Opinion Category: Business

In a Rose Garden address this morning President Trump told the nation he will be signing the bipartisan funding bill Congress is delivering later today to keep the government open and he is declaring a national emergency to redirect previously appropriated money to build his wall. Congress’ funding bill provides $1.375 billion in funding for […]

Two freshman House Democrats are taking up a lot of air in the room. Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib are not just the latest foils in the President’s 2020 reelection bid but are getting serious pushback from Dems and the GOP for their positions against Israel’s treatment of Palestinians and its influence in Washington. Tlaibm […]

President Trump delivered the State of the Union address Tuesday night which contained a bit of everything. Rehashes, fact stretching, sketchy numbers, lofty policy and humanitarian goals, a call for bipartisanship, and a solid shout out to the wave of new women in Congress. The speech is also treading slightly above water in Twitter at […]

Ok, the game itself is not always a crowd pleaser but Super Bowl ads have always been the been the go to for Monday post-game office chatter. Except maybe for this Monday. The game was the lowest scoring in history and that malaise seemed to have spilled over to social’s reaction to the ads which […]

There’s no way around it, Dems are freaking and the GOP is salivating over the notion of Howard Schultz running as an Independent in the 2020 President race. We’ve seen this script before and it doesn’t end well for the opposition. Ask Al Gore what he thinks about Ralph Nadar, or George H.W. Bush about […]

Marie Antoinette was the last Queen of France before the masses tossed out the monarchy with the French Revolution. Aside from being a precipitating factor in dethroning French royalty she is perhaps best tied to telling her bread starved citizenry “Let them eat cake.” While there is question as to whether the Queen actually made […]

The Academy Award nominations were released and for the most part people seem not overly upset with the nominees. Engineered, woke or luck? Who knows, but the relative quiet is a change from recent years. Nominees for Best Actress provide some snubs but for the most part seem to have gotten it right. While the […]

The AFC Championship game between the New England Patriots and the Kansas City Chiefs was a classic nail biter pitting Tom Brady’s experience against Patrick Mahomes’ raw talent and youthful grit. The Pats’ 37 – 31 overtime victory in a frigid Foxborough, MA was no walk in the park for the Patriots. Brady and the […]

Gillette launched its Super Bowl ad early this year in an attempt to rise about the clutter, but seems to have made a mess of things. The shaving giant’s ad embraces the #MeToo movement by stomping on the masculine stereotype of sexual harassment, mansplaining, and boys will be boys, depicting men as potential behavioral change […]

Hey, it’s politics so just about no one gets above breakeven, especially if they have an opinion. And newly elected Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has plenty of them. AOC is not shy about taking on anyone who makes a stink-eyed quip about her irrespective of party, or about championing Progressive causes about which she is passionate. […]

The government shutdown continues. Not used to hearing “no” the President is threatening to stretch the Constitution with a declaration of emergency on the souther border. Both the President and Speaker Pelosi have dug in their heels over the wall forcing just about everyone else to take sides. Twitter too has taken sides and views […]

The President knows the spending bill is his best last best chance to deliver on his campaign promise to build a continuous wall along our souther border. He may also think failure to deliver is an existential threat to his base and his reelection bid. In an effort to take his case to the people […]

Fad diets have come a long way since Atkins and Paleo. The latest trimming trend sweeping the world is intermittent fasting, in which adherents either fast for one day regularly or eat only during restricted hours. Recent studies suggest that fasting can help people lose weight, but others have found serious reasons to be skeptical. […]

Try as they might, not every NFL team is equipped with an Aaron Rodgers or Tom Brady at quarterback. In fact, a fair number of teams are trotting out unproven or over-the-hill options and hoping for the best. Unsurprisingly, there aren’t too many Super Bowl contenders from that list. Perhaps the only exception is Kansas […]

After a long career raising awareness about “frogs turning gay” and “sodium fluoridated water” though his Infowars brand, alt-right provocateur Alex Jones is on the ropes. On Aug. 6, Facebook, Apple, YouTube, and Spotify all removed content by Jones, citing policy violations. Vimeo, Pinterest, and even LinkedIn quickly followed suit. Jones has previously accused Muslim […]

Viewers are now five episodes into Sacha Baron Cohen’s latest effort, Who Is America? The Showtime original, which features Cohen assuming the roles of an ever-increasing number of oddball characters, has managed to book huge guests, including former Vice-President Dick Cheney, former Trump campaign chairman Corey Lewandowski, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), disgraced Alabama politician Roy […]

It’s been a while since acclaimed director Spike Lee has put out a genuine hit, but with BlacKkKlansman, he’s firmly back in the spotlight. As Variety notes, the film, which debuted on Friday, “delivered Spike Lee’s best opening in over a decade.” BlackKkKlansman finished fifth at the box office over the weekend, bringing in close […]

Neither the Houston Texans nor the San Francisco 49ers was very good last NFL season. The Texans finished 4-12; the 49ers were 6-10. But both teams got a tantalizing jolt from their young quarterbacks — Deshaun Watson in Houston, and Jimmy Garoppolo in the Bay Area. Watson, a first-round pick from Clemson, guided his squad […]

Last Friday, President Trump couldn’t help but call out an interview with CNN host Don Lemon and NBA superstar LeBron James in which James said he would never sit face-to-face with the current Commander-in-Chief. Trump—who apparently doesn’t have anything better to do— tweeted: “Lebron James was just interviewed by the dumbest man on television, Don […]

The saga of President Donald Trump’s trade war continued this week with allies in the steel industry clapping back against calls from American companies for exemptions to stiff metal tariffs. The Commerce Dept. has the authority to grant such exemptions, but companies are allowed to file formal objections, as Charlotte-based Nucor and Pittsburgh-based United States […]

“Fortnite: Battle Royale” is taking over the gaming world. It’s been released on every major gaming console (with cross-platform support except on the PlayStation 4), in addition to its accessibility on PCs, Macs, iPhones, and—very soon—Android phones. Already, more than 125 million people around the globe have taken part in the “Fortnite” phenomenon, and the […]

White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders has never made much of an effort to hide her disdain for the media, but she—along with her boss, President Trump—have been particularly antagonistic of late. On Thursday, CNN reporter Jim Acosta asked Sanders to affirm that she doesn’t believe the press is the “enemy of the people,” […]

Orange is the New Black has been, without question, a wildly successful Netflix show, scoring 19 Emmy nominations (and four Emmy awards), plus six Golden Globe nominations. But it’s also been steadily falling off of late, and the recently released Season Six — while generally receiving decent marks from critics — is getting panned on […]

Julian Assange has probably has not been too comfortable holed up in London’s Ecuadorian embassy, where the Wikileaks founder has lived since 2012, but all that could change in the next few months–and not necessarily for the better. Assange was granted political asylum by Ecuador since he fled to its embassy while Sweden was seeking […]

Last week, 20-year-old rapper XXXTentacion (legal name Jahseh Onfroy) was shot and killed outside a motorcycle and boat shop in Florida. His death has been met with a polarized reaction from Twitter. XXXTentacion was one of the biggest names in hip-hop—he started as a so-called “SoundCloud rapper” and quickly rose to fame, with many of […]

Lionel Messi is universally considered one of the best soccer players ever, which makes his paltry performance at the 2018 World Cup all the more stunning. His team, Argentina, is coming off a 3-0 blowout loss to Croatia, and sits in last place in the Group D standings. In order to advance to the round […]

Sports betting has long been considered a legal foul, but on Monday the U.S. Supreme Court took a gamble by striking down a 25-year federal ban on sports bets. Seven states, including New Jersey, New York, and West Virginia, are ready to make it legal. Other states are getting ready to pitch the prospect to […]

Janelle Monáe ‘s Afro-futurist concept albums have always pushed the hip-hop envelope, but last week she broke a few more barriers when she came out as pansexual in an interview with Rolling Stone. A new term for many, pansexuality is defined by GLAAD as attraction to all people regardless of sex, gender, or gender identity. […]

The NBA career of Lonzo Ball got off to a miserable start earlier this year. The rookie point guard shot just 31 percent — including 25 percent from three-point range –through his first 20 games with the Los Angeles Lakers. As the second overall draft pick in a loaded class, Ball was already facing murmurs about […]

Cleveland’s baseball team is getting a makeover next year, but that doesn’t mean just new uniforms. The Cleveland Indians’ “Chief Wahoo” logo will stop being used both on and off the field by the 2019 season, according to a New York Times report. Indians CEO Paul Dolan admitted that although Chief Wahoo is beloved by […]

Skier Lindsey Vonn is taking a stand against President Trump, but it’s not endearing her to Twitter. The Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, South Korea, are fast approaching, and Vonn—who won gold at the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver—is one of America’s highest-profile participants. Last Thursday in an interview with CNN, Vonn said she hoped “to represent […]

The battle of the smartphone titans has come down to the Apple vs. Samsung, the iPhone vs. the Galaxy. Yes there are many other, and very good, smartphones on the market but most deciding eyes are on the iPhone and the Galaxy. Perhaps not terribly surprising the two phones index about the same, not terribly […]

The Wolverine is Above the Fray for Movie Openings at 75% Positive but The Heat Still Dominates at 94% Positive.