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Can a good guy with a gun stop a bad guy with a gun? How about a few thousand good guys? Entire communities in Maine are still in lockdown. Hundreds of police officers are searching for the well-armed madman who killed at least 18 people in Lewiston. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is involved. So is the FBI. So is the Coast Guard. So are SWAT teams. So are state police officers and highway patrolmen from multiple states. There are drones, helicopters, military vehicles, and helmeted law enforcement officials in body armor. The White House is being kept abreast as the situation unfolds. How can this many people be risking their lives to stop a lone gunman? Because, we have fully legal weapons that can turn a single person into a one-man army. There are now reports of a suicide note. Maybe the bad guy with a gun killed the bad guy with a gun. Here's the latest on the manhunt. 2Bible Stumper"When the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, Diana Greene Foster made a painful prediction: She estimated that one in four women who wanted an abortion wouldn’t be able to get one. Foster, a demographer at UC San Francisco, told me that she’d based her expectation on her knowledge of how abortion rates decline when women lose insurance coverage or have to travel long distances after clinics close ... But now, more than a year removed from the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision, Foster has revised her estimate. After seeing early reports of women traveling across state lines and ordering pills online, she now estimates that about 5 percent of women who want an abortion cannot get one." Dobbs’s Confounding Effect on Abortion Rates. (As many predicted, the biggest impact is on those with the fewest resources.) 3Underground ZeroLet's start today's Middle East coverage with a hint of hope (and a reminder that there are people on both sides of the conflict who have wanted and worked for peace for years). A group of Jews and Arabs in Israel has a ‘radical’ idea — protecting one another as fear reigns. "Their mostly leftist movement is a fringe one, a relative speck of cooperation in a land where ethnic and territorial strife is once again reaching a crescendo. But on a recent humid night, their task was mixing: Israeli Arabs and Jews — and wallpaper paste." 4Weekend WhatsWhat to Watch: Starstruck on Max is a lighthearted, comedic series about a relationship that develops after a woman has a one-night stand with someone she later learns is a famous actor. Watch Starstruck on Max. 5Extra, ExtraUnder the Radar: "What made Otis so dangerous was not just the fact of its strength but the surprise of it. As recently as Monday evening, it was classified as a tropical storm, and forecasts had it strengthening only slightly before hitting the coast. It wasn’t until after midnight on Tuesday that the first hurricane warning for the region was issued; at that point, Otis was expected to make landfall as a Category 1 storm. Then Otis really got busy." (As you know, I visit a lot of news sites every day. I didn't notice any headlines about Otis in the days before it hit. That's a first.) Elizabeth Kolbert in The New Yorker: Hurricane Otis and the World We Live in Now. 6Feel Good Friday"The two newborn babies had the same critical heart condition and were placed in intensive care rooms next to each other at a Texas children’s hospital. Both sets of parents were told their infants had about a 40 percent chance of survival." They both survived. And now they're college roommates. Get a copy of my 📕, Please Scream Inside Your Heart, or grab a 👕 in the Store. |
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Thursday, October 26, 2023
Man Bites Dog, A Six Front War, New Beatles Song?
The Coming Johnson Era
Wednesday, October 25, 2023
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Tuesday, October 24, 2023
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Pounding Sand in the Desert
Tuesday, October 24, 2023
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