How Trump’s Own Appointees Aided Russiagate Plot Against Him Authored by Paul Sperry via RealClearInvestigations, When Obama administration officials manufactured U.S. intelligence tying Donald Trump to Moscow following his stunning 2016 victory, they had no idea Trump’s own political appointees would help them undermine Trump’s presidency – and his chances of reelection in 2020.  RCI’s review of recently declassified […]

Gen Z Demands Cushy Jobs; The Economy Wants Grown-Ups… While the US labor market defied expectations in September – adding 119,000 jobs according to delayed numbers, the unemployment rate rose to 4.4%, the highest level in four years. Normally, this would be the time for most employees to make sure they’re the most valuable asset at a company – especially with layoffs surging and AI slowly replacing entry level jobs across […]

New MAGA Weapon: ‘Fight Tanks’ For Rural America Authored by Philip Wegmann via RealClearPolitics, Another conservative satellite has joined the Trump constellation. Jenn Pellegrino, formerly chief spokesperson for the America First Policy Institute, has launched twin think tanks in time for a brewing fight on Capitol Hill over health care and ahead of the coming midterms. The GOP is scrambling to build legislation from scratch […]

Actor Anthony Mackie: “We’ve Been Living Through Death Of American Male For Twenty Years”  The left’s war on men has spectacularly backfired as young men, once a reliably Democratic voting bloc, have led an exodus from the left to the right.  Democrats are scrambling to figure out why, but the answer isn’t complicated: the party is increasingly driven by Marxist ideology, embraces assassination culture, promotes anti-male […]

How The Avalanche Of Academic Papers Threatens Scientific Research Authored by Vince Bielski via RealClearInvestigations, This is the third part of a series on academic publishing. Read part one here and part two here. For many years, the prestigious journal Philosophy & Public Affairs published about 14 peer-reviewed articles annually. So its small volunteer staff of renowned scholars was shocked to learn that its […]

US Will Likely Reach New Nuclear Deal With Iran, Trump Says In a Friday interview with Fox, President Trump said Iran’s nuclear program has been significantly set back and claimed that Tehran is now seeking an agreement with Washington. He indicated in a somewhat surprising remark that a deal is likely, emphasizing that the situation has changed drastically in recent months, since the June US bombings of three key Iranian nuclear […]

2 Chinese Nationals, 2 Americans Charged With Smuggling Nvidia Chips To China Authored by Frank Fang via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Two Chinese nationals and two U.S. citizens have been charged with a scheme to illegally export advanced Nvidia chips to China in violation of U.S. export controls, the Department of Justice said on Nov. 20. In a file photograph, the logo of Nvidia Corporation during the annual Computex computer […]

FAA Reports 400% Surge Of In-Flight Outbursts, DoT Launches Civility Campaign Transportation Secretary Sean P. Duffy has launched “The Golden Age of Travel Starts with You” campaign ahead of the upcoming holiday travel season, aimed at triggering conversation nationwide over the return of civility in air travel, the Department of Transportation (DOT) said in a Nov. 19 statement. Air travel has become more unruly over the years, […]

Studies Back Government On Childhood Gender Dysphoria Authored by Darlene McCormick Sanchez via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Newly released peer reviews of a federal report rejecting medical interventions for children with gender dysphoria called the government analysis “scientifically sound” and “compelling.” Protesters in front of the Supreme Court as the high court hears a case over banning gender procedures for […]

DOJ Sues California To End In-State College Tuition For Illegal Immigrants U.S. Attorney Pamela Bondi has filed a federal court complaint challenging laws in the Golden State that provide in-state tuition rates, scholarships, and subsidized loans to illegal immigrants, she said on Thursday. Those laws are unconstitutional and discriminate against American citizens who are not afforded the same benefits to attend colleges and […]

CDC Says Vaccines May Cause Autism Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention now says that it’s possible vaccines cause autism, in a reversal of its previous stance. A sign at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) headquarters in Atlanta, Ga., on Aug. 25, 2023. Madalina Vasiliu/The Epoch Times “The claim ‘vaccines do not cause autism’ is […]

Nigerian Gunmen Abduct Over 200 Christian Children, 12 Teachers In Boarding School Attack Armed men attacked a Catholic boarding school in northcentral Nigeria’s Niger state in the early hours on Friday, abducting 215 students and 12 teachers, according to Daniel Atori, a spokesperson to the Niger state chapter of the Christian Association of Nigeria. The attack on the church in south-western Nigeria is one in a series targeting […]

Biden’s Weaponization Of The DOJ Against GOP Lawmakers Was Worse Than We Thought Authored by Matt Margolis via PJMedia.com, New, disturbing revelations show just how far Joe Biden was willing to go to target his political enemies. In 2022, his Justice Department secretly seized more than two years of House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan’s personal phone records. Fox News Digital obtained a subpoena that exposes the depth […]

US Issues NOTAM Flight Alert Of “Heightened Military Activity” Over Venezuela It has been weeks since Trump’s major military build-up off Venezuela began, and the threat of potential escalated military action against Caracas remains imminent. This scenario may have just gotten a big step closer with a fresh NOTAM alert issued by the FAA. The FAA issued the NOTAM (Notice to Air Missions), or alert notifying pilots of potential […]

Don’t Fall In The China Trap Authored by James Rickards via DailyReckoning.com, Is the Chinese economy collapsing? Or is something worse waiting in the wings? The short answer is that we could be looking at something much worse than a crashing economy. China could be part of a collapse of the global monetary system. We’ll begin the analysis with the latest official economic releases from China. These releases showed some of […]

Stop The Presses – And Start Telling The Truth About Bias Authored by John Tillman via RealClearPolitics, Is a culture change coming to the news media? So it might seem, now that Bari Weiss has been appointed editor-in-chief of CBS News. Another sign is Jeff Bezos’s decision to reorient the Washington Post’s opinion page. The hope is that both outlets will move away from their blatant far-left coverage, not only bringing […]

Watch: Construction Sites In Charlotte Go Dark As Illegals Hide From ICE Federal officers from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) began conducting large-scale raids across the Charlotte metropolitan area last weekend as part of Operation Charlotte’s Web. The objective is to arrest and deport criminal illegal aliens. Operation Charlotte’s Web has given a partial understanding of […]

The Monsters’ Ball Authored by James Howard Kunstler, “…the Democrat Party is no longer a political party. It is an insurrectionist crime syndicate that will torch the Constitution to stay in power.” – Stephen Miller The old joke goes: A-list actor is having lunch with studio chief. Studio chief says, Didya hear so-and-so (well-known Hollywood agent) dropped dead this morning. His heart. A-list actor says, Gee, I didn’t […]

Is AI A Catalyst For Growth… Or For Collapse? Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, Yes, AI is a catalyst. But for what is not yet knowable. The current narrative holds that the big problem we need to solve is conjuring up cheap energy to power AI data centers. Fortunately for us, the solutions are at hand: building modular nuclear power plants at scale and tapping North America’s vast reserves of cheap natural […]

Treasury To Block Tax Credits For Illegal Immigrants Under New Trump Administration Rule The Treasury Department plans to issue regulations barring illegal immigrants and certain foreign nationals from receiving a range of refundable tax credits, a move the Trump administration says is necessary to ensure federal benefits are limited to those eligible under longstanding law. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Thursday that the […]

The Labubu Omen Authored by Adam Sharp via DailyReckoning.com, Remember Beanie Babies? In the late 1990s, they were all the rage. Tiny stuffed animals which cost less than $1 to manufacture were selling for thousands of dollars at peak. The Princess Diana memorial bear once fetched $500+, and today it sells for around $5. Peanut the Royal Blue Elephant hit $5,000 in 1999, and today a certified mint condition specimen might fetch […]

House Lawmakers Press Shein Over Sale Of Childlike Sex Dolls In The US Authored by Evgenia Filimianova via The Epoch Times, House lawmakers have asked fast-fashion retailer Shein to explain how childlike sex dolls were allowed to appear on its e-commerce platform and whether any were sold to U.S. customers, escalating an international controversy that earlier this month led France to suspend the company’s online marketplace. […]

Amb. Huckabee Under Fire For ‘Warm’ Meeting With Notorious Traitor & Spy Jonathan Pollard  US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee is under fire and in the headlines after it was revealed he met with notorious traitor and spy Jonathan Pollard at the US Embassy in July. The former American intelligence analyst was convicted of espionage for Israel and sentenced to life in prison in 1987. Pollard’s is widely viewed as one of the […]

CapEx Spending On AI Is Masking Economic Weakness Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, The U.S. economy’s recent growth has a distinctive engine: large‑scale capital expenditures (capex) tied to artificial intelligence (AI). Firms such as Microsoft, Alphabet (Google), Meta Platforms, and Amazon have announced massive investments in data centers, servers, networking equipment, and AI infrastructure. As […]

Bombshell Report: “Largest Funder Of Al-Shabaab Is Minnesota Taxpayer”  Investigative journalists Ryan Thorpe and Christopher F. Rufo have published a bombshell report in City Journal detailing how massive welfare fraud in Democrat-run Minnesota, much of it carried out through networks in the state’s Somali community, funneled stolen taxpayer money back to Somalia, where some of those funds ultimately ended up in the hands of […]