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Forget the fondue. Caviar, magic mushrooms, gold-leaf desserts, A-list selfies, $2,500-per-night hookers and secret dinners are likely to be on the menu as scores of private jets touch down in Switzerland as soon as Sunday to bring the world’s elite to the small Alpine resort town of Davos for what’s officially known as The World Economic Forum 2024.

Ahead of Gov. Ron DeSantis' anticipated announcement this week, a GOP mega-donor is throwing his support toward the Florida Republican instead of former President Donald Trump. Point Bridge Capital founder Hal Lambert explained in a FOX Business exclusive interview why he believes it's "time [for the Republican Party] to move on" to younger leadership. "There's a number of reasons," Lambert said on "Cavuto: Coast to Coast" on Tuesday. "One, Donald Trump can only serve one term. He'll effectively be a lame duck almost on day one, if he were to win. But I don't think he can win the general...

The baby hydra started as an ideological animal, but it's growing into something far beyond that. In Part I of this essay, Planet Pennywise Hatches the Hydra, we set the stage - a world turned infernal circus, its peoples' minds raped and desecrated by a demented demon clown - and watched as Something Awful was hatched in an unlikely corner of the internet, gestating in obscurity, feeding on the splinters inserted into the mass mind by generations of propaganda. Our baby monster, a cybernetic hydra composed of millions of young men fueled by rage, despair, and the joy and camaraderie...

The monster that was born when we got together to dig the splinters out of our minds is an existential nightmare for the globalist class. Something very interesting has been happening over the last few years, and very few people have been noticing it. Most of the time we're so caught up in the Current Thing, whether supporting or opposing or just laughing at it and rolling our eyes, that it's hard to take a step back and notice the subtle, large-scale patterns that have been knitting themselves together as history unfolds before us. The monster that was born when...

Bronx bartender—led socialists hiding under the cover of ‘progressivism’ is leading the United States of America The incurable condition known as megalomania is running rampant through Congress, where chef megalomaniac Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) seems to be running the whole Democrat show. AOC reminds Trump in tweet about tax return request: ‘We didn’t ask you’. (Fox News, April 4, 2019). In her Wednesday tweet AOC suggested that House Democrats won’t be taking ‘No’ for an answer in seeking access to President Trump’s tax returns.

The Associated Press news agency on Wednesday acceded to a Russian request to delete the term "former ally" from an article mentioning the relationship between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany during World War II. The article, which was published at the beginning of the month in media outlets worldwide, including Haaretz, was about a Ukrainian city commemorating the 75th anniversary of the destruction of its Jewish community. It included the claim that "in June 1941 Germany attacked the Soviet Union, its former ally." On Wednesday, ten days after the article was published, AP amended the text. The news agency...

Last week I received the following e-mail, and I felt it would be best to share my response here on the blog. Dear Mr. White, For someone considering converting to Catholicism, what questions would you put to them in order to discern whether or not they have examined their situation sufficiently? Say, a Top 10 list. Thanks. When I posted this question in our chat channel a number of folks commented that it was in fact a great question, and we started to throw out some possible answers. Here is my "Top Ten List" in response to this fine inquiry....

Fort Lauderdale, Fla. - A high-ranking sheriff's officer apologized Wednesday for insensitive comments he and other officers made about demonstrators after a free speech summit in 2003 in Miami. The comments wound up in a police-training video produced a day later. The video shows Maj. John Brooks and other officers praising each other for shooting protesters with rubber bullets. "Looking back at the tape, in hindsight, I shouldn't have said those things," Brooks said in a report published Wednesday night on The Miami Herald's Web site. Broward County Sheriff's officials said no one would face disciplinary action in connection with...

BOSS BLOWS UP AFTER 4TH STRAIGHT LOSS BY GEORGE KING April 18, 2005 -- BALTIMORE - One dozen games into the season George Steinbrenner has had it with his high-priced and underachieving Yankees. Shortly after yesterday's 8-4 loss to the Orioles in front of a sun-splashed Camden Yards crowd of 47,883 that stretched the Yankees' losing streak to four, The Boss cried uncle. "Enough is enough," Steinbrenner said in a statement. "I am bitterly disappointed, as I am sure all Yankee fans are, by the lack of performance by our team. http://www.nypost.com/sports/sports.shtml

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 3 — The Walt Disney Company announced several changes today to its board, including one that could reduce the influence of a chief critic of Michael D. Eisner, the chief executive. Disney also said it was lowering its 2002 earnings estimate because of the disastrous performance of the animated "Treasure Planet," which cost $140 million to make but took in only $17 million at domestic theaters over the holiday weekend. As part of the boardroom changes, Disney will add a new independent director, Robert Matschullat, a former Wall Street banker and top media company executive. It will...

NEW YORK - This morning as guests gathered at a media breakfast to hear Michael Eisner, chairman and CEO of the Walt Disney Co., the weather outside was cold and nasty. But, if you were an employee of Disney subsidiary ABC, the biggest chill was inside when the raspy-voiced Eisner stated that he did not see the third-ranked network being around in "four to five years." Eisner has been under increasing pressure from shareholders to bolster the company's stock price, which is trading in the $17 range, lower than where it was five years ago and more than 60% off...

Three years ago, when it appeared that nothing could get worse at Disney -- fleeing executives, share-price collapse (and this was during the boom), dismal results at ABC, and a CEO involved in a bitter, costly, and very public lawsuit with a former subordinate -- I wrote that "Michael Eisner's extraordinary reign" at Disney was "coming to an end." Two weeks ago, some media bigs I know were out for a little retreat at Herb Allen's place in Sun Valley and, over drinks, put together a friendly pool about whether Michael would last the year. When I dismissed Eisner, I...

When Wolves Dress Like Sheep: A Close Look at Voice of the Faithful CRISIS Magazine - e-Letter August 8, 2002 ********************************************** Dear Friend, Lately, we've been hearing a lot about a group called Voice of the Faithful (VOTF). The media's coverage is invariably positive, playing up the group's proactive stance towards renewing the Church and holding bishops accountable for their actions. Now, I tend to be suspicious of any Catholic group the mainstream media supports. And as I began to take a closer look at VOTF, it became pretty clear that it's not as "faithful" as it claims. What it...

LOS ANGELES, Jun 25, 2002 (AP Online via COMTEX) -- Michael Eisner, chairman and chief executive of Walt Disney Co., and his wife have filed a federal negligence lawsuit against their accounting firm, claiming they had to cover $3 million in unpaid state taxes and interest. In a lawsuit filed Monday, the Eisners claim Executive Monetary Management Inc. failed to give the correct advice on preparing and filing California state income tax returns. Executive Monetary Management is a wholly owned subsidiary of New York-based Neuberger Berman Inc. A telephone message left after business hours Monday to Neuberger Berman was not...