Discredited Economic Theories—Scapegoats Born of Populist Superstition
Wealth is not deducted from some fixed sum that belongs to everyone. It’s created and the creation involves many people and many factors.
Bill Gates: US Pandemic Response is ‘Shocking’
Bill Gates has some bad news for President Trump, who has suggested that a coronavirus vaccine could be available by Election Day
Bill Gates Worried About ‘Once-in-a-Century Pandemic’
There are lots of liberals out there who hate Bill Gates for one reason: he’s wealthy, something that is anathema to many hard lefties.
Running Out the Clock
I can’t deny the morbid fascination of watching the Trumpocalypse with open mouthed horror day after day, but more than half that horror stems from the totally oblivious nature of the American public, or at least that 30 – 40% who seem to see a different Trump than the one sleeping alone in his tower in the Palm Beach Kremlin.
So Called ‘Moderate’ Republican John Kasich Attacks Harry Potter Actor Daniel Radcliffe’s Atheism
Ohio Governor and former Presidential candidate John Kasich was in New Hampshire recently to endorse fellow Republican Chris Sununu for Governor. But a strange thing...
FBI: We May Be Able To Unlock San Bernardino Gunman’s iPhone Without Help From Apple
The FBI says it may have found a way to unlock the San Bernardino attacker’s iPhone without the help of Apple and has postponed a...
Microsoft Founder Bill Gates Backs FBI in iPhone Encryption Battle
Microsoft founder Bill Gates has backed the U.S. government’s demand that Apple create software to break into the iPhone used by the one of the...
CNN’s Don Lemon Cuts Off Right Wing Loon Kurt Schlichter
Apparently Donald Trump (or most any other conservative political candidate) can say anything, or be as offensive as they want because - Monica Lewinsky! CNN's...
If I Were A Rich Man
'Bidy-bidy-bidy-bum' or what ever the words to the song are. That chap from Facebook is apparently giving away a few billion for some reason or...
JesOS: A Computer Operating System Devoted to Christ
It's crazy out there folks, and it's just getting crazier by the day. In Freehold, Iowa, a gang of religious computer geeks decided to build an operating...
Why Teachers Can’t Predict the Future
In my final school yearbook our teachers were asked to write their predictions against our classmates photographs of what they believed we would achieve in life. One was predicted...
10 Things Happening In Our World Today, May 18, 2013
The jackpot for the 43-state Powerball lottery climbed to $600 million on Friday, its highest total ever. If nobody wins after the drawing on Saturday night, it could eclipse the $656 million Mega Millions jackpot from March 2012. [Los Angeles Times]
Barack Obama time travels to Mars and other weird stuff
In August of 2011, a man named Andrew Basiago made the following claim: he had time traveled to Mars with now President Barack Obama in 1980.
Buffett’s buffet? Billionaires giving back
What do dozens of American billionaires talk about when they get together? Their topic this week was of course money; not how to make it, but how to give it away.