Starting in 2019, the city of Stockton will join San Francisco and Oakland in testing a “Universal Basic Income” (UBI) program that could eventually be expanded to a state or national level. The official website for the initiative explains: “The [program] will provide at least 100 Stocktonians with a Guaranteed Income of $500 per month for 18…
Peter Hasson Facebook is among the sponsors for a far-left conference that will feature Democratic socialist candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as a keynote speaker. Topics at the 2018 Netroots Nation conference include “menstrual equity,” “harnessing the political power of black immigrants” and “youth-led campaigns to promote social justice.” The Aug. 2-4 conference, touted as the nation’s largest…
Elon Musk is one of the most admired men in America. He founded Tesla, SpaceX, and numerous other entrepreneurial ventures that have captured the public’s hearts and imaginations. Who wouldn’t get excited about spaceships and the possibility of colonizing Mars? But people look to Musk for far more than just his technological vision. The internet…
While recently participating in a course on business and networking skills, I took part in an interesting exercise. Pairing every individual with another class member, the instructor gave each team a couple minutes to discover two previously unknown things they held in common. The results were fascinating. Not only was an amazing number of topics…
One of the most popularly cited silly laws in my home state is a prohibition on crossing state lines with a duck atop one’s head. Fortunately, or unfortunately, depending on whether you see it from the perspective of the duck or the individual wearing said duck, this so-called law is bogus. An urban legend. There are,…
Progressives have been lamenting the absence of Barack Obama. The former president has been largely absent from the political arena since President Trump’s ascendancy to the office. This, of course, is the norm for ex presidents. But, as I noted in 2017, this tradition has proven difficult for progressives to accept for various reasons, including…
Gabrielle Okun Jane Fonda wants people to vote in the upcoming midterm elections because the United States is in what she calls an “existential crisis.” Fonda, 80, spoke out about the November midterm elections, saying she is “scared” about the current direction of American politics, in an interview with People magazine. The veteran actress also teamed up…
Nick Givas Joe Lockhart, the White House press secretary for former President Bill Clinton, accused President Donald Trump of committing treason on CNN’s “New Day” Tuesday. Co-host John Berman asked Lockhart for one word to describe Trump’s press conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin, to which he replied, “treason.” “Treason, yeah. I think we’ve moved past…
Peter Fricke Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, who has been one of President Donald Trump’s staunchest allies, expressed serious concern about the president’s press conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin Monday, in which Trump lent credence to Putin’s claim that Russia wasn’t behind the hacking of Democratic emails during the 2016 campaign. The U.S….
Nick Givas CNN anchor Anderson Cooper compared President Donald Trump to Kim Peek, also known as “Rain Man,” on CNN’s “Inside Politics” Monday, for continually mentioning former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s email scandal. “I just can’t imagine being Vladimir Putin and actually hearing the president of the United States go back to the well…