Milton Friedman once joked that if you put the government in charge of the Sahara Desert in five years there would be a shortage of sand. He could have been talking about Venezuela and its oil wealth. But it is no joke. On Monday Caracas missed interest payments due on two government bonds and one […]

Four more women have leveled sexual assault accusations against Republican Senate hopeful Roy Moore, in a damaging sex scandal that has cost the Alabamian dearly in the heat of the campaign. The newest accusations were carried in a New York Times report on Wednesday, from women who ranged in age from about 18 to 28 […]

A white man has been caught on film yelling racist slurs against an Asian passenger on San Francisco’s rapid train while horrified commuters watched on without intervening. The victim was brave enough to stand up and confront the attacker. A widely-seen video emerged online showing an old white man aggressively uttering racial insults at Asian […]

A pedophile dwarf who groomed two minors through Facebook has avoided going to prison because he would have a “very hard time.” Bryan Anthony Bowen, 26, had asked the girls for naked photos and sex. Bowen, of Welshpool, Powys, contacted the children, aged 13 and 15, online. In one message to the older girl, he […]

After identifying all of the victims from the July 14 inferno that engulfed London’s Grenfell Tower, the UK police have put the final death toll at 71, dismissing reports that claim bigger numbers. The number includes 70 people who died in the fire and a stillborn child, officials said Thursday, noting that they had recovered […]

The US military has backed claims its B-1 bombers can drop nuclear weapons and that it possesses “secret silos” of nuclear hardware amid fears it will raise tensions with North Korea. US Strategic Command, which is responsible for the Department of Defense’s global operations, shared a KPNX article on Twitter Wednesday, prompting a furious backlash […]

British explorer Benedict Allen has been found “alive and well” by chiefs in Papua New Guinea. He had reportedly been caught up in tribal fighting in an attempt to reach a remote village and has requested rescue. Allen had been missing in the remote villages of Papua New Guinea after being dropped off by helicopter […]

You would be forgiven for thinking that your private conversations were just that, but Google’s Voice Assistant could be recording everything you say.  The feature is designed to allow users to talk to enabled gadgets to search the web, launch apps and use other interactive functions. As part of this process, Google keeps copies of […]

Ask any student of history, and you’ll be told that institutionalized slavery has been outlawed for lifetimes here in the Occident. Posit an idea to the contrary, and you’re sure to receive a sharp rebuttal. The demarcations of the West and what defines it (psst, it’s a function of culture and demography, not geography) aside, […]

“WE WILL NOT WALK IN FEAR, ONE OF ANOTHER. WE WILL NOT BE DRIVEN BY FEAR INTO AN AGE OF UNREASON IF WE DIG DEEP IN OUR HISTORY AND OUR DOCTRINE, AND REMEMBER THAT WE ARE NOT FEARFUL MEN, NOT DESCENDED FROM MEN WHO FEARED TO WRITE, TO SPEAK, TO ASSOCIATE AND TO DEFEND CAUSES […]