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Cheap labor. The cheapest.  Underage workers, in some cases as young as 12, have recently worked at a metal stamping plant operated by SMART Alabama LLC, these people said. SMART, listed by Hyundai in corporate filings as a majority-owned unit, supplies parts for some of the most popular cars and SUVs built by the automaker…

What if one of the largest ports in the country were frozen because of a trucker strike going on for three days now? Don’t expect the media to cover it because it’s not a union strike, but a strike against mandatory unionization as I discussed in yesterday’s article, “California Trucker Convoy Fights Ex-Communist Union Leader’s…

More of that Russian disinformation from CNN. But before we get into what CNN is telling us, the question is why, cui bono. Materials like this are obviously leaked from inside the investigation and there’s a two-fold decision, the one to leak and the one to publish, and they’re often intertwined, as in the two…

Banana Republic watch #382. And I don’t mean the khaki place at the mall. Speaker Pelosi proposed to join a congressional delegation to Taiwan. China is not happy with the idea and when Beijing says “跳”, Joe asks, “high how bunco alarm clock caterpillar in Piscataway?” President Joe Biden said, “The military thinks it’s not…

The Point tries to limit its coverage of nonsense except where it’s entertaining. So this has probably been the first time I typed the word, “monkeypox” (and had it autocorrected to “Morley Safer”, because that I have typed)  And this is about the things we pay attention to and why we pay attention to them.…

The whole “kinder, gentler Taliban” nonsense the media was being handed by its Qatari handlers long enough to arrange for a “peace deal” turned out to be lies. Who could have guessed that the Taliban would not welcome journalists coming to their country to write stories about gay people in Afghanistan? Speaking to the BBC…