When Argentine President Javier Milei scolded panjandrums at the World Economic Forum in Davos last week, it brought to mind a central passage in Christopher Hitchens’s Hitch-22 in which the late Anglo-American writer confronted contradictions between his socialism, which was creaking by then, and his instinctive, humane liberalism. The incandescence of Milei and Hitch illuminates […]
“It is literally the definition of kicking someone when they are down,” Andres Giraldo Florez, owner of the Snail Bar in Oakland, California, told City Council candidate Chris Moore after Oakland police gave Florez an invoice for responding to a call that his store had been robbed. “They came one hour after we got robbed,” […]
The results from Iowa and the anticipated results from New Hampshire indicate that the motivated voters for both parties are masochists. This has been obvious among the GOP, whose voters have chosen the path of most resistance by backing former President Donald Trump. Trump rolled over for health bureaucrats and the “Swamp” he railed against […]
Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) sent a letter to Meta executives on Monday expressing her concerns with recent filings related to digital assets services. In a letter to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and COO Javier Olivan, Waters said she was concerned about the “filing status of five trademark applications related to various digital assets services and blockchain technology”...
The U.S. and United Kingdom on Monday conducted another round of large-scale air and missile strikes on Houthi militant targets across Yemen, according to the Pentagon. U.S. and U.K military took “proportionate and necessary strikes” against eight Houthi targets in Yemen, including an underground storage site and locations associated with the rebel group’s missile and air surveillance capabilities, according to a...
MANCHESTER, N.H. — Former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley's presidential campaign said on Monday it had raised over $500,000 in the 24 hours after Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R ) dropped out of the presidential race. The development comes just one day before the New Hampshire primary where Haley is looking to take on former President...
Former President Trump said he would score higher on a cognitive test than GOP challenger Nikki Haley, who has seized on a series of gaffes by Trump to criticize his age ahead of New Hampshire's crucial primary on Tuesday. In an interview with Fox News’ Martha McCallum, Trump claimed that he would beat Haley in...
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ruled Monday that the maker of TurboTax is deceiving customers when it claims a version of its online tax filing software is free, when most customers would have to pay for it. The FTC’s opinion states that Intuit’s TurboTax Free Edition, marketed as a stripped-down version of its paid software...
A group of four individuals projected a swastika on a college dorm building at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater while yelling racist chants Sunday night, according to the school. Chancellor Corey King said in a statement to his community that around 5:40 p.m. local time Sunday police heard reports of four people "outside of Knilans...