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Some Pinocchios are Criticizing President Trump for Saying ‘Shylock’
The name of Shylock, a character in William Shakespeare’s play The Merchant of Venice has long been embraced in the English language as a means of referring to charging high interest for loans or engaging in business ruthlessly. That second meaning also applies to the name Scrooge from Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carrol. “Scrooge” may […]
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Feb 17, 2026 / Tyler Durden
The Crowdsourcing Of Cutting Waste & Fraud
The Crowdsourcing Of Cutting Waste & Fraud
Authored by Jeffrey Tucker via The Epoch Times,
The Trump administration came into office with a pledge to uproot waste, fraud, and abuse within the government’s system of transfer payments. Leading the charge would be Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
They began their work early on with earnest and passion, starting inauguration evening, with many long days and nights of data crunching and number slinging, under the assumption that auditing government would be similar to auditing a private company.
DOGE quickly found...
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Jun 23, 2026 / Philip Giraldi
Another Week from Hell
Last week started on a positive note with President Donald Trump uncharacteristically declaring that a “memorandum of understanding” (MOU) had been achieved by US and Iranian negotiators assisted by Pakistani and Qatari mediators to suspend military action and begin sixty days of discussions in pursuit of a peace agreement. The move was based on a […]
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Sep 10, 2026 / Tyler Durden
25 Years Later, Air Travel Still Bears The Imprint Of 9/11
25 Years Later, Air Travel Still Bears The Imprint Of 9/11
Authored by Jeremy Lott via The Epoch Times,
The terror attacks 25 years ago this week had enduring costs for America's commercial aviation sector.
Today's domestic fliers are on balance worse off for it, with higher costs, fewer choices, and more delays.
That's because, on Sept. 11, 2001, men who were part of the al Qaeda Islamist terror network bought tickets and boarded four passenger planes out of Boston, northern Virginia, and Newark, New Jersey.
Once airborne, the 19 terrorists hijacked those planes...
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