In the frenzied days after Democrats won control of Congress, the presidency, and rioters invaded the Capitol, Big Tech, relying on section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, for immunity from civil suit, launched a surprise attack on web content they deemed objectionable. Twitter permanently banned President Trump’s account, wiping out his contact with 88…
On Tuesday, Tesla closed at a record high of $1,079.81 per share, reaching a $200 billion market cap. This brings them just shy of Toyota’s market cap which has the largest in the automotive industry. A Twitter thread celebrating the market cap brought up the question if Elon Musk would ever consider a split of…
Happy Sunday, Liberty Lovers! Fact: Communism sucks. The one-child policy was one of the crazy programs that Communist China implemented in an effort to control its population. I watched an incredibly disturbing and eye-opening documentary about the one-child policy called “One Child Nation.” It showed me just how powerful propaganda can be when a government…
Chris White Amazon claimed in a legal complaint Monday that the company lost a $10-billion cloud-computing project because President Donald Trump wanted to deny its billionaire CEO a big government contract. Trump used “improper pressure” on the contract process to hurt Amazon’s CEO, Jeff Bezos, the legal complaint noted. The tech company was viewed as a…
Mary Margaret Olohan on September 26, 2019 Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said losing to President Donald Trump was like losing to a “corrupt human tornado.” Clinton spoke about losing the 2016 presidential election in a CBS interview that will air Sunday morning. “It was like applying for a job and getting 66 million…
Deadly wildfires are raging in the Amazon Rainforest, and this August has been the most devastating month since 2010.
During a CNBC interview in which Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin updated the nation on the U.S. trade talks with China, the former hedge fund manager used some of his time to attack Amazon. “There’s no question they’ve limited competition,” he said. “If you look at Amazon, although there are certain benefits to it, it destroyed the retail…
“Firing people was easily the worst part of the job.” Those are the words of a great friend of mine who for decades ran a very successful financial corporation. The sleepless nights that preceded gently telling people they weren’t measuring up were agony for him. The popular notion of indifferent-to-employee CEOs is so very divorced…
Grace Carr Republish Reprint Food stamp users will be able to purchase their groceries online in a pilot partnership program between mega-supermarket companies and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). The USDA announced Thursday its launch of a “SNAP Online Purchasing Pilot” permitting food stamp users to buy their groceries online for pickup or delivery….
Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) was criticized on Friday for engaging a Twitter troll in a strange debate in which pizza coupons were used as an analogy. The account mocked Ocasio-Cortez for the implosion of a deal with Amazon to build a new headquarters in New York City that would’ve brought approximately 25,000 new jobs to…