Month: May 2021

At University, Ideological Dissent Is Not Welcome

Commentary Lisa Keogh, a law student at Abertay University in Dundee, Scotland, was attending an online class when she was asked to express her opinion. The question was, what is a woman? In a BBC interview on May 18, Keogh said that because of her answer—that women have female reproductive organs—the university is investigating her…


Book Excerpt: ‘Wilful Blindness: How a Network of Narcos, Tycoons, and CCP Agents Infiltrated the West’

Book Excerpt Killing the Golden Goose “He loses his chips and stalks around like a caged tiger for a minute and then rushes out of the casino.” In 2010, while Canada celebrated the Winter Olympics in Vancouver and the city was heralded as a global model of prosperity and livability—a small group of Gaming Policy…


Whistleblower Who Made UFO Reports Public Accuses Pentagon of Coordinated Campaign to Defame Him

Lue Elizondo, a former Pentagon official who made UFO reports public, has claimed that the U.S. military, including a top official, underwent a coordinated campaign to intimidate and defame him. Elizondo is the former head of the U.S. government’s Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP), which was disbanded in 2012. Five years later, he made…


Whistleblower Who Made Public UFO Reports Accuses Pentagon of Coordinated Campaign to Defame Him

Lue Elizondo, a former Pentagon official who made public UFO reports, says that the U.S. military, including a top official, underwent a cooperated campaign to intimidate and defame him. He is the former head of the U.S. government’s Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP) which was disbanded in 2012. Five years later, Elizondo made public…


UFO Whistleblower Who Made Public UFO Reports Accuses Pentagon of Coordinated Campaign to Defame Him

Lue Elizondo, a former Pentagon official who made public UFO reports, says that the U.S. Military, including a top official, underwent a cooperated campaign to intimidate and defame him. He is the former head of the U.S. government’s Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP) which was disbanded in 2012. Five years later, Elizondo made public…


Senate Advances Bipartisan Tech Bill Taking Aim at China

WASHINGTON—The U.S. Senate on Thursday advanced a sweeping package of legislation intended to boost the country’s ability to compete with Chinese technology, as Congress increasingly seeks to take a tough line against Beijing. Senators voted 68-30 to end debate on the $250 billion U.S. Innovation and Competition Act of 2021, or USICA, and move nearer…


Georgia Governor Restricts School Mask Mandates

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, a Republican, on Friday signed an executive order that restricts the state’s public school districts from mandating masks. The order (pdf), in effect from May 31 through June 15, says that schools and school districts cannot use public health state of emergency powers to compel staff or students to wear masks…


CCP Virus Likely Came From Chinese Lab: Former State Department Contractor

The virus that causes COVID-19 probably did not originate in nature, according to a former State Department contractor. “It came out of nowhere, and it was optimized for transmission between humans in a way that no bat-borne coronavirus ever had been. So what’s up? A pangolin gets mated with a bat gets mated with a…


5 Tricks to Organize Your Home Like a Boutique Hotel

What makes a hotel stay feel luxurious is often the simplest of things: fluffy towels, clean sheets, and mini toiletries—there whenever you need them. Do you want to recreate that same sense of indulgence in your own space? Use these organizational ideas to give your home the five-star treatment. Restock and Refresh Your Bath Towels…


Michael Jordan Donates $1 Million to Morehouse Journalism, Sports

ATLANTA—Basketball great Michael Jordan and Nike’s Jordan Brand are giving $1 million to Morehouse College in Atlanta to boost journalism and sports-related studies. The gift announced Friday will help enrich its journalism and sports program that was originally launched with a donation from director and actor Spike Lee. The school, in a news release, said…