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You’ve heard of former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson. Well, how about U.S. Prime Minister Mike Johnson? These are the political circumstances now facing House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La. After all, he runs a “coalition government” in Congress. We hear about so-called “coalition governments” in parliaments overseas all the time. A coalition government exists when no party wins an outright …

“Everything old is new again.” Whether it was Mark Twain or Winston Churchill or Jonathan Swift who popularized the adage, it’s a pithy truth that is lost on Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg and his merry band of prosecutors. On day two of their farcical case against Donald Trump, they seemed ecstatic to elicit from their first witness that an …

Breaking attendance and viewership records, women’s athletics continues to draw eyes under the arena lights. And this growing light is exposing dark secrets hidden inside: the college governing sports body’s relentless overlook of sex discrimination. In the past several years, the debate over “trans inclusion” in athletics leaped onto the national stage when the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) awarded …

Ready to pick up and move to another state? Well, you might have to think twice because broke blue states are coming up with a new, creative way totaxyou when you crosstheborder:theEXITTAX. You would imagine this could only happen if you were leavingthecountry, but thistaxexists for some individuals and businesses whenthey move fromthestate of California. California is already known for …

Legendary investor, Bill Gurley, once warned us that incumbents keep out new, innovative, and disruptive competitors by ‘gaming the system’ in their favor. It’s an age-old story; those with power often give lip service to change yet shun genuine innovation that threatens their supremacy. The massive business of sports is no different. How many great, cool things have we all …

Itestified before the House Oversight Committee about Chinese Communist Party (CCP) influence in the United States. For an American of my generation, testifying before a congressional committee is a big deal, and an honor. But, I suspected the hearing could be derailed for political purposes – and it was. Maybe you saw the headlines about the hearing’s “chaos”? As a …

Can Donald Trump beat Joe Biden in November despite being cooped up in a courtroom, fenced in by what he calls an ongoing “witch hunt”? It won’t be easy; the polls have tightened in recent weeks, perhaps because Biden is out campaigning, gleefully spewing taxpayer money to swing-state voters and slamming his opponent, and Trump is not. Instead, Trump is …

Hocus-pocus is a meaningless distraction or illusion that is intended to fool.That neatly summarizes District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s case against Donald Trump.The DA hopes to snooker a Manhattan jury into convicting the former president with a bag of legal tricks. In most courtrooms, the chicanery would never work.But in this Trump-hating venue the defendant’s jury of purported peers are likely …

Since Hamas’ horrific attack on October 7th, in which over 1,200 Israelis were killed, 250 were captured and taken as hostages to Gaza, and thousands wounded, I am in the United Nations Security Council on a near weekly, sometimes daily, basis. Yet not one of these meetings has been dedicated to advancing the release of our hostages held in captivity …

Florida has long been a popular destination during the winter months. Whether the panhandle’s beaches, the theme parks of Orlando or the quieter Gulf Coast, the state had something for everyone. But for years, everyone knew that Miami Beach was best avoided in the “spring break” months of March and April. South Beach, in particular, on the southern tip, was …