Betting Against Ourselves: The Casino-ization Of America

Hawaii's Lieutenant Governor Indicted In "Biggest Bribery Scandal In State History" Lt. Gov. Sylvia Luke, a Democrat, was indicted by an Oahu grand jury on Friday on charges of criminal conspiracy to commit bribery, bribery, and falsifying candidate committee reports. The charges stem from an alleged 2022 scheme, dating to her time as a powerful state lawmaker, to steer state money toward COVID-19 testing contracts during the pandemic. Hawaii News Now reported that legal experts are calling it the biggest bribery scandal in state history. Luke was one of five people...

Woman Fatally Stabbed "Two Dozen Times" In Brazen Daytime Attack On Atlanta's MARTA Train A woman riding a MARTA train in Atlanta was killed in a brutal daytime attack Saturday, suffering nearly 20 stab wounds in what investigators say was a seemingly random act of violence, according to the NY Post. Police allege that 25-year-old John Elijah Matthews approached 66-year-old Margaret Swan after boarding the train Saturday morning. Surveillance video reportedly shows him lingering near Swan before pulling out a knife and attacking her. According to court documents, Swan cried out...

Three Debates Americans Have Had For 250 Years Authored by Lawrence Wilson via The Epoch Times, George Washington rode west from Philadelphia in command of 13,000 troops on a mission that would test his leadership unlike any previous campaign. These men were not soldiers in the Continental Army. They were citizen militiamen—forerunners of the National Guard—called up from Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and New Jersey. And Washington was no longer simply a general. He was president of the United States. The year was 1794, and Washington had made one of the most fateful decisions...