AUSTIN, Texas — The Texas sun was just beginning to rise over central Austin as groups of neatly-dressed law students arrived at the AT&T Hotel and Conference Center, a beige monolith plopped on the southwestern corner of the University of Texas’s sprawling campus. Once inside the lobby, the students ascended two flights of stairs, crossed a […]
Read MorePat Schroeder Mastered Using Humor in Politics, Long Before Social Media
Pat Schroeder was never supposed to win her congressional seat. As she recounted in her 1998 book 24 Years of House Work … and the Place Is Still a Mess — a title that hints at the irreverent public figure she cut in Washington — she was recruited as a “kamikaze” anti-war candidate for Colorado’s […]
Read MoreOpinion | The Lessons of the Great Depression Are Being Ignored
President Franklin D. Roosevelt could teach today’s regulators and politicians a lot about how to deal with a banking crisis. Two aspects of his leadership from his first year in office stand out. First, FDR understood the danger of excessive government protection of banks and would be dismayed by the extent of it today. He […]
Read MoreWhen Silicon Valley Libertarians Realized They Needed the Government, and Vice Versa
For years, Silicon Valley and Washington have been going through an acrimonious political divorce. An industry that had long been subsidized by government investment, going back to the inventions of the internet and the computer itself, became ever more libertarian in its orientation. The capital fell out of love with the culture and products of […]
Read MoreBiden issues first veto, knocks Marjorie Taylor Greene
President Joe Biden on Monday vetoed his first bill, blocking the repeal of a Labor Department rule that permitted retirement investing tied to environmental and social goals. The veto was expected, after the Biden administration fought Republican-led efforts to pass the rollback three weeks ago. The House and Senate votes attracted support from three Democrats, […]
Read MoreIs the United States Creating a ‘Legion of Doom’?
Moscow has directed a lot of vitriol toward the West over the past year. The volume of that rhetoric sometimes drowns out an awkward fact about Moscow’s foreign policy reorientation away from the West and toward allies like China and Iran: Russian elites are not exactly thrilled with their new partners. In my conversations with […]
Read MoreHostility Between Band Members Is Apparently Holding Up $500 Million Pink Floyd Catalog Sale
It was reported last year that members of the rock band Pink Floyd were seeking to make a big sale of their catalog for somewhere in the neighborhood of $500 million. But unlike many other such sales by top music acts and recording artists, the deal appears to have stalled. According to a recent Variety […]
Read MoreAlex Jones Is Reported To Be Concealing Funds To Avoid Paying Out $1.5 Billion Sandy Hook Damages
Broadcaster Alex Jones is on the hook for roughly $1.5 billion in damages to the families of the victims of the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary. The damages were rewarded by two juries, one in Texas and one in Connecticut. Now it’s being reported that Jones has been concealing and/or transferring his wealth in […]
Read MoreAfter Just 32 TOTAL MLB Games, The Diamondbacks Just Paid Corbin Carroll $111 Million
Sometimes, you instantly connect with a person as soon as you meet them. You have a nice rapport, a similar sense of humor, and the same interests — you genuinely enjoy spending time with them and want to keep them around as long as possible. The Arizona Diamondbacks are smitten with their outfielder Corbin Carroll […]
Read MoreBob Hope’s Former 5+ Acre Los Angeles Estate Just Sold For $26 Million
Roughly ten miles outside downtown Los Angeles, a restored mansion that was once the longtime home of late comedy legend Bob Hope has found a new owner, at a price of $26 million. The property was sold by billionaire Ron Burkle, who first listed it for sale last year with an asking price of $29 […]
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