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Who Is Going to Buy Elon Musk's Cars?
The Tesla board has offered to make Elon Musk the planet's first trillionaire if he meets certain milestones in rocketing the automaker to new glory.
Did Musk show true brilliance the first time around? Yes, he did. Tesla's stock price rose 700% in 2020, making it more valuable than Toyota, Volkswagen, General Motors and Ford combined.
But ...Read more
Did Charlie Kirk's Killer Do It to Show He Could?
This is not about Charlie Kirk. He was admirable as a debater and as a conservative who welcomed debate. Some of his utterances were reprehensible, but no one should die because of opinions.
This is about the 22-year-old who apparently shot and killed Kirk from a rooftop -- and also the 20-year-old who shot at Donald Trump during a ...Read more
Murder Can't Be Erased
Some offenses are so heinous they can never be wiped from the record-- criminal or moral. There's no normalizing first- or second-degree murder. Not by having done the time with good behavior, not by getting a college degree, not by apologizing. Other crimes don't, in themselves, warrant a life sentence, but put enough serious violations ...Read more
Tourist Crowds Aren't Good for Tourists, Either
My sister and her guy just returned from Portugal after their second big travel venture of the year. I asked, naturally, "How was it?"
She said, "Awful." They were crammed in Porto alongside a zillion other tourists. A crush of bodies and long lines under a brutal sun. The experience left them with a case of Hodophobia, fear of travel. (Hodos...Read more




















