This article is a companion piece to today’s Morning Wire Afternoon Update. To listen to the podcast version, click here. Fed Hikes Interest Rates The Federal Reserve raised its benchmark interest rate Wednesday for the seventh time this year and signaled that more hikes are on the way. While the 50 basis point hike was smaller […]
The law has finally caught up with Zhang Li, the billionaire co-founder of the largest Chinese property development company. R&F Properties Co. Ltd. through its U.S. partner organization Z&L Properties, bought up swaths of land and real estate in the United States, much of it in California. Its U.S. affiliate, Z&L Properties, went on a buying […]
A transgender rights organization decided against publishing an article on a “biological” theory of transgenderism after backlash from activists. TransLucent, a U.K.-based transgender advocacy group, released a statement on Tuesday saying it would no longer be publishing a “groundbreaking article” that claims “being trans is a biological condition.” TransLucent had previously announced its plans to […]
For all the opposition to Kevin McCarthy becoming Speaker of the House, he sure is doing the kinds of things to gain support from those with a skeptical eye. Initially, I wasn’t a fan of McCarthy following up a subpar election performance with a promotion, but it quickly became apparent that there is no alternate […]
As a Minneapolis resident I have seen my share of graft, lunacy, gaslighting, self-sabotage, and mindless destruction in government. Our city is a mess, our County is profligate beyond measure, our unelected Metropolitan Council is a graft machine, and our state government has never seen a boondoggle it didn’t want to blow money on. But […]
An Iowa mom has put together a Christmas week schedule for her family that would make Clark Griswold green with envy – and, undoubtedly, her planned activities will be much more successful than those of the Griswold Family Christmas. New York-based writer Khalid El Khatib tweeted a screenshot of his mom’s “annual ‘home for the […]
A witness at a congressional hearing regarding violence against “LGBTQI+” people on Wednesday claimed she had personally never heard of someone who seeks to de-transition after starting transgender treatments. A House of Representatives oversight committee held a hearing Wednesday on “Anti-LGBTQI+ Violence and Extremism” in which survivors of the nightclub shooting in Colorado Springs, along […]
Current FTX CEO John Ray III, an attorney managing the bankruptcy proceedings of the cryptocurrency company founded by Sam Bankman-Fried, is earning $1,300 per hour in his current position and paying three additional executives $975 per hour each. FTX filed for bankruptcy last month after users discovered that the company was intertwined with sister firm […]
Disney is not even remotely shy in their bias towards the liberal causes. However, this holiday season they have surprisingly shown that there may still be some values within the major studio that haven’t gone far-left, as demonstrated in the Disney+ original, The Santa Clauses. The Santa Clauses is the newest edition to the popular […]
If you’ve been following the news regarding the epidemic of homelessness in Los Angeles over the past couple of years, you may already be familiar with the Cecil Hotel. The legendary, 600-room establishment located near Skid Row was converted to become a privately funded homeless residence nearly a year ago. That development was heralded as […]
