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An Intel computer chip logo at the Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles, Calif., June 11, 2019. (Mike Blake/Reuters) It isn’t difficult to see why capitalism gets a bad name when many big companies have the receipt of government subsidies as part of their business plan. See the Wall Street Journal here: Intel Corp. INTC said it
President Joe Biden issued another warning of the possibility of a Russian cyberattack on critical infrastructure in the U.S. “The magnitude of Russia’s cyber capacity is fairly consequential, and it’s coming,” said Biden Monday at a business roundtable meeting. “The federal government is doing its part to get ready,” he added and called on the
The murder trial against one of the suspects in a slaughter of Long Island teenagers that was called a “bloodbath” began on Monday. Leniz “Little Devil” Escobar is accused of luring the five teenagers into a wooded area in April 2017 where members of the brutal MS-13 gang ambushed them and murdered four. One narrowly
During a segment on the first day of congressional hearings on the nomination for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court, MSNBC’s The 11th Hour host Stephanie Ruhle was clearly frustrated by Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) broadcasting his questions Jackson regarding her history of giving those convicted of viewing or distributing child porn light sentences. Ruhle started by
The opening day of hearings on federal Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s nomination to the Supreme Court focused on the nominee’s record and the historic nature of her appointment. President Joe Biden last month nominated Jackson, a judge on the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia and before that a federal district
(Anthony Bolante/Reuters) The medical-marijuana movement touts cannabis as almost a cure-all. It supposedly relieves pain, depression, and anxiety, improves appetites for people in chemotherapy, etc. Well, not so fast. It turns out that there isn’t all that much science behind some of these claims. To the contrary, a just-published study in JAMA Open Network concluded
Biden, the Democrats and the media have bent over backwards trying to blame everyone and everything for inflation. They have basically blamed everyone but Biden and Democrat policies. The good news is that they are not fooling anyone. People are not stupid and know what is driving this problem. According to a new poll from
Loading chart… PPG Industries Inc: “I think PPG is down too much. I think it’s okay, but … This is a company that has been really hurt by raw costs. That’s going to end eventually. I think if you can handle disappointment at this point, I would buy the stock.” Loading chart… AppFolio Inc: “You’ve
Moments after President Biden’s left-wing Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson concluded her opening statement during Monday afternoon’s Senate confirmation hearing, the broadcast networks went to work hailing her performance and preemptively declaring her immune from any Republican criticism. The swooning coverage marveled over Jackson and advised the GOP “this is not the hill maybe
On Monday, Stuart Varney interviewed Donald Trump on Fox Business. During the interview, Trump made some interesting comments about the upcoming elections. As usual, Trump pointed out how the 2020 election was “rigged” and how any discussion on it is censored. “Well, they don’t like the truth,” he said. “So look at all the hundreds of
Warren Buffet announced a massive $11 billion acquisition Monday, the largest deal in roughly five years. Berkshire Hathaway said Monday it agreed to an all-cash purchase of insurance company Alleghany for $11.6 billion, or $848.02 per share. Alleghany will continue to operate independently of Berkshire Hathaway until the sale is completed. The acquisition, which is
Robert Fripp in In the Court of the Crimson King. (Toby Amies/Platform Media Group) Robert Fripp does not appear to be a particularly pleasant individual to know, but, after watching the new documentary about the band he rules with a calloused hand, I begin to understand how he occupies this rarefied position in rock and
A California police officer’s hidden talent was discovered this weekend after the arrest of a suspected thief. On Saturday, Officer Marc Guillermo responded to a call after home security cameras captured a suspicious man checking door handles in the neighborhood of Rocklin, California. After investigating the area, officers found a male subject matching the description
Actor Andrew Garfield rejected the idea that people should only portray people of their own demographics and explained that it kills “emphatic imagination.” Garfield made the comments in an interview with The Telegraph when he was questioned about controversy over his portrayal of a gay character when he is straight. “I think it’s two different
Monday afternoon, during a break in the Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson, ABC congressional correspondent Rachel Scott embarrassed herself in having tried to corner Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) over concerns with Jackson’s light sentencing for child sex predators. Repeatedly, Hawley called her out for “gotcha” questions using “White
In the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Vladimir Putin deserves the world’s unmitigated scorn, but not the United States’ undivided attention. For while Russia today may be an enemy of the West, it is not really a rival. For that, we must look to China. Putin’s fantasy of resurrecting a greater Russian empire is just that, a fantasy. In
A Canadian Pacific Railway crew works the CP Rail yards in Calgary, Alberta, in 2014. (Todd Korol/Reuters) Over the weekend, Canadian Pacific Railway (CP) began to shut down its operations because of a labor dispute. Headquartered in Calgary, CP is one of the largest freight railroads in North America, with over 12,000 miles of track.
Senate confirmation hearings for Biden’s Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson began Monday morning. Last Wednesday, Hawley posted a Twitter thread based on Jackson’s record as a federal judge and as a member of the U.S. Sentencing Commission that showed Jackson consistently sympathized with and sentenced child porn offenders to sentences well below those in
To Dr. Connie Lehman, a breast cancer scan is like a fingerprint that provides clues for developing personalized medical care. ”There is so much information in every digital image of a woman’s breast tissue, and the deep learning technology can extract that and predict the future and in ways we haven’t been able to
Political commentator Steven Crowder tore former Daily Show host and multimillionaire Jon Stewart apart for preaching environmental progress but downplaying the cost — the livelihoods of working people. Crowder recently blasted an episode from The Problem with Jon Stewart on the March 16 edition of his show Louder with Crowder. In a roundtable conversation, Stewart’s
“Learn to hold it,” says Maura Healey, Massachusetts Democrat candidate for governor, to little girls who feel uncomfortable sharing the ladies’ room with men. I’m just old enough to remember when certain mothers used to tell their teenage daughters to keep their knees crossed rather than indulge in premarital sex. While that advice was often
At their March meeting, the Federal Reserve decided to raise interest rates a meager 0.25 percent. That hike will do little to head off the upcoming double-digit price increases that will begin before summer starts. The Fed’s shockingly irresponsible behavior will do little to reduce inflation. And because of their weak position, when they finally
Saudi Aramco’s Ras Tanura oil refinery and oil terminal in Saudi Arabia in 2018. (Ahmed Jadallah/Reuters) Yesterday, the Iranian terrorist proxies, the Houthi, attacked a Saudi Aramco petroleum-distribution plant at Jeddah, setting a storage facility on fire. The Saudis subsequently publicly signaled they will not be responsible for decreased oil supply due to the damage.
Both political parties are salivating to draw our military into the Russia-Ukraine war, but neither of them seems to care about what our own leaders have done to these soldiers. It is now abundantly clear from numerous data points that the shots have caused unimaginable injury among the general population. Military doctors have come forward
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that if peace talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin fail, it will mark the beginning of “a third World War.” While speaking with CNN host Fareed Zakaria, Zelenskyy said that he is “ready for negotiations” with Putin to try to end the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine. “I’m ready for
On Sunday, The Right Scoop’s Fred T. reported on a left-wing columnist and editorial page editor getting caught in stunning hypocrisy when it came to her treatment of Supreme Court nominees: “Washington Post’s Ruth Marcus says a SCOTUS seat is too important to do fact-checking or truthfulness. Except when she says the opposite. So just
William Safire, the famed New York Times columnist who thought suicidal nationalism was a great idea for the Ukrainians back in 1991, used to write columns in which he peered into the souls of various leaders to see how the world looked from their point of view. Safire’s oeuvre of columns was a great illustration
Timothy Sandefur of the Goldwater Institute writes about the failure of an effort to raise taxes in Arizona: That effort first began in 2018, when public-school teachers across the state led an illegal strike that shut down most public schools for over a week. Falsely claiming that the state’s schools were money-starved, school employees refused show up for work
Abby Martinez had been feeling sick and close to tears all day. She had lunch with a friend, but could hardly eat. She didn’t know what was wrong, but suspected the feeling might have to do with her 19-year-old daughter Yaeli, who identified as a man. When Martinez couldn’t shake a feeling of deep sadness