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Every year, I offer you my predictions for the coming trip around the Sun, and every year, I’m mostly wrong. Oh well. Except for my Kelly Turnbull books, I don’t pretend to be Nostradamus, and in those books, I don’t want to be Nostradamus, but unfortunately, I have been. The same is true of my new novel about a terrorist attack on America! I want to be wrong. In any case, if you predicted I would be selling my books, you got that right. I wish I could say I think 2024 will be great for our country, but I...

The economy isn’t helped by rushing back to work in the face of a pandemic, according to a new study by Federal Reserve researchers. At a time when the lieutenant governor of Texas has said senior citizens would be willing to sacrifice their lives for a better economy and when President Trump has fretted that the cure may be worse than the disease, a new research paper looked at the impact of the 1918 Spanish flu on the U.S. economy. Far from hurting the economy, what are called nonpharmaceutical interventions — for example, shutting schools, establishing quarantines and restricting business...

As you may already know, Michael Cohen just ruined his career and proved to be a real shyster lawyer after releasing an unethical recording of a private conversation with Trump (then his client), to CNN of all places. Trump’s response was predictable and very common sense: Yes indeed, what kind of lawyer would do such a thing? Specifically, I wonder… Matt Drudge ran a very interesting headline on Wednesday: The tape released by Cohen to CNN was about a conversation from 2016 with then-candidate Trump, regarding a possible hush-money payment to Stormy Daniels, a porn-star who allegedly had a one-time...

The noose around the necks of Obama and Hillary continues to tighten with each passing day for their crimes with the Uranium One scandal where indictments are already coming down. Now in a bizarre twist, Attorney General Jeff Sessions is getting implicated in the whole deal with new evidence proving that he’s been working with Hillary and Obama this entire time to sweep the scandal under the rug. Ever since Trump got into office one year ago, he’s had no shortage of traitors constantly trying to sabotage his presidency. While many of us have wondered for quite some time just...

Australia’s main opposition Liberal party appointed a climate change sceptic as its leader on Tuesday in a move that all but kills plans by Kevin Rudd, primer minister, to have an emissions trading scheme passed into law ahead of the Copenhagen climate change summit. Tony Abbott ousted Malcolm Turnbull to become Australia’s fourth leader of the Liberal party in just over two years but only after securing 42 votes against Mr Turnbull’s 41. Mr Abbott, who earlier this year said the argument for climate change “is absolute crap”, used his first press conference to take on Mr Rudd’s Labor government...