I wouldn't be terribly surprised if Richard Dowling's statue ended up saving a whole lot of lives. Here's what happened now...
Andrew Cecil Schneck, 25, was charged with attempting to maliciously damage or destroy property receiving federal financial assistance, federal prosecutors announced.
A park ranger doing a routine patrol of the area around Hermann Park on Saturday caught Schneck kneeling in the bushes near the statue of Richard Dowling, a commander in the Confederate army.
The ranger "observed Schneck to be holding two small boxes with various items inside," including "what appeared to be duct tape and wires," a criminal complaint says. Schneck, who majored in chemistry at Austin College, was also found with a bottle containing liquid made up of compounds used as explosives.
When asked by the ranger whether he wanted to harm the Dowling statue, Schneck replied that he did not "like that guy," according to the criminal complaint.
This seems conventional enough in the current insane climate of leftist violence. But go back to 2013 and it gets stranger...
Federal officials on Monday remained silent on why they raided homes in Texas and Michigan this weekend that property records indicate are owned in part by a Houston art appraiser.
Dozens of agents, some wearing hazardous materials protective clothing, on Friday searched two homes in Houston and a condominium in Bryan, about 100 miles away. Agents on Friday, some donning protective clothing, also raided two properties in Michigan's Lower Peninsula: a home in the village of Suttons Bay and one in Leland Township.
Authorities in Houston on Saturday conducted two controlled detonations at...

Beltway superhero and K Street golden boy Paul Ryan has broken with President Trump over the pardon of Obama political enemy Sheriff Joe Arpaio.
Ryan joined with Arizona Senators John McCain and Jeff Flake in condemning Trump’s decision to spare an aging patriot who has served his country well despite what many feel were overzealous tactics to keep criminal illegals out of the country.
Ryan has always been a treacherous little snake who walked a very fine line between working with his own party’s President and acting as a handmaiden to the lobbyists who have elevated him from an obscure Wisconsin legislator to the Speaker of the U.S House of Representatives.
King Paul officially threw in with Democrats and GOP establishment types who have been sabotaging Trump from day one by ripping the pardon and casting his lot with the same Never Trumpers who he was always a compatriot of during the primaries.
It could also be a preemptive strike as Trump has been increasingly critical of Ryan and his Senate counterpart Mitch McConnell over their failure to repeal Obamacare after years of empty promises to...

Children are undeniably the future of every country in the world. It is also logical that a look into today’s classrooms is a look at the society of tomorrow.
As reported by German media, the German government’s latest data on demographics has reached potentially far reaching conclusions about those classrooms of today.
Data from its 2016 micro census revealed that 23% of the 82 million people in Germany had a so-called migration background (meaning that either they or one of their parents do not have German citizenship. This means children with families of non-German origin are no longer considered in this statistic if both parents have acquired German citizenship).
However, in the age group of 6 years old and younger, that number climbs to 38%. In former West Germany, which unlike the East has had large scale immigration for decades, the number is 42% of all children reaching school age.
Children of ethnic German origin are already a minority in Bremen (53% children of foreign background/31% of the total population), Frankfurt am Main (69%/51%) and the population of the State of Hessen (50%/30%).
This microcensus did not even consider the hundreds of thousands of migrants that came to Germany as asylum seekers, most of which are men in the younger age brackets.
Furthermore, the report points out that Germany’s population has been increasing lately, entirely because of mass immigration. The number of ethnic Germans has been sinking constantly, leading to the population replacement that is now visible and evident.
The stark contrast between the younger and older age groups shows that migrants and their descendants are rapidly outpacing the German population – if current trends continue, it is a matter of years until ethnic German children are a minority in the newly born generations. The immigrant heavy classrooms of today are already set to make for a vastly different adult society of tomorrow.
This marks a fundamental and radical transformation of German society – for the first time, ethnic Germans are at a concrete risk of becoming a minority in their own homeland. Indeed, these numbers are an indication that...