Tuesday, March 20, 2018

Spring, Another Shooting, And Other Stories

Today marks the spring equinox, even as the east coast is getting one (hopefully) last blast of wintry weather.  I look outside to see a mixture of rain and sleet (or maybe graupel) falling from the sky and accumulating on my vehicles and the grassy areas in my neighborhood.  Fortunately, the roads have not been affected very much, but that might change due to the precipitation turning to snow later tonight.
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This morning at Great Mills High School in Saint Mary's County in southern Maryland, a student who had armed himself two of his fellow students.  He was later engaged and shot by a school resource officer, and was declared dead just after 10:30 a.m.  The two victims have been hospitalized.

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In other news:

From the Los Angeles Times, congressional negotiators haggle over abortion coverage and health care.  (via LifeNews)

From The American Conservative, after a Republican loses the popular vote but wins the presidential election, Democrats try everything to obstruct the new president - Rutherford B. Hayes.

From Space War, Chinese President Xi Jinping says that his country is ready to fight a "bloody battle".

From Philly(dot)com, the president of Penn State pushes for a national database of fraternity violations.

From the Star Tribune, the Minneapolis police officer who killed an Australian woman has been charged, and has turned himself in.  (via the New York Post)


From Breitbart, a Scottish court finds YouTuber Count Dankula guilty of a hate crime, for posting a video of his girlfriend's dog making a nazi salute.


From the Express, the Brexit could come "crashing down" over the issue of the U.K.-Ireland border.



From Business Insider, numbers of asylum applications have dropped to pre-immigration wave levels.


From Russia Today, Palestinian President Abbas seems to regard the U.S. ambassador to Israel as a young canine.




From the Daily Mail, a German court rules against a Muslim woman's attempt to overturn Germany's ban on driving while wearing face coverings.


From the New York Post, according to astronomers, the object known as Oumuamua likely came from a binary star system.



And from The Babylon Bee, a man on a Holy Land tour is befuddled that he is not in the United States.

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