Federal prosecutors on Wednesday charged a Google employee with insider trading on Polymarket. In a seven-page complaint filed in federal court in the Southern District of New York (SNDY), the Department of Justice (DOJ) alleged that 36-year-old Michele Spagnuolo, a software engineer at Google, exploited his access to confidential, nonpublic data on Google’s “Year in...
Do you want your child to grow up to be Zack or Slater from Saved by the Bell, or do you want him to grow up to be like Screech? For the past week, this debate has raged on after the future Department of Government Efficiency Co-Chairman Vivek Ramaswamy posted on X an argument for […]
Crime after crime characterized the last few weeks of 2024. And it would be mental gymnastics to read about the recent chaos without considering America’s anti-life culture. We see it in the choices that dominate society: People are absorbed by unrealities, such as artificial intelligence and social media, marriage rates are at record lows, and […]
As the 119th U.S. Congress begins its term Friday, the country finds itself on the brink of historical, positive change — if the Republicans voted into leadership can uphold their campaign promises. They were elected to eradicate the bureaucratic failures of the last four years, govern, and put the people first. It is now up […]
Not long ago, a Texas native named Shamsud-Din Jabbar pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group on Facebook. Now, perhaps if he had been an election-denying vaccine skeptic, Jabbar might have gotten himself noticed by law enforcement. Instead, Jabbar was free to ram his rented Ford pick-up truck into a crowd on Bourbon Street in […]
With any luck, the recent grand reopening of the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, which was destroyed by a devastating fire in 2019, will be looked back upon as the dawn of the Western revival. In early December, leaders from around the world attended the first Mass in the famous gothic church in five years, […]
Now that departing President Joe Biden has outlived his usefulness to the Left, there is a new willingness to concede the press dropped the ball in assessing his ability to seek reelection and then serve a second term that would last until he was 86 years old. “I thought Joe Biden was going to prove […]
As President-elect Donald Trump expresses his support for House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), our nation faces a bigger problem at stake for Republicans and for the United States in 2025 — the decision of whether our representatives will unify to help all Americans. What’s the difference between a unified GOP House and one where members […]
Those of us with friends and families spent the end of 2024 celebrating Christmas, Hanukkah, and the Advent of the New Year. The internet’s most miserable misanthropes closed out the holiday season raging against the nation’s H-1B visa program. They’re mad about the program, which aims to bring foreign workers to the U.S. for skilled […]
There are many commendable adaptations of Charles Dickens‘s 1843 novella A Christmas Carol, but if your family is anything like mine, The Muppet Christmas Carol is the version that gets watched by the entire extended family every year. It’s the little things that make the Muppet version a crowd favorite. Everyone has their favorite scene. […]
On an election night that gave conservatives nearly more luminous moments than we could count, one shone with particular clarity. Around 1 a.m., before the networks called the presidential race but long after the result was obvious, CNN’s Van Jones faced the camera to deliver a characteristically weepy monologue. Black women and Hispanic people, Jones […]
We are told every day to fear the rise of the “Christian nationalists,” you know, those religious extremists who believe their rights come from God rather than from the state. But when they can catch their breath from their hyperventilations about theocracy, our media minders inform us that conservatives — pro-lifers, for instance — have […]
California voters decided in November that they wanted to celebrate the holidays and ring in the new year by locking up criminals who are finding out the hard way that their get-out-of-jail-free cards have been revoked. California voters defied the pro-criminal sympathies of Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) and other leading state Democrats to pass Proposition […]
The homeless population in the United States surged by 18% in 2024, the largest annual increase since the Department of Housing and Urban Development started collecting data in 2007. Worse, the number of homeless families increased by 39%, also a record. Although the HUD report released in December tries to hide it, President Joe Biden […]
“In a short time, man will be able to see what is happening anywhere in the world without leaving his own house,” the gypsy chief Melquiades prophesies to the settlers of Macondo on Page 2 of One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Fast-forward 415 pages, and we learn that Melquiades’s chronicle of […]
