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George Soros is 89 years old, but by gosh, before he dies, he’s going to see to the internal destruction of America. At least that’s how it seems. How else can we listen to his words in Davos, Switzerland, track his funding of American political races and pay attention to what he says about President Donald Trump, capitalism, and the leftist causes he backs and the leftist Open Society Foundations he runs, and come to any other conclusion? In the last few years, Soros has taken to trying to take over local law enforcement agencies by pumping massive amounts of...

So we are agreed. We are living in the second great Gilded Age, a time of startling personal wealth. In the West, the mansion after mansion with broad and rolling grounds; in the East, the apartments with foyers in which bowling teams could play. Or, on another level, the week's vacation in Disneyland or Dublin with the entire family--this in a nation in which, well within human memory, people with a week off stayed home and fixed things in the garage, or drove to the beach for a day and sat on a blanket from one of the kid's beds...

Something to Yak About – Billionaires for Kerry: Birds of a Feather Flock Together John Kerry, the richest man to ever seek the presidency, is receiving plenty of help from his fellow billionaires in his quest for power. His latest ally is billionaire entrepreneur and erstwhile dog-cloner John Sperling, who’s spending millions to divide the nation into two camps. According to Kerry’s billionaire buddy, the ‘Metro’ camp is cool and hip and chic and backs John Kerry and Hillary Clinton, et al. Sperling’s ‘Retro’ camp is un-cool and square and supports George Bush. After all of John Kerry’s talk about...