Fatherhood—like American natural gas, computer chips, and baby formula—is in short supply today. Just ask Hunter Biden’s daughter Navy Joan Roberts.
But amid the worst crime wave America has seen since the 1990s, the Washington Free Beacon saw fathers risk everything to protect hearth and home.
Stripped to the waist and enjoying the fine summer weather, a Detroit dad was out for a June stroll to get some smokes with his seven-month-old when a gunman cornered them at a gas station. Unfortunately for the thug, it happened to be Father’s Day.
Our hero pivoted to shield his infant, knocked the gunman’s piece away like it was a toy, and chased off the assassin—a lit cigarette still dangling from his lip.
A father holding his 7-month-old baby fended off a man with a gun inside a gasoline station in Detroit on Sunday. Police now have a person of interest in custody. pic.twitter.com/72X0zKDDpo
He wasn’t the only dad who’d been around the block.
When burglars kicked in the front door of his California home in the middle of the night, 93-year-old Joe Howard Teague didn’t bat an eye.
“I approached them to put them under citizen’s arrest,” Teague told reporters of the attempted home raid last summer. “They wouldn’t adhere to that and then one of them came at me with a fishing pole.”
So the retired plumber raised the stakes with a tool of his own.
“I kept telling them, I have a shotgun with three shells in it, but I actually only had one. And they kept throwing stuff at me,” Teague said. “It was just like somebody comes to a gunfight with a pocketknife, you know.”
We do know, Joe. And considering liberals in La-La Land have all but neutered law enforcement, it’s not surprising you didn’t count on a prompt 911 response.
Like 2020 Free Beacon Man of the Year Kyle Rittenhouse, you refused to be just another victim. You exercised your God-given right to self-defense on one of those looters. You shot his ass. And the others fled.
For choosing to shoulder the full scope of American self-government on behalf of the next generation—and well into one’s ninth decade—Detroit dad and Joe Howard Teague aren’t just crime wave heroes. They’re Washington Free Beacon Men of the Year.
Dec 24, 2022; Cleveland, Ohio, USA; New Orleans Saints quarterback Andy Dalton (14) throws the ball against the Cleveland Browns during the first quarter at FirstEnergy Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Scott Galvin-USA TODAY Sports
(Reuters) – The National Football League (NFL) was hit by the cold that pummeled the United States on Saturday as fans bundled up to watch late-season showdowns in punishing conditions.
Cities from Pennsylvania to Georgia were expected to experience their coldest-ever Christmas Eve as an arctic blast gripped much the United States, roiling travel plans during the busy holiday season.
The Tennessee Titans postponed their home game against the Houston Texans for an hour to 2:02 p.m. CT (2002 GMT), citing “extreme weather and power outages” in the region.
“We are exploring every possibility to minimize non-essential power around the stadium,” the team said in a statement on Twitter. “At all times, the operation of the game remained secondary to the well-being of our community.”
The Cleveland Browns relaxed rules for fans, allowing them to bring additional items to the final home game of the regular season against the New Orleans Saints including thermoses, blankets and approved batteries for power-heated apparel.
It proved to be the Browns’ coldest regular-season home game since 1981, the team said on Saturday, with the temperature at a teeth-chattering 6 degrees Fahrenheit (-14.4°C) at kickoff.
For some, however, the numbing cold was little deterrent.
A handful of players for the Seattle Seahawks showed up shirt-less for warm-up exercises at Arrowhead Stadium, where temperatures hovered around 12 degrees Fahrenheit (-11.1°C) for their showdown against the Kansas City Chiefs.
For three-time Pro Bowl cornerback Marlon Humphrey, a balaclava ski mask and trousers were sufficient for warm-ups in sub-zero Baltimore, Maryland, where his Ravens are fighting to keep their post-season hopes on track against Atlanta Falcons.
PHOENIX — A judge has thrown out Republican Kari Lake’s challenge of her defeat in the Arizona governor’s race to Democrat Katie Hobbs, rejecting her claim that problems with ballot printers at some polling places on Election Day were the result of intentional misconduct.
In a decision Saturday, Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Peter Thompson, who was appointed by then-Republican Gov. Jan Brewer, found that the court did not find clear and convincing evidence of the widespread misconduct that Lake had alleged had affected the result of the 2022 general election.
Lake, who lost to Hobbs by just over 17,000 votes, was among the most vocal 2022 Republicans promoting former President Donald Trump’s election lies, which she made the centerpiece of her campaign. While most of the other election deniers around the country conceded after losing their races in November, Lake has not. Instead, she asked the judge to either declare her the winner or order a revote in Maricopa County.
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Lawyers for Lake focused on problems with ballot printers at some polling places in Maricopa County, home to more than 60% of Arizona’s voters. The defective printers produced ballots that were too light to be read by the on-site tabulators at polling places. Lines backed up in some areas amid the confusion.
County officials say everyone had a chance to vote and all ballots were counted, since ballots affected by the printers were taken to more sophisticated counters at the elections department headquarters. They are in the process of investigating the root cause of the printer problems.
Lake’s attorneys also claimed the chain of custody for ballots was broken at an off-site facility, where a contractor scans mail ballots to prepare them for processing. They claim workers at the facility put their own mail ballots into the pile, rather than sending their ballots through normal channels, and also that paperwork documenting the transfer of ballots was missing. The county disputes the claim.
Lake faced extremely long odds in her challenge, needing to prove not only that misconduct occurred, but also that it was intended to deny her victory and did in fact result in the wrong woman being declared the winner.
Her attorneys pointed to a witness who examined ballots on behalf of her campaign and discovered 14 ballots that had 19-inch images of the ballot printed on 20-inch paper, meaning the ballots wouldn’t be read by a tabulator. The witness insisted someone changed those printer configurations, a claim disputed by elections officials.
County officials say the ballot images were slightly smaller as a result of a shrink-to-fit feature being selected on a printer by a tech employee who was looking for solutions to Election Day issues. They say about 1,200 ballots were affected by turning on the feature and that those ballots were duplicated so that they could be read by a tabulator. Ultimately, these ballots were counted, officials said.
A person who takes public-opinion polls testified on behalf of Lake, claiming technical problems at polling places had disenfranchised enough voters that it would have changed the outcome of the race in Lake’s favor. But an expert who was called to testify by election officials said there was no evidence to back up the pollster’s claim that 25,000 to 40,000 people who would normally have voted actually didn’t cast ballots as a result of Election Day problems.
Thompson had previously dismissed eight of the 10 claims Lake raised in her lawsuit. Among those were Lake’s allegation that Hobbs, in her capacity as secretary of state, and Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer engaged in censorship by flagging social media posts with election misinformation for possible removal by Twitter. He also dismissed her claims of discrimination against Republicans and that mail-in voting procedures are illegal.
Hobbs takes office as governor on Jan. 2.
Earlier on Friday, another judge dismissed Republican Abraham Hamadeh’s challenge of results in his race against Democrat Kris Mayes for Arizona attorney general. The court concluded that Hamadeh, who finished 511 votes behind Mayes and hasn’t conceded the race, didn’t prove the errors in vote counting that he had alleged.
A court hearing is scheduled Thursday to present results of recounts in the races for attorney general, state superintendent and for a state legislative seat.
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Puerto Rico in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria was one of Donald Trump’s biggest early boneheadisms. That’s where he tossed the paper towels. That’s where he came head to head with Carmen Yulín Cruz, the mayor of San Juan, and lost.
That’s also where the bigot Trump mocked Mayor Cruz’ correct Latina pronunciation of “Puerto Rico,” as if it was somehow “funny” for people to talk that way. That’s where he shamefully did the bare minimum to help with the disaster because he didn’t like the mayor’s politics and because the people of Puerto Rico showed substandard zeal for his “greatness” and didn’t fall down and worship him sufficiently. That’s where he didn’t even realise that Puerto Rico was part of the United States.
Well, Puerto Rico is as mad as hell and they aren’t going to take this any more. Sixteen municipalities in Puerto Rico have now filed a lawsuit claiming that several of the major oil companies, including Chevron, ExxonMobil, and Shell, are financially responsible for the damage caused by hurricanes Irma and Maria.
The class action lawsuit notes that, according to overwhelming scientific consensus, fossil fuel emissions are to blame for the climate crisis. Climate change creates conditions favourable to hurricanes, making them more common, more powerful and more destructive.
“Puerto Rico was hit by the perfect storm and is the ultimate victim of global warming,” said Marc Grossman, an attorney representing the plaintiffs. “This is an opportunity to finally get justice for all that Puerto Rico sacrificed in 2017.”
What makes the case unusual is it is the first to include claims under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) and, as such, it is being brought in federal court instead of a state court.
It is noted that the actions of Big Oil also have parallels to the past actions of Big Tobacco. In both cases, these callous corporations lied about the dangers of the products they were promoting even though internal memos proved they knew they were dangerous. Big Oil and Big Tobacco both put profits ahead of the human misery they caused. “But instead of transparency, the defendants engaged in a pseudo-scientific campaign to sow doubt about climate change and protect their monopoly over fossil fuel production,” the plaintiffs’ legal team said.
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Past successes in lawsuits against Big Tobacco give the Puerto Rico litigators hope. Even so, it won’t be easy. The suit could take many years to litigate. In the meantime, Mother Nature herself may be called as a witness, as worldwide conditions worsen year upon year as a direct result of climate change.
Whatever the outcome, it’s yet another example of how Republican callousness and indifference to human suffering can come back later and hurt one of their major allies. Big Oil is a big contributor to many of the campaigns of Republicans in Congress.
Had Donald Trump treated Puerto Rico in the aftermath of hurricane Maria the way President Biden treated Puerto Rico in the aftermath of hurricane Fiona, there might not have been any reason to bring the class action suit. So Republican indifference to climate change could continue to hurt them in unexpected ways, and that’s a good thing. And, as ever, ladies and gentlemen, brothers and sisters, comrades and friends, stay safe.
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