I wish I could find my white privilege. All I can find is my white burden. Shrinking middle-class incomes are burdened with the upkeep of millions of illegals who, with the help of Democrats, have overrun our country and with the burden of supporting 42 million Americans on…
The AI gold rush has officially entered its messy phase. For the past couple of years, Silicon Valley has been showered with headlines about all these trillion-dollar potentials, miracle software, and “game-changing” systems that were supposed to transform everything overnight. Investors piled in like gangbusters, and the…
From the podium, it’s Churchillian thunder: prepare for war, deter Russia, stand tall, lead the free world. Back in the engine room, it’s Whitehall with a calculator, sweating through its suit because the numbers simply don’t work. The Financial Times reports Starmer has delayed the Defence Investment Plan…
I seriously doubt it. If you have the “smoking gun” memo detailing the whole plan, please disclose it in the comments. In general, killing off your customer base is bad for business. Here is how AlterAI answered the question I asked: “Were the Covid vaccines genocide?” Here…
Context matters, for context establishes cause and effect and what’s elevated to important / consequential.Context is tricky for two reasons:1) we only manage what we measure, so what we don’t (or can’t) measure is ignored as if it doesn’t exist. Yet what we don’t measure may still be causal…
I hate it when people talk about the “American Experiment.” Experiments can fail, and I don’t like the idea of living in a test tube. No one ever talks about the Chinese experiment, or the French experiment, although the French have actually done a lot of experimenting. During…
The results for the second round of the Chilean presidential election are in, and, to no one’s surprise, the victor is the right-wing candidate José Antonio Kast. Kast was the overwhelming favorite going into the second round, having prevailed over Evelyn Matthei and Johannes Kaiser in the contest…
My old friend, Sy Hersh, is out with a new piece on Substack that reveals a staggering ignorance and delusional thinking on the part of Steven Witkoff, Jared Kushner and other advisors in the Trump administration. Sy is a reporter… He records what his sources tell him; he does…
As the EU moves to crush protesting farmers demonstrating in Brussels, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán offered full backing to the farmers and their efforts to stop the EU’s Mercosur free trade deal, which threatens to destroy food security in Europe. “Farmers are 100 percent right,” said…
Thanks to decades of misreporting, unproven conspiracy theories about Jeffrey Epstein are the one thing uniting both camps of American politics. In expectation of a release of documents pertaining to the Jeffrey Epstein case, reporter Michael Tracey and I are putting out first entries in a series,…
