South Carolina death row inmate chooses to be executed by firing squad over the electric chair – CNN When facing certain death, what would you choose to have massive amounts of electricity run through your body with potentially prolonged agony and pain or quickly die (in theory) in a blaze of bullets? One South Carolina death row inmate has chosen the latter. Richard Barnard Moore, who murdered a convenience store clerk in 1999, is scheduled …
Elon Musk Offers to Buy Twitter: Live News, Updates, and Reaction – The New York Times Recently, Elon Musk was critical of the Biden Administration on many levels. A random Twitter user commented, “You have the resources to do something about this, unlike the rest of us” Elon Musk responded, “Interesting.” Now we find ourselves three months down the road, and Elon is attempting a straight buyout and complete control of Twitter. Twitter could have …
First Texas bus drops off migrants blocks from US Capitol in Washington, DC – Fox News. Governor Abbot of Texas came up with a new solution to the millions of migrants Joe Biden invited to walk across the border. Round them up and bus them out straight to Washington D.C., where they will be unloaded and set free to free range on the streets of the U.S. Capitol. His move is a pure gesture as …
Masks Stay On: C.D.C. Keeps the Mandate on Planes – The New York Times The CDC is extending the federal transportation mask mandate through May 3 due to rising numbers of COVID-19 cases. Of course, the best way to handle an increasing problem is to do more of the exact same thing you were doing before the problem was increasing? This strategy is not working, so maybe they should consider banning humans who breathe through …
Suspect in Brooklyn subway train shooting called in the tip that led to his arrest, sources say – CNN Frank James was arrested without incident after calling crime stoppers on himself. James is the suspected shooter of the Brooklyn Subway shooting of 10 people after deployment of various smoke grenades to cause general panic, chaos, and distraction before opening fire with 3 Glock 9mm magazines of ammunition into the crowd. The motive for the shooting …
(ConservativeStar.com) – There are a lot of moving parts when it comes to an expert trying to predict where the economy of the United States is heading in the future. Many factors play a role in the direction the economy goes, including Federal Reserve Bank’s interest rate, inflation, rushes for Ukraine, the pandemic stretching into its third year, and the amount of cash banks have available. Experts are now predicting bank deposits might decrease for …
(ConservativeStar.com) – It was July 21, 1969, when Neil Armstrong became the first person to set foot on the moon. It wasn’t until 1986, when the Soviet Union launched the first habitation module for its space station, Mir, that it had a permanent presence in orbit. When NASA flew its last space shuttle mission in 2011, the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) took the lead in launching people into space. From then on, the US …
(ConservativeStar.com) – The Democratic People’s Republic of (North) Korea (DPRK) was founded in 1948 with Kim Il-sung, who had been a member of the Chinese Communist Party since 1931, as its first “Great Leader.” After his death in 1994, his son, Kim Jong-Il took over the reins of power until his passing in 2011. Now we are left with his son Kim Jong-Un who hopes to turn his country into a major player on a …
(ConservativeStar.com) – When the first cell phones came on the market, they were essentially nothing more than the landline that most everyone had plugged into their wall. The only real difference was that one could now make or take voice-only calls wherever they happened to be, as long as they were in areas with coverage. That’s no longer true. In fact, people are connected to their phones all the time, but many people want to …
(ConservativeStar.com) – Since Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered his forces across the border into Ukraine, the attention of the world has centered on that conflict. There is always “collateral damage” during war — a euphemism for dead civilians — however, in this fight, Western government officials and media sources are accusing him of intentionally targeting non-combatants. Taking Aim at Civilians On March 9, the Ukrainian government accused Russian forces of intentionally destroying a maternity hospital …