ They Said. So Helen Smith Did – Meet Helens-page.com.
15 DAYS TO SLOW THE CURVE: Trump says he wants the country “raring to go by Easter,” later says it will be based on “hard data.”
—CBS News, one year ago today.
A NOVEL APPROACH: With Drones and Other Autonomous Vehicles, Safety Must Come First.
COME AND GET IT: Texas, Georgia to open vaccinations to all adults within the next week. “Remember that Biden set a deadline of May 1 for states to open eligibility to the general population. I wonder if there’ll be a single state that hasn’t already done that by the end of the first week of April, say.”
SPOILER: DEMS WILL PROVIDE ONE REGARDLESS. Support for Illegal Immigrants Receiving a Pathway to Citizenship Craters Among Democrats.
SHOCKING NEWS FROM THE WORLD OF SCIENCE: Exercise boosts blood flow to the brain, study finds.
CLEANING THE MORTAR TUBE: Paratroopers clean a 60mm mortar during a live-fire exercise at Grafenwoehr Training Area, Germany, Jan. 11, 2021.
CHINA’S ALASKA AMBUSH OF THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION: The context.
The theatrics occurred at last week’s high-level U.S.-China talks. The talks — “face-losing debacle” describes the U.S. experience — took place on U.S. soil, in Anchorage, Alaska. So dub it the Alaska Ambush, a Chinese diplomatic and information warfare cocktail.
Ambush — isn’t that a tactic? A high-ranking Chinese Communist Party foreign policy official surprising a U.S. secretary of state indicates China seeks strategic advantages from the bashfest.
Check it out.
NOT NEARLY AS MUCH AS THEY SHOULD BE: World Finally Tired Of China’s BS? “Stronger medicine is required to deter China from its many criminal enterprises, and no one in the international community seems to know what might actually deter them.”
Trump knew.
THAT’S NICE, BUT I WON’T REALLY BE IMPRESSED UNTIL THEY HAVE A LUNAR HELICOPTER: Mars helicopter Ingenuity could usher in new era of exploration. Now that would be something.
VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR DAILY INSANITY WRAP: Communist China Has a Friend in the Oval Office.
Insanity Wrap needs to know: Suppose they threw a second Cold War but only one side came?
Answer: You don’t have to suppose a thing.
Before we get to the sordid details, a quick preview of today’s Wrap.
- Colorado is about to go all-in on socialized medicine
- CNN can’t figure out how to quit Trump
- Where are you on the Progressive Victimhood Pecking Order? Nobody knows!
Bonus Sanity: Bill Whittle is learning how to cope with the madness.
And so much more at the link, you’d have to be crazy to miss it.
SO WE MAY NOT NEED TO VACCINATE EVERYBODY: Pfizer begins testing oral antiviral drug in U.S. to treat COVID-19.
WELL, YES:
The funny thing is, I’ll bet Elon Musk could tread on her turf — write a bestselling book about spirituality — much more easily than she could tread on his. It’s almost like what he does is rocket science . . . and what she does, well, isn’t.
NOBODY NEEDS 25,000 SOLDIERS TO PROTECT THEM: From a friend: “Don’t let people who surround themselves with barbed wire and armed soldiers tell you that you can’t own any kind of firearm you choose in order to protect yourself, your home, and your family.”
IT’S GOOD TO BE THE NOMENKLATURA: Jen Psaki’s Sister Gets Cushy Government Job Despite Biden’s “No Family Members” Pledge.
PROGRESS: 11.1% of families are homeschooling.
About 3.3 percent of U.S. families with school-aged children were homeschooling pre-pandemic. That rose to 5.4 percent in the first week of April. By the first week of October, 11.1 percent were homeschooling.
For Black families, the change was even more dramatic: 16.1 percent of Black families were homeschooling their children in the fall; the rate for Hispanics was 12.1 percent.
Public schools could do with 11.1-16.1% less money.
NEWS YOU CAN USE: The Gun Control Debate, Explained With Dogs.
DISPATCHES FROM THE PARTY OF MULTICULTURALISM AND TOLERANCE FOR DIVERSITY. ‘White liberals are a scourge:’ New Austin residents are apparently turning to police to tackle the ‘toxic display of masculinity’ that is black and Latino car clubs.
Meanwhile, other Austin Democrats are returning to their “separate but equal” roots: Austin City Officials Planning to Build Segregated ‘Black Embassy.’ “While Democrat city officials in Texas’ capital city are claiming to move past racist policies like segregation, they are creating a separate city services facility for citizens with brown or black skin color.”
TO BE FAIR, HE HAS TO PROVIDE SOME SMALL AMOUNT OF COVER FOR THE LEFT’S ANTI-ASIAN RACISM IN COLLEGE ADMISSIONS: To No One’s Surprise, Biden Caves to Asian Lobby.
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