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  • Bacon Bits: Nothing-Works-Anymore Edition

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    We need more money. Leaders of the mendicant Washington Metro system met last week to discuss how to keep alive the regional rail and bus system. Abandoning the pipe dream of adding more money-losing routes to the money-losing system, the emerging consensus is to make the existing system more efficient. “Automation is how we get…

  • Bacon Bits: Narrative Busters

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    Selecting the facts that fit the narrative. George Mason University business school professor Brad N. Greenwood was the lead author of an academic article arguing that Black newborn babies are three times more likely to die if cared by for White doctors than Black doctors. Mainstream media jumped on the findings of systemic racial bias…

  • Bacon Bits: Culture War Updates

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    GMU free speech conundrum. The George Mason University Board of Visitors passed the following resolution on antisemitism last month after extensive debate, reports the GMU student newspaper The Fourth Estate: “This board directs the University, including all of its administrative departments, offices, schools, and academic units, to refrain from sponsoring or endorsing any organization, event,…

  • Bacon Bits: The “What Is Reality?” Edition

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    Lunacy down on the farm… The FBI has arrested Brad Kenneth Spafford following a raid at his 20-acre Isle of Wight County farm and charged him with possessing an unregistered short-barrel rifle. Law enforcement overreach? Well, FBI agents discovered more than 150 pipe bombs and other explosive devices, reports The Virginian-Pilot. They also found a…

  • Bacon Bits: Lonely and Creepy

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    The loneliest Metro stop. The Loudoun County Gateway Metro averages 317 riders daily, according to The Washington Post. It’s the least busy of the Metro rail system’s 98 stations. Opened to much fanfare as part of the $3 billion Phase 2 of the Silver Line in Northern Virginia, it is a sad reminder of broken…

  • Bacon Bits: Social Mayhem Update

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    George Mason is rolling in his grave. An 18-year-old freshman at George Mason University was arrested Tuesday for allegedly plotting a mass casualty attack on Israel’s General Consulate in New York City, The Washington Post reports. Abdullah Ezzeldin Taha Mohamed Hassan, an Egyptian national faced with deportation proceedings, was arrested in Falls Church and, as a…

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    As newspapers shrink, leaving us with nothing but The Wall Street Journal, Wordle (formerly known as The New York Times), and the dried-up husk of a Washington Post, who will report the news? Some publications are backed by foundation money — The Virginia Mercury and Cardinal News here in Virginia, for instance. Some reporting is…