Friday’s gossip: Mourinho, Messi, Sancho, Musiala, Howe
Roma manager Jose Mourinho is set for a shock return to Real Madrid this summer, replacing current Los Blancos boss Carlo Ancelotti who will take over as Brazil head coach. (Mundo Deportivo – in Spanish)external-link Liverpool are making moves for highly-rated midfielder Jamal Musiala with the 20-year-old unhappy he is not a guaranteed starter at […]
DeSantis vs. Newsom on Violent Crime
California Gov. Gavin Newsom isn’t running for president in 2024, at least not yet, but he has agreed to a televised Fox News debate next month with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. One worthy topic will be their respective economic records, but they should also spend some time on public safety. The Federal Bureau of Investigation […]
United Cup: Cameron Norrie, Dan Evans & Katie Boulter in Team GB for January tournament
Evans and Norrie were part of Team GB at the 2023 tournament but will be joined by a new-look team Cameron Norrie, Dan Evans and Katie Boulter will all be part of the Great Britain team for the 2024 United Cup. Fran Jones and doubles players Neal Skupski and Maia Lumsden complete the British team […]
A Two-Faced Tax at the Supreme Court
When is an income tax not an income tax? In Washington state, the answer is whenever Democrats pretend it’s something else. To get around restrictions in the state constitution, they passed a 7% levy on capital gains, while calling it an excise tax. Remarkably, the state Supreme Court went along. Now it’s up to the […]
The House GOP's Mercenary Caucus
A majority doesn’t count for much in a chamber where every man is a king. Source link
Israel Needs to Dig Deep and Fortify
It was attacked because it was vulnerable, and its next steps could place it in even greater peril. Source link
United States Grand Prix: FIA quadruple maximum F1 driver fine to 1m euros
Lewis Hamilton was fined 50,000 euros, with half of it suspended, for crossing the track during the Qatar Grand Prix following a collision with Mercedes team-mate George Russell Leading Formula 1 drivers expressed shock at a decision to raise the possible fine that can be imposed on competitors to 1m euros (£871,000). Governing body the […]
What a Long, Strange and Unsatisfying EV Trip It's Been
A New York Times reporter struggles with an electric rental car. Source link
The Left’s Anti-Semitism Crisis Is the Right’s Opportunity
Wars have a way of scrambling politics near and far, and so it may become with the war Hamas has launched against Israel. One topsy-turvy outcome in Europe is that ostensibly anti-Semitic parties on the further reaches of the political right have embraced Israel—likely because they’ve realized that doing so emphasizes the left’s embarrassing anti-Semitic […]
Crypto and Hamas: Why Elizabeth Warren Is Wrong
It didn’t take long for the media to zero in on Hamas’s cryptocurrency fundraising, notably via the stablecoin Tether. Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D., Mass.) and Roger Marshall (R., Kan.) leapt at the chance to use this revelation to boost their crypto-regulation bill. But their attempt to exploit the Oct. 7 attacks to advance their legislative […]