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Facebook’s parent company, Meta, was fined $1.3 billion for failing to comply with the European Union’s privacy policies.

Among designers showcased by Target in the Pride collection is Abprallen, a British, LGBTQ brand whose other works include Satanic slogans and drawings of skulls and skeletons.

By Alan M. Dershowitz – wsj.com – May 21, 2023 Elon Musk has been accused of anti-Semitism because of his criticism and mockery of George Soros. Mr. Soros is Jewish; Mr. Musk isn’t. But Mr. Musk stands falsely accused. Mr. Soros is an active participant in politics, and his Jewishness shouldn’t shield him from criticism. Further, no single person has…

Anheuser-Busch has learned the hard way that a nice grade on the “Corporate Equality Index” doesn’t help sell cases of beer. Maybe now businesses can stop caring about useless social justice grades from partisan organizations that hate half of the country.

By: Noah Rothman – nationalreview.com – May 22, 2023 “There is nothing that makes either of us more angry than a bully,” First Lady Jill Biden warned reporters in advance of her husband’s presidential campaign. “There is nothing that makes us want to pick a fight more than that.” Tough talk on behalf of the Americans who the Bidens alleged…

By: Katie Pavlich – townhall.com –  May 19, 2023 For years, twice-failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has been credited with “conceding” the 2016 election to President Donald Trump. At the same time, Trump has been vilified for his refusal to acknowledge a loss to President Joe Biden. But Clinton’s trip to the lectern on November 9, 2016, was simply an…

By: Andrew C. McCarthy – nationalreview.com – May 20, 2023 Even FBI officials working the case admitted that it had been opened on the flimsiest of grounds. The vaporousness of the predication for the FBI’s Trump–Russia investigation, “Crossfire Hurricane,” was described Tuesday in our editorial on the Durham Report (and in my post the same day). For years, I have maintained that the probe was opened on false pretenses….

By: The Editorial Board – wsj.com – May 19, 2023 Special counsel John Durham’s report on the Russia collusion fiasco deserves more attention than it is getting, and its critics are dismissing it for one big reason: The 306 pages describe the great failure of original special counsel Robert Mueller. Mr. Mueller was named special counsel in May 2017, after…

By: The Editorial Board – wsj.com – May 17, 2023 Three times in a row, since 2018, Republicans have been disappointed on election night in November, in large part because they lost the suburbs. More defeats Tuesday for the GOP in Pennsylvania, Colorado and Florida suggest the erosion is continuing. After a special election Tuesday outside Philadelphia, Democrats will retain…

The percentage of of adults in the United States who indicate receiving a diagnosis of depression during their lifetime has risen to 29 percent, a substantial increase of almost 10 percentage points compared to the data from 2015.

A recent tussle over the Affordable Care Act’s (i.e., Obamacare) requirement that private health insurance cover preventive health care at no out-of-pocket cost raises a long-running policy debate: How effective is preventive health care in saving lives or money?