After kickstarting the market for making calls over the internet 23 years ago, Skype is closing down. Microsoft, which acquired the messaging and calling app 14 years ago, said it will be retiring it from active duty on May 5 to double down on Teams. Skype users…
What’s unfolding in this Balkan country is nothing less than the opening of another New Cold War front, albeit this time an ideological one which also interestingly pits nominal NATO allies against one another as the EU and the US take opposite sides. Observers were shocked on…
Speaking Jeffrey Epstein and things being kept under wraps (more on that later), a prosecutor with a famous last name quietly joined the sex trafficking case against Sean “Diddy Combs late last year… In a thinly covered news story from December that’s suddenly relevant again (read on), New…
At some point, some president was going to have to stop the unsustainable spending and borrowing. To have any country left, some president would eventually have had to restore a nonexistent border and stop the influx of 3 million illegal aliens a year. Some commander-in-chief finally…
This has nothing to do with the ‘free press’ and everything to do with the Washington media, so arrogant as to have someone like Eugene Daniels as its mascot, dying a slow death. I’d ask the Washington press corps if they have any idea how ridiculous they…
Boris Yeltsin was the president of Russia from 1991 to 1999, just as the Soviet Empire was dissolving. The immediate post-USSR period, when the Eastern European satellites were freed and the “soviet republics” became independent countries and Russia once again became Russia, was marked by rapid decline and…
Donald Trump was elected on a promise to drain the swamp. But it took Elon Musk to figure out where the swamp was located. As it happens, permanent Washington resides in the vast government agencies that suck trillions of dollars into a black hole pushing the country closer…
Fusion conservatism,” the brainchild of National Review’s William F. Buckley and the canonical philosophy of the Reagan Revolution, is one of the many casualties of the Trumpian era of American politics. There is, as always, a remnant. A number of these banded together and, in 2023, issued a new manifesto,…
Eric Swalwell’s world is about to crumble—and he has only himself (and a few too many highballs) to blame. If you’re a sitting US Congressman on the Homeland Security Committee, here’s a pro tip: Don’t get hammered at a Swamp hotspot, run your mouth about government secrets,…
Home ownership has been the foundation of middle-class stability and security for so long that it defines middle-class status as much as income. From the end of World War II in 1945 on, the deal was simple: buy a house and you’ll build equity that’s even better than a…
