Sometimes people who ride all-terrain vehicles, motorcycles, dirt bikes — and even your everyday bicycles — hit the road in groups. Sometimes nothing comes of their convoys. But at other times — as Blaze News has extensively reported — they're up to no good.Harris’ dashcam video recorded the bikers beating him with helmets, kicking him, and hitting him with his own wrench, WINK said, adding that Harris suffered a fractured skull. Readers no doubt recall the horrific story about 30 to 40 ATV riders who surrounded and severely beat up an 82-year-old motorist who was out to "pick up a turkey" in Boston ahead of Thanksgiving in 2021.The victim's daughter told WCVB-TV her dad "wasn't doing anything wrong. He's simply traveling somewhere, and then he gets attacked, and it's heartbreaking for us to know that it's not safe for our 82-year-old father to be out by himself. Discouraged at humanity in general to know that someone — or more than someone — can get together and beat on a defenseless elderly man." Victim Richard Bell months later told Inside Edition, “I feel I’m lucky to be alive."It's been a problem in Houston ... in Durham, North Carolina ... in Wicomico County, Maryland ... in San Francisco ... as well as in other big cities such as Philadelphia, Los Angeles, New York City, and Miami.The following are a dozen times when gangs on motorcycles, ATVs, dirt bikes, and even bicycles harassed, attacked, and killed others.Dirt bike, ATV riders drag mother from car, brutally beat her during road rage attack while victim's 8-year-old child trapped in vehicleThe violent attack occurred about 11 p.m. on Aug. 1, 2021, after an alleged road rage incident in Providence, Rhode Island. The Boston Globe, citing a police report, said when the bikes failed to move during a green light, the mother honked and then made a turn. But a few minutes later when the mother was stopped at another traffic light, the Globe said the riders allegedly came up from behind her and surrounded her vehicle, preventing her from moving forward.A few of the riders dragged the 35-year-old mother from her vehicle, police said, adding that about 10 riders are seen on video viciously pummeling her with kicks and punches as her 8-year-old child was stranded in the car nearby. The riders then fled the crime scene. The violent attack was captured on a cellphone video, which WLNE-TV posted.Shyanne Boisvert, 24, was arrested Aug. 5 in connection with the attack, police said. She was charged with one count of simple assault and one count of disorderly conduct, according to Deputy Chief of Police Commander Thomas A. Verdi. She was held pending arraignment. The Cranston Police Department tipped off Providence Police to Boisvert's whereabouts since she was arrested in January 2021 for reportedly pushing a police officer after about 30 motorcycles and ATVs were speeding and weaving in and out of traffic. As the officer handcuffed Boisvert, another driver was arrested and accused of running over the cop's legs with his ATV before fleeing and later crashing into a police cruiser. Another member of the group was arrested and accused of leading police on a chase and striking a passing car.Gang of ATV, dirt bike riders surround police in Philly, throw bricks, bottles at cops, break windshield of police vehicleA gang of dirt bike and ATV riders surrounded police at a Philadelphia gas station on the night of Oct. 16, 2022, and threw bricks and bottles at cops, which resulted in a broken windshield. Police bodycam video showed one rider throw an object at a police vehicle. Police were still looking for the culprits days later; the city has a "no pursuit" policy for such vehicles, PhillyVoice reported at the time.Thug biker riding in large group stomps, smashes rear window of car while kids, 2 and 5, are in back seat. Mom confronts biker, who points gun her, but she won't back down.Blaze News reported extensively on the biker who was accused of stomping and smashing a car's rear window on a Philadelphia street last fall while kids, ages 2 and 5, were in the car's back seat — after which the biker allegedly pointed a gun at their mother and head-butted her.Nikki Bullock, the mother in question, spoke to WCAU-TV about the ordeal, which took place around 8:45 p.m. on Oct. 1, 2023. Bullock told the station she was delivering food with her girlfriend and their two children when the assailant — who was riding with large group of bikers — hit her car."They’re not paying attention to lanes. They’re just doing whatever. So I’m turning in the lane, and he just hits the side of the car," Bullock told WCAU, adding that she argued with the biker afterward. She noted to the station the biker at that point took things to another level, hopping up on her car's back bumper and stomping on the rear window before jumping high and smashing through the window with both feet. Video shows the biker getting down to the street while dropping what appears to be a gun. As the biker picks it up, the mom exits the car to confront the biker — who responds by pointing a gun at her. She continued trying to get in the biker's face, and the biker — who was wearing a helmet — head-butted her and shoved her.Well, Bullock still wasn't about to back down, and video shows her shoving the biker back — and he falls sideways along with his two-wheeled ride. Bullock added to WCAU that her kids are all right and "there's not a scratch on them." Video shows her with at least one child in her arms walking away from the scene. (You can view the station's interview with Bullock, as well as video of the incident, here.)Cody Heron, 26, was charged with possession of an instrument of crime, recklessly endangering another person, and multiple counts of aggravated assault in connection with the incident, the Philadelphia District Attorney's Office said. Heron pleaded guilty in February, after which he was convicted — and then earlier this month he was sentenced to one to four years in prison.Mini-bike riders attack 'Beverly Hills, 90210' actor Ian Ziering on Hollywood Boulevard: 'Hooliganism on our streets'Mini-bike riders were caught on video physically attacking "Beverly Hills, 90210" actor Ian Ziering on Hollywood Boulevard on Dec. 31, 2023. (You can view video of the attack here and here and here.) TMZ said the attack took place after a large group of riders were weaving in and out of traffic. Video shows Ziering exiting his vehicle and shoving a rider who appeared to be idling in front of the "90210" alum's vehicle. With that, the shoved rider went after Ziering — and got plenty of help from fellow riders, all of whom surrounded and converged upon the actor and began punching him.Ziering gamely fought back but began running across the street once he sensed he was outnumbered. But the mini-bike riders kept coming after Ziering. The actor kept fighting back, however, and managed to kick one of them before another threw an overhand right at the actor. A video recorded after the attack on Ziering shows at least a dozen riders idling in the middle of street, blocking traffic in both directions, as a couple of them kick and slam helmets into Ziering's vehicle before the whole crew takes off.KCAL-TV said Ziering's daughter also was in the vehicle during the attack; TMZ said the 10-year-old's name is Penna. It isn't clear whether anyone else was in the vehicle at the time of the attack. As the riders leave the scene, Ziering is seen crossing the street, heading to his vehicle, and hugging his daughter, who appears distraught.The next day Ziering posted an Instagram message saying that "the incident has left me deeply concerned about the growing boldness of such groups who disrupt public safety and peace. This situation highlights a larger issue of hooliganism on our streets and the need for effective law enforcement responses to such behavior. As a citizen and a parent, I find it unacceptable that groups can freely engage in this kind of behavior, causing fear and chaos, while the response from authorities seems insufficient."Last month police said two suspects were arrested in connection with the incident, USA Today reported. Jacob Esteban Hernandez, 20, was booked for felony vandalism, and Angie Teresa Guizar, 40, was booked for assault with a deadly weapon, the paper said.Dirt bike riders hunt down, shoot teen boy believed to have been making food deliveries on his scooter in south PhillyJust before 12:30 a.m. April 24, Philadelphia police found a 17-year-old boy suffering from a gunshot wound to his leg next to his crashed scooter at South 10th and Federal Streets, WCAU-TV reported, citing Chief Inspector Scott Small. Officers rushed the boy to a hospital, where he was being treated in stable condition, the station said.The incident began minutes earlier at 10th and South Streets when a group of about six to eight mask-wearing men on at least four ATVs tried to rob the teen of his scooter, police told WCAU, adding that the teen — who possibly was finishing his shift — fled on 10th Street. The dirt bikers "chased the 17-year-old who was on the motorized scooter" about 10 blocks before shooting him, Small told the station, after which the victim continued driving for about 100 feet before crashing his scooter into a parked car.Gang of young bicyclists carry out 'animalistic attack' on BMW in Manhattan in broad daylightThe attack took place around 4:30 p.m. on Dec. 29, 2020, at the intersection of Fifth Avenue and 21st Street, the New York Post reported. (You can view a video of the incident here in which the attackers try to get into the BMW, do body slams on its hood, and beat the vehicle with their bikes.) Soon one of the thugs gets a running start, launches himself off the hood, and comes down with both feet slamming into the car's windshield, shattering and caving it in.An unnamed Manhattan cop told the Post that "this was an animalistic attack in broad daylight." After noting that the pair in the car were clearly scared for their lives, the cop added, "It shows how far the city has deteriorated, and the politicians better get their heads out of the sand and start to deal with these problems before there is nothing left."Road-rage perp in large group of riders physically attacks motorist on Philly street, chucks heavy debris at vehicle — and appears to grab gunThe attacker was traveling with a large group of dirt bikes and quads, which is illegal, PhillyVoice reported at the time. The victim — a 25-year-old man in an SUV — had been driving just after 6 p.m. on March 9, 2021, when the riders came to a sudden stop, and the victim's SUV hit one of the bikes in the 1100 block of South Broad Street, the outlet said. Police said the SUV driver exited his vehicle to check on the biker — and the biker became combative and demanded payment for the damages, PhillyVoice reported. A now-deleted witness' video shows portions of the rider's subsequent attack, which included the rider punching the SUV driver. Then the enraged rider walks away from the SUV apparently toward the group with whom he'd been traveling and shouts, "Let me see that!" The biker then reaches out and appears to grab a gun from someone not visible in the clip. The rider also picked up what appeared to be heavy debris from the street and chucked it at both sides of the SUV, and the vehicle's windows appear to shatter. Police told PhillyVoice the SUV driver reported minor injuries from the attack and from being cut by broken glass. A passenger in the SUV who was not seen in the video also suffered unspecified injures, a police spokesperson added to the outlet. Police told PhillyVoice at the time that they have a "person of interest" in custody. (You can view video — which includes a report about the attack along with video of it — here.) Vicious biker gang brutally beats, stomps elderly man and son during broad-daylight attack in NYCDirt bikers violently yanked an elderly man and his adult son out of their car in Harlem on March 15, 2022, mercilessly beating them before stealing a cell phone, a wallet, and some cash. WABC-TV said the incident took place near the intersection of St. Nicholas Terrace and West 127th Street. (You can view video of the attack here.)Authorities said the beating occurred after one of the bikers ran a red light and collided with a car, which held a 64-year-old man and his 36-year-old son. Surveillance video shows at least four bikers surrounding the father and son's vehicle as two of them yank the driver out of his vehicle and throw him on the ground. One of the suspects then can be seen kicking the driver while he lies on the ground, and a second suspect later punches him. Video also showed others surrounding and kicking the victims while one suspect appeared to ram a bike into one of the victims. The victims were hospitalized and said to be in stable condition.At least three people were arrested in the wake of the attack, the New York Post reported: Antwaun Joyce, 30, was charged with three counts of robbery and one count of gang assault; James McMurren, 29, was charged with robbery, gang assault, and assault; Kureem Nelson, 35, was charged on two counts each of robbery and assault, as well as a count each of gang assault, petit larceny, and criminal mischief.Thugs on dirt bikes violently beat US postal worker in Brooklyn in broad daylight as he made his roundsThe mail carrier suffered multiple broken bones in his face when at least two males on dirt bikes attacked him, New York City police told WCBS-TV. (You can view video of the summer 2021 attack here.) The NYPD told WNBC-TV they're searching for five males following the attack on the 57-year-old postal worker. Witnesses said the dirt bikers aggressively rode around Brooklyn's Greenpoint neighborhood and prevented the mail carrier from completing his rounds by keeping him from crossing the street. Video shows one of the suspects illegally riding his dirt bike on the sidewalk and coming at the postal carrier from behind. The worker swiped at him with his keys, WCBS said, and the suspect struck back. A second suspect on a dirt bike joined in when the postal worker dared to defend himself. The two males pinned the victim against a wall and repeatedly punched him.Gang of about 30 ATV, dirt bikers brutally attacks motorist in NYC; 45-year-old victim suffers severe neck, spinal injuries and dies 2 weeks laterAuthorities said the Nov. 4, 2022, assault occurred around 10 p.m. on East 125th Street, WNYW-TV reported. One rider hit the passenger-side mirror of Arthur Cooke's vehicle, the station said, adding that Cooke got out to survey the damage and then the riders attacked him. Cooke died from his injuries Nov. 18, WNYW said, adding that he had a young child. (You can view WNYW's video report here.)Motorcycle riders chase motorist after verbal confrontation, beat him with his own wrench, fracture his skullThe road-rage attack took place in North Ft. Myers, Florida, on Jan. 9, 2021, the Daily Mail reported. (You can view video of the attack and the aftermath here.)Victim Jeremy Harris told WINK-TV he noticed the motorcycle riders blocking an intersection: “They were stopping traffic so that people could not get through, so I said something to them about it, and we had an exchange of words." Harris added to the station that he accidentally clipped one of the bikers while driving down Pondella Road, after which seven men went after him. Harris has a license to carry a gun and could have flashed it at his attackers, WINK said, but he decided against it and grabbed his wrench instead.“I grab the wrench more so to scare them off than to use it, and one of the guys on the bike pulled out a handgun and cocked it,” Harris recounted to the station. “I backed off, but before I could get back and turn to my vehicle, they swarmed me.”Harris’ dashcam video recorded the bikers beating him with helmets, kicking him, and hitting him with his own wrench, WINK said, adding that Harris suffered a fractured skull. “If I could sit in the passenger seat and just redo that, I would’ve said, ‘Hey, man, just keep going. It ain’t worth it. It ain’t worth it,'" he added to the station.WINK reported in a follow-up story that four males had been arrested in connection with the physical attack: Kevin Cordero, 27; Jermin Deleon, 36; Roberto Deltoro, 35; and Ramon Santiago, 32.Multiple ATV, dirt bike riders surround motorist on Christmas Eve, argument ensues, motorist tries to flee — and is fatally shot, sources sayThe driver of a red Mazda 3 was traveling southbound on Northwest 13th Avenue in Northwest Miami-Dade and was nearing the intersection with 119th Street just after 4 p.m. last Christmas Eve when multiple ATV and dirt bike riders surrounded the car, WSVN-TV reported, citing sources.An argument ensued, and when the motorist tried to flee, someone opened fire into the Mazda multiple times, sources told the station, and the victim suffered a gunshot wound to the neck. Sources added to WSVN that the subjects fled the scene. The station said Miami-Dade Police had not confirmed the aforementioned details but were investigating. Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

Having recently spoken to erstwhile academic colleagues, aka members of the “other America,” I was struck by how little our perceptions of current events even touch. Even more significantly, the views of what for me represent the other side are by no means confined to a small group of weirdos embedded in isolated echo chambers. Their interpretation of political and social reality may be the one held by as much as half of this country. Similar views can also be found among foreign inhabitants of what we euphemistically call the “liberal democracies.” Biden leads Trump outside the United States as a leader enjoying “global confidence,” according to the polls I’ve seen, by 15 points.From the perspective of these observers, many of whom underwent “higher education,” Joe Biden and his advisers are protecting “our democracy” against Donald Trump, who is now a “convicted felon.” Moreover, it seems that Trump and his MAGA terrorist followers have been planning a “revenge tour” ever since the FBI, Department of Justice, and most recently New York state officials revealed his trail of criminal activities.Much of the American public may believe what they tell us they believe, and they do vote.When I asked those in the other world about the felony committed by Trump, I was referred to a detailed commentary in the Washington Post by Ruth Marcus, underscoring Judge Juan Merchan’s “evenhandedness and restraint.” It was strongly suggested that I lack the objectivity of those who express such measured opinions.Please note that in national polling (Rasmussen may be the outlier here), Trump is now either tied with Biden or slightly behind. Although Biden’s decision to remove our borders has filled the country with violent, murderous interlopers, Trump leads Biden by only nine points in most recent polling on the border question.Biden is still leading Trump on “protecting democracy,” although I would be hard pressed to think of anything our bumbling chief executive has done to defend our constitutional freedoms. Indeed, his handlers have done everything possible to treat their political opposition as scum, jailing anti-abortion protesters, encouraging dangerous demonstrations before the homes of Supreme Court Justices who don’t vote the way Biden’s leftist constituents want, waging relentless lawfare against Biden’s chief political opponents, and allowing January 6 protesters to rot in jail, while leftist hell-raisers go unpunished. It seems to me that one would have to look back to Hitler’s Germany or Stalin’s Russia to find democracy being protected in quite the same way.But none of this has been registering with a large percentage of the U.S. population. According to an Emerson poll from June 6, 40% of those polled nationwide believe not only that Trump was rightly found guilty of a felony in New York City, thanks to D.A. Alvin Bragg, but also deserves jail time for what he supposedly did. Presumably, the same segment of the voting population is not much concerned about our border problem, the surging crime in our cities, or the rising cost of food, real estate, and energy. But they are enraged by how Trump is trying to overturn the democracy that Joe Biden is vigorously protecting. Moreover, many of those polled think women’s “reproductive rights” will be endangered if Trump is elected.These respondents are also unlikely to be phased by the vandalism of pro-Hamas demonstrators or by what happened during the “summer of love” in 2020 following the death of George Floyd. But my leftist acquaintances do remind me of the vast anti-Semitic threat represented by the neo-Nazis at Charlottesville. Somehow, Trump was responsible for that, just as he caused the “insurrection” on January 6. My reaction to these militant Trump-haters is the same as how I reacted to my fellow graduate students many decades ago who insisted that Joseph Stalin never murdered anyone but fascists. What I’m hearing from the other side strikes me as sheer madness. But whether their views are true or not, may not matter. Much of the American public may believe what they tell us they believe, and they do vote.These partisans have an abundance of media sources that amply confirm what they want to believe. For the legacy media and the national press, Biden is still out there fighting for “our democracy” against the MAGA terrorists and their sinister leader. Although Joe may be lapsing into dementia, he is still apparently defending the “undocumented” and women’s “health needs.” He and his administration are also on guard against “white supremacists” and those “Christian nationalists” who use the Bible to dehumanize the LGBT community. Joe has also been conducting a foreign policy that advances “human rights,” but here he’s been supposedly opposed by Republican isolationists and by Trump’s continued support for his fellow-strongman Putin.Let me repeat my warning to those who view the world as I do: Don’t overestimate the rationality of your fellow citizens and least of all the mental lucidity of our intelligentsia! Any political strategy you devise should take account of the unavoidable fact that you and they are seeing very different realities. Although Joe could easily lose in November, let’s avoid pretending we’re already home free. We’re not!

The world is said to be in a climate emergency. Illegal immigration, aircraft turbulence, and even your dog's behavior are all blamed on climate change.The prescribed solutions are the forced adoption of so-called green technologies that are less reliable and more expensive, driving up costs and lowering living standards. The enforcers of climate orthodoxy frown on eating red meat, having babies, and, in general, being human because doing so emits greenhouse gases that supposedly will overheat the planet.Why must people in the West forego their access to affordable energy sources when coal-guzzling China and India aren't going to give up fossil fuels for the next 40 years?None of it makes sense, particularly when juxtaposed with the massive and growing emissions of such gases from new coal plants in India and China. Western governments are punishing their citizens for no good reason.For too long people have been misled into thinking that wind and solar energy can replace fossil fuels, but this is false. Because they are costly and susceptible to the vagaries of the breeze or dependent on the diurnal availability of sunshine, they are incapable of supporting a modern society.Compared to traditional energy sources, wind and solar require huge amounts of land and materials to generate equal amounts of electricity. Environmentally friendly they are not.“The true energy and raw material impact of wind and solar is ‘hidden’ in the primary energy required for extracting the solar and wind energy and making the generated electricity truly usable by the consumer,” says Dr. Lars Schernikau, an energy expert who has been studying the utility of energy sources for economies.For families already struggling with the expense of daily living, the additional money spent on fuel, heating, and everyday energy use can be overwhelming. Poorer families spend a larger share of their income on energy, making them particularly vulnerable to price increases.The U.S. fossil fuel industry supports millions of jobs, particularly in states like Texas, Wyoming, and Pennsylvania. In fact, the country is a global leader in the production of liquefied natural gas. Carbon taxes and other regulations that favor wind and solar over fossil fuels lead to job losses and economic devastation as power plants shut down.All of this takes place as Asia opens coal-fired plants in record numbers!The world's first- and third-largest emitters of carbon dioxide are China and India, respectively. China's rapid industrialization and urbanization have made it heavily reliant on coal. The country consumes more coal than the rest of the world combined, and it continues to build new coal-fired power plants at a staggering rate.Despite commitments to begin reducing carbon emissions by 2030, China's coal consumption is expected to remain high for decades, driving significant carbon dioxide emissions. The case is no different in India, which will surpass China's oil use in the coming decades. Both China and India have set distant net-zero deadlines — 2060 for China and 2070 for India. These long timelines permit continued substantial fossil fuel consumption in the near term, especially through coal. Additionally, both countries are making significant efforts to increase the extraction, import, and consumption of natural gas.So, ask yourself or those with whom you discuss “green” policies: Why must people in the West forego their access to affordable energy sources when coal-guzzling China and India aren't going to give up fossil fuels for the next 40 years?Regardless of where one stands in the climate debate, the fact remains that adequate supplies of energy for modern living cannot be secured at this point in history without conventional energy sources.

At the site of Berenike, in the desert sands along the Red Sea, archaeologists are uncovering wondrous new finds that challenge old ideas about the makings of the modern world

The governor can and should reform teacher-prep programs, a hotbed of progressive ideology, in his state and provide a template for the nation on how to do so.

The dubious organization’s dealings with its own union reveal the Left’s hypocrisy, Big Labor’s radicalism, and the SPLC’s own untrustworthiness.

Contrary to Democrats’ hopes of a permanent majority, demographic voting trends give the GOP many opportunities to capitalize and win elections.

We are fully aware that the world of Democratic politics is well-stocked with fools. But Bowman’s behavior has been far worse than mere comic folly.

No need for showmanship. Just contrast Biden’s record with his own.

Remarks from NRI’s Regional Seminars.