After multiple futile attempts to remove this criminal from the US, he participated in a shootout with other illegals, killing a toddler:

He has a history of arrests in the US but somehow it was utterly impossible to remove him from this country.

The really funny part is that El Salvador, the homeland of these gangsters, is finally managing to control their violence. Here in the US we like to pout over El Salvador’s crime-fighting success which means we’ll have to prepare ourselves for more violence.

I’m so glad I came across Eric Rickstad’s police procedurals. He’s very talented. Yes, there’s wokeness but it’s outweighed by this author’s excellent writing. Also, he’s very good at describing family life. Normal, healthy family life. He really, really gets family life, and that makes his characters sound like human beings and not walking cliches.

There’s a sad trend among authors of murder mysteries to depict the policewoman protagonist as a sort of a lousy caricature of a male. These female characters drink themselves into a stupor, have sex with everything that moves, and are terrified of intimacy because of some dark secret in their past. These female characters are so identical that one can’t tell them apart.

Rickstad finally breaks the monotonous chain of these literary policewomen. The main character of Lie in Wait is a mother of two who’s trying for a third baby with her very good husband whom she loves very much. Her very attractive home life creates a great backdrop to the perverted behavior of the criminals she pursues. I have no idea why it took so long for somebody to come up with a female detective who is not a gender-fluid weirdo having sex in public toilets on every other page.

I liked this novel much more than the first book in the series because there are no gruesome scenes and the wokeness is minimal. The novel even arrives at a very Christian message at the end.

Good, good writer.

It is as if people collectively lost their minds. From an article suggested by my browser at work:

Is the author of this piece insane (aside from a very bad writer)? Nobody checks chromosomes “at birth.” When the baby is born, one can see what sex it is by observing its sex organs. With eyes. That are located on our faces for a reason. However, science allows us not to determine anything “at birth” anymore. I knew I was having a girl at 12 weeks of pregnancy back in 2015. I’m sure since then science has advanced to where you can know even earlier.

Leaving that aside, though, how does this journalist imagine a baby’s birth? “Honey, did you see her chromosomes?” a happy mother exclaims. “I now know she’s a girl!”

Of course, any discussion of chromosomes these days leads to the same place:

Jennifer Graves, a geneticist from La Trobe University told NPR, “I don’t think that one can assume that just because [Y chromosomes] are there and they do something useful they’ll be there forever and ever. A small accident could tip it over the edge, or the evolution of a new sex-determining system that works better.”

The Y chromosome is disappearing. Here’s what it means for men (msn.com)

Color me downright shocked that “sex determination at birth” led to “a new sex-determining system” within a few paragraphs.

For the first time since polling on the topic began, a majority supports the construction of a border wall on the border with Mexico.

The previously fringe idea, popularized as a campaign pledge by former President Donald Trump, has gained traction amid a spiraling crisis at the border, with record numbers of immigrants crossing daily. According to a new Monmouth University poll, 53% supports the construction of a border wall, compared to just 46% who oppose it.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/immigration/2885760/majority-construction-border-wall-first-time/?utm_source=ground.news&utm_medium=referral

Give it a bit more time, and 90% will support it, which will change exactly nothing because politicians on both Left and Right desperately want immigration to grow.

Academics like to be original. And DEI has become boring, so people are losing interest.

This is the problem with both Biden and Trump. Both speak to a very narrow base whose interests are simply incomprehensible to most voters. I understand trying to secure the base before appealing to the general public but the base, in both situations, is so far removed from everybody else that the chasm is impossible to bridge.

At this point, I find both candidates to be living in a different universe from my interests as a voter.

Yes, AI will replace certain human beings. We now know exactly whose jobs are at risk, and I, for one, can’t say I mind:

All this effort to create artificial intelligence, and it turned out to be mighty stupid.

My very first paid translation is still being sold:

I actually translated it in 1990, so this was a subsequent re-release.

Back in 1990-1995, N practiced martial arts, so he might have read the book back then.

It was meant to be, people.

The US doesn’t have a category of economic migrant in its immigration system. And that’s precisely why we have more economic migrants than anybody else in the world. As Dr Phil says, “you can’t solve what you don’t acknowledge.” Reality bites hard, and those who deny it usually get bitten.

One way to start solving the problem of exceptionally high immigration is to recognize the category of economic migrant officially and put a number on it. We let in millions of economic migrants every year and then engage in a sad spectacle of listening to their forced lies about being victims of political persecution. What do you think this teaches their children other than that posing as a fake victim in the US pays off?

Instead of this bizarre policy, we could simply publicize a number of economic migrants and a number of political refugees that will be accepted yearly. There are very few actual political refugees, so their number should be minuscule in comparison with that of economic migrants.

It costs no money to speak of to create a new, working definition of “asylum seeker” and “economic migrant.” Instead, the Biden administration has proposed to expand the definition of “asylum seeker” even more, inviting a growing number of people to lie to get into this country.

When these journalists get fired en masse, they’ll blame technology, capitalism and everything else except their own unprofessionalism and cluelessness.