News and Views: January 31, 2025

Helicopters flying along Potomac frequently pose dangers to passenger jets The two scrubbed landings within a week illustrate the heightened danger posed by frequent military helicopter flights adjacent to the busy airport, which have been the source of close calls and worries about crashes for years.

The U.S. Army Black Hawk that crashed into an American Airlines regional jet Wednesday night and killed 64 people, as well as three Army crew members on the chopper, had been flying along the east bank of the Potomac River in a flight corridor designated for low-flying helicopters.

FLASHBACK: Biden's FAA Focused on Diversity, Hiring Workers With Severe Disabilities  While we don’t know yet what caused the midair collision between the U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter and a civilian airliner in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday night, renewed attention is turning to Biden-era DEI initiatives at the FAA and whether they may have played a role.

   “The Federal Aviation Administration is actively recruiting workers who suffer ‘severe intellectual’ disabilities, psychiatric problems and other mental and physical conditions under a diversity and inclusion hiring initiative spelled out on the agency’s website,” the New York Post reported a year ago.

Hegseth Calls This 'One of the Dumbest Phrases in Military History'  “Jesse, one of the dumbest phrases in military history is ‘our diversity is our strength,’” Hegseth said. “Our diversity is not our strength. Our unity and our shared purpose is our strength.”

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The case of the radical ‘Zizian’ vegan trans cult and the shooting death of a Border Patrol agent  The murder of a US Border Patrol agent near the Canadian border appears to be linked to a radical leftist trans militant cult accused of killings across the country.

   Around a week before the Jan. 20 attack, federal law enforcement had been surveilling German national Felix “Ophelia” Bauckholt and University of Washington student Teresa “Milo” Consuelo Youngblut.

MAN Who Brought Weapons to Capitol to Allegedly Harm Trump Officials is 'Trans Woman,' Inspired by Mangione

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It's Not Just Britain; All of Europe Must Be Rebooted 

Europe has gone insane. 

   The Swedish Government has announced that they don't have control of the country, and Germany is considering banning the AfD, kicking all is members out of Parliament, and seizing all its assets. 

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A Day in the Life of a Christian – Under Pakistan’s Blasphemy Laws  Pakistan’s blasphemy laws continue to provide the structure for much of the human rights violations of Christians in Pakistan. Christians live in constant fear of blasphemy allegations, false charges, destruction of their property, arrest, imprisonment, beatings, torture, and execution. A 70-year-old Pakistani Catholic, Anwar Kenneth, for instance, has been on death row since his arrest on blasphemy charges in 2001.

    Human rights groups, university students in Western countries, Pope Francis, and activists would be more than welcome to protest for the release and safety of Kenneth and many other victims of Pakistan’s blasphemy laws. Sadly, silence and indifference have been their only reactions.

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Google Warns AI Makes Chinese, Iranian, and North Korean Hackers More Efficient  Google released a report Wednesday revealing that hackers are using the company’s Gemini artificial intelligence to devise more effective cyberattacks.

   Hackers from China, Iran, and North Korea have been especially aggressive at taking advantage of Gemini’s capabilities.

White House Issues Press Release 'Debunking Latest Fake News Hoaxes'  Earlier this week, the White House also launched a rapid response account on X to combat fake news in real time.

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The Shame of Failing Schools 

Trapping kids in schools where almost no learning occurs is an atrocious moral failing.

    New York isn’t just squandering money. It’s squandering lives. Kids in Poughkeepsie, where only 5% of fourth graders are proficient in English, according to state data, have the odds stacked against them.

Persistently failing schools should be slammed shut, and students should be offered the chance to attend another school.

Test scores show how teacher union-driven lockdowns devastated kids   Most of America’s kids aren’t regaining the ground lost to school shutdowns during the pandemic: That’s the main bottom line of the “nation’s report card,” the National Assessment of Educational Progress, for 2024.

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