Plagued by Luxury Beliefs
The wealthy don't need your peasant thoughts, a Tik Tok exodus, and Canada's most litigated joke gets an appeal – all in this week's Laura's Links.
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What Next?
2020, the year that changed everything, may in the most meaningful terms turn out to be a year that changed nothing.
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Barr’s Dilemma: How to Get Politics Out of the Justice Department
Attorney General William P. Barr has a dilemma: how to purge federal law enforcement of the politicization that has left its reputation in tatters, while simultaneously ensuring accountability in one of modern history’s most politically combustible criminal probes.
That probe, conducted at Barr’s direction by John Durham, the United States Attorney for Connecticut, is scrutinizing the origins and predication of what even the attorney general has taken to calling “Russiagate.” This is the “investigation of the investigators,” focusing...
The Celestial Afterlife of Karl Marx
Why Marx continues to fascinate would-be revolutionaries.
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Neither Trump nor His Campaign Ever Got a ‘Defensive Briefing’
NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE M y column over the weekend was about the Obama-Biden administration’s exploitation of the government’s intelligence and law-enforcement apparatus to investigate Donald Trump, who was then the opposition Republican Party’s presidential candidate. The essence of this investigation is palpable from an August 2016 incident: The FBI covertly surveilled Trump by capitalizing on the U.S. intelligence community’s practice of providing a counterintelligence and security briefing to the nominees of the...
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Hong Kong media company Next Digital sees shares surge after founder Jimmy Lai’s arrest
Hong Kong-based media firm Next Digital saw its stock price explode Monday after authorities arrested its dissident founder. Next Digital’s shares surged as much as 344 percent as investors showed solidarity with Jimmy Lai, the pro-democracy mogul who was cuffed Monday under Hong Kong’s new national security law. The stock initially...
Anjou Get a Lawsuit
Pears: the arch-goddess of the fruit pantheon, the inspiration of Cézanne, and to the untrained eye, dangerously similar to apples. As iPhone In Canada first reported, Apple has filed a notice of opposition against a meal planning app called Prepear for using a pear logo which is pear-shaped and pear-green. In a...
Thunderstorms Linked to Breathing Trouble for Older People
A new study out Monday might provide the strongest evidence yet that thunderstorms can worsen certain health conditions. Across a 14-year period in the U.S., researchers found that the days surrounding a thunderstorm were clearly associated with a spike in emergency room visits for respiratory problems among older…Read more......