Birthing Pains For A Multipolar World Authored by Adam Sharp via DailyReckoning.com, After World War 2, the U.S. emerged as the only major power with its industrial base intact. Europe, the USSR, and Japan were all devastated. The Soviet Union alone had 26 million deaths due to the war. The rest of Europe had approximately another 20 million. Japan lost around 3 million. All the major powers’ infrastructure had been […]

20 States Sue Trump Over $100,000 H-1B Visa Fee California, Massachusetts, and 18 other states filed a lawsuit Friday against President Donald Trump’s $100,000 fee on new H-1B visa petitions. “President Trump’s illegal $100,000 H-1B visa fee creates unnecessary—and illegal—financial burdens on California public employers and other providers of vital services, exacerbating labor shortages in key sectors,” California […]

Trump Team Denies Leaked ‘Secret Plan’ To Break EU Nations Away From Brussels’ Grip Authored by Thomas Brooke via Remix News, The Trump administration’s new National Security Strategy was published last week, setting out the U.S.’s broad foreign policy direction for the remainder of his term. It focused on ending what it calls a “perpetually expanding NATO,” establishing “conditions of stability within Europe,” and […]

It’s Official: Ditching The SATs Was A Big Mistake Authored by Jonathan Miltimore via The Washington Examiner, In early 2020, the University of California set the tone for the rest of the country when its regents voted to drop SAT and ACT admissions requirements through 2024. That decision, initially framed as a pandemic necessity, quickly reshaped admissions nationwide. By late 2022, roughly 1,750 schools, or about 80 […]

Belarus Frees 123 Political Prisoners In Exchange For US Lifting More Sanctions Despite the frustrating lack of real progress in the stalled Ukraine peace deal talks, the United States continues to achieve smaller separate deals with Russia, and their appears to be a slow improvement of bilateral ties. On Saturday, Belarus, which forms a ‘Union State’ with Russia, announced that it has released 123 detainees, in return for the […]

Regenerative Farming Just Went Mainstream; Here’s Why It Matters Authored by Mollie Englehart via The Epoch Times, My phone started dinging almost all at once. Text messages, links, alerts—people were telling me that Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins was about to make a major announcement on Dec. 10 related to regenerative agriculture. A YouTube link was circulating. The livestream was about to begin. There was a sense of […]

Georgia Woman Attacked With ‘Corrosive’ Chemical After Christmas Event, Suffers Third-Degree Burns A Georgia woman is recovering in the hospital after being attacked with an unknown chemical substance (probably acid) that left her with third-degree burns.  Ashley Wasielewski, 46, was walking in Forsyth Park in Savannah after attending a Christmas program at a nearby church when she was approached from behind by a stranger […]

Cover-Up Or Frame-Up? How Democrat’s Epstein Releases Are A Classic Example Of False Light Authored by Jonathan Turley, Many years ago, as a law student, I had the honor of working with the great prosecutor William J. Kunkle Jr., who put away John Wayne Gacy. I was a young intern at the litigation firm of Phelan, Pope & John and loved listening to Bill’s stories about his famous cases. I even had to take a couple of calls […]

Orbital Data Centers Will “Bypass Earth-Based” Constraints Last week, readers were briefed on the emerging theme of data centers in low Earth orbit, a concept now openly discussed by Elon Musk, Jensen Huang, Jeff Bezos, and Sam Altman, as energy availability and infrastructure constraints on land increasingly emerge as major bottlenecks to data center buildouts through the end of this decade and well into the 2030s. Nvidia-backed […]

At Least Two Dead, 9 Injured After Brown University Shooting In Rhode Island Live updates here: Update (0113ET): According to AP, at least two people were killed in the shooting and nine others are wounded, including several in critical condition.  The gunman is still on the loose. At 4:22 p.m Saturday, the university’s Department of Public Safety sent a campus-wide alert urging students and staff to run, hide, and fight as […]

Republicans Offer Their Obamacare Alternative For years, Democrats have wielded the tired accusation that Republicans lack a healthcare alternative to the Affordable Care Act, commonly referred to as Obamacare.  Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA), U.S. House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-LA) (L) and House Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-MN) / Heather Diehl/Getty Images On Friday, House Republicans called that bluff, unveiling […]

Who Are The Bad Guys? Via Financial Preparedness, “Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.”  ~ Benjamin Franklin I think virtually everyone would agree that there are “bad guys” in this world. Of course, there are varying degrees of “bad,” but we should concern ourselves with the most dangerous—the ones who have both the desire and the ability to take one simple […]

Mamdani Suggests NYPD May Arrest ICE Agents Enforcing Federal Law During an interview with MSNOW Senior Political and National Reporter Jacob Soboroff, New York City Mayor-Elect Zohran Mamdani faced pointed questions about whether his rhetoric on accountability extends to federal immigration enforcement, and Mamdani suggested his police force might arrest federal officers enforcing federal immigration laws. Soboroff didn’t dance […]

2025: The Year Energy Sanity Returned Authored by James Hickman via Schiff Sovereign, When Robert Oppenheimer watched the first atomic bomb detonate in the New Mexico desert on July 16, 1945, the blast confirmed that America had won the race to build a nuclear weapon. The destructive power of these weapons was extraordinary; the explosion from Oppenheimer’s “Trinity” test unleashed an astonishing 83.7 Terajoules (TJ) of […]

Minnesota Gets New Fraud Czar Amid Somali Welfare Scandal Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz on Friday named Tim O’Malley the state’s director of program integrity, tapping the judge and former superintendent of the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension to root out fraud in government. O’Malley, who also worked as an FBI agent and spearheaded reforms in the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis, will be involved across agencies to oversee […]

US Commandos Raided Cargo Ship Travelling From China To Iran, Seized ‘Dual Use’ Tech Via The Cradle US special forces raided a cargo ship travelling from China to Iran in November that was allegedly transporting “dual-use military technology,” according to a report published by the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) on Friday. Citing unnamed US officials, the WSJ revealed that a special operations team boarded the ship several hundred […]

‘Obvious Mental Disability’: FBI Insider Raises Doubts About Man Charged As J6 Pipe-Bomber An FBI whistleblower has come forward with perspectives that raise concerns that the bureau has charged an innocent person with planting bombs at Democratic and Republican headquarters on Jan 5, 2021, according to Kentucky Republican Rep. Thomas Massie.  Police charged Brian J. Cole Jr with transporting the bombs planted at DNC and RNC […]

Two US Soldiers & A Civilian Killed, Several More Wounded, In Central Syria Ambush Washington’s Syria intervention is the mess that keeps on giving. And now more tragedy has struck after years of a Pentagon quagmire and endless occupation in the northeast of the country. Two US Army soldiers and an American civilian who was serving as an interpreter were killed after shots were fired at US and allied Syrian forces during a […]

What Kind Of Caesar Will Trump Be? Authored by Vince Coyner via American Thinker, It’s not often that life gives nations real second chances when it comes to the big things, but in America’s case, it did.  My only hope is that we don’t squander it…or to be more precise, I hope Donald Trump doesn’t squander it. Image: Gage Skidmore via Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0. The 2026 midterms are less than a year away.  That makes what […]

Europol Pinpoints When Skynet-Like Human Resistance To AI Could Emerge If Goldman’s estimates of a partial or full displacement of up to 300 million jobs across the Western world due to the proliferation of artificial intelligence and automation are even remotely correct, a new report suggests that by 2035, society could face widespread public resentment, protests, and even acts of sabotage directed at robotic systems. A new report […]

Justice Jackson’s History Of Shilling For The Deep State Via The Brownstone Institute, President Joe Biden’s decision to limit his Supreme Court nominees to black women was widely criticized as a product of DEI-mania, but the ensuing racial controversy was a red herring, a political sleight of hand, designed to distract Americans from Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s true purpose on the bench: to protect, preserve, and defend […]

The Gulf Of America Is Back Authored by Erik Milito via RealClearEnergy, After years of market swings, regulatory uncertainty, and deep staffing cuts, America’s energy workforce is overdue for a stabilizing signal. December 10th provides exactly that: the first federal Gulf of America lease sale in nearly two years, offering long-awaited certainty for the companies and workers that power America’s offshore energy engine. In […]

Seized Tanker Reveals Cuba’s Secret Oil Lifeline As Trump Turns To Gunboat Diplomacy Secretary of State Marco Rubio has realized that it is all about following the money. If the U.S. military posture in the Caribbean is one of “gunboat diplomacy” aimed at ushering in regime change in Caracas, Venezuela’s capital, against the country’s autocratic leader, Nicolás Maduro, then one way to accelerate regime instability is to weaken […]

Ukraine War Comes To… The Caspian Sea Ukraine has extended the war to a far flung body of water and unexpected place. Ukraine’s military has newly revealed that its special forces conducted successful operations against Russian oil, military, logistics assets in the Caspian Sea. The Caspian Sea is some 700 miles from the front lines in Ukraine, and is the world’s largest inland body of water, which is bordered by Russia and […]

France’s Fiscal Death Spiral: A Nation Incapable Of Reform Submitted By Thomas Kolbe What is now unfolding in France may soon drag the entire Eurozone into deep turmoil. The country is staggering through a fiscal crisis while locked in a political stalemate that seems impossible to break. In the bond market, the clock is ticking loudly as France’s public debt spirals out of control. This week, Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu […]