Month: August 2022

Shanghai Court Conducts Hearing on Bruce Lee’s ‘Personality Rights’ Lawsuit

A Shanghai court recently conducted a hearing on the lawsuit against several locations of the Chinese fast-food chain Real Kungfu for infringement of Bruce Lee’s image. Bruce Lee Enterprises, LLC, headed by Shannon Lee, the daughter of Bruce Lee, filed the lawsuit in 2019 demanding that Real Kungfu immediately stop using the image of her father…


Birders’ Delight: Fall Migration in Wisconsin

With over 15,000 lakes (including two Great Lakes), several national and state wildlife refuges, and various wetlands, prairies, and forests, Wisconsin has an abundance of natural beauty to offer our feathered friends. In the fall, when many birds head south, the Badger State becomes the Birder State as pros and amateurs alike head out with…


Commanders Rookie RB Brian Robinson Jr. Shot in Washington

WASHINGTON—Washington Commanders rookie running back Brian Robinson Jr. was shot during an attempted robbery or carjacking, the NFL team said Sunday night. The 23-year-old former Alabama player was taken to a hospital with what the team called non-life-threatening injuries. The team said in a statement staff members were with Robinson at the hospital. Coach Ron…


Federal Court Partially Lifts Ban on Biden Administration’s COVID Vaccine Mandate for Contractors

A U.S. court has lifted part of the ban on the Biden administration’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for federal contractors, finding a lower court went too far in blocking the vaccination requirements across the nation—but also predicting that the challenge to the mandate will probably succeed. U.S. District Judge R. Stan Baker, a Trump appointee, in December…


The Media’s Tale of Good and Evil Continues to Darken

Commentary Though I’m sure the humor was unintentional, the funniest headline of the year so far, in my opinion, appeared in Politico Magazine last week. It read: “There’s a Huge Divide Among Democrats Over How Hard to Campaign for Democracy.” It will come as no surprise to you, I’m sure, that the article turned out to…


Federal Ministers Say Hiring Spree Helping With Visa, Immigration Delays

The federal Liberal government says hundreds of additional staff have been added in recent months to address long wait times and backlogs at Canadian airports as well as visa and immigration offices. Yet while cabinet ministers say the additional hires have started to make a difference, they acknowledge that far more work is needed when…


Musk Subpoenas Whistleblower Who Said Twitter Lied About Spam Bots

Tech entrepreneur Elon Musk has subpoenaed the Twitter whistleblower who recently made explosive claims that the social media company misled regulators about security and lied to Musk about the number of spam bots on the platform. Court filings show that Musk has subpoenaed Peiter Zatko, Twitter’s former security chief, who made a series of bombshell…


Elon Musk Subpoenas Whistleblower Who Said Twitter Lied About Spam Bots

Tech entrepreneur Elon Musk has subpoenaed the Twitter whistleblower who recently made explosive claims that the social media company misled regulators about security and lied to Musk about the number of spam bots on the platform. Court filings show that Musk has subpoenaed Peiter Zatko, Twitter’s ex-security chief, who made a series of bombshell allegations…


FBI Knew of Potential Hunter Biden Story Leak Before Warning Facebook

News Analysis Last week Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg admitted on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast that Facebook censored the Hunter Biden laptop story because of warnings it had received from the FBI. In response to Zuckerberg’s statement, the FBI issued a vague statement late on Friday, claiming that it had warned Facebook of “potential threat…


Jobs Reshored to US Projected to Reach Nearly 350,000 in 2022: Report

The number of jobs added in the United States from reshoring—that is, returning manufacturing and production of goods from overseas to where a firm was originally located—is on pace to hit almost 350,000 in 2022, according to a report published by the Reshoring Initiative. “In 2021, the private and federal push for domestic supply of…