Media rights group RSF warned Friday about “an alarming deterioration in press freedom” in the United States under President Donald Trump as well as “unprecedented” difficulties for independent journalists around the world. Paris-based Reporters Without Borders, which has been tracking press freedom for the last 23 years, said its main index had fallen to its … Read more
When there are credit card payments, student loan payments, rent, mortgage, car payments, utilities, groceries, …, and the good ‘ole gym membership competing for those precious budget dollars, it can be so easy to ignore savings. In this post, I’ll show you why it’s vital to save monthly. How will we do this? By paying … Read more
Elon Musk and Grok – the chatbot owned by his company xAI – haven’t always seen eye to eye. While Musk has gone full Republican with his support for President Donald Trump, Grok is perceived to have a more liberal bent, which has often clashed with its owner’s politics. Musk’s xAI rolled out the latest … Read more
Hamas’s armed wing on Saturday released a video showing an Israeli hostage, Elkana Bohbot, pleading for his release. Bohbot, who was abducted from a music festival in southern Israel during Hamas’s October 7, 2023, attack, appears in the footage calling on the Israeli government to secure his freedom. The three-minute video, spoken in Hebrew, is … Read more
I’ve made a commitment to be honest about the good and bad that the Trump administration is engaging in. The conundrum I’m facing is that there really isn’t much good to point to. This whole thing is in a death spiral. Trump is calling for Thomas Massie, the man I have pointed out as the…
We’re nearly 50 days into Trump’s new ‘Golden Age,’ and yet, somehow, a large-scale war in the Middle East seems more likely now than at any other time since 2003. The obedient 47th President is determined to perform every trick that Benjamin Netanyahu and Miriam Adelson demand of him, regardless of whether or not their … Read more
The architects of projects like Próspera are drafting legislation to create US cities that would be free from federal regulations.
On 7 November 2024, days after Donald Trump was elected president, Andrew Tate posted a prediction on X. In response to a tweet asking what could come next, he replied: “My case being dismissed. Watch this space 😉”. Then, on 12 February, he posted again. “The Tates will be free, Trump is the president. The … Read more
Prior to 1913 the US government was financed by tariffs. It was under tariffs, not free trade, that the United States industrialized and became a manufacturing nation. Indeed, the Union invaded and destroyed the Confederacy in order to impose the Morrill Tariff on the South that enabled the North to industrialize. The North could not … Read more
A Hawaii man who spent 30 years in prison for a murder celebrated “Freedom Friday” after a judge ordered him to be released because of new DNA evidence. There were gasps and cries when Judge Kirstin Hamman said “the sentence is vacated and the defendant is ordered to be released from custody”. She ruled that … Read more