The Mafia is an American institution. No wonder it’s been in decline since the 1970s. Unlike other American institutions such as the DMV and the TSA, the MOB is esteemed by many of the people it exploits. Not all organized criminals are viewed so reverentially. Just 13 percent of adults approve of the job Congress
“We shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be,” Winston Churchill famously told Parliament after the successful evacuation from Dunkirk in the summer of 1940. Great Britain, he vowed, would hold out against the Nazi menace, “if necessary for years, if necessary alone,” until “in God’s good time, the New World, with all its
Soaring electricity prices have nearly doubled cost to charge EVs since 2022 Rivian electric truck (Getty Images) As California pushes consumers to drive electric vehicles, the state is also moving away from fossil fuels, making electricity—and charging those vehicles—more expensive. California has ushered in a nearly 70 percent spike in electricity costs since 2010 when
This week President Joe Biden was forced to apologize for using the word “illegal” to describe the illegal immigrant accused of murdering a 22-year-old nursing student in Georgia. He arranged a softball interview with MSNBC’s Jonathan Capehart, but that did very little to reassure American voters that their president’s brain is functioning. Biden tried recording
Nathan Wade, the special prosecutor in former U.S. president Donald Trump’s election subversion case in Georgia, withdrew from the case on Friday, CNN reported, citing his resignation letter. A Georgia judge overseeing Trump’s trial had earlier said that Fulton Country district attorney Fani Willis could remain on the case as long as she removed Wade,
Florida governor Ron DeSantis (R.) announced on Friday that state officials intercepted a vessel carrying dozens of Haitian migrants with firearms and drugs amid widespread gang violence in the Caribbean country. “Our Florida Fish and Wildlife officers interdicted a vessel that had 25 illegal immigrants, potential illegal immigrants from Haiti in their boat,” DeSantis said
Communications lecturer Dwayne Booth has faced no discipline after publishing blood libel cartoon Dwayne Booth (asc.upenn.edu), one of his cartoons (clowncrack.com) The University of Pennsylvania communications lecturer who published a slew of anti-Semitic cartoons will return to the classroom in the fall to teach a course on political humor, the Ivy League school announced. Dwayne