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The Single Wisest Thing You Can Do With Your Money

There’s a great deal more to becoming rich than buying the right investments and hoping for the best. The most important element in your strategy to win the battle for investment survival is your own psychology. You’ve heard that your attitude helps your health and your golf score; it’ll also improve your earning power.

It’s not enough to liquidate your past financial mistakes. It’s more important to liquidate counterproductive attitudes, approaches, and methods of dealing with problems. The res...

‘#arrestme’: JK Rowling Dares Scotland to Enforce Anti-Free Speech Law

We have previously discussed the growing anti-free speech movement in Scotland with the expanding criminalization of political and religious speech. The new Scottish law is a perfect nightmare for free speech, expanding the potential of a jail sentence for merely insulting language. In response, author JK Rowling has taken a stand and dared the Scottish police to come and arrest her for criticizing transgender status.

The Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Act 2021 illustrates how these laws...

On ‘The View,’ a Crack Finally Shows in the Propaganda Facade

Coleman Hughes, host of the podcast Conversations With Coleman and a polite but resolute critic of antiracist ideas, stepped last week into the shrieking maw of social justice orthodoxy on ABC’s “The View” to promote his book, The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America. With hosts like Whoopi Goldberg and Sunny Hostin seeming anxious to tear into a young writer they clearly saw as a proxy for conservative reaction, Hughes seemed in line for an exhausting experience. The setup ...

Poor, Clueless Mark Cuban

From the Tom Woods Letter:

There’s been an exchange taking place on Twitter between Mark Cuban and Chris Rufo, in which Cuban denies that the DEI (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion) movement amounts to what critics say it does.

Dilbert’s Scott Adams writes:

If you are not following this ongoing debate, you are missing a great show.

Mark Cuban had no idea how DEI works in the real world.

In the real world, if your CEO says diversity is a company priority, the managers begin overtly discriminating agai...

‘The Nasty Little Sparta’

The renowned writer Arthur Koestler warned a decade ago that Israel risked become `a nasty little Sparta.’ Ten years later Israel, grown rich on US military and financial aid, has become a very nasty big Sparta.

Pat Buchanan, President Richard Nixon’s close aide, wrote ‘Capitol Hill (i.e. Congress) has become Israeli-occupied territory.’ He has been exiled to the political wilderness for this heresy.

The current Gaza Conflict tells us just how much Israel now dominates Congress and the Democrati...

Crocus Massacre Ukraine Escape, UK/USA Teach Hatred, Ukraine Leaders Boast of Assassinations

It is suspicious that “Islamist terrorists” from Tajikistan would carry out a massacre at the Crocus City Hall for money rather than Islamic fervour, during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan against Russia which has shown great sympathy for the civilians of Gaza.

UK and USA exhortations to Ukraine to hate (see below) and attack Russians, their training of Ukraine troops for acts of sabotage inside Russia (including the murder of politicians and journalists) and the flight (see map) of the Crocus...

Heading Towards Armageddon!

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Black Hour for Western Democracy

On December 9 2023, the European Parliament published a press release, where it stated that it reached a political deal with the Council of the European Union “on a bill to ensure AI in Europe is safe, respects fundamental rights and democracy“.

The future bill was supposed to ban “AI systems that manipulate human behaviour to circumvent their free will“. According to the press release the deputies “agreed“ as well on “clear obligations“ with respect to “AI systems used to influence the outcome ...

Lyric Man: Bernie and his Tales, A Review of Bernie Taupin’s Scattershot: Life, Music, Elton, and Me

As a life-long Sir Elton John fan, it was exciting to see that his lyricist, Bernie Taupin, had penned an autobiography, Scattershot: Life, Music, Elton, & Me. Whereas Beatles John Lennon and Sir Paul McCartney were the 1960s’ top composers, two of their disciples, Elton and Bernie, would be the 1970s’ reigning songwriters. This is all the more notable since the duo’s wordsmith was only in his early-to-mid-twenties when Captain Fantastic ruled FM radio with an incredible run of hit singles and a...

An Easter for Doubters Like Me

Growing up, Easter was an occasion when I spent a few weeks looking for the perfect, white dress, which also required white tights, even in Florida’s 80-degree weather. The car ride to church would smell of hairspray and cigarette smoke, and after our big, Southern Baptist Easter service, we’d eat out at a steakhouse. After I finished off my sirloin tips and chocolate cake, I’d return home to my Easter basket, full of plastic grass and chocolate eggs. This was deeply imprinted on my brain, and t...