Last week I watched another shooting unfold in my proverbial backyard, this time at the famous Mall of America, in Bloomington, MN. Thankfully, the incident wasn’t a mass shooting with multiple innocents getting mowed down in the corridors of the mall. Instead, it was an apparent gang-related shooting, with one gang member allegedly attempting to
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Last week the New York Times ran an article in which it described the apparent radicalization of a group of parents from mainstream political persuasions to a single-issue anti-vaccine fringe. It describes how these parents seemingly came together on social media out of a concern about the damage inflicted by lengthy school closures on their children,
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The FBI’s raid on former president Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate—ever so conveniently timed as the White House occupant’s approval numbers sink, the Swamp prepares to shovel a whopping $5.5 billion in foreign and military aid down the bottomless Ukrainian black hole and the American economy keels over like Biden on a bike—gives us a national
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FBI agents raided Mar-a-Largo, former President Donald Trump’s Florida home, on Aug. 8, 2022, supposedly looking for federal documents that Trump might have taken with him after leaving office. A day earlier, with Vice President Kamala Harris acting as tiebreaker for the deadlocked vote, the Senate passed the $700 billion Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). Among
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When House Speaker Nancy Pelosi defied White House signals that she not stop in Taiwan on her valedictory tour of Asian capitals, she ignited the worst diplomatic U.S.-China row in decades. And how did last week’s collision turn out for the United States? Writes The New York Times: Speaker Pelosi’s trip to Taiwan began with
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A popular joke amongst recent college grads runs as follows: An engineering graduate asks, “How does that work?” A business accountant graduate asks, “How much does that cost? A liberal arts graduate asks, “You want fries with that?” Such a joke reflects the flooded nature of the college degree market. When 2 percent of the
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