MyPillow founder Mike Lindell has lost yet another lawyer involved in a civil lawsuit he hopes will avoid him paying out $5m in award money he offered in an election fraud evidence competition. Lindell, an avid Donald Trump supporter, launched the ‘Prove Mike Wrong’ challenge in 2021 and promised to pay the huge prize to […]
What if the government is a myth? What if it doesn’t produce what we pay it for? What if it fails to safeguard our lives, liberties and property from its own agents? What if nothing changes after these failures and after elections? What if we’re stuck with it? What if the National Security Agency — […]
A man was shot in Palermo on Saturday after accidentally pulling into an illegal marijuana farm, the Bute County Sherrif’s Office said. BCSO dispatch received the adult victim’s call at 11 p.m., reporting he was shot. Deputies found the victim and transported him to a local hospital. He was later transferred by helicopter to an […]
If the bosses at Boeing intended for CEO Dave Calhoun’s performance during a Senate hearing to smooth over the company’s abject turmoil, they were woefully mistaken. Calhoun was forced Tuesday to answer on the record whether the embattled aerospace company had retaliated against any of the more than a dozen whistleblowers who have raised concerns […]
Donald Trump’s latest attempt to mock President Joe Biden over his cognitive abilities lost its sting on Tuesday when he got a key term wrong at a time when new questions are being raised about his own brainpower. Trump pointed to a video circulating in right-wing media of Biden seeming to wander off during a […]
Embattled Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun spent two hours Tuesday trying to persuade largely skeptical senators that the beleaguered aircraft maker had committed to safety since a pair of deadly crashes six years ago. Democrat and Republican lawmakers alike grilled Calhoun at a hearing of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations over a series of in-flight […]
Elon Musk won two big shareholder votes at Tesla on Thursday, but that may not be good for Tesla shareholders. (Britta Pedersen / Associated Press) No one who has followed the career of that famously self-effacing and modest business leader Elon Musk could have expected him to boast openly about having secured approval from Tesla […]
Warning: Reading this article may cause you to question the Surgeon General’s reliance on feelings over science. In 1982, then-U.S. Surgeon General Dr. C. Everett Koop said video games could be hazardous to children and warned of kids becoming “addicted” to them, causing problems for their “body and soul.” This warning was not based on […]
As Iowans, we value personal freedom and the ability to make our own decisions without undue interference. That’s why the recent vote in the U.S. Senate blocking the Right to Contraception Act is so troubling. The three of us introduced similar legislation in the Iowa Senate earlier this year, which unfortunately met a similar fate. […]
Donald Trump has made a point in recent months of deriding his rival Joe Biden as being cognitively impaired, mocking the 81-year-old US president for his verbal stumbles and accusing him of falling both up and down stairs. But people in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones. On Saturday night Trump, who turned 78 on Friday, […]
If you’re anything like me, you probably have a bit of a love-hate relationship with sunscreen. I love that it helps protect against skin cancer and protects against the signs of aging, but it’s such a chore to apply. Even worse, so many make me look like I’m wearing a layer of pale gray paint. […]
The legendary duo of Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger transformed Berkshire Hathaway into a multibillion-dollar empire through astute investments and a unique approach to market inefficiencies. Munger, who passed away last year, was known for his straightforward and often blunt insights into the investment world. During the 2015 Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting, Munger remarked to […]