Jimmy Patronis, Florida’s “chief financial officer,” said that Farmers Insurance pulled out of Florida not because it was losing money there but because the company was “woke.” How that wokeness manifested itself, he does not say.The profit motive is apparently a very shocking concept ...
The bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki aren’t depicted in the movie “Oppenheimer,” but they haunt the film – literally.The eponymous physicist and “father of the atom bomb,” J. Robert Oppenheimer, is plagued by visions of the terrible destruction wrought by the weapon he helped ...
A Florida law that took effect July 1 restricts how educators in the state’s public colleges and universities can teach about the racial oppression that African Americans have faced in the United States.Specifically, SB 266 forbids professors to teach that systemic racism is “inherent in ...
<em>“War is an act of violence intended to compel our opponent to fulfill our will.”</em><strong><em>– Carl von Clausewitz</em></strong>On February 24, 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine. The attack was an ...
Joe Biden’s supporters – and perhaps Biden himself – can’t understand why the presidential poll numbers on the economy aren’t better. Why is he getting so little credit for so much good news on inflation, wages, jobs and the recovery of American manufacturing? Donald Trump’s idea of ...
It’s no secret that recent years have been tough on small businesses and on newspapers. A bipartisan bill, the Community News and Small Business Support Act, that has been introduced in Congress would offer relief to both newspapers and local businesses.For too many newspapers, help can’t ...
