When former President George W. Bush stood on the West Front of the Capitol for his second inauguration in 2005, he gave a speech that called for a utopian foreign policy that aimed at spreading democracy all across the globe. "We are led, by events and common sense, to one conclusion: The ...
CCTV captured this (completely fake) conversation between President Donald Trump and a grocery store clerk yesterday. CLERK: That'll be $286.47, Mr. President. TRUMP: Did you swipe my customer rewards card? I thought the Twinkies were half off. CLERK: Yes, I did, but we're doing this new ...
Absorbing the news about the brutal treatment of detainees, to say nothing of the outright murder of "suspected" drug runners in the Caribbean, I think back to a conversation I had in February of this year. My interlocutor was a Trump voter who had just had a friendly encounter with an African ...
On the day the Justice Department arrested several men for trying to smuggle NVIDIA chips into China, the president announced the United States would permit NVIDIA to sell its advanced graphics processing units to China. The United States, by most estimates, right now has a computing advantage ...
Disney’s “Zootopia 2” takes us back to the CGI-animated world where animals talk, act like humans and live in a sprawling metropolis with various species inhabiting the sometimes literal rat race. Hops (voiced by Ginnifer Goodwin) and Wilde (voiced by Jason Bateman), a rabbit and a fox, ...
I agree with Maui County Council Chair Alice Lee when she said that Bill 9 is the worst bill she has ever seen in over 20 years. When the retired state attorney general says that taking property rights away without compensation is a no-no, I would listen to him. He said that Maui taxpayers will be fighting the 7,000 condo owners in court and it could or will cost Maui a billion or more in fines and payments. This is real life here. As a property owner paying taxes, this is a risk not worth taking. You are throwing away $70 million a year in property taxes on 7,000 units. Why? ...
