[THEPOSTMILLENNIAL] Two adults and one teenager were arrested and charged on Dec. 20 with the murder of a 53-year-old father of three in Columbus, Ohio on Wednesday after beating him up outside a Kroger store at the Great Southern Shopping Center on South High Avenue.
The incident happened approximately at 7 p.m. on Dec. 6. The father, identified as Donnie Smith Jr., later died in the hospital on Dec. 18 after being admitted at death's door.
The suspects 18-year-old Dionta Davon Hughes, 19-year-old Jamarion Fredrae Evans-Bennett, and another 17-year-old male, got into an altercation with patrons inside the Kroger and security asked them to leave.
Surveillance video recorded the altercation after the three exited the store. Evans-Bennett, Hughes, and the other male knocked him suddenly to the ground and began kicking and punching Smith.
Two friends of Smith who had gone shopping with him, Seth and Brandon, witnessed the assault and recalled it in reports afterwards.
The "[t]eenagers were in the Kroger, trying to pick on whoever they could," Brandon recalled. "They were laughing the whole time they were doing it."
Seth ran to Smith's side where he was injured on the ground. "I said his name, let him know I was there," said Seth, "let him know he was okay. He was unconscious."
As the assault was taking place, a witness with a firearm stepped forward and demanded they stop. At that point, the three suspects fled and drove off in a red car.
Charging documents reported that the suspects were waiting outside the store for Smith after being kicked out and then attacked him, leaving him unconscious and bleeding from the head.
Smith's three children included a 15-year-old son and a six-year-old daughter.
Hughes and Evans-Bennett are now in Franklin County jail on $1 million bond. The 17-year-old male has not been identified and is in the county's juvenile detention center.
The 17-year-old went before the judge on Friday and has a follow-up hearing set for Jan. 16 to determine whether or not he will be tried as an adult.
The other two have a history as repeat offenders in the juvenile system.
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As the assault was taking place, a witness with a firearm stepped forward and demanded they stop.
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It's become clear, the Liberal Media is avoiding the discussion of the dramatic increase of Black Teen/Young Black Adult gangs/groups attacking, and/or, murdering White individuals.
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The future belongs to the situationally aware. Everyone else voted for this and now they are getting it good and hard.
You want a country where stuff like this does not happen? It will require work. Hard work. And a willingness to let the MSM screech into the abyss as these types of skells are given what skells should get.
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[ET Via Zero] Millennial Aria Lewis is infatuated with the 1940s—and has been since she was 15 years old, growing up in a somewhat "vintage" family in North Carolina.
Mrs. Lewis, now 22, has embraced the role of a "tradwife" (traditional wife), a neo-retro lifestyle trend adopted by some conservative newlywed women that has garnered a following on social media. She and her husband, Andrew Lewis, 28, embrace this choice, living together on a farm they purchased in Missouri.
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You might catch progressivism from that. Condoms don't help.
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I'm a little surprised that the "Inspired Epoch Staff" believes traditional families are so rare. In my neighborhood/town, while my kids were growing up in the 90's-00's, I'd guess about 40% of households were traditional. I have no reason to guess that things have changed since then.
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The people of Rantburg are smarter than this... It traditional wife, not trading wife's. Who the hell in the comments thinks being a wife, staying true to your husband and raising a family is bad or stupid? The woman wants to lead a traditional Christian life, and she gets mocked? I guess my grandmother mother and wife of 32 years are just closet progressives lost in the hype... We used to call people like this the salt of the earth.
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^I believe they are talking about the linked article in comment #1, rather than the actual article about the traditional young wife.
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This lifestyle seemed to work quite well in the 1950s and early 1960s. But we really, really hated success and happiness, I guess.
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Thanks Seeking! My bad.
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*shrug* Of my high school group (Class of ‘79 rah!) one of the girls always planned to be a traditional housewife after she got her MA in something interesting but useless. I thought I’d have a career like my mother, but discovered I’m much better as a traditional housewife. And Mr. Wife credits the freedom my choice allowed him for his own success, earning considerably more thereby than we would have had if I’d continued to work, though the earlier years would have been tighter. Indeed, by the 1990s having a stay-at-home spouse had become as much a mark of success as having a high-flying career wife, whether that person is the mother or the father. Among those of my circle who were housewives were women who’d left careers as engineers, CPAs, senior level managers, lawyers, an architect/city planner, and an occupational therapist. The pediatrician and a sculptress chose to work part time while their children were in school.
Mr. Wife’s nieces, who are in their mid-thirties, got into knitting, the fashionable needle art for pre-motherhood females in their generation, just as I used to do embroidery and crochet at that stage of my life.
Mrs. Lewis is just monetizing her dress-up hobby in addition to the usual stuff.
Rereading Skidmark’s article about dear little Brielle Asero, it occurs to me that complaining about commuting two hours each way to work for an exciting start-up in New York City that barely pays the bills is legitimate; I suspect even if she hadn’t been downsized she would within a year have left it for something considerably more secure and less time-consuming — and probably considerably less exciting.
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These days when anything can 'marry' anything else I'm not sure having a piece of paper is any substitute for real commitment to a historical nuclear family.
[AFRICANEWS] Senegal ... a nation of about 14 million on the west coast of Africa bordering Mauretania to the north, Mali to the east, and a pair of Guineas to the south, one of them Bissau. It is 90 percent Mohammedan and has more than 80 political parties. Its primary purpose seems to be absorbing refugees... 's supreme court on Friday confirmed a prison sentence handed down to the mayor of Dakar, convicted of killing a man during a wave of political violence in 2011.
However, the hip bone's connected to the leg bone... Barthelemy Dias, a fierce opponent of President Macky Sall, will not be jugged Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! , as his sentence was covered by the pre-trial detention he served.
The sentence upheld is a six-month prison term and an 18-month suspended sentence.
His lawyer, Cire Cledor Ly, said the sentence would not cost the opposition figure his post as mayor of the capital, but could threaten his seat in the National Assembly.
"The court rejects the appeal lodged by Barthelemy Toye Dias, the mayor of Dakar," the court's president Abdourahmane Diouf announced.
Dias was not required to attend the reading of the judgment.Dias must also pay 25 million FCFA francs (around 38,000 euros) to the heirs of Ndiaga Diouf.
He was rubbed out on 22 December 2011 during an attack on the town hall in Mermoz Sacre-Coeur, one of the capital's communes, by alleged supporters of the ruling party under the then presidency of Abdoulaye Wade.
Dias was mayor of the that district of the city at the time.
He accuses those in power of having resurrected this affair to hinder the 2024 presidential election bid of the former mayor of Dakar and close ally, Khalifa Sall.
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[AFRICANEWS] Some fifteen embassies in Kinshasa on Saturday called for "restraint" after the elections in the DRC, described as a "sham" by the opposition, which is already planning a demonstration, as the first results are just starting to come in. It's all over but the shootin'...
"In a joint statement, the embassies of 12 European countries and Canada called on all parties (...) to continue to show restraint as the vote count continues.
On Friday evening, on X (formerly Twitter), the US embassy had also "urged all politicians to continue to exercise restraint and resolve differences peacefully".
On Wednesday, some 44 million of the approximately 100 million inhabitants of this vast Central African country were called upon to elect their president, national and provincial deputies and communal councillors.
The incumbent president, Félix Tshisekedi, is seeking a second term against 18 other candidates, including several opposition heavyweights who had already denounced the "chaos" surrounding the vote on Wednesday.
Faced with the many logistical problems that prevented many polling stations from opening as scheduled, the electoral commission (Céni) extended the poll.
Officially, voting ended on Thursday evening, but according to local sources, voting continued in remote areas of several provinces.
For example, in the Lubero territory of North Kivu province (east), electoral material arrived by helicopter in the village of Mabuo on Saturday, before being transported on foot to four other localities (Engobo, Lenda, Bududia, Isange), Macaire Kambau Sivikunula, head of the Bapere sector, which includes these localities, told AFP.
Due to a "special dispensation" from the Céni, "voting will take place tomorrow (Sunday) at these five sites", he added.
[DECLAS] The government is blocking the release of all information about Andrew’s decade as a taxpayer-funded trade envoy. This culture of unnecessary secrecy needs to end, says royal biographer.
Documents are the lifeblood of historians, the tools with which we build our picture of the past. For most historians and biographers there is a surfeit of sources to draw from, ranging from documents in public archives and private collections to accounts in books and interviews.
For the royal historian, however, there is very little beyond often inaccurate press cuttings, and briefings by "sources" in royal circles.
This is because there remains a deference and culture of secrecy with regard to the royal family.
They are largely exempt from the Freedom of Information Act and the Royal Archives have no public inventory — rather like a restaurant with no menu. What papers are deposited in the National Archives are subject to a series of exemptions, and those who have worked with the family are almost inevitably subject to confidentiality contracts.
Writing about the royals operates on a lobby system with favoured journalists fed titbits, tame writers rewarded with positions on quangos and those who choose to operate outside the cosy arrangement marginalised.
We have the absurd situation of publicly or covertly authorised biographies of royal figures, of members of the royal family appearing on American chat shows talking openly about royal life, where Prince Harry can write about the most intimate aspects of royal life from a few months ago for commercial gain, and royal households constantly briefing against each other, yet historians cannot see files which are 100 years old.
This is the mark of a banana republic and not a mature democracy.
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The thing about opening your books, is it establishes a history of opening your books.
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Bill CLinton is off the list as well, Hillary is on it but not Bill, or Oprah....
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I’ll take my guess at what Andrew was hiding. Perhaps, he was doinking underage girls. Speculation on my part. It’s sort of ss ridiculous and ineffective as Liberace hiding his homosexuality
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^ Wait. Whut? Liberace was gay? Get outta here!
Next you'll be telling Siegfried and Roy were...
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Next you'll be telling Siegfried and Roy were...
It goes deeper than you think... the tiger was a ventriloquist.
Just another new way of separating you from your money.
[Breitbart] Digi, a new AI-powered chatbot and avatar system, is attempting to redefine the landscape of digital companionship and romantic interaction with AI “girlfriends.” In a trend that will leave young American men even more isolated, the company claims its technology is the “future of AI romantic companionship.”
Readwrite reports that in the evolving realm of artificial intelligence, Digi has emerged as a worrying addition by blending AI with the concept of romantic companionship. This new app, gaining popularity on various platforms, allows users to create personalized avatars and engage in text-based conversations, including with “AI romantic partners.”
Developed by Andrew Young and John Rooney, Digi was founded in April 2023. It offers a unique cartoonish style, aiming to balance realism with a charming appeal to bypass the uncanny valley effect. The creators envision a future where Digi’s capabilities include more advanced interactions, although currently, it is limited to text-based responses.
Excited to announce v(1.0) of Digi, the future of AI Romantic Companionship, for IOS and Android 🤖
[Headline USA] A report by the Center for Immigration Studies unveiled that 59 percent of households led by illegal immigrants use at least one major taxpayer-funded welfare program, far higher than the 39 percent of U.S.-born households.
Authored by CIS analysts Steven Camarota and Karen Zeigler, the study relied on newly released data from the 2022 Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP), shedding light on the burden carried by U.S. taxpayers by illegal immigration.
Government-funded social programs typically are not offered to illegal aliens. However, those with children born in the U.S. can bypass these restrictions by accessing benefits provided to their children, CIS reported.
The report highlighted that some U.S. states offer Medicaid to some adult illegal aliens and children, with other states providing SNAP, commonly known as food stamps.
The 59 percent figure refers to non-citizen households, including those conformed by permanent residents (also known as green card holders) and illegal immigrants.
"Our best estimate is that 59 percent of households headed by illegal immigrants, also called the undocumented, use at least one major program," the report read, before warning that there is no evidence of fraud tied to the benefits.
The rate among legal immigrants is equally higher than U.S.-born households, standing at approximately 52 percent.
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They overwhelming bring little KSA's, just greed and expectations. When they don't get the sweet ride they expect, they will revert to the familiar tribal social structures they left, creating the Venezuleanization of our urban cores, and introducing ever-more traditional American's to mordidas as a part of everyday, transactional life. FJB for destroying Reagan's dream!
[ZERO] As Julian Assange approaches his 'final' appeal against extradition to the United States, where he faces some 18 counts related to the release of vast troves of damning and embarrassing evidence against the US government, the 52-year-old WikiLeaks founder received a visit from Tucker Carlson to discuss his situation.
Carlson describes Assange as "one of the greatest journalists of our age," who has "spent his adult life bringing previously concealed facts to the public about what our leaders are doing."
Perhaps most notably, Assange published internal emails from the Democratic National Committee, revealing among other things that the Hillary Clinton campaign conspired to cheat against rival Bernie Sanders. These leaks, claimed by Democrats to be Russian hacks, were actually internal leaks, according to Carlson.
What's more, Carlson noted how a fabricated, media-amplified sexual assault charge in Sweden was used against Assange, who spent more than seven years in asylum at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London. And when he exposed the CIA's spying apparatus, former CIA Director Mike Pompeo discussed kidnapping or assassinating him while not being charged with any crime in the US at the time.
Watch below as Carlson lays out the Assange situation...
[Breitbart] Thursday on FNC’s “The Story,” network contributor Jonathan Turley questioned the merits of the Colorado Supreme Court’s decision to bar former President Donald Trump from the 2024 primary election ballot.
According to Turley, the 14th Amendment didn’t apply because January 6 was a riot, not an insurrection.
“It’s nonsense,” he said. “I mean, first of all, there’s really interesting analogies to go to Bush v. Gore, you know, a little over 20 years ago, they had another 4-3 decision by another state Supreme Court. And what the court did is they were uncomfortable with the ambiguous standards being used by Florida. This is even more so. When I read the 14th Amendment, I see the words insurrection or rebellion. This was neither. This was a riot. Most people in the public can see it that way. But it’s also not clear that this applies to the office of the presidency. They go through and they enumerate offices that notably does not include the presidency. So there’s a number of elements here that could result in this being overturned, as I expect it will be.”
“In order to get to this spot, these four justices had to adopt the most sweeping interpretations at every point in order to make this actually work,” he continued. “But I think it’s going to collapse in from the Supreme Court. And many of us are hoping that they do speak with one voice, that they speak with a voice for all of us, with the exception of what the people that you’ve just played, that you hear, particularly on other networks. Very few citizens are celebrating this, it’s the same core that has always celebrated every effort to bag Trump. And I’m not saying that they’re wrong in their criticism of Trump. What I’m saying is they’re wrong in their means. If you want to defend democracy, practice democracy, and that’s what’s the disconnect that’s happening here.”
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If they came to overthrow the government, they would have brought their guns. You know what else they didn’t do? They didn’t stay. They toured the Capitol and went home.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Headline USA] A report by the Center for Immigration Studies unveiled that 59 percent of households led by illegal immigrants use at least one major taxpayer-funded welfare program, far higher than the 39 percent of U.S.-born households. 
