A decade ago, a famous and successful investor told me that "integrity lowers the cost of capital." We were talking about Donald Trump at the time, and this Wall Street wizard was explaining why then-candidate Trump had so much trouble borrowing money from domestic capital markets. His point ...
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) is in a very special category: black, Muslim and a refugee from Somalia. It's a triple-banger, like Karine Jean-Pierre, always touted as black, lesbian and Haitian. Never question their prominence on the merits. It's a born-on-third-base situation in national politics ...
Tyranny Editor: We are seeing the consequences of a lawless federal government play out before our eyes. An attack on Venezuela, which turns out to be not “regime change”, but only dictator change, has been revealed to be a clumsy effort to benefit multinational oil companies, not Venezuelan (or US) citizens. The long-term strategy for this operation seems even more vague than were the plans for invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq. We will be paying for those follies for decades, most especially in the health of the hundreds of thousands of veterans who served in those wars. We all ...
Surely, I have plenty of company in wanting to jump off the Donald Trump distraction express. Rage is its fuel. A weekend isn't short enough to contain the demands on attention. Just this last two-day break encountered: The cinematic ICE raids in Minneapolis. Threats against Exxon for its ...
"For what you see and hear depends a good deal on where you are standing: it also depends on what sort of person you are." - C.S. Lewis, The Magician's Nephew Let's start with the shooting of Renee Good, a Minneapolis woman killed by an ICE agent while attempting to drive away from the scene ...
On the one hand, thank goodness there are videos. But on the other, America's current leaders couldn't care less what the videos show. They are prepared to say anything at all with a straight face, and there remain millions of Americans happy to believe what these leaders tell them rather ...
