Month: September 2020

The global economy can seem like an abstract concept, yet, as Visual Capitalist’s Iman Ghosh notes, it influences our everyday lives in both obvious and subtle ways. Nowhere is this clearer than in the current economic state amid the throes of the pandemic. This voronoi-style visualization from HowMuch relies on gross domestic product (GDP) data from the World Bank to paint a picture of the global economy – which crested $87.8 trillion in 2019. Editor’s note: Annual data on economic output is a lagging indicator, and is released the following year by organizations such as the…

Celebrating his victory over Tyron Woodley on Saturday, UFC fighter Colby Covington took an unexpected jab at LA Lakers player LeBron James: “I want to dedicate this fight to all the first responders, all the military out there. You keep us safe. Not these ‘woke athletes.’ Not these spineless cowards like LeBron James.” When a handful of NBA players confronted Covington over his criticism of LeBron, he responded with another insult on Twitter: “LOL at the snowflakes that believe @KingJames could even last 10 seconds with me! If that coward…

Nate Trujillo sat on a windy ridge and watched California’s largest wildfire, the August Complex, work its way toward the cannabis-growing enclave of Post Mountain-Trinity Pines, where many of the locals are refusing to evacuate. Law enforcement officers went door to door warning of the danger a few days ago, but “we couldn’t force people to leave,” said Trujillo, a narcotics deputy in the Trinity County Sheriff’s Department. “It’s mainly growers. And a lot of them, they don’t want to leave because that is their livelihood.” It is a critical…

U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Kelly Craft said Wednesday on Al Arabiya that the news of the next country to sign a peace accord with Israel could become public “in the next day or two.” “It could be today,” Craft said. “It could be one in the next day or two. Yes, so we are very excited and I know that others are going to be following. She added, “And what we don’t want to do is we don’t want to isolate anyone, but to bring everyone on board…

The first presidential debate is next Tuesday, and I don’t see Biden surviving.  His campaign has been playing “hide the Crypt-Keeper” since spring, occasionally proving to the public that he’s still ticking by having him tussle with a teleprompter while “objective journalists” participate in make-believe interviews.  Biden’s cognitive decline is now so steep that he begins reading pre-written answers to pre-written questions, forgets what he’s doing halfway through, and settles for stringing syllables together that sound English-y in a non–native speaker sort of way.  He is a man forever in search of a thought but…

The United States needs one billion people to keep pace with China’s expanding strategic power, according to Glenn Beck, owner of TheBlaze TV network. “Having ONE BILLION AMERICANS is a goal worth striving for and crucial to keeping China from overtaking us as the top global power,” Beck tweeted after a conversation with progressive author Matt Yglesias, who has recently published a book urging the tripling of the U.S. population from 330 million to 1 billion. Yglesias’ book, One Billion Americans: The Case for Thinking Bigger, calls for roughly 670…

DeGeneres: “I’m a pretty good actress. I don’t think that I’m that good that I could come out here every day for 17 years and fool you.” Ellen DeGeneres returned to the airwaves Monday with her first episode since the daytime talk show came under investigation for a “toxic” workplace. In the opening of the season 18 premiere of The Ellen DeGeneres Show, DeGeneres addressed the controversy to her virtual audience. “If you’re watching, because you love me, thank you,” DeGeneres says. “If you’re watching it because you don’t love…

Something is happening in America, and it should sound the alarm for every confessing Christian. Simply put, hostile efforts in many cities now threaten to suppress the First Amendment rights of all people to exercise our faith freely. In unprecedented acts of government-authorized injustice, Christians are being told they cannot gather for worship, they cannot sing songs of praise, and they cannot observe church ordinances. Just last week, politicians in Seattle installed temporary fencing and security guards around Gas Works Park to prevent us from holding a “Let Us Worship”…

With each passing day, it seems Americans are more and more at each other’s throats. Black Lives Matter mobs accost people sitting outside at restaurants. Pro-mask and anti-mask agitators accost one another in grocery stores, even wishing death on toddlers over debates about the coronavirus pandemic. Republicans and Democrats each fear the other side is trying to interfere with the sanctity of the vote in the 2020 election, and it seems the stakes have never been higher. Predictions of a protracted and uncertain election have sparked concerns about a potential civil war that seems…