Last month, the FBI foiled a planned mass shooting and bombing at Three Rivers Mall in Kelso, Washington, about 50 miles north of Portland off I-5, according to MyNorthwest.com. On May 22, Columbia County Sheriff’s deputies arrested a teenager—whose name is withheld due to his age—after the FBI received a tip about the planned attack […]

Authored by Maryanne Demasi via The Brownstone Institute, Economist Professor Gigi Foster delivered a TEDx talk titled The Manipulators’ Playbook at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in October 2024. It was a bold examination of how, in times of crisis, fear and conformity can be deliberately harnessed by those in power to manipulate public behaviour […]

The only bright spot or mutually agreed-upon deal to come out of two rounds of Istanbul peace talks between Russia and Ukraine has been the large-scale prisoner swaps. An initial one-thousand total POWs were returned during a record first swap following the phase one Istanbul talks. But even this single area of agreement is now […]

Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Walmart is set to launch its drone delivery service in five more U.S. cities: Atlanta, Charlotte, Houston, Orlando, and Tampa, the company said in a June 5 statement. An undated photograph shows a Walmart drone delivering a package. Courtesy of Walmart The retailer already operates […]

from the ’twas-ever-thus dept Five Years Ago This week in 2020, while many in the media were hedging their bets and wringing their hands in their coverage of the rapidly escalating protests over the murder of George Floyd, I was proud that we ran an appropriately uncompromising take from our own Tim Cushing: Let The […]