In the first few days of February, central Texas was hit with a severe ice storm. An inch of ice accumulated on the trees around my house. Massive oak branches, weighing many times normal, were crashing down for four days. Our electricity was even knocked […]

 163 total views

You may be familiar with the GameStop and AMC fiasco that happened in 2021 when Robinhood, a stock trading app, halted investors’ ability to buy or sell their stocks while those stocks were significantly rising in price. This was a clear and criminal way for […]

 29 total views

The U.S. attorney’s office for the Southern District of New York officially charged cryptocurrency exchange FTX’s founder Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) with eight counts of fraud and conspiracy, calling the collapse of FTX “one of the biggest financial frauds in American history.” The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission […]

 55 total views

Days after a less-than-disastrous midterm, an unpopular President Joe Biden announced that he intends to run for reelection in 2024. Democrats face a weak and aged bench — though one Democrat who might play Ted Kennedy to Biden’s Jimmy Carter, California Gov. Gavin Newsom, just […]

 181 total views

Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, recently introduced the Preventing Rampant Online Technological Exploitation and Criminal Trafficking Act of 2022 (PROTECT Act) to bring much-needed and long-overdue regulation to the porn industry, which is currently rampant with abuses. The PROTECT Act requires porn websites to verify the […]

 131 total views