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Palantir CEO Alex Karp on tech and maintaining U.S. dominance.
UPDATE: Palantir announced their quarterly results after the close of the markets Monday. The stock went up 22% yesterday (Tuesday) and is now up 1,243% since May 2023. The short version of the interview is the link but highly recommend the long version I've embedded. On many things Karp is so-called progressive (he voted for…
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Who knew? Madeline Albright tried to do with USAID exactly what Trump is doing
So the State Department will take over the duties of USAID, which Albright tried to do during the Clinton years. This is a revealing short video from CBS. Comments at the beginning from Secretary of State Rubio.
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Bethany Hamilton – lost her arm to a shark – speaks about children and family
And faith. About five minutes long. And she still surfs! Bethany Hamilton – lost her arm to a shark in 2003 – speaks at the March for Life about children and family
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NY democrats aiming to keep Elise Stefanik seat empty as long as possible.
Stefanik has to resign shortly to take her place as UN Ambassador. Special elections are supposed to be held quickly to fill the seat but the Democrat controlled NY State legislatures are aiming to thwart that. She is from a very republican upstate district so highly likely a republican would win the special election. Lawmakers…
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Anti-DEI activist Robby Starbucks interviewed on CNBC
This is six minutes of the full 10 minute interview from Monday morning. I had heard of this guy but never heard him speak or interviewed. He has a Cuban background.
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“Joe Biden: When The Last Hurrah Met Catholic Lite”
From the interfaith publication First Things via the LifeNet blog. Short essay by George Weigel who is the biographer of Pope John Paul II – now Saint John Paul II. The book is Witness to Hope. The entire essay is below the link. Four years ago, this column praised the courage of Archbishop José Gómez…
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WSJ: “Why RFK Jr. Is Dangerous to Public Health.
Entire editorial is below. "He’s made millions from referring clients to trial lawyers, and he advocates mass tort litigation that would ruin the vaccine industry." President Trump nominated Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as Health and Human Services secretary in return for his presidential endorsement. But Senate Republicans have an obligation to scrutinize his giant closet…
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The Debate: “Is Drinking Alcohol Ever Good for you?”
This is from the magazine Popular Science and I think is a really good review. There is a virtually unanimous opinion that more than moderate drinking – "Every single source agreed that alcohol consumption exceeding one standard drink a day for women or two drinks a day for men can have negative health consequences, and…
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Scholar JT Wright: “Why was Jesus’s Good News Unexpected?”
JT Wright is a wonderful scripture scholar and an Anglican Bishop.