"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
Tesla, perhaps to distract from lackluster car sales, just announced plans for battery packs powered by solar panels for residential homes. This is not a new idea. Off-grid homes as well as grid-connected homes with solar panels already have batteries…
A consortium of India journalists detail meticulously how HSBC is at the center of laundering money from drugs. Oh, there is lots of dirty money in other high places, to be sure. From the opium wars of the 1800’s, to…
Atlantic City should have prospered when it legalized gambling in 1976. Yet today many of its casinos have closed or are struggling. This wasn't supposed to happen. Urbanism blog Granola Shotgun (great name!) ponders what went wrong and what the four faulty assumptions were.
This is the Lincoln that took JFK, Jackie Kennedy, and Gov. John Connally to the Fort Worth airport and the fateful flight to Dallas. Two hours later, in a different Lincoln, JFK was dead. The car is at The Auto…
The California Department of Water Resources says it doesn’t need to file an Environmental Impact Report before installing salinity barriers in the Sacramento Delta to prevent intrusion of salt water from the San Francisco Bay into the crucial Sacramento River.…
HSBC deliberately pushed schemes on wealthy clients to transfer their money from private accounts into shell corporations chartered in Lichtenstein and other areas because a loophole said corporate money wasn’t taxable. However, the corporations have no other function and did…
How many times have we heard blather from Washington that we need to arm someone, but strictly for defensive purposes. Anyone saying that is a fool or a liar, because when the shooting starts, you shoot back and attack when…