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Jake Tapper, sycophant

Nearly 2,000 years ago around the year 75 AD, the Greco-Roman historian Plutarch sat down to write his most ambitious work yet– a collection of biographies of the 48 most famous and influential figures of antiquity. It was called Parallel Lives, and this two-volume series covered everyone from the mythical founders of Rome

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Meet Bob: The American Pope Who Still Has to File US Taxes

I still can’t get over the fact that there’s an American pope… and that his friends refer to him as ‘Bob’. Bob. It just makes him seem like a regular dude who’d be drinking a beer and shouting at the umpire at a Cubs game. Something else that makes the new Pope seem

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So… now what?

One of the most mysterious villains in the history of cinema was the fictitious character ‘Keyser Söze’ from the movie The Usual Suspects. No spoilers here, but there’s a scene where they describe his rise in the criminal underworld. According to the story, Keyser Söze realized that “to be in power, you didn’t

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A top judge at the United Nations kept a slave at home. . .

Happy Friday. Here are a few stories that caught our eye this week: UN Judge Prosecuting Crimes Against Humanity Kept a Slave Lydia Mugambe had quite the résumé: High Court judge in Uganda. PhD candidate at Oxford. UN judicial appointee to the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals—a body tasked with handling cases

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It’s the return of the Inquisition…

In the early 1300s, the county of Toulouse in southern France was locked in an epic struggle with the Catholic Church over religious freedom. A large group of individuals who called themselves “Good Christians” were sort of proto-Protestants in that they still believed in the basic tenets of Christianity, but they did not

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A Beginner’s Guide to Western Civilization’s Self-Sabotage

Here are a few stories from the week that caught our eye, all of which highlight the bizarre ways that Western Civilization is sabotaging itself. Canadians screw themselves to spite Trump Canadians are celebrating that Donald Trump is not their new Prime Minister. Of course, he wasn’t on the ballot. But don’t tell

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This gold company is up 40% but still cheap (name below)

My partner Peter Schiff and I have both been pretty aggressive over the past couple of years in telling our audience that gold companies were deeply undervalued. Our thesis was simple: the price of gold was surging to fresh record highs every couple of months, yet gold companies were languishing at historic lows.

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Bizarrely, gold is the opposite of the Bitcoin effect right now

You’ve probably heard the story. As the legend goes, on a late-summer morning in 1929, Joseph Kennedy — patriarch of the famous Kennedy family — was headed into his office in downtown New York City. As he sat for a quick shoe shine, the young boy buffing his shoes, barely a teenager, eagerly

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America’s “Suez moment” has arrived

Don Edgar considered himself extremely lucky. It was early in the morning on November 6, 1956, and the World War II veteran turned journalist for Britain’s Daily Express was one of just two reporters invited to witness Britain’s invasion of Egypt. Standing on the bridge of a British warship, Edgar wrote that it

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China has officially deployed its digital arsenal

By 1970, US commanders in Vietnam were optimistic that they had “functionally severed” North Vietnamese forces. The generals were particularly boastful about their taking out the Ho Chi Minh Trail—a sprawling network of roads, footpaths, and tunnels through Laos and Cambodia that let North Vietnamese forces move troops and supplies into South Vietnam,

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New York’s Attorney General can’t possibly be this stupid…

When Letitia James campaigned to become Attorney General of New York State, she made one very clear campaign promise: prosecute Donald Trump. Prosecute him for what? Well, she’d figure that out later. Never mind that, in America, prosecutors are supposed to investigate crimes to find suspects, not investigate people to find crimes. But

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Preparing for the escalation that’s likely to come

Preparing for the escalation that’s likely to come There’s rumors floating around alleging that top secret plans from the Chinese Communist Party have been leaked, indicating that China’s President Xi Jinping views this conflict with the US as the opening to a complete and total war. Personally I’m skeptical if these leaked documents

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