The Wall Street Journal on Sept. 18, 2023 published my op ed on Elon Musk and the Starlink-Crimea kerfuffle. You can read it here. –dk Sen. Elizabeth Warren is demanding an investigation of Elon Musk and SpaceX’s Starlink satellite network. She wants to know why he refused the Ukrainian military’s demand that he turn on
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A version of this article ran on TruthDAO. A Little Lie pops up in the media when they are forced to acknowledge the existence of the Twitter Files. Or, perhaps, it is just an innocent fact error: that the Twitter censorship of the Hunter Biden laptop exposé in the New York Post lasted only a day or
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TruthDAO A version of this story ran on TruthDAO.news. The 11th and 12th installments of The Twitter Files came out on Tuesday of this week, revealing a new round of startling details of how Twitter executives conspired to censor or otherwise muzzle thousands of accounts at the behest of government officials. All along, one question gnaws at
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This is a longer version of my op ed published in The Wall Street Journal on Oct. 17, 2022. Now comes the awkward part. Elon Musk says he is going through with his unsolicited takeover offer for Twitter, despite fighting in court to scuttle it. Twitter executives first rejected his bid, then accepted it—and then
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This is a longer version of a column published by Newsmax.com on Nov. 9, 2021. We live in a lopsided world gone Covid Crazy. Our country is so divided we can’t even agree on how fearful we should be of the virus that China gave us. In Florida the fear is all but absent,
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From DK: The Wall Street Journal on July 23rd, 2021 published my op ed on my father’s sudden death and its aftermath. Below is a longer, more detailed version. My 64th birthday came on July 24th. The same date marked the 50th anniversary of a personal tragedy. At 5:32 a.m. on the morning of my
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A higher-stakes battle lurks beneath the GameStop kerfuffle and the “Rocky”-like victory of the little guy outsmarting savvy hedge fund billionaires on Wall Street. This could be the start of a war on short sellers. It’s about time. Capitalism is optimism monetized—we invest because we believe great things can happen. Short sellers are the destroyers
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A version of this article ran on newsmax.com, here: https://nws.mx/34p94qs With less than two weeks to go until the most important presidential election of our lifetime, it feels less like Trump vs. Biden and more like a vote on President Trump: for his policies, or against his character. This occurred to me the other day
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This article is adapted from my column on Newsmax.com, here: https://nws.mx/30oee3A Last Sunday night, gleefully, I started watching the TLC reality show “90 Day Fiancé: Happily Ever After?” and the culminating season finale known as the “Tell All.” The real-life romantic partners and exes on the show gathered (online in this cooped-up, locked-down era) to
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In my many years in New York, taking in a few dozen plays on Broadway, I recently witnessed the most gripping, emotionally rewarding performance of my entire life. Too bad it ended with an anti-Trump cheap shot. Or was it? Broadway, ever shameless in its proclivity for retreading old fare, is staging a
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