British Tourist Faces Prison Sentence In UAE For Filming Iranian Missiles

FBI Director Blasts CBC's Editorial Choice Not To Call 9/11 A Terrorist Attack Authored by Jennifer Cowan via The Epoch Times, The director of the FBI is criticizing a CBC News directive for its journalists to avoid using the term "terrorist attacks" during 25th anniversary coverage of the 9/11 terror plot that killed nearly 3,000 people in the United States. The memorandum directed to CBC News personnel instructed staff to stay away from terms like "terrorist" or "terrorism" and to instead use descriptions like "hijackings" to describe the attacks executed by Islamic...

What 'Compassion' Isn't Authored by Laura Hollis via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), One of the most frustrating aspects of contemporary conversations about politics and public policy is how often the deleterious effects of terrible programs - local, state and federal - are brushed aside with distracting and even deceitful claims that the intentions behind the policies were "compassionate." This is an utterly wrongheaded analysis for many reasons. Laws, public policies, and government programs should be evaluated by their results, not by the state of mind of their advocates or sponsors. Nathan...

Ringing The Bell: Meta Plunges On Report It May Sell "Tens Of Billions" In New Stock They don't ring the bell at the top, but they sure do sell a lot of stock. With SpaceX, Anthropic and OpenAI looking to IPO hundreds of billions in common stock (not counting even more hundreds of billions in lock up expirations that will hit the market soon)... ... coupled with Google's record $80 Billion follow on offering (of which half was a memestock-esque At The Market offering direct to retail), suddenly the cash-incinerating AI companies...