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How Courts Are Reshaping 2024 Congressional Races Authored by John Haughey via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Which party rules the House of Representatives beginning in 2025 could be as much a…

Hamas Increasingly Fighting With Israeli-Made Weapons Hamas has been using Israeli weapons against the Israeli military, finds a new investigation by New York Times. The Sunday piece posed the question, “Where Is Hamas…

Republican Senator Launches Thread To Track Violent Crime By Illegal Aliens Authored by Joseph Lord via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Sen. Roger Marshall (R-Kansas) has launched a thread on X to…

Trump Has Reason To Rage… But Needs To Stay Calm And Get Even Rather Than Mad; VDH Authored by Victor Davis Hanson via American Greatness, Donald Trump gave one of his best…

Attention Gen-Zers: No College Needed! This $400,000 Retail Job Might Be Perfect A majority of Generation Z recently said in a Gallup and Walton Family Foundation-State of American Youth Survey that higher…

While Turkey is a NATO ally, Recep Erdogan strategically refused to participate in the process to ostracize Russia.  True to Erdogan’s strategic political interests of being an influence broker, Turkey is the…

The conflict between Moscow and Kiev really began in 2008 when NATO agreed to eventually admit Ukraine, Vaclav Klaus said The ongoing conflict between Moscow and Kiev is the result of a…

White Minnesota Farmer Sues State Over Discriminatory Program Authored by Matthew Vadum via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A Minnesota farmer is suing the state over an agricultural grant program that discriminates…

My instincts and preferences aside, here’s Dr. Ben Carson being asked directly about the possibility of him being President Trump’s running mate. . Posted in Big Government, Donald Trump, Election 2024 The…

. Psalm 109:8 “Let his days be few; and let another take his office.” Posted in Big Government, Big Stupid Government, Christian Values, Election 2024, Joe Biden The post Psalm 109:8 appeared…

The allegations that led nearly a dozen countries to suspend aid payments to UNRWA remain unverified Several aid workers with the United Nations Palestinian refugee agency UNRWA helped kidnap Israelis and arm…

Spending On Natural Gas To Top $1 Trillion Over the Next Decade By Tsvetana Paraskova of OilPrice.com The oil and gas industry is expected to spend more than $1 trillion on natural…

National day saw widespread protests as the elites’ agenda stoked a furious backlash Last week, on January 26th, Australians celebrated Australia Day – the country’s national day, akin to July 4th in…

Trump Judge To Decide On $370 Million In Penalties In NY Real Estate Trial Days after a New York jury ordered Donald Trump to pay $83.3 million on top of the $5…

“Off-The-Rails Psychologically” – The Democratic Party Will Do Anything Avert Losing Control Of Govt Authored by James Howard Kunstler via Kunstler.com, The Next Big Thing “The reserve of trust, patience, and deference,…

Stocks, Bonds, Bullion, & Bitcoin All Rip As Catalyst-Heavy Week Begins Quiet macro day today a collapse in Texas Manufacturing the only significant domestic data (but Treasury’s QRA, part 1 the most…

The Blowoff! Via Praetorian Capital, Last summer, I was having lunch with a friend at a plain vanilla shop, who kept checking his phone and muttering, “this NVIDIA is killing me.” After…

Incentives Are Everything Authored by Mark Jeftovic via BombThrower.com, How it started / How it’s going… Yet, elites think that individual incentives are irrelevant. One of the holy writs of the Bitcoin…

Funding Cut Off For UN Agency Aiding Gaza As Israel Publishes ‘Intelligence Dossier’ Alleging Oct.7 Links The main United Nations agency in Gaza has had its funding gutted, given that countries responsible…

The Spooky Blackout Of Border News Authored by Jeffrey A. Tucker via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), There was an amazing moment last week when the Governor of Texas proclaimed that the…

The construction of Belarus’ first nuclear power plant has given rise to a “whole new industry,” the Russian leader said Belarus has joined the club of “nuclear powers,” President of Russia Vladimir…

Game Of Drones By Benjamin Picton of Rabobank Geopolitics is in the headlines again today. News that a drone strike on a US military base in Jordan killed three American soldiers, and…

“Get Rid Of This Dope”: Trump Slams UAW President After Union Endorses Biden Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times, Former President Donald Trump criticized the president of the United Auto…

Bipartisan Lawmakers Accuse Biden Of Violating The Constitution With Unauthorized Middle-East Strikes Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com, Nearly 30 bipartisan members of the House have sent a letter to President Biden urging him…

Receipts: Democrat Hypocrisy Exposed After Trump-“Vermin” Freakout In December, the media pounced after former President Donald Trump referred to his political enemies as ‘vermin,’ comparing it to words spoken by dictators Hitler…

William Burns’ trip says something about how the competence of Antony Blinken and his State Department is viewed US President Joe Biden has deployed overseas his CIA Director William Burns, who served as…

Four close associates of the jailed opposition figure have been charged with extremism-related offenses A Moscow court has issued arrest warrants for four close allies of jailed Russian opposition figure Alexey Navalny,…

The “Short Jim Cramer” ETF Has Officially Shut Down While the anti-Cathie Wood ETF, SARK, was launched at just the right time and experienced significant gains in its short lifespan (still up more than…

The then 15-year-old Kamila Valieva tested positive for banned heart medication ahead of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva was issued with a four-year ban by the Court…

Ukraine Officials Implicated In $40 Million Mortar Embezzlement Scheme In the latest reinforcement of the country’s reputation for rampant corruption, Ukraine’s SBU intelligence agency says it has uncovered a $40 million embezzlement…

Aleksey Zhuravlev has suggested that Moscow should deploy missiles in “friendly” countries such as Venezuela, Cuba, and Nicaragua Russia should place its nuclear weapons in “friendly countries” near the US in response…

Treasury-Refunding Has More Market-Moving Potential Than Fed Authored  by Simon White, Bloomberg macro strategist, Wednesday sees the Federal Reserve meeting and the Treasury’s quarterly refunding announcement (QRA). It’s the latter, however, that has…

Key Events This Extremely Busy Week: Fed, Treasury Refunding, Jobs, ISM And Earnings Galore As previewed last night, we are now entering the craziest week of the quarter for two reasons: i)…

Industry Insiders ‘Hopeful’ Biden’s Attack On Texas LNG Will Be Short-Term On Friday, the White House slapped Texas with a “temporary pause on pending decisions of Liquified Natural Gas exports.”  This pause…

The bloc’s access to cheap Russian energy sources has “underpinned its prosperity” for a long time, according to Aleksey Overchuk Whether the EU can maintain the standards of living it is accustomed…

Oklahoma GOP Bitchslaps Sen. James Lankford For Negotiating Crappy Border Deal With Democrats Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Oklahoma Republicans on Jan. 27 censured Sen. James Lankford…

“Stagflation, Border Failure, & Regulatory Dysfunction” – Texas Manufacturing Collapsed In January The ‘soft’ data slaughterfest continues with a huge miss for The Dallas Fed’s Manufacturing Outlook survey, plunging from -9.3 to…

Haley Says She Needs To Do Better In South Carolina Than In New Hampshire Authored by Joseph Lord via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley acknowledged on Jan….

Chinese Property Giant Evergrande Ordered To Liquidate After Failing To Reach Deal With Creditors In a historic development for the bankruptcy-shy China, on Monday, a Hong Kong court ordered China Evergrande –…

Trump Lawyer Says ‘Experts Were Denied’ By New York Judge Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), An attorney for Donald Trump has claimed that her experts were denied…

The “dangerous ideology” is incompatible with Christian beliefs, according to a letter issued to the Archbishop of Canterbury The Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Reverend Justin Welby, is facing calls to scrap…

Bloc planners have criticized red tape restricting cross-border exchanges of military equipment, the newspaper reported Plans are underway to create a network of “military corridors” across Europe in an effort to bypass…

African Parks has been accused of operating militants involved in human rights abuses in the local communities of the Republic of the Congo Wildlife charity African Parks said it had launched an…

The West may have already squandered its best chance to enable Kiev to win back territories lost to Russia, the newspaper has reported The leadership in Ukraine is losing hope of success…

The Ukrainian president has said that his army now numbers nearly 900,000 soldiers There are currently 880,000 people serving in Ukraine’s armed forces, according to President Vladimir Zelensky, who insisted that Kiev…

South Asian nation’s navy has intensified patrols of key shipping lanes amid growing geopolitical turbulence in the region The Indian Navy’s warship INS Sumitra, which has been deployed in the Gulf of…

Czech Gov’t Announces Biggest Single Purchase Ever: Fleet Of F-35 Stealth Jets The Czech Republic’s government formally announced that it would replace its current fleet of Swedish JAS-39 Gripen fighter jets with…

Dovish ECB Signaling Emboldens Firmer Pricing For April Rate Cut Authored by Ven Ram, Bloomberg cross-asset strategist, Traders in the euro region reckon that the base case is for the European Central…

iRobot Crashes To 2009 Lows, Lays Off 31% Of Staff After Regulators Force Termination Of Amazon Acquisition iRobot shares have been falling over the past week as regulatory opposition has mounted to…

Futures Flat As “Crazy Week” Begins Markets opened the “crazy busy” week unchanged as investors readied for central bank updates from both the Fed the the BOE, braced for the January jobs report and…

White House Says “Significant Military Response Coming” As Iran Denies Involvement In US Troop Deaths Iran has vehemently denied that it was behind the weekend drone attack on a Jordanian base near…

Russia, Russia, Russia! Pelosi Proclaims Pro-Palestine Protesters Are Puppets Of Putin Authored by Jonathan Turley, The Russians are back just in time for another election. Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi declared on Sunday that…

Great Escape: What Metro Areas Are Attracting The Most New Renters? Authored by Mike Shedlock via mishtalk.com, The great escape from Blue states to Red states continues in 2023. California, New York,…

A court ordered the procedure after the firm failed to come up with a convincing restructuring plan A Hong Kong court on Monday ordered the liquidation of property giant China Evergrande Group,…

Kiev’s forces have attacked the Kalininsky District of the capital of Russia’s Donetsk People’s Republic, Aleksey Kulemzin has said At least three people have been killed and one other wounded in a…

‘Largest Ever’ NATO Exercise To Rehearse Russian Attack On Europe A massive NATO military exercises slated to run all the way through the end of May has kicked off. Exercise Steadfast Defender 24 is…

New Delhi is planning a “comprehensive” rehabilitation for the urban poor in 30 cities India has identified 30 cities that it wants to make “free of beggary” by 2026, the Times of…

Giving up Russian gas for US LNG undermines the region’s security, analysts say Replacing Russian gas with liquefied natural gas (LNG) from the US has exposed the EU’s energy system to major…

Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger accuse ECOWAS of acting under foreign influence, in violation of its founding ideals The military governments of Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger have announced their exit from…

Alaska & United Airlines Return 737 Max 9 To Skies After Mid-Air Door Blowout Alaska Airlines and United Airlines have resumed flying Boeing 737 Max 9 jetliners, several weeks after the single-aisle…

Two of the six units planned at the Kudankulam plant are already operational Russian state atomic energy corporation Rosatom plans to commission the third unit at India’s Kudankulam nuclear power plant this…

Budapest has continued to object to a planned aid package to Ukraine ahead of an EU summit this week Hungary’s minister for European affairs, Janos Boka, has said that Budapest will not…

Report Suggests Boeing 737 Max Left Factory Without Door Plug Bolts As Alaska Airlines and United Airlines have resumed flying Boeing 737 Max 9 jetliners in recent days, a new report from The Wall Street…

A UAV spotted over a refinery in Yaroslavl Region was reportedly brought down using electronic warfare systems A drone was used to target an oil refinery in Russia’s Yaroslavl Region on Monday,…

A donation ceremony took place in Ouagadougou following the delivery of the humanitarian aid Russia has donated 25,000 tons of grain to Burkina Faso as part of a humanitarian aid initiative, Russian…

US Sanctions Strand 10 Million Barrels Of Russian Crude For Weeks By Julianne Geiger of OilPrice.com About 10 million barrels of Russian crude oil have been stranded off the coast of South…

USS Lewis B. Puller was targeted in the Gulf of Aden, the Yemeni armed group has said Houthi militants claim they have fired a missile at a US warship in the Gulf…

More than 17,000 legal violations were committed by foreign nationals in the country in 2023, according to police data The influx of Ukrainian refugees to Poland since the start of the conflict…

Several Common Drugs Are Linked To Dementia Authored by Marina Zhang via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), It is well-known that dementia is often a result of aging. However, sometimes it can…

Meet Amy Pope: The UN’s Human-Trafficking Czar Authored by Robert A. Bishop via American Thinker, Meet Amy Pope, an open borders advocate, Obama apparatchik, and an accomplice of DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. As…

Logically.AI Of Britain And The Expanding Global Reach Of Censorship Authored by Lee Fang via RealClear Wire, Brian Murphy, a former FBI agent who once led the intelligence wing of the Department…

Most of the new capacity is expected to come from China and India   Global nuclear power generation is set to reach an all-time high in 2025 as more and more countries…

Brussels could stop all funding for Hungary if its veto on Ukraine aid is not lifted, according to a document seen by the paper The European Union is preparing to cut off…

Escaping hardship has become much more difficult over the past two decades, says the Joseph Rowntree Foundation A million more people were living in poverty in the UK in 2021-22 than in…

In an effort to keep the Daily Open Thread a little more open topic we are going to start a new daily thread for “Presidential Politics”. Please use this thread to post…

Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name. Thy kingdom come. THY WILL BE DONE, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And…

The CDC Covered Up The Vaccine’s Risks Authored by Jeffrey Tucker via The Epoch Times, By the Spring of 2021, Americans were inundated by a cacophony of demands that everyone immediately line…

In his own words, Senator James Lankford says if President Trump was president today the border crisis would not exist, because the existing law would be enforced.  Simultaneous to this, the same…

December Border Surge Sets Alarming Record: 371,000 Illegal Crossings Authored by Tom Ozimek via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A record-breaking number of illegal immigrants crossed the U.S.-Mexico border last month, according…

NPR’s New CEO Under Fire Over Social Media Postings Authored by Jonathan Turley, The new CEO for National Public Radio (NPR) has become instant news over social media postings that she deleted…

The Islamic Republic has distanced itself from the deadly drone attack on an American outpost Tehran was not involved in the drone attack on a US base in Jordan, which left three…

President Putin’s spokesman said that “common sense” will prevail The public in the West has been subjected to anti-Russian rhetorics for decades and it will take time for the attitude to change,…

Speaker Johnson Is Right: Stop The Fake Border Bill Authored by Newt Gingrich via RealClear Wire, Speaker Mike Johnson just sent out an email which captures exactly what is going on in…

“Dangerous Game”: Chevron Warns California That Anti-Petrol Policies Could Result In Gas Price Spikes, Shortages Chevron is warning the state of California that its climate policies have consequences: namely, that the price…

83 Million!? Authored by Victor Davis Hanson, Donald Trump in furor stormed out of a New York courtroom for a while, in the defamation suit brought by author and dating/boyfriend/sex-advice columnist E….

The White House is reportedly considering to use weapons as leverage The White House is discussing withholding or delaying the shipments of offensive weapons to Israel in order to compel the Jewish…

Why Americans Do Not See A Strong Economy Authored by Daniel Lacalle via dlacalle.com, The euphoria with the fourth quarter Gross Domestic Product (GDP) figure makes no sense. The headline champions say…

CA Bill Would Electronically Restrict Cars With ‘Speed Governors’ California state Senator Scott Wiener (D), this guy… …who wants to punish parents for misgendering their children up to the point of losing…

Major Donor Calls For Cornell University President To Resign For Allegedly Promoting DEI Authored by Aaron Pan via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A major alumnus donor is pushing Cornell University to…

US Officials Believe North Korea Will Soon Launch ‘Limited’ Attack On South Starting last July, a US Navy nuclear-armed submarine made port call in South Korea – something which hadn’t happened since…

FBI Official’s Anti-Trump Post Violated Federal Law: Watchdog Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The former FBI official who whistleblowers say shut down an investigation into President Joe…

Senators Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ), James Lankford (R-OK), and Chris Murphy (D-CT) have reportedly put the finishing touches on their “bipartisan border deal” that will be tied together with other senate priorities to…

The liberal benefactor is the sole source of donations for at least two groups looking to flip Texas for the Democrats Billionaire currency speculator George Soros is behind at least five liberal…

Goldman Trading Desk: Theme Of The Week Was Increased Appetite For Stocks Ex Mag 7 According to the most comprehensive recap of relevant recent market flows, last week hedge funds were subdued…

President Joe Biden believes that “radical Iran-backed militant groups operating in Syria and Iraq” are responsible Three US Army soldiers were killed and over 30 service personnel were injured in an overnight…

The Great Growth Hoax Authored by Jeffrey A. Tucker via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),For a few days, ever since the supposedly amazing GDP report from quarter four 2023, we’ve been blasted…

University Of California Ditches Plan To Hire Student Illegals, Enraging Protesters The University of California has backed off a plan to hire undocumented students on campuses, ignoring the demands of hunger-striking protesters….

Hungarian right-winger Laszlo Toroczkai said it should be done in case Ukraine loses its statehood out of conflict with Russia Hungary should seize Ukraine’s westernmost Transcarpathia region in case the country ceases…

Turkish president Tayyip Recep Erdogan has called for the masked suspects to be found within 24 hours Two masked gunmen shot and killed a person during a mass service at a Catholic…

The president has claimed he cannot stem the record flow of illegal immigration across the country’s southern border without the backing of Congress US President Joe Biden does not require an act…