Category: Trends & News

Here’s our Friday roll-up of the most ridiculous stories from around the world that are threats to your liberty, risks to your prosperity… and on occasion, inspiring poetic justice. Santa Cruz California Issues Mask Mandate for Private Residences Now that another COVID variant has emerged with a scary new name, governments are excited

In early 2007, the brand new District Attorney for Milwaukee County, Wisconsin gave an interview to a local newspaper spelling out his ‘progressive’ approach to crime. He told the reporter: “Is there going to be an individual I divert [i.e. release back onto the street] or I put into treatment program, who’s going

When Sultan Abdulmejid I of the Ottoman Empire declared war on Russia in the summer of 1854, he assumed it would be an easy victory that would restore his crumbling empire back to its former glory. But Abdulmejid’s dream never came true. The Ottoman Empire was already in dire economic condition by the

In early January 1964, barely six weeks after the assassination of John F. Kennedy, US President Lyndon Johnson delivered a speech to the American people in which he declared an “unconditional war.” But he didn’t declare war on Vietnam. Or Cuba. Or the Soviet Union. Johnson declared war on poverty. And in his

By the turn of the century in the year 1600, the City of London was booming. It was the Age of Shakespeare and Francis Bacon (the father of the scientific method). And London’s population had doubled in the previous 25 years. London’s fast growth, however, was totally unplanned. And many neighborhoods had become

Here’s our Friday roll-up of the most ridiculous stories from around the world that are threats to your liberty, risks to your prosperity… and on occasion, inspiring poetic justice. MSNBC Calls Black Lt. Gov a White Supremacist The outgoing governor of Virginia, Ralph Northam, was pictured in his college yearbook dressed in black

In the year 552 BC in the province of Persis in modern day Iran, a local sheepherder started a revolt against his ruler, King Astyages of the Median Empire. The sheepherder’s name was Cyrus, though he would become known to history as Cyrus the Great. Cyrus led the rebellion against Astyages for three

Here’s our Friday roll-up of the most ridiculous stories from around the world that are threats to your liberty, risks to your prosperity… and on occasion, inspiring poetic justice. Woke 401(k) rule quietly moves forward Almost exactly one year ago, the US Department of Labor issued a regulation requiring that employers and their

How many times now have the ‘experts’ been desperately, woefully wrong about elections over the past several years? They were wrong about Brexit. They were wrong about the 2016 US Presidential election. And they were hilariously, historically wrong about the 2020 election. In fact, according to a report from the American Association of

It was late spring of 1348 when a small ship departed from the port of Gascony in Southwestern France, destined for Dorset County on the English Channel. The ship was carrying basic provisions and goods for trade. But unknown to the sailors, dockworkers, and the locals in Dorset County, the ship was infested