• Human Rights Include Property Rights

    Human Rights Include Property Rights

    Today, the distinction between human rights and property rights is often discussed. To the contrary, property rights are the most fundamental of all human rights.
  • Riots following George Floyd’s death may cost insurance companies up to $2B

    Riots following George Floyd’s death may cost insurance companies up to $2B

    Insurance companies could pay up to $2 billion in claims stemming from riots sparked by the police killing of George Floyd — making them the most expensive in US history, a new report says. The record-setting insured losses piled up as the demonstrations sometimes devolved into looting, arson and vandalism in 20 states across the …
  • Shuttered hotels costing NY $1.3 billion in tax receipts, report says

    Shuttered hotels costing NY $1.3 billion in tax receipts, report says

    Severe limitations on travel and the virtual shutdown of the hotel industry during the coronavirus pandemic is wreaking havoc on the treasuries of state and local governments, a sobering new report reveals. Tax revenues that hotels generate for New York’s state and local governments will crater by $1.3 billion this year, according to an analysis …
  • Senator Tom Cotton Suggests Denying Visas for Chinese Students to Study Science in U.S.

    Senator Tom Cotton Suggests Denying Visas for Chinese Students to Study Science in U.S.

    Senator Tom Cotton (R., Ark.) suggested on Sunday that the government should deny visas to Chinese students who want to study science in the U.S. “It’s a scandal to me that we have trained so many of the Chinese Communist Party’s brightest minds to go back to China, to compete for our jobs, to take …
  • Brad Pitt reveals cheeky butt story that still embarrasses his makeup artist

    Brad Pitt reveals cheeky butt story that still embarrasses his makeup artist

    Brad Pitt is really close to his makeup artist. How close, you ask? Well, she’s got his back(side). A longtime friend of almost 30 years, the A-lister admitted he and Jean Black are like “family,” and their bond grew even stronger after an embarrassing incident in the early ’90s. When working on 1994’s “Legends of …
  • DOJ Urges Federal Prosecutors to ‘Focus Their Resources’ on Pursuing Chinese Intellectual Property Cases

    DOJ Urges Federal Prosecutors to ‘Focus Their Resources’ on Pursuing Chinese Intellectual Property Cases

    John Demers, the assistant attorney general for national security, at a DOJ news conference on November 1, 2018. The Justice Department is urging federal prosecutors across the country to focus on investigating and bringing cases related to Chinese efforts to steal American intellectual property. John Demers, the DOJ’s assistant attorney general for national security, said …