DOI Pushes for Higher Fees for Oil and Gas Companies

The Bidenโ€™s adminstrationโ€™s Department of the Interior (DOI) is calling for higher fees to be imnplemented for both onshore and offshore oil and gas companies. A new DOI report on oil and gas leasing in federal lands and waters advises the DOIโ€™s Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to raise royalties, rental rates, and other fees โ€ฆ Read more

Retailers Under Mounting Pressure as โ€˜Organized Lootingโ€™ Eats Into Profits

A rapidly growing number of U.S. retailers are raising the alarm on organized looting that is eating into the profits of many major urban markets across the country. Consumer electronics retail giant Best Buy is reporting decent third-quarter earnings (pdf), topping market estimates. The company found more Americans upgraded their home technologies and kitchen appliances. โ€ฆ Read more

The Kyle Rittenhouse Peace Dividend

With his tie removed, Kyle Rittenhouseโ€™s attorney Mark Richards spoke in calm, sober terms following a career triumph. โ€œThey wanted to use Kyle for a cause,โ€ Richards told reporters. โ€œAnd I donโ€™t represent causes. I represent clients. And the only thing that ended up mattering to me was whether he was found not guilty. . โ€ฆ Read more

Amazon Employees Planning Global Black Friday Protests, Release Set of Demands for Company

On this yearโ€™s Black Friday, November 26, Amazon employees around the world will be holding a strike against the companyย to demand fair pay for workers, among other things. Black Friday is one of the busiest shopping days of the year and will surely hit the company hard. A coalition of over 200 million workers and โ€ฆ Read more

A Prince Among Men

After American forces prevailed in the first Gulf War in 1991, our Air Force claimed to have located Saddam Hussein. President George H.W. Bush was offered the chance to โ€œtake him out,โ€ but refused. As Angelo put it, โ€œHe would kill the draftees, not the drafter.โ€ That line touched the core of what Angelo would โ€ฆ Read more

LAPD Used Fake Social Media Accounts to Spy on Users, Documents Show

Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) officers used fake online personas to monitor social media users, and at one point considered employing tools that critics say would lead to law enforcement profiling innocent people, according to recently revealed government documents. The documents, released by the Brennan Center for Justice following an open records request with the โ€ฆ Read more

LeBron James Needs To Man Up

During the height of the Kyle Rittenhouse murder trial, LeBron James encouraged his 100 million followers on social media to mock the teenage defendantโ€™s emotional outburst as he recalled the savage mob chasing him down to kill him on the streets of Kenosha, Wisconsin. Jamesโ€™ ridicule of a young man on trial for his life โ€ฆ Read more

The New Blue Confederacy

Why are progressive regions of the countryโ€”especially in the old major liberal cities (e.g., Chicago, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, New York, Portland, San Francisco, Seattle)โ€”institutionalizing de facto racial quotas through โ€œproportional representationโ€ based on โ€œdisparate impactโ€? Why are they promoting ethnic and racial chauvinism, such as allowing college students to select the race of their own โ€ฆ Read more

Kyle Rittenhouseโ€™s Attorney 'Did Not Approve' of Tucker Carlson Film Crew During Trial

A defense lawyer representing Kyle Rittenhouse during his murder trial revealed that a film crew working for Tucker Carlson attempted to become embedded in the defense team to make a documentary about his clientโ€™s acquittal. โ€œI did not approve of that,โ€ Richards told CNN on Nov. 19. โ€œI threw them out of the room several โ€ฆ Read more