Pittsburgh police are investigating after a man was robbed at gunpoint overnight in Pittsburgh’s Shadyside neighborhood.
Pittsburgh Public Safety officials say officers responded to the 300 block of Morewood Ave. around 12:45 a.m. for reports of an armed robbery.
The victim was pistol-whipped.
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"My colleague’s mother threw their pet cat off their balcony in Beijing when the red guards were at their door. Pets were bourgeoisie. My colleague said she never forgave her mom."--from a comment on an article on China's "revolution."
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The Global Warming child is pro-Hamas. Will that change peoples' minds? Should it?
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The Frizzon of the Luddite
Bidenomics is fast becoming a study in the contortions of industrial policy. Consider the Commerce Department’s decision late last week to slap tariffs on solar imports from Southeast Asia, raising the costs of U.S. solar-energy projects that the White House says are the vital future of U.S. energy.
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The solar follies reveal the contradictions of the Biden Administration’s industrial policy. Its labor, climate and anti-China agendas conflict in their combination of subsidies, mandates, bans and taxes. Subsidies lead to tariffs, which lead to more subsidies as government becomes the allocator of capital and decides which companies win or lose. The biggest losers, as usual, will be American taxpayers.--wsj
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There are a lot of problems here, the most obvious is the conflict of titanic competing philosophies. Some in the government have decided that modernity is a danger to the world. This is not a new idea; it has been with us forever. Luddites. Rosseau. Marx. There have always been some who believed that our humanity was inversely related to the development of material success. This is heartfelt--and often championed by profound thinkers. So, frequently morons are warmed by greatness. Think Maxine Watters on the same dais as William Blake.
The real problem arises after this very subjective assumption: the solution is modernization.
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The Frizzon of the Luddite
Bidenomics is fast becoming a study in the contortions of industrial policy. Consider the Commerce Department’s decision late last week to slap tariffs on solar imports from Southeast Asia, raising the costs of U.S. solar-energy projects that the White House says are the vital future of U.S. energy.
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The solar follies reveal the contradictions of the Biden Administration’s industrial policy. Its labor, climate and anti-China agendas conflict in their combination of subsidies, mandates, bans and taxes. Subsidies lead to tariffs, which lead to more subsidies as government becomes the allocator of capital and decides which companies win or lose. The biggest losers, as usual, will be American taxpayers.--wsj
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There are a lot of problems here, the most obvious is the conflict of titanic competing philosophies. Some in the government have decided that modernity is a danger to the world. This is not a new idea; it has been with us forever. Luddites. Rosseau. Marx. There have always been some who believed that our humanity was inversely related to the development of material success. This is heartfelt--and often championed by profound thinkers. So, frequently morons are warmed by greatness. Think Maxine Watters on the same dais as William Blake.
The real problem arises after this very subjective assumption: the solution is modernization.
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