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  • Bernie Sanders PAC gets Berned (and Rightfully so)

    Bernie Sanders PAC gets Berned (and Rightfully so)0

    The Hill reports: “The creator of a super-PAC allegedly supporting Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has been charged with securities fraud, The Center for Public Integrity reported Tuesday. Cary Lee Peterson, who created the political action committee that collected nearly $50,000 from actor Daniel Craig, was arrested Sunday by the FBI. He has been charged

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  • Bernie Sanders Is the Democrat to Beat

    Bernie Sanders Is the Democrat to Beat0

    With less than a week to go before the official kickoff of the Democratic primaries, the parallels between the dynamics of the 2020 primaries and the contest in 2016 are almost uncanny. If there is both one key similarity and one major difference, they both involve the socialist senator from Vermont, Bernie Sanders. The similarity

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  • Bernie Sanders Doesn’t Understand How Jobs Are Created

    Bernie Sanders Doesn’t Understand How Jobs Are Created0

    There is a great deal of wisdom in the old saying, “there is no such thing as a free lunch.” And while most, if not all, of our elected officials, would do well to remember this piece of advice, Bernie Sanders appears to need constant reminding. Sanders has made a habit of trying to make

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  • Berkeley Removes 20k Online Videos to Comply with Nutty DOJ Order

    Berkeley Removes 20k Online Videos to Comply with Nutty DOJ Order0

    Thanks to a demand from the Justice Department last year, the public will soon lose access to thousands of college lectures. Inside Higher Ed reports that the University of California, Berkeley will “cut off public access to tens of thousands of video lectures and podcasts in response to a U.S. Justice Department order that it make

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  • Beren and Lúthien: Tolkien’s Greatest Love Story

    Beren and Lúthien: Tolkien’s Greatest Love Story0

    There are many great literary love stories. Apart from fairytale princesses and their trysts with charming princes, we think perhaps of Romeo and Juliet, or Helen and Paris, or Odysseus and Penelope, or Aeneas and Dido, or Dante and Beatrice. And we think of those who gave us such lovers. Shakespeare, Homer, Virgil, Dante. We

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  • Benjamin Franklin’s 4 Steps to Becoming a Great Writer

    Benjamin Franklin’s 4 Steps to Becoming a Great Writer0

    If Twitter or Facebook had existed during the colonial period, Benjamin Franklin likely would have been one of its wittiest contributors, as evidenced by his pithy words of wisdom in Poor Richard’s Almanac. But Franklin wrote far more than witty slogans. In fact, his personal correspondence, policy proposals, and other writings take up a full

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