What if, just five years after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, seven flights departing London’s Heathrow Airport for five American cities and two Canadian cities mysteriously exploded over the Atlantic Ocean? What if this terrorist attack took place in the space of just three hours? What if the United Kingdom had detected no explosives either […]
Attempts to undermine property rights and confiscate private property, like the recent efforts of the Democratic Socialists of America, are unfortunately not new. For decades, government agencies have used their regulatory authority to restrict what Americans may do with their own property and to undermine its value. Now, property owners from New York and Maryland […]
On Sept. 2, Chevron announced a signed a $7 billion expansion of its Venezuelan operations, doubling production over the next five years. That is the concrete number. The $209 billion figure that acting President Delcy Rodriguez has floated publicly describes something looser, her own accounting of what the broader arrangement with Washington could eventually be worth to Venezuela. What […]
The 25th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks is upon us. Several thousand innocent civilian victims were murdered in three separate events in three locations. Those who remember that day won’t ever forget it. The al Qaeda Muslim faction, which organized and carried it out, is now largely gone — dead or incarcerated. The details […]
A few hours after watching the second plane hit the towers on Sept. 11, 2001, I stumbled into my college English class, where my professor asked us to jot down our thoughts and feelings. On a scrap of paper, I described my fear that my brother or father, a Marine, would be in harm’s way […]
In 1994, Jeff Bezos started Amazon as a small online bookstore. The idea was simple. He used digital logistics to give more people access to books. Three decades later, his company runs a quiet warehouse in Las Vegas. There, industrial machines slice the bindings off rare books. Workers feed the loose pages into scanners and […]
Ever wonder why so many people love to get drunk on New Year’s Eve? It’s not a new custom. In fact, the explanation goes all the way back to ancient Rome. The Romans, so precise about grammar, were equally organized with their calendar. They had precisely 12 months with precisely 30 days each, which left […]
STOYSTOWN, Pennsylvania — Not far from the entrance to the Flight 93 National Memorial, a quiet stretch of hillside rises gently along the Lincoln Highway. If you drive by too quickly, you might miss it entirely. Yet, this plot of Pennsylvania farmland has transformed into a living sanctuary. It honors not only the souls lost […]
Trump's Clarity Act faces a critical 60-vote test as Democrats demand crypto ethics rules tied to the President's $1.4 billion digital currency earnings.