At 74 years old, King Charles III is the oldest person to be crowned the monarch of the United Kingdom. He is 48 years older than his mother Queen Elizabeth II was when she took the throne. The second oldest was King William IV, who became the ruler, aged 64, in 1830.   Charles is […]

Science fiction authors have long suspected that artificial intelligence robots will one day rise up to reign over humanity – but that hasn’t stopped us from pursuing AI as a key to mankind’s future. While it may be the pessimists among us who expect the worst of AI, recent leaps forward in the technology have […]

Could this be the end of the United Nations? The international organization should shut its doors if it doesn’t act to end the Russian invasion of Ukraine, according to Volodymyr Zelensky. In a March 5 video speech to the UN Security Council, the Ukrainian president described atrocities allegedly committed by Russian troops in his nation, […]

COVID lockdowns have done more harm than good, according to a new study out of Johns Hopkins University. The analysis indicates lockdowns across Europe and the U.S. resulted in a paltry 0.2% drop in coronavirus mortality – a figure the researchers deem substandard when compared to the cultural, economic, and health drawbacks of such measures. […]

President Biden’s workplace COVID vaccine mandate is being withdrawn as of today, Wednesday, January 26, after failing to gain traction in the courts. At Biden’s instruction, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) formalized a rule in November 2021 that employers with 100 or more workers must require proof of vaccination from those employees, or […]

How long can an emergency last? That is the question being posed in the state of New York as Governor Kathy Hochul’s recent COVID mask mandate has been ruled unconstitutional by a state Supreme Court judge. Based on emergency powers supposedly granted by the state’s Health Department, Hochul had in December ordered all indoor venues […]

In a day sure to traumatize socialists across America, November 2 saw major elections that appeared to give resounding support to moderate politics. With more than one shakeup, the results herald a ferocious battle in next year’s midterms. New Jersey Gubernatorial In a surprise twist, New Jersey’s gubernatorial race remains neck-and-neck between Democrat incumbent Phil […]

Editor’s note: This is the second part of a two-part series detailing how Australia has responded to the COVID threat. In part one, we discussed the encroaching authoritarianism and the closing of state borders. In this final segment, we examine how Australians are reacting to the coercive nature of the government’s plan for near-full vaccination. […]

Editor’s note: This is the first of a two-part series detailing how freedoms have been lost in Australia due to the fear of COVID-19, how politics have placed millions of citizens under virtual house arrest, and how Australians have responded to the encroaching authoritarianism. “Build Back Better” and “Great Reset” are the catchphrases of the […]

Just as people across the U.S. began to think and hope the COVID pandemic was winding down, the Delta variant has sprung up and caused fresh chaos. While the new strain’s rapid spread indicates that it’s more contagious than the original, it appears less lethal. As public discussion continues to focus more on the number […]

“The greatest victory is that which requires no battle.” So wrote classical Chinese strategist Sun Tzu in The Art of War. Those tactics may be ancient, but in an era when the cyber world is just as valuable as the real one, battlefields aren’t as obvious as they once were, and power can be gained […]

The friendly neighborhood mail carrier can still be seen on his rounds, but, like the milkman, his industry has declined in today’s modern world. The USPS is struggling, but it may have found a way to survive – with a new mission. A U.S. Postal Service bulletin appears to reveal the agency has been tracking […]

Society has become more reliant on digital technology since the emergence of the coronavirus, from online schooling to the boom in Amazon shopping to Zoom workplaces. The digitization of life is only just beginning, though, it seems. Vaccine passports are likely to be the next stage in the re-engineering of civilization. Will the U.S. be […]

International travelers have long accepted the use of passports as normal. The Soviet Union required citizens to carry internal passports for domestic transit, something authoritarian regimes still do. Now, with COVID vaccines rushing out of labs and into arms, the push for “vaccine passports” is gathering momentum – around the world and at the White […]

Imagine you’ve just driven to the supermarket, passing dozens of streetlights on the way, perhaps passing under a bridge or by a tow truck in the next lane. You leave your car in the parking lot. How many times during this short trip has your license plate been photographed and entered into a database, along […]

Social media personalities attract large audiences thanks to the authenticity of individuals posting homemade videos or articles online. But many of those online influencers have signed up with advertisers and even political campaigns with the aim of, well, influencing their followers. YouTube now requires creators to disclose whether a video contains a paid promotion – […]

Getting Vocl About Things Is a new kid about to arrive on the social media block? According to MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell, the answer is yes – and its name is Vocl. Lindell has attracted controversy due to his vociferous claims of election fraud, leading to a defamation lawsuit by Dominion Voting Systems, as well […]

New videos of a young Tom Cruise have fascinated the denizens of social media, with just one hiccup – the footage is not real. The videos are deepfakes – false images created using artificial intelligence (AI) programs. While deepfake videos have appeared over the last few years, the incredible realism of the new Cruise clips […]

In his first media interviews since ending his presidency, Donald Trump has rejected the idea that he would wish for a return to Twitter, saying that, with the heightened speech control of the platform, “I understand it’s become very boring, and millions of people are leaving … because it’s not the same.” So, does the […]

Will he – won’t he? The internet has been abuzz with conjecture about whether Donald Trump will be making an imminent reappearance online. Once the world’s most famous tweeter, what are the former president’s social media prospects? Twitter Ban Is Forever Twitter confirmed on Feb. 10 that it will never allow Trump back onto the […]

Social media platform Parler quickly gained symbolic status as a free speech frontier after the Capitol riots as one platform which would not capitulate to the politically correct – but is that all over now? Parler Free Speech Crusade Collapses Under Infighting? Parler quickly gained thousands of users in the aftermath of the 2020 election, […]

From YouTube massaging the numbers on Biden White House videos to Democrat attempts at weaponizing the FBI against social media platform Parler, it looks like we are entering a brave new world of online censorship and manipulation. Just how far will this go? Two current stories indicate that recent efforts have been just the first […]

In the weeks following the Capitol riot, Twitter has become possibly the most hated name on the internet – and the most acclaimed. Depending on whom you ask, the microblogging platform acted heroically or tyrannically in cutting Donald Trump’s character limit to zero. But recent activity shows that the social media heavyweight is far from […]

It has long been recognized that what you post on social media could come back to haunt you later – and many of those who broke into the Capitol building and captured the event online are now learning that lesson. Having recorded their own activities on Jan. 6 – criminal and otherwise – at least […]