Communist Mamdani's Latest Redistribution Scheme: Tax On All New York Homes Over $1 Million Bought With Cash

Oil Spikes As Iran Denies Progress Despite Hasty Lebanon Truce: US Talks Halted For 'At Least A Few Days' Summary: Washington has seen the Lebanon partial truce as opportunity enough to press forward on broader talks, with Trump saying he expects a broader Iran deal "over the next week". But Fars denies this Tuesday: "exchange of messages between Iran & the US has been stopped for at least a few days" on MOU. In Lebanon, "While the ceasefire appears to be largely holding, there was further violence overnight," reports BBC, with more dead & wounded...

European Official Warns That Americans Can Be Silenced By EU Online Speech Laws Authored by Kevin Stocklin via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Europeans who face criminal charges for what they said or wrote warned that Europe’s speech laws can silence Americans as well, regardless of the U.S. Constitution’s First Amendment protections.  Finnish Member of Parliament Paivi Rasanen arrives to attend a court session at the Helsinki District Court in Helsinki, Finland, on Jan. 24, 2022. Antti Aimo-Koivisto/Lehtikuva/AFP via Getty Images While testifying before the House Judiciary Committee last week, Paivi Rasanen, a...

Do We Really Believe In Freedom? Authored by Mollie Engelhart via The Epoch Times, Do we really believe in freedom? Or do we only believe in freedom when it applies to people who agree with us? Do we trust people we fundamentally disagree with to remain free citizens? Or do we believe they must be controlled through laws, censorship, surveillance, or social pressure because they are too dangerous to be trusted with liberty? That question sits at the center of what I am most interested in during this moment in history, the 250th...