Commentary For nearly a year, the lives of LA city employees who have chosen not to be vaccinated for COVID-19 have been turned upside down as they live each day with uncertainty and find themselves navigating a Kafkaesque labyrinth of local government bureaucracy. The reason for this is Ordinance No. 187134. Passed and approved by the…
The Great Reset in Action: Ending Freedom of the Press, Speech, and Expression
June 29, 2022
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Commentary Governments, corporations, and elites have always been fearful of the power of a free press, because it is capable of exposing their lies, destroying their carefully crafted images, and undermining their authority. In recent years, alternative journalism has been growing and more people are relying on social media platforms as sources of news and…
US Power Companies Face Supply-Chain Crisis This Summer
U.S. power companies are facing supply crunches that may hamper their ability to keep the lights on as the nation heads into the heat of summer and the peak hurricane season. Extreme weather events such as storms, wildfires, and drought are becoming more common in the United States. Consumer power use is expected to hit…
Spain’s 12-month Inflation Surpasses 10 Percent in June, First Time Since 1985
MADRID—Spanish 12-month inflation rose to 10.2 percent in June, the first time it has surpassed 10 percent since April 1985, from 8.7 percent in the previous month, preliminary data from the National Statistics Institute (INE) showed on Wednesday. The reading was higher than the 9.0 percent forecast by analysts in a Reuters poll. Core inflation,…
Anti-Brexit Campaigner Mulls Riding Around Parliament After Loudspeakers Seized Under New Law
An anti-Brexit protester said on Wednesday that he might “get a rickshaw” and “have a little whizz around” Parliament after police told him not to blast his amplifiers near the building. Steve Bray, a regular protester in Westminster known as “Stop Brexit Man,” had other amplifiers seized by police on Tuesday, hours after new laws in the…
Inflation: Reagan and Trump Versus Carter and Biden
Commentary Americans suffering from rising prices and the highest inflation in 40 years need to demand the results Presidents Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump gave them. They need to reject the policy failures of Presidents Jimmy Carter and Joe Biden. The difference in economic outcomes is not theory or an ideological or political position. The…
On Point: Flash Mobs, Tea Parties, and Tocqueville
Commentary In February 2009, a young man posting on a website dubbed “The Urban Prankster Network” (Headquarters for Global Agents of Stealth Comedy!) suggested a novel way to cool off the city of Austin, Texas, when the inevitable hell of a Texas summer bakes streets and fries brains: a citywide water gun and water balloon…
Style at Home: Lovely Lake House Essentials
By Katie Laughridge From Tribune News Service What is going on with this June weather? It’s usually August before this type of heat and humidity reach us! It makes me want to pack up the family and find some fresh (hopefully breezy) air at the nearest lakeside abode. However, with a newborn at home, it…
Book Review: ‘Middlemarch: Illustrated, the Complete Original Classics Edition’
I recently met up with one of my literary friends. We both like to read and discuss books. At one point, he shared with me that he’d read Tolstoy’s “War and Peace” three times. “I liked it that much,” he said. Tolstoy’s novel was published in 1869 and came in at more than 900 pages….
Train Kills 2 Illegal Immigrants Asleep by the Tracks in North Macedonia
SKOPJE, North Macedonia—Police in North Macedonia say two illegal immigrants were killed in the south of the country early Wednesday when a freight train hit them as they slept next to the tracks in the dark. The nighttime incident occurred outside Miravci, a village near the border with Greece. Police said they believed the two…
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