PRESIDENT TRUMP made more heads explode this week with his announcements about Gaza and the creation of a White House Faith Office.  Leftists and Muslims are incensed by Trump’s proposal to rebuild Gaza, which they’re calling “ethnic cleansing,” conveniently forgetting that negotiations for a two-state solution to the Arab-Israeli problemContinue Reading

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THE AI genie is out of the bottle. The big question now is whether Skynet will be Chinese or American.  We discuss the announcement this week of a half-trillion dollar joint venture between OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank called Stargate to build an artificial intelligence infrastructure to make the United StatesContinue Reading

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WE LIVE in interesting times. And 2025 promises no end of excitement.  What’s ahead for the coming year? The two biggest economic blocs on Earth, the G7 and BRICS, will launch pilot programs for Central Bank Digital Currencies, the closest thing we’ve seen to what the mark of the BeastContinue Reading

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AND THEN a whole new one begins.  This has been the most bizarre presidential campaign since the Civil War. Thankfully, the campaign ends this week with Election Day Tuesday, and—we hope—a winner declared shortly thereafter.  Then comes a different kind of crazy as we prepare for whoever is inaugurated JanuaryContinue Reading

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DONALD TRUMP, Nikola Tesla, and time travel?  The 2024 presidential election is already one of the weirdest in American history. Troy Anderson (troyanderson.us) joins us to discuss his forthcoming book The Trump Code that explores the strange relationships between the Trump family, Nikola Tesla, and a series of 19th centuryContinue Reading

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