Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft and one of the world’s richest men, recently met with China’s President Xi Jinping at Beijing’s Diaoyutai state guesthouse. Xi greeted Gates as “an old friend of ours” and said that he welcomed Microsoft…
Last week marked the 20th anniversary of the bankruptcy of Enron, which at the time was the largest chapter 11 filing in U.S. history and one with economic, financial, law enforcement, and public policy ramifications still felt to this day….
Less than 24 hours after the Congressional Budget Office announced that the “Build Back Better” (BBB) bill will increase the federal deficit by $367 billion, House Democrats passed the $1.75 trillion legislation with no GOP votes. This bill, essentially a…
El Monte, CA Since my first investigative piece on China’s commercial and intelligence operations in March 1995[1], I had published a half-dozen magazine-length articles in The American Spectator that exposed China’s U.S. networks. Some of these involved Chinese intelligence operations…
In a just world, if the reporting of Bob Woodward and Robert Costa in their new book Peril is accurate, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark A. Milley would be sharpening his ceremonial sword and planning seppuku….
GameStop, the video-game store that every mother of preteens knows like Target, has been struggling in the increasingly digitized world. Enter Reddit. A forum on their chatroom platform decided that GameStop was being driven into the ground unfairly and that…
In their unending efforts to swell the coffers and powers of government, statists continually bleat about tax “fairness,” by which they mean that they intend to begin by increasing taxes on anyone and everyone who is better off financially than…
NEW YORK — Georgia Republicans reportedly are less than gung-ho about wading through molten glass to reach the polls on Tuesday. They all know that control of the U.S. Senate and, potentially, all of Washington, D.C. rides on the re-election…
This week the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) held its annual meeting in Baltimore. The bishops gathered at the four-star Marriott near the city’s inner harbor, a mark of the event’s spiritual unseriousness. The bishops could save the…