Starting tomorrow Uber drivers from around the country will join the union-backed "Fight For $15" campaign that plans to hold protests in two-dozen cities including San Francisco, Miami and Boston. The organization's twitter feed describes the protest as a "national day of disruption" which seems slightly less than a "constructive" approach to the very serious issue of the federal minimum wage. Per Reuters:
Submitted by John Whitehead via The Rutherford Institute,
What we’re witnessing at Standing Rock, where activists have gathered to protest the Dakota Access Pipeline construction on Native American land, is just the latest incarnation of the government’s battle plan for stamping out any sparks of resistance and keeping the populace under control: battlefield tactics, military weaponry and a complete suspension of the Constitution.
Submitted by Caleb Verbois via The Mises Institute,
As reported earlier, the man behind today's gruesome attack at Ohio State University, in which he plowed a car into a crowd of people on campus and subsequently attacked bystanders with a butcher’s knife, and which some suggested was inspired by recent ISIS propaganda, was identified as 19 year old naturalized Somali Refugee Abdul Razak Ali Artan.
Ali Muhammad: #Ohio State University Suspect Who Launched Knife Attack Identified As 19-Year-Old #Somali Refugee https://t.co/aQTAAwl8aY pic.twitter.com/WZZtnvk4yM
Authored by Edward Luce, originally posted at FT.com,