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Good news on crime in at least one part of the USA:

Homicides in Denver declined 58 percent during the first three months over the same time last year, and nearby Aurora saw a 36 percent decline during the same period. Aurora Police Chief Todd Chamberlin added that all crime is down in his city. “The City of Aurora and Aurora

In a Democrat Party controlled towns? How did they accomplish this miracle?

The Trump administration made the Denver area an important focal point of immigration removals. Even as the president was being inaugurated, ICE had moved in to arrest 538 illegal aliens in cities including Denver. ICE quickly announced an expansion of efforts in Colorado to target members of the violent Venezuelan street gang, Tren de Aragua.

Probably just a sheer coincidence, otherwise known as The Butterfield Effect.

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How to turn $450 into $21 million; be utterly clueless and store shit away where it will be forgotten. Great story actually, Cut-price Magna Carta ‘copy’ now believed genuine:

The professors, who spent a year researching Harvard’s document, believe it is from the town of Appleby, Cumbria. They think the trail from Appleby to Harvard involves the Lowthers, a land-owning family who gave the document to Thomas Clarkson, a leading abolitionist of the 1780s. Clarkson’s estate passed through a series of heirs to the Maynard family, then at the end of 1945, AVM Forster Maynard sold it at auction at Sotheby’s. A London bookseller paid £42 for the document, months before Harvard bought it for a fraction of that price.[£7]

The only downside to this story is that it belongs to Harvard University.

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I recall some plonker of a Prime Minister saying that we’re a very pluvial country, in which case this should be a solution for our roads.

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In more news about AWFL People and their Purity Tests, here’s the latest on AWFL woman:

According to Cygnal’s latest national survey of 1,500 likely voters (conducted May 6-8, with a 3 percent MOE), more than half of voters (53 percent) say “it’s at least somewhat common that their friends and neighbors have ended a friendship because of Donald Trump and the 2024 election” while “39 percent say not that common or not at all common.”
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[drilling] down to the biggest dividing factor here, it’s the portion of the coalition made up of college-educated women — a cohort that now dominates the politics of the Democratic coalition. In their circles, they say differences of political opinion have led to broken friendships with friends and neighbors at a more than 40-point rate — 67 percent to 24 percent.

Given what I see on Beloved Wife’s Facebook page, this tracks, especially with women she knows in the USA.