News and Views: July 28, 2025

Rifle-toting NYC shooter Shane Tamura kills 5 —including NYPD officer — injures six before turning gun on himself at Blackstone, NFL HQ  A police officer and at least four other people were shot and killed, and several others injured, by a crazed gunman who stormed a swanky Midtown skyscraper early Monday evening — before turning the gun on himself, sources said.

   The 27-year-old maniac, identified by sources as Shane Tamura, barged into the 44-story building — which houses Blackstone and the NFL headquarters — armed with a rifle and opened fire at around 6:30 p.m. during the evening rush, sending workers running for their lives, law enforcement sources told The Post. Screenshot

----------------------------------

The Graveyard of Progressive Misadventures-VD Hanson 

Sometime after the election of Barack Obama in 2008, the American Left began exploring, then embracing, and finally enacting agendas that proved not only unhinged and unworkable but also fatal to the left-wing project itself.

   How did the party so alienate the middle classes when it once professed it was the sole party and protector of those in-between? How did the Democratic Congress sink to a 16 percent approval rating in a current liberal Quinnipiac University poll? How could 63 percent of registered voters view the Democrats unfavorably in a recent Wall Street Journal poll?

   In sum: despise the middle class, then lose elections.

----------------------------------

When AI Stops Thinking and Starts Preaching 

Artificial intelligence was supposed to be a powerful new intellect. Instead, it often acts like a freshman at a liberal arts college - emotionally reactive, fact-averse, and trained to give the “right” answer rather than the correct one. 

    When AI begins reflecting the politics of its creators instead of the reality of its users, we’re not witnessing a technological breakthrough. We’re watching the digital version of NPR.

----------------------------------

Stable Families Are the Fundamental Building Block of Prosperous Societies Families are the fundamental building block of prosperous societies. A mother, a father, and offspring. Globally, this has proven to be the winning formula in states, regions, and nations that enjoy a notable measure of success. Such success rarely occurs where the family unit is not regarded as the fundamental building block of society.

----------------------------------

This man wanted to adopt a kitten, instead this happened.. they were inseparable, so he ended up adopting them both..🐈🐾🥺🙏❤️ pic.twitter.com/PYsMqXpNmE

— 𝕐o̴g̴ (@Yoda4ever) July 28, 2025