Month: July 2022

House Speaker Pelosi Invites Senior Lawmakers to Join Taiwan Trip: NBC Report

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has invited at least three lawmakers to join her planned trip to Taiwan, according to some contacts familiar with the matter, NBC News reported. Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas.), the top Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said in an interview at the U.S. Capitol that he and Committee Chairman…


Trafficking Survivor Eliza Bleu: How My Abuser Preyed on My Vulnerabilities

“Grooming, in my case, looked like an abuser finding out my vulnerabilities. He knew I wanted to be famous. He knew I wanted to get out of the farm life that I was growing up in.” At the FreedomFest conference in Las Vegas, I sat down with Eliza Bleu, a child sex trafficking survivor. Now…


PREMIERING NOW: Trafficking Survivor Eliza Bleu: How My Abuser Preyed on My Vulnerabilities

This episode will premiere on Thursday, July 28, at 7:30 p.m. ET.   “Grooming, in my case, looked like an abuser finding out my vulnerabilities. He knew I wanted to be famous. He knew I wanted to get out of the farm life that I was growing up in.” At the FreedomFest conference in Las Vegas,…


PREMIERING 7:30PM ET: Trafficking Survivor Eliza Bleu: How My Abuser Preyed on My Vulnerabilities

This episode will premiere on Thursday, July 28, at 7:30 p.m. ET.   “Grooming, in my case, looked like an abuser finding out my vulnerabilities. He knew I wanted to be famous. He knew I wanted to get out of the farm life that I was growing up in.” At the FreedomFest conference in Las Vegas,…


GDP Prints at a Technical Recession

NEW YORK (July 28th)—GDP printed at -0.9 percent this morning, 1.4 percentage points worse than market expectations of +0.5 percent. We had estimated the GDP to print up between nil to 0.5 percent up in our June Jobs Report.  We attribute the “miss” to a continuing anomaly from the ports being cleared, discussed more below. The…


4 Killed and 6 Hurt in California Highway Head-On Crash

RIO VISTA, Calif.—Four people were killed and six were injured in a head-on crash between a sedan and an SUV carrying a Mexican family of seven on vacation, authorities said. The crash on a two-lane highway notorious for collisions happened Wednesday night in the small city of Rio Vista, about 40 miles south of Sacramento,…


Hong Kong University Develops Algorithm to Predict a COVID Vaccine’s Effectiveness Before Delivery

The Chinese University of Hong Kong’s (CUHK) Faculty of Medicine has developed the world’s first algorithm to rapidly evaluate the effectiveness of vaccines used to combat SARS-CoV-2 variants. According to the article published in the journal of Nature Medicine, the algorithm delivers a 95 percent rate of accuracy when predicting a vaccine’s efficacy and can…


Does Roe’s End Benefit Everyone?

Commentary  In a confusing and incoherent speech at the UN in July, Prince Harry linked what he called the rolling back of constitutional rights in the United States (i.e., the Supreme Court’s Dobbs ruling) to the Russian war in Ukraine. Both were examples, as he saw it, of a “global assault on democracy and freedom.”…


Washington Mayor Requests National Guard Help to Deal With Illegal Immigrant Influx

Washington’s mayor has asked the U.S. government to activate the National Guard to help the city deal with the illegal immigrants being transported from border states. Describing the situation as “a growing humanitarian crisis,” Mayor Muriel Bowser told reporters on July 28 that “we need space and we need the federal government to be involved.”…


Semiconductor Independence and the Failure of US Sanctions

Commentary Unless you happen to live under a rock, you’re no doubt aware that the world is in the midst of an “everything” crisis. With global shortages of gas and grains, baby formula, and bananas, it’s time to add semiconductors to this ever-expanding, rather eclectic-sounding list. According to analysts at McKinsey, the semiconductor industry accounts for $450…