With his customary cheekiness, Muhammad Ali responded to the reporter inquiring about his thoughts on Africa after his Rumble in the Jungle boxing match. It was 1974. Ali had just returned to the U.S. from Zaire, where he had beaten the previously undefeated world heavyweight-champ George Foreman. It was not for nothing that Ali thanked […]
Archives for February 2018
Meet the Man Behind the Largest Private Investment Fund, Part II
When the 59-year old head of Softbank, Masayoshi Son, met with the 31-year old deputy crown prince of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed bin Salman (MbS) for 45 minutes in Tokyo, MbS committed $45 billion to Son’s Vision Fund. “Forty-five minutes, $45 billion,” Son said in September. “One billion dollars per minute.” That caught the attention of […]
Is Elon Musk Right about the Apocalypse?
Originally posted on July 3, 2017. Words that come to mind when you hear the name Elon Musk are Tesla, electric cars, solar, batteries, rockets, futurist…but prepper? It turns out Musk believes the Apocalypse is nigh, and that’s why he’s developed a plan called “Making Humans a Multi-Planetary Species,”—in other words colonizing Mars. Musk writes: […]
The Clash of Civilizations 2018
Is the world set for a Clash of Civilizations? According to William S. Smith it’s already there. With the West repudiating its own heritage, and elites welcoming and even facilitating mass Islamic migration into Europe, Smith says the culture is threatened. Smith points to Samuel Huntington’s The Clash of Civilizations as the explanation for the […]
The IRS—Trampling on the Rights of Citizens
The abuses by the IRS targeting political opposition during the Obama era are about to come to an end. The WSJ reports: President Donald Trump will nominate Charles Rettig, a California tax lawyer, to run the Internal Revenue Service, a person familiar with the matter said Monday. If confirmed by the Senate, Mr. Rettig will […]
Meet the Man Behind the Largest Private Investment Fund
How do you lose most of your wealth in the dot com bust and then rise from the ashes to become one of the 100 richest people in the world? Good question. Meet Masayoshi Son, the 59-year-old head of Softbank, an investment company that raised $100 billion last year alone for its Vision Fund. In […]
The Trump Express Gathers Steam
National Review, hardly a Trump cheerleader in the past, headlines its 5 Feb issue by giving a thumbs up for the President. Victor Davis Hanson writes of The Case for The Trump Presidency. As President Trump finished his first full year in office, he could look back at an impressive record of achievement of a […]
The Poisoned Roots of the Russiagate Investigation
Pat Buchanan, writing at The American Conservative asks, whose fault is it for diminishing confidence in the FBI? With the Mueller investigation basing its existence on a foundation built with the Steele dossier, it’s easy to be suspicious of any charges arising. Pat writes (abridged): That memo worked up in the Intel Committee of Chairman […]
20-Year Review: Stock Market Cuts Investors’ Wealth Roughly in Half—Twice
“Monday’s madness is a reminder that investing in stocks doesn’t automatically make people rich. Twice in the past 20 years—between 2000 and 2002, and again between 2007 and 2009—the stock market has cut investors’ wealth roughly in half,” writes Jason Zweig at the WSJ. When you think about the mathematics of investment losses (see chart […]
The Bottom Line of the Nunes Memo
At The National Interest, Daniel McCarthy boils down the Nunes memo into its simplest form, the DNC attempted to us the FBI to do its dirty work. He writes (abridged): In the midst of the 2016 election, bad actors at the Justice Department tried to turn the FBI into the police arm of the Democratic […]
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