With U.S. media companies in thrall of ad-clicks, news consumers don’t know where to turn anymore. Last week, Congress quietly but firmly shut the door on future funding for the Wuhan biolab located- perhaps not coincidentally- at the epicenter of the COVID19 outbreak. But this blockbuster news flash didn’t come…

Shapers of public opinion and media news editors are at a loss, but Congress isn’t taking any chances. House of Representative Amendments titled, “Amendments to the labor, health and human services, education, and related agencies appropriations bill FY2023,” don’t normally get much attention in the news cycle. Such documents are…

Online crime is on the rise. Can the good guys with computers stop the bad guys with computers? In the late 1960s, con man Frank Abagnale led the FBI and U.S. authorities on quite a merry chase. From impersonating a doctor to pretending to be an airline pilot, Abagnale enjoyed…

Is Benjamin Netanyahu Israel’s once and future Prime Minister? As long as Benjamin Netanyahu has been in politics, there have been political opponents, critics, and even allies willing to predict his imminent defeat and ultimate exile from public life. It seems the end of the political career of Benjamin Netanyahu…

And that’s a good sign for the U.S. economy. COVID19 changed some things forever; that’s certainly no secret. For one thing, we will be picking masks, disposable latex gloves, and other PPE out of our rivers, oceans and roadsides from now until the end of time. Those things may soon…

From entire cities paralyzed by ransomware to individuals targeted with fake credit card offers, fraud is suddenly everywhere. In the high-stakes world of consumer and corporate fraud and online financial crimes- a worldwide, underground cottage industry estimated well into the billions- modern criminals, like their antisocial predecessors of yesteryear, still…

From San Francisco to D.C. local officials are facing tough questions from voters about rising crime. According to no less an authority than California’s Governor Gavin Newsom, California politics and policies are the, “Antidote for America.” Some progressives might certainly agree, especially in wake of the Supreme Court’s Friday decision…

The relationship everyone loves to hate this season is back on again. In the vast reality television program that is social media, Twitter stands out among all the rest. Facebook, that is, Meta, has become the purview of Baby Boomers and advertisers. Instagram is little better, fewer Boomers and more…

The bittersweet victory is a ray of light for the progressive agenda. “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times,” has become a literary cliche today’s culture. It’s something people who quote Walt Whitman about containing multitudes might say with a shrug, instead of the more…