A former diversity manager at Facebook and Nike was sentenced to prison on Monday after a $5 million kickback and fraud scheme fell apart. Barbara Furlow-Smiles, 38, of Marietta, Georgia, will serve five years and three months in prison, after which she will have three years of supervised release, according to a Department of Justice […]
ESG was supposed to be the future of smart investing, but the future looks increasingly politically incorrect, according to a new Axios report on the “exodus” of money from “sustainable investment funds.” To put it bluntly, ESG was meant to be a money bludgeon for beating corporations into toeing […]
The FBI issued a warning to Americans this month about a new “smishing” texting scam that says the target has unpaid road tolls. Smishing is a mix of phishing, a scam wherein a victim is sent a message purporting to be from a legitimate organization asking the victim to provide personal and financial information, and […]
President Joe Biden keeps lecturing corporate America to “pay your fair share” of taxes. It turns out he’s right that some companies really are getting away scot-free from paying taxes. But it isn’t Big Tech companies in Silicon Valley or the Wall Street financial company “fat cats” […]
LONDON — A second British lawmaker has acknowledged receiving explicit messages on his phone in what police are investigating as a malicious phishing attempt against politicians, their staff and journalists. Conservative legislator Luke Evans said he had been a victim of “cyber flashing and malicious communications” a month ago, when an unknown individual sent him […]
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill Wednesday to protect the rights of homeowners in the state against so-called “squatters.” That morning, DeSantis posted a video to X explaining the need for the new law. “Does your house belong to you?” the Republican governor asked rhetorically. “Or, if you are not using it, can someone […]
We’ve often remarked upon the truth of the dictum from our late friend Stan Evans regarding Republicans who run for Congress as conservatives and then abandon conservative principles that “too often when our guys get to Washington, they suddenly stop being our guys.” And that goes double for the unelected staffers hired by allegedly conservative […]
“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.” -H.L. Mencken As of February 9, Bill Gates is the proud father of a brand-new Climate Change™ hustle. This one’s […]
Politicians SAY a lot of things; some they mean, some they don’t. So you should always look at what they do and how they spend the money they take from citizens. And, as importantly, whose pockets that money ends up in. The latter is even more important than the former. There’s a great article in […]
After claiming racism from the pulpit of a church, Georgia District Attorney Fani Willis finally admitted that the allegations made against her last month about her affair with Nathan Wade, the special prosecutor she appointed to lead the election interference case against former President Donald Trump, were, in fact, true. Willis disclosed the relationship in […]
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