Is A Paleoconservative ‘New America First’ Committee The Answer? Authored by J.D. Hester via AntiWar.com With paleoconservatism currently ascendant in the United States, the slogan “America First” has risen to prominence in public discourse. However, this is not the first time that the phrase has been commonplace in American politics. While America First is currently associated with the right, the bipartisan America First Committee […]

US Northeast Set For Post-Christmas Winter Storm A post-Christmas Day winter blast is expected for parts of the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast for the end of the week, with some of the heaviest snowfall expected in eastern Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and the New York City area. Meteorologist Steven DiMartino of private forecaster NY NJ PA Weather wrote in a new report Thursday that the winter storm will dump accumulating snow across the […]

All We Want For Christmas Is A Return To Civility Authored by William Brooks via The Epoch Times, For many folks raised in the northern United States and Canada, the Christmas season evokes vivid childhood memories: fresh snowfalls, frosted windowpanes, the scent of a pine tree in a warm living room, and neighbourhoods aglow with coloured lights against the early evening darkness. We recall midnight carol services followed by […]

Ex-Netanyahu Aide Says 1st Post-Oct 7 Tasking From ‘Panicked’ PM Was Helping Him Dodge Responsibility A former top aide to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says that, in the wake of the Oct 7 Hamas invasion on Israel, the first assignment he received from a “panicked” prime minister was figuring out how he could avoid being held responsible for an attack that was as humiliating for Netanyahu as it was devastating for the […]

Treasury Targets Money Services Businesses In Crackdown On Cartel Money Flows Authored by Tom Ozimek via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The Treasury Department has announced a wide-scale enforcement operation targeting more than 100 money services businesses operating along the U.S.–Mexico border, as part of the Trump administration’s campaign to disrupt cartel money laundering through America’s financial system. Treasury […]

What Is Wall Street’s Favorite Christmas Song Every year-end, there are heated debates about what is the “best …. of Christmas”, especially among those who work in finance.  Last year, Home Alone, Die Hard, and Love Actually topped the Christmas movie rankings as polled by the 2025 Deutsche Bank Global Markets Survey. This year, the bank returned to the even more contentious topic of favorite Christmas songs. At a global […]

Waste Of The Day: Superintendent Resigns, Nets Over $900K Authored by Jeremy Portnoy via RealClearInvestigations, Topline: A Long Island school district must pay its superintendent over $907,500 after he resigned without a public explanation this September, according to records obtained by Newsday through a Freedom of Information Law request. Key facts: The Plainedge Union Free School District paid Edward Salina a $662,352 lump […]

Lies My Liberal Teacher Told Me About Christmas It’s almost as much a Christmas tradition as eggnog and Rankin/Bass – The political left’s propaganda disparaging Noel appears like clockwork every December.  The season inevitably triggers progressives into rantings and ravings about the “white supremacist” evils of western culture, Christianity and the need for a more “secular” or “multicultural” form of celebration.  In other […]

The Evolution Of The Candy Cane Authored by Dean George via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Candy canes have been associated with Christmas for centuries, but their origins and early history are shrouded in legend, folklore and fantasy. The 2019 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade featured a candy cane float. Public Domain The sweet and sticky candy first became associated with Christmas in Germany in the 17th century, though the […]

Largest Acquisition In Nvidia History: Jensen Pays $20BN For AI Chip Startup In Bid For Google’s TPU Tech Just before the market close on Friday, Nvidia unveiled its largest ever acquisition (which however was structured as a licensing deal to avoid anti-trust concerns) when it agreed to buy Groq – pardon license all of Grok’s assets and acquire its entire executive team – a designer of high-performance artificial intelligence […]

Kick Streamer Runs Over ‘Stalker’ With Cybertruck A 20-year-old U.S.-based content creator and streamer, whose real name is Braden Peters, was reportedly banned overnight from the creator-focused livestreaming platform Kick following an incident that appears to involve running over a person described as a “stalker.” On Christmas Eve night, X user KickChamp posted a video showing Claviclar running over a “stalker” with a […]

‘There Is Nothing To Celebrate’: Gaza’s Christians Mark Somber Christmas Amid Fragile Truce Via Middle East Eye Youssef Tarazi, a Palestinian Christian in Gaza, says the giant Christmas tree that once stood as a symbol of communal celebration will not be lit this year. For a third consecutive year, Gaza’s Christian community says they will be observing Christmas without public celebrations, as Israel’s alleged repeated […]

From Snowflakes To Raindrops: The Decline Of White Christmas The magic of a white Christmas – snowflakes dusting city streets and children sledding under twinkling lights – is firmly rooted in the collective imagination, whether in Northern America or Europe. But what are the actual chances of having a white Christmas? As Statista’s Tristan Gaudiaut details below, according to meteorological service data published by various […]

FBI Raided Secret Service Agent’s Home In Charity Tax Fraud Probe Authored by Susan Crabtree via RealClearPolitics, The FBI recently raided the home of a Secret Service agent on Vice President JD Vance’s detail in an alleged tax and wire fraud case involving millions of dollars in donations and grants. In the alleged scheme, the agent accepted donations to a charity that purports to help inner-city youth and victims of […]

COVID Christmas: Never Forget Yes, it’s been five years. Yes, it’s the season of joy and forgiveness, blah blah blah. But, fuck that! In 2020, while the sheeple huddled in fear-porn isolation, a cabal of power-hungry bureaucrats and pharma-shilling “experts” pulled off the greatest heist in modern history: they stole Christmas. Not with guns or tanks, but with “emergency decrees,” arbitrary lockdowns, and endless streams of […]

Intensifying Shortage: This Is What A Run On The London Silver Market Looks Like Authored by David Jensen via Substack, Dutch trading specialist Karel Mercx posted the following commentary where the opposite (multiply by -1) of the silver swap rate minus US interest rates can be used as a proxy for the implied silver lease rate to determine physical shortage in the London silver market.: “The 1-year silver swap minus the US […]

Arab Nonprofit Stirs Pot With Times Square Ad On Christianity’s Holiest Day On the holiest day of the Christian calendar, the nonprofit Arab-American Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) purchased a gigantic Times Square advertisement in New York City declaring, “Jesus is Palestinian.” This inflammatory and divisive rhetoric is nothing more than an attempt by the Arab nonprofit to stir up the Christian nation with their own […]

Stunner: DOJ Finds A Million More Epstein Documents – Will Take ‘Weeks’ To Review In a stunning development, the embattled Department of Justice chose Christmas Eve to announce it had discovered more than a million more documents with potential links to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Already in violation of a legislatively-mandated Dec 19 deadline to release all such files — and facing demands for an audit of its handling […]

Is There A “Cuba Connection” Behind The Radicalization Of America’s Nonprofit Left A common pattern across America’s far-left organizations is alarming behavior that appears militant, resembling revolutionary movements more than civic advocacy. There is a historical explanation that is rarely discussed: for decades, Cuban intelligence has penetrated and influenced segments of the radical left, enabling influence operations with […]

“And May All Your Christmases Be [Woke]”: Liberal Pundits Come For Santa And Other Holiday Traditions Authored by Jonathan Turley, “And may all your Christmases be [woke].” As Santa prepares for his harrowing journey around the world, he is being closely pursued by liberal commentators protesting his race, gender, and capitalist leanings. The perpetually outraged have finally come for Christmas. One columnist at Slate […]

White House Orders Venezuelan Oil “Quarantine” As Gunboat Diplomacy Drives Dark Fleet Tanker Into Atlantic The Trump administration has ordered the U.S. military to enforce a two-month “quarantine” of Venezuelan oil, signaling an intensification of gunboat diplomacy aimed at fostering regime instability in Caracas, with potential spillover effects that could ripple across the Caribbean into Cuba. “While military options still […]

Tense UN Meeting Sees Russia, China Blast US ‘Cowboy Behavior’ Against Venezuela A Tuesday UN Security Council session quickly grew tense and members squared off over what’s happening off the coast of Venezuela, scene of apparent preparations for some kind of US military action. Russia and China issued common condemnation of Washington, blasting a campaign of intimidation against Caracas which goes against the principles of the […]

The Economics Of Santa Claus Authored by Vincent Cook via The Mises Institute, When I was a junior at a high school in the suburbs of Los Angeles in late 1978, rather uncharacteristically, I took a big risk. The teacher of my American Government class, Mr. Knapp, gave us an assignment to write a serious paper about government economic policy. Instead of doing that, I decided to submit a paper with a satirical theme, estimating what […]

If Jesus Were Born Today, Would He Survive The American Police State? Authored by John & Nisha Whitehead via The Rurtherford Institute, “When the song of the angels is stilled, when the star in the sky is gone, when the kings and princes are home, when the shepherds are back with their flocks, the work of Christmas begins: to find the lost, to heal the broken, to feed the hungry, to release the prisoner, to rebuild the […]

Another Bombing On Moscow Streets Kills 3, Including Two Police Officers The plot has thickened, becoming even more alarming and stranger, connected to a top Russian commander’s assassination in Moscow. Lt Gen Fanil Sarvarov was killed in a car bombing on Monday. But on Wednesday, there’s been yet another bomb blast under mysterious circumstances, with Russian authorities confirming the deaths of three more people, including two […]