Month: June 2022

5 Tips for Summer Backyard Entertaining on a Budget

While you may never be on the Martha Stewart or Ina Garten level of home entertaining (after all, we don’t all have a home in East Hampton with a lush backyard), there’s no reason you can’t aspire to these mega-hostesses’ easy, breezy entertaining philosophies. And while you’re at it, you can aspire to host for…


COVID Measures Should Have Been Targeted, Says Laval University Immunology Prof Whose Article Was Abruptly Pulled

A professor of infectious diseases and immunology is questioning Quebec’s COVID-19 pandemic management with an analysis of provincial data, saying risks were overstated and measures uncalled for. “The threat from COVID-19 was very real, but was it as significant as reported?” said Patrick Provost in the piece published in Québecor media company platforms on June…


Book Review: ‘How to Stop a Conspiracy: An Ancient Guide to Saving a Republic’

Princeton University Press is putting its best foot forward by using an old foot. The press’s ongoing collection entitled “Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers” has a new addition with “How to Stop a Conspiracy: An Ancient Guide to Saving a Republic.” Josiah Osgood, professor and chair of classics at Georgetown University, has written a new…


How to Sell Your House for the Highest Price Possible

So you’re getting ready to sell your house. Just thinking about it can be an overwhelming experience. Should you hire a real estate agent? Should you do a FSBO (for sale by owner) to keep from paying that big commission? Should you spend a lot of money to paint and re-carpet — at least the…


China Concepts Stock in Desperate Situation Amid Rising Geopolitical Tensions

News Analysis The American dream of Chinese business owners was shattered when more than 200 China Concepts Stock left the United States, the world’s largest capital market, due to China’s rejection of U.S. regulatory requirements as well as the U.S.-China geopolitical tensions. June 10 was the last day Didi Global (DIDI) was listed on the…


China Concepts Stock Driven to Desperate Situation by the Chinese Communist Party

The American dream of Chinese business owners was shattered when more than 200 China Concepts Stock left the United States, the world’s largest capital market, due to China’s rejection of U.S. regulatory requirements as well as the U.S.-China geopolitical tension. June 10 was the last day Didi Global (DIDI) was listed on the New York…


The Air Travel Mess

Cole Porter, in a different universe, might have written a song, “Another agony, another trip,” with lines something like these: Four weeks and you think it’s a curse; Three weeks and it couldn’t be worse; One week, will it ever be right? And all of a sudden, it’s time for your flight. Those hypothetical other-universe…


Official: Upgrades Urged at Amtrak Crash Site, but No Action

MENDON, Mo.—The chief elected official in the Missouri county where an Amtrak train slammed into a dump truck said Tuesday that residents and county leaders have been pushing for a safety upgrade at the railroad crossing for nearly three years. Meanwhile, the toll from the accident rose to four deaths and 150 injuries. A day…


4th Person Has Died Following Missouri Amtrak Derailment

MENDON, Mo.—A fourth person has died from injuries suffered in an Amtrak train derailment in Missouri, the state highway patrol said Tuesday. The patrol said the person died at University of Missouri Health Center. The person’s identity was not released. The patrol said the fourth fatality was aboard the Southwest Chief train, as were two…


[PREMIERING at 3PM ET] Biden Once Said Abortion Is “Always a Tragedy”, “Not a Right” | The Larry Elder Show

In a speech delivered on Friday, President Joe Biden said the three Supreme Court justices nominated by former President Donald Trump “were the core” of the “decision to upend the scales of justice and eliminate a fundamental right for women in this country.” However, back in 2006, Biden gave an interview to Texas Monthly—where he…