Month: April 2022

How to Render Bacon Fat

One of the best ways of starting your morning is with a bacon-filled breakfast. However, once you get this iconic breakfast food to your desired level of crispiness, it’s common practice to ditch the leftover fat drippings. But doing so is wasting one of the best ingredients no one cooks with anymore but should. Rendering bacon fat means…


Key Arizona Food Pantry Picking up Pieces After Out-of-Control Fire

MARICOPA, Ariz.—Maricopa Food Pantry CEO Jim Shoaf said the devastating pantry fire on March 28 couldn’t have come at a worse time of peak demand and concerns over food shortages. The electrical fire started at noon inside an old battery-powered pallet jack. Six parked trailers and 48,000 pounds of storage food lay in smoldering ruins…


Joe Biden Agreed to Pay Hunter’s Legal Bills Connected to Chinese Business Venture: Leaked Emails

President Joe Biden in 2019 appears to have agreed to pay for his son’s legal fees relating to dealings with a Chinese firm that has ties to the Chinese Communist Party, according to newly reported emails. An email dated Jan. 17, 2019, with the subject line “Hunter’s bills” and greeting “Hello VP team,” shows Hunter’s…


Strawberries Aren’t Berries — but These Other Fruits Are

Good for your heart and good for your mind, strawberries, blackberries and raspberries add color to your plate and brighten up your day. Yet, in a botanical sense, strawberries, blackberries and raspberries are not actually berries. To understand the discrepancy, here’s what makes a fruit a fruit in the first place. Fruits are the edible…


Peter Menzies: On Free Speech in Canada, Trudeau Decides, Not Musk, Regardless of Twitter Buyout

Commentary If Elon Musk is looking for a scrap over free speech, Canada could very well provide him with his first brawl. Although his comments following his purchase this week of Twitter for US$44 billion indicated content moderation would still be a feature of the notoriously rambunctious platform, Musk is known as a free speech…


On Free Speech in Canada, Trudeau Decides, Not Musk, Regardless of Twitter Buyout

Commentary If Elon Musk is looking for a scrap over free speech, Canada could very well provide him with his first brawl. Although his comments following his purchase this week of Twitter for US$44 billion indicated content moderation would still be a feature of the notoriously rambunctious platform, Musk is known as a free speech…


Who’s Afraid of Elon Musk?

Commentary Not long ago, Elon Musk was regarded as a liberal superhero with a cape because of his support for green energy and electric cars. But now that he’s the new owner of Twitter with his estimated $40 billion to $50 billion acquisition, the left is as angry as hornets. Hundreds of employees are threatening…


Archegos Founder Bill Hwang Arrested on US Federal Fraud Charges

Founder of Archegos Capital Management, Bill Hwang, was arrested on April 27 after being indicted on charges of securities fraud, wire fraud, and racketeering, announced federal prosecutors for the Southern District of New York in Manhattan. The head of the New York-based hedge fund, which collapsed in March 2021 after defaulting on margin calls, was…


Beyond Bourbon Street: Touring the Delta

On a tour of the Mississippi River Delta, I hardly expected to find myself in a beautifully restored 1934 Art Deco airport terminal. But there I was, standing on a large marble compass inlay admiring the surrounding flight-themed murals by Xavier Gonzalez. Once called the “air hub of the Americas,” New Orleans’s diminutive Lakefront Airport…


House GOPers File Discharge Petition on Bill Seeking to Protect Women’s Sports

Facing refusal by Democratic leaders to allow the House of Representatives to vote on his bill protecting women’s sports, Rep. Greg Steube (R-Fla.) and Republican Study Committee (RSC) Chairman Rep. Jim Banks (R-Ind.) filed a discharge petition on behalf of H.R. 426, the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act of 2021. First filed by Steube in…