Robotaxes have taken over San Francisco’s streets, but the real winner here could be Elon’s Tesla. Before it got disrupted, Bed Bath & Beyond was disrupting with 1 marketing strategy that it went all-in on. And sales of Coca-Cola’s drinks are all up, except for 1 particular beverage… because ⅔ of acquisitions fail.
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At the start of the 20th century, the world’s third-largest lake was located in Central Asia. It had been known to the people of the Asian steppes for thousands of years.Â
However, by the end of the 20th century, the lake had all but disappeared.Â
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By the Tet Offensive in early 1968, what had been widely heralded as the best qualified, best-trained army in US history was descending into crisis as the Vietnam War raged without end. Morale was tanking. AWOL rates were rising. And in August of that year, a group of Black soldiers seized control of the infamous Long Binh Jail, burned buildings, and beat a white inmate to death with a shovel. The days of "same mud, same blood" were over, and by the end of the decade, a new generation of Black GIs had decisively rejected the slights and institutional racism their forefathers had endured.Â
In An Army Afire: How the US Army Confronted Its Racial Crisis in the Vietnam Era (UNC Press, 2023), acclaimed military historian Beth Bailey shows how the Army experienced, defined, and tried to solve racism and racial tension (in its own words, "the problem of race") in the Vietnam War era. Some individuals were sympathetic to the problem but offered solutions that were more performative than transformational, while others proposed remedies that were antithetical to the army's fundamental principles of discipline, order, hierarchy, and authority. Bailey traces a frustrating yet fascinating arc where the army initially rushed to create solutions without taking the time to fully identify the origins, causes, and proliferation of racial tension. It was a difficult, messy process, but only after Army leaders ceased viewing the issue as a Black issue and accepted their own roles in contributing to the problem did change become possible.
Beth Bailey is Foundation Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Kansas.
Caleb Zakarin is the Assistant Editor of the New Books Network.
Liz and Andrew break down the other Fox News lawsuit (by Abby Grossberg) that probably contributed to Tucker Carlson's firing, and then a hilarious arbitration loss for The Pillow Guy. You won't want to miss it!
We're telling you about President Biden's big announcement planned today and the two big-name cable news hosts that both suddenly got pulled off the air.
Also, calls for book bans set a new record last year, researchers made a discovery about how we age, and a star NFL quarterback is heading to a new team for the first time.Â
In a series of high-profile cable news firings Monday morning, Fox News announced that the network agreed to part ways with top host Tucker Carlson — and just minutes later, news broke that CNN terminated longtime anchor Don Lemon after 17 years with the network.Â
President Biden is expected to announce his 2024 bid for re-election as soon as today. Multiple outlets reported that he tapped White House Senior Adviser Julia Chavez Rodriguez as his campaign manager, signaling that he’s already gearing up to make his case for a second term.Â
And in headlines: North Dakota’s Republican governor signed legislation banning abortions after six weeks, demonstrators gathered at Montana’s Capitol to protest the censure of Rep. Zooey Zephyr, and more celebrities came out to say they did not sign up for Twitter Blue.
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In this episode, Rivers and Carter are hangin' out in Avondale Park in Birmingham, Alabama with Magic City comedy superstar and one of our all-time favorite guests: Narado Moore! Rivers and Carter both happen to be down South to attend various weddings and they share some recent tales from those affairs over a few small plastic cups of Dr. Pepper's excellent new Stawberries and Cream soda! Rivers then takes us down into another history deep dive. This one deals with the absolutely insane life of Adolphe Sax, the inventor of the saxophone and so much more. We also chat about Cy Vierstra, the former fiscal officer of Vinton Township, Ohio who spent the town's money on a laundry list of insane things including a popcorn machine and a live wildebeest. Foreigner's "I Want to Know What Love Is" is our JAM OF THE WEEK. Give us a listen! Find Narado on all forms of social media @Rod4Short and check out his podcasts "Uncle Rod's Story Corner" and "Roy's Job Fair" with Roy Wood Jr.! Follow the show on Twitter @TheGoodsPod. Rivers is @RiversLangley Sam is @SlamHarter Carter is @Carter_Glascock Subscribe on Patreon for HOURS of bonus content! http://patreon.com/TheGoodsPod Pick up a Goods from the Woods t-shirt at: http://prowrestlingtees.com/TheGoodsPod
Michael Morell, former deputy director of the CIA, testified that Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who at the time was a senior adviser to the Biden campaign, "played a role in the inception" of the Oct. 19, 2020, letter from 51 former intelligence officials suggesting that "the Hunter Biden laptop was part of a Russian disinformation campaign," Fox News reported.
"It was requested by Antony Blinken, who was working for the Biden campaign, and they were too pleased to do it. So, Michael Morell went out and carried on the effort, and 51 intel agents, or former intel policymakers, were in on it," Rep. Dan Bishop, R-N.C., says. "And of course they hedged their language there, but they gave rise into the media coverage, which was, it was 'Russian disinformation.’"
"It took way past the election, and year and a half or whatever, for media outlets ultimately to acknowledge what it was," the North Carolina lawmaker says.Â
The October letter was co-signed by more than four dozen former intelligence officials, among them Jim Clapper, former director of national intelligence; Leon Panetta and John Brennan, former directors of the CIA; Rick Ledgett, former deputy director of the National Security Agency; and Morell.
"What happens now? Well, there are a couple other details there that are of considerable interest to the committee that we're still pursuing. I'll keep those under my hat for the moment," Bishop says.Â
Bishop joins today's episode of "The Daily Signal Podcast" to also discuss an IRS whistleblower's allegations relating to Hunter Biden, the long-term impact of the southern border crisis and what's causing the uptick in illegal immigrant crossings, and the Republicans' proposed Limit, Save, Grow Act of 2023 on the debt ceiling.
“Stand Your Ground” laws have expanded across the country over the past 20 years, allowing people to use deadly force even when they could safely retreat from a perceived threat. But when someone shoots a person standing on their porch, or as they turn around in a driveway, or in a crowd, the claim that these laws exist for self-defense doesn’t seem to wash.
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