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In the election of 1800, journalist James Callender once described presidential candidate (and then Vice President) John Adams as “a hideous hermaphroditical character, which has neither the force and firmness of a man, nor the gentleness and sensibility of a woman.” Adams’ opponent, Thomas Jefferson, was likewise smeared as “the son of a
It was more than 2,500 years ago in ancient Athens when democracy first took root. And the ancient Athenians quickly realized that if they wanted to have a cohesive society, they needed to ensure the utmost trust in their institutions and in their government. This is why they developed a formal method to
Gold just hit another all-time high this week, briefly touching $3,800 per ounce… which means it has more than doubled in the last two years. When any asset continues hitting all-time highs, most people who haven’t bought it yet naturally believe that they missed out… or that they should wait for a pullback.
In December 1901, Guglielmo Marconi, a self-taught Italian inventor and pioneer of wireless telegraphy, stood on a blustery hilltop in Newfoundland and heard the faint, rhythmic taps of Morse code—the letter “S”—transmitted wirelessly from across the Atlantic. It was the first time a radio signal had crossed an ocean, proving that long-distance wireless
In 1976, a young immigrant named Osama Siblani landed in the United States, full of gratitude for his adopted new country. Siblani was escaping the brutal and bloody civil war that was tearing apart his native homeland of Lebanon, and America represented the peaceful haven of freedom and opportunity that he was seeking.
To the surprise of absolutely no one, the Federal Reserve announced its decision yesterday to cut interest rates… and kept the door open to further rate cuts in the future. The funny thing is that we’ll never truly know why. Sure, it’s possible that Fed officials honestly felt that the economy needs lower
US Senator Joseph McCarthy was in the middle of an otherwise boring speech at the Republican Women’s Club of Wheeling, West Virginia on February 9, 1950, when he pulled out a nondescript piece of paper from his jacket pocket. Waving the paper into the air for all to see, Senator McCarthy proclaimed that
Like a lot of people, I first came across Charlie Kirk when YouTube’s algorithm started showing me short clips of him dismantling woke leftists at university campuses. Kirk used politeness combined with simple logic and reason to demonstrate what we all already knew: the Left has no idea what they’re talking about. That’s
In the late third century BC, the Roman republic was locked in a long and brutal war with its mortal enemy, Carthage. Hannibal had only recently crossed the Alps with his legendary elephants and humiliated the Roman military at the Battle of Cannae in southern Italy. Yet in the midst of all that
They got him! British police finally made the arrest of the century. No, not a terrorist they welcomed across open borders. Not the leaders of the immigrants who organized “groomer gangs” to sexually abuse young girls while the British government covered it up for two decades. The heinous criminal was one of Britain’s
In our April edition of our premium investment research service, we told subscribers about a highly promising precious metals company— one that we thought was deeply undervalued. The company had rapidly grown its production nearly 20x in just a few years, not to mention they had also paid off ALL of their debt.
For centuries, the Byzantine Empire’s gold coin, known as the solidus, had been the backbone of global trade in the medieval world; nearly pure gold, the solidus was trusted by merchants from Baghdad to London. But by the 11th century, multiple emperors had chipped away at its gold content—watering it down to pay
I’m sure we all remember the 2020 “Summer of Love.” After months of lockdowns, “mostly peaceful” protesters were in the streets screaming to defund the police. And no one was allowed to have a contrary opinion. Of course, you could support the #DefundPolice movement all you wanted— on Twitter, with Facebook profile pictures,
Welcome to Alligator Alcatraz— the detention center in the middle of the swampy Everglades, surrounded by razor wire, armed guards, and actual alligators. Formally known as the Everglades Transitional Detention Center, it was built by the state of Florida inside federal land managed by the National Park Service, designed to detain illegal immigrants
It was supposed to be a library. Instead, Barack Obama is getting a bomb shelter. The Obama Presidential Center in Chicago’s Jackson Park was first pitched as a community beacon, a temple of hope to uplift one of America’s most beleaguered neighborhoods. Cost: $350 million. Delivery date: 2021. What Chicago actually got was