A Craigslist ad shows protesters are being offered $40 an hour to protest against Elon Musk in D.C. over the next three days.
26.03.202514:08
Obituary for my father.
Richard Warner Carlson died at 84 on March 24, 2025 at home in Boca Grande, Florida after six weeks of illness. He refused all painkillers to the end and left this world with dignity and clarity, holding the hands of his children with his dogs at his feet.
He was born February 10, 1941 at Massachusetts General Hospital to a 15-year-old Swedish-speaking girl and placed in the Home for Little Wanderers in Boston, where he developed rickets from malnutrition. His legs were bent for the rest of his life. After years in foster homes, he was placed with the Carlson family in Norwood, Mass. His adoptive father, a tannery manager, died when he was 12 and he stopped attending school regularly. At 17, he was jailed for car theft, thrown out of high school for the second time, and enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps.
In 1962, in search of adventure, he drove to California. He spent a year as a merchant seaman on the SS Washington Bear, transporting cargo to ports in the Orient, and then became a reporter. Over the next decade, he was a copy boy at the LA Times, a wire service reporter for UPI and an investigative reporter and anchor for ABC News, covering the upheaval of the period. He knew virtually every compelling figure of the time, including Jim Jones, Patty Hearst, Eric Hoffer, Jerry Garcia, as well as Mafia leaders and members of the Manson Family. In 1965, he was badly injured reporting from the Watts riots in Los Angeles.
By 1975, he was married with two small boys, when his wife departed for Europe and didn’t return. He threw himself into raising his boys, whom he often brought with him on reporting trips. At home, he educated them during three-hour dinners on topics that ranged from the French Revolution to Bolshevik Russia, PG Wodehouse, the history of the American Indian and, always, the eternal and unchanging nature of people. He was a free thinker and a compulsive book reader, including at red lights. He left a library of thousands of books, most dog-eared and filled with marginalia. His reading and life experiences convinced him that God is real. He had an outlaw spirit tempered by decency.
In 1979, he married the love of his life, Patricia Swanson. They were together for 44 years, all of them happy. She died sixteen months before he did and he mourned her every day.
In 1985, he moved to Washington to work for the Reagan Administration. He spent five years as the director of the Voice of America, and then moved to the Seychelles as the US ambassador. In 1992, he became the CEO of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and later ran a division of King World television.
The last 25 years of his life were spent in work whose details were never completely clear to his family, but that was clearly interesting. He worked in dozens of countries and breakaway republics around the world, and was involved in countless intrigues. He knew a number of colorful national leaders, including Rafic Hariri of Lebanon, Aslan Abashidze of Adjara, Mobutu Sese Seko of Zaire, and whomever runs Somaliland. He was a fundamentally nonjudgmental person who was impossible to shock, and he described them all with amused affection.
He spoke to his sons every day and had lunch with them once a week for thirty years at the Metropolitan Club in Washington, always prefaced by a dice game. Throughout his life he fervently loved dogs.
Richard W. Carlson is survived by his sons, Tucker and Buckley, his beloved daughter-in-law Susie, and five grandchildren. He was the toughest human being anyone in his family ever knew, and also the kindest and most loyal. RIP.
Of all the protesters in my DC neighborhood yesterday, this one stood out—a baby boomer with a sign claiming he wants the President killed.
Why?? For rooting-out fraud, waste, and abuse in our government? For striving for peace over war?
I find people like this quite sad. Instead of enjoying their Golden Years in the Golden Age of America, the Fake News has brainwashed them into being angry and hateful.
17.03.202516:06
Reporter: "That law is 200 years old!"
Tom Homan: "Well, the Constitution is a lot older than that and we still follow it"
Today while walking my 3 year old daughter a group of “Slava Ukraini” protesters followed us around and shouted as my daughter grew increasingly anxious and scared.
I decided to speak with the protesters in the hopes that I could trade a few minutes of conversation for them leaving my toddler alone. (Nearly all of them agreed.)
It was a mostly respectful conversation, but if you’re chasing a 3-year-old as part of a political protest, you’re a shit person.
On Wednesday, 21-year-old Virginia native Nathaniel “Nate” Baker was driving a motorcycle when he was struck and killed by a driver who fled the scene. The hit & run driver was an alien in our country illegally.
This tragedy should have never happened. I am praying for Nate, his family and loved ones. We will get Nate and his family justice.
“Let no one say when he is tempted, ‘I am tempted by God’; for God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does He Himself tempt anyone. But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed. Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death. Do not err, my beloved brethren.” James 1:13-16 KJV
08.04.202505:00
Good night to all! 😴
08.04.202504:51
These auto mechanics in Houston were in for a big surprise when they discovered an opossum living in a car’s bumper! 👀
08.04.202504:42
NEW: A brave 9-year-old girl is being praised by law enforcement officials after her calm 911 call helped save her family’s Orange County home during a burglary attempt. The Westminster Police Department released this audio recording of the call on April 7.
08.04.202504:37
BREAKING: 4 confirmed members of the foreign terrorist organization, Tren de Aragua, have just been arrested in Jonesboro Arkansas for multi-state ATM robbery and are now on ICE holds.
Alien Enemies Act will deport them to CECOT.
08.04.202504:31
President Trump was proven RIGHT once again! SCOTUS confirms our Commander-in-Chief Donald J. Trump has the power to stop the invasion of our country by terrorists using war time powers.
LEAVE NOW or we will arrest you, lock you up and deport you.
The Colorado Springs Police Department (CSPD) reported that on Sunday, April 6, an officer was hit in the intersection of North Carefree Circle and Powers Boulevard while driving to another call with lights and sirens activated, leading to a crash involving seven cars.
According to CSPD, a call involving a firearm came in around 5:45 p.m. on Sunday, and the officer was heading to the location, going westbound on N. Carefree, and as they were crossing from the northbound lanes into the southbound lanes of the Powers intersection, the officer was hit by vehicles traveling southbound on Powers.
CSPD reported that a total of seven vehicles were involved in the crash, closing the intersection for several hours while detectives investigated. The officer was taken to the hospital with minor injuries, and no other injuries were reported.
Please join us in sending prayers and, or, positive thoughts for his recovery. 🙏🏻
A Texas teen admits to stabbing another to death and still gets $200K and online sympathy. The family says it’s a “difficult time” for the suspect. Common Sense asks: What kind of time is it for the victim’s family?
BREAKING: The University of Florida Gators win the NCAA men’s tournament National Championship game, beating the Houston Cougars 65-63, while coming back from a double digit deficit. 🏀
Please report and block anyone who message you claiming to be an ADMIN. Thank U 🤝
08.04.202503:07
Congratulations to the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department's elite women's and men's teams for their success at Baker to Vegas! Excelling in such a challenging and prestigious event is a huge accomplishment.
The Baker to Vegas Challenge Cup Relay is no small feat, and it's impressive to see these teams bring home a victory. 🏆
08.04.202503:04
Check out the tornado and severe thunderstorm watch coverage from the recent 7-day long severe weather outbreak