Month: April 2023

A tech entrepreneur left San Francisco over fears of rising crime there, his friend said, only to be stabbed to death during a return visit to the city Bob Lee, 43, was the chief financial officer of Square, the app started by Twitter founder Jack Dorsey, before launching the mobile payment company Cash App. Dorsey was among those expressing shock …

Cash App founder fled San Francisco for Miami because he was so disturbed by city’s descent into crime, friend claims – hours after tech tycoon was knifed to death in the City by the Bay Read More »

A Boston hotel guest was awakened in the middle of the night by federal agents who barged into his room, handcuffed him, threw him into the shower and interrogated him for an hour — before they realized they had entered the wrong room. FBI and Department of Defense agents stormed the innocent man’s room at …

FBI agents handcuff, interrogate Delta pilot after entering wrong hotel room in training mishap Read More »

Seneca Scott, a relative of Martin Luther King Jr., believes the FBI’s alleged role in King’s assassination should be revisited by Democrats, even though they appear to support the bureau targeting conservatives. Scott wrote an essay in Compact Magazine about the story of King’s murder by an individual gunman and whether the FBI was involved in the killing. He begins the …

MLK Relative: The FBI May Have Had ‘Role’ In King’s Death. Now They’re Targeting Conservatives Read More »

It has been a year since I wrote “Why I believe a freight recession is imminent.” The article, published on March 31, 2022, stated my case for why I thought the U.S. trucking market was headed for a significant downturn. The information in the article was based on analysis from SONAR, FreightWaves’ high-frequency freight data and …

A Second Trucking Bloodbath? Read More »

There’s a long article in the Baltimore Sun this morning on the Baltimore Orioles owners’ plan to arrange a lease extension in exchange for $600 million in public cash, which would be used to redo not just their Camden Yards stadium but the surrounding area. Much of the piece consists of rehashing team execs’ interest in replicating …

Two out of two economists agree: Maryland’s $600m Orioles subsidy is idiotic Read More »

Trump pleaded not guilty to 34 counts of falsifying business records Tuesday in New York City Democrat voters are pushing back against Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg over the indictment of Donald Trump, as he continues to face bipartisan scrutiny surrounding the strength of his case against the former president. Trump was arraigned at the Manhattan …

Democrat voters torch Bragg for ‘tragic’ Trump indictment as crime soars: ‘Worst prosecutor in America’ Read More »

Woke Austin, Texas granted a key to the city to a radical defund the police protestor who doesn’t think anyone should be placed in jail — even murderers. Despite the city setting a record for homicides in 2021 after dramatically cutting its police budget and 911 response times climbing to hours even for serious crimes, Chas Moore, head …

Leader of anti-police group wants no prison time for murder, burglars to clean homes as punishment Read More »

Police recovered three ghost guns linked to two armed carjackings in Prince George’s County Six teenagers in Maryland have been charged in connection with two recent carjackings during which the juveniles were allegedly armed with loaded ghost guns, authorities said Monday. The latest carjacking happened Sunday in broad daylight in District Heights, the Prince George’s County Police Department said. …

Six Maryland teens arrested in separate carjackings; loaded ghost guns seized Read More »

Donald Trump urged Republicans in Congress early Wednesday to “defund” the Department of Justice and the FBI “until they come to their senses.” He cited the two federal agencies in a post on his Truth Social account the day after he was arraigned in Manhattan on a 34-count felony indictment charging him with falsifying business records related …

Trump: Defund DOJ, FBI Read More »

A policy question these days that has befuddled federal lawmakers is why so many millions of people have not returned to the workplace in the post-COVID-19 era. The labor force participation rate among employable adults is near a record low today. There are at least 2 million to 4 million employable adults who could and …

STEPHEN MOORE: Hey, Uncle Sam, Stop Paying People For Not Working Read More »