Month: September 2021

Google to Make Highest-Priced Purchase Since Pandemic for Office Space in Manhattan

Google is set to purchase an office building in Manhattan for $2.1 billion, despite remote work having been applied on a large scale due to the pandemic. The building is the former High Line terminal. It’s currently under construction and expected to open in mid-2023. “As Google moves toward a more flexible hybrid approach to…


Alabama Health Care Group Halts COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate on Staff

An Alabama health care group suspended its plan to mandate COVID-19 vaccines for its staff, saying it must follow the law and wait for detailed federal guidance. Facing the threat of a lawsuit, the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Health System announced that it stopped requiring health care workers to get vaccinated against COVID-19, a…


‘The Poet of Childhood’: Remembering Eugene Field

Most journalism is ephemeral. The news reports, opinion columns, and commentaries on sports, fashion, health, and dining are brushed aside by tomorrow’s headlines and shifting interests. Here today and gone tomorrow are the usual watchwords in the Fourth Estate. We readers may have our favorite writers—I, for example, particularly relish the editorials by Conrad Black,…


An Intensifying Arms Race in Asia

Analysts warn that Asia may be sliding into an accelerating arms race as countries react to the Chinese regime’s military growth. The following is a list of the defense systems several Asian countries have bought or are looking to acquire. Australia The country said on Sept. 16 it would build at least eight nuclear-powered submarines…


Texas Governor Urges Biden to Declare Federal Emergency Due to Illegal Immigrant Surge

President Joe Biden should declare a federal emergency for the state of Texas because of the unprecedented surge of illegal immigrants, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott says. Abbott, a Republican, declared a state of emergency for counties across the state’s border with Mexico earlier this year, but that didn’t stop thousands of illegal aliens from entering…


Texas Governor Urges Biden to Declare Federal Emergency Due to Immigrant Surge

President Joe Biden should declare a federal emergency for the state of Texas because of the unprecedented surge of illegal immigrants, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott says. Abbott, a Republican, declared a state of emergency for counties across the state’s border with Mexico earlier this year, but that didn’t stop thousands of illegal aliens from entering…


Draping the Arc de Triomphe With ‘Irrational Freedom’

Commentary Extravagant, exhibitionist futility often seems nowadays to be the primrose path to artistic fame. For example, the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, one of the city’s great landmarks, has just been draped or wrapped in 25,000 square metres of polypropylene fabric, tied with red rope, for a few days, in accordance with the wishes,…


Beijing Unleashes Sweeping Bid to Remold Society

China’s tech behemoths are handing months of profits to Beijing to demonstrate loyalty to the communist party. Popular actors have been erased from internet history with their devoted online fan groups disbanded. Young gamers are now allowed no more than three hours of playtime per week. Across Chinese classrooms, 147,000 newly-minted inspectors have been deployed…


Brian Laundrie Possibly Spotted on Deer Camera in Florida, Officials ‘Actively’ Investigating

Brian Laundrie, a person of interest sought by police in the disappearance of missing woman Gabby Petito, was possibly spotted on a deer camera in an area in Flordia and police are investigating. Sam Bass said he spotted the man with a backpack at 6:17 a.m. in Baker, located on the western end of the Florida…


Communist Road Kill

Commentary From the time that Xi Jinping took office in late 2012, it has been clear that he was a hardcore communist. Sounding like every other communist from Karl Marx on, he predicted in an early speech “the eventual demise of capitalism and the ultimate victory of socialism.” Xi maintains that he doesn’t object to…