Lisa Cook’d: Trump Fires Fed Governor For “Potentially Criminal Conduct” Creating Another Opening On Fed Board Promises made… promises kept… On Friday, President Trump warned that he would fire Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook who allegedly “falsified bank documents and property records to acquire more favorable loan terms” if she didn’t resign… .@POTUS on Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook: “I’ll fire her if she […]

The Student Debt Racket Authored by Derek Foster via Mises.org, The student debt crisis isn’t a natural market phenomenon; it’s the predictable result of decades of government interference. Since 1980, average tuition and fees have increased by 1,200 percent, while consumer price inflation has risen only 236 percent over the same period. This massive increase has left students and families struggling to keep up, often forcing […]

Starship Megarocket “Scrubbed” On Second Launch Attempt Due To Weather  Update (Monday):  Scrubbed.  Standing down from today’s flight test attempt due to weather. Starship team is determining the next best available opportunity to fly — SpaceX (@SpaceX) August 26, 2025 .  .  .  Update (Monday):  Just one day after the tenth Starship flight was delayed due to a ground-systems troubleshooting issue, the countdown […]

Trump Proposes Renaming Department Of Defense President Donald Trump proposed on Aug. 25 that his administration rename the Department of Defense to its previous name, the Department of War. “Pete, you started off by saying ’the Department of Defense.’ And somehow it didn’t sound good to me,” Trump said in the Oval Office, speaking to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, after signing executive orders on fighting crime, […]

Supreme Court Rules That Trump Can Slash $783 Million In DEI Research Funding Via American Greatness, The Trump administration is free to eliminate hundreds of millions of dollars worth of research funding on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) following last week’s ruling by the United States Supreme Court. In a 5-4 vote, the justices lifted an order from a federal court judge in Boston that blocked $783 million in cuts […]

Venezuela Masses 15,000 Troops At Sensitive Border Areas Amid U.S. Naval Build-Up At Sea  Venezuela is mobilizing thousands of security forces to its Colombian border, just as the Trump administration positions three Arleigh Burke-class destroyers with thousands of troops in international waters off the South American country’s coast. The moves come as Washington labels President Nicolás Maduro a terrorist-cartel kingpin and […]

Some Med/Nursing Schools Still Require COVID-19 Vaccine Authored by Daniel Nuccio via TheCollegeFix.com, While the majority of healthcare education programs across the nation have ended their mandatory COVID-19 vaccination requirements, there are still a few holdouts, prompting a medical watchdog to sound the alarm. The requirements persist even though President Donald Trump issued an executive order in February to defund […]

What Made The Democratic Party Go Crazy? Authored by Victor Davis Hanson via American Greatness, The answer was not Trump alone. Indeed, irony abounds when Democrats resonate with the claims of the vestigial Never Trumpers that the MAGA movement “hijacked” the Republican Party. In characteristic projectionist fashion, the left is simply falsely attributing to their opposition the very hijacking that hit the Democratic […]

FDA Suspends License For Chikungunya Vaccine After ‘Serious Adverse Events’ Federal regulators on Aug. 25 said they’ve suspended approval for a vaccine against chikungunya, a mosquito-borne virus. Due to reports of serious adverse events following administration of the vaccine, the Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER) “believes this vaccine is not safe and that continued […]

The Judicial Calvinball Of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson Authored by Jonathan Turley, “I just feel that I have a wonderful opportunity.” Those words of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson came in a recent interview, wherein the justice explained how she felt liberated after becoming a member of the Supreme Court “to tell people in my opinions how I feel about the issues. And that’s what I try to do.” Jackson’s sense of […]

Trump Predicts Gaza War To Reach ‘Conclusive Ending’ In 2 Or 3 Weeks President Trump in remarks to reporters Monday predicted that the war in Gaza will come to a “conclusive ending” within the next two to three weeks.  He said in the Oval Office that “I think within the next two to three weeks, you’re going to have a pretty good, conclusive – a conclusive ending.” But the entirely difficult question of how this might come […]

‘Splainin’ Ghislaine Authored by James Howard Kunstler, “Well, I mean, I’m talking about the… the… I had had, there was a…”  – Ghislaine Maxwell Did you happen to bother reading the transcript of Ghislaine Maxwell’s interview? It’s tough sledding at times — both Ms. Maxwell and Deputy AG Todd Blanche tend to speak in choppy, incomplete sentences (as does, you might have noticed, President Trump) — but […]

Netanyahu Confirms, Apologizes For Mass Casualty Hospital Attack In Gaza: ‘Tragic Mishap’ Update(1615ET): Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has quickly offered confirmation that the Israeli military did indeed massacre at least 20 people at the Nasser Hospital complex in southern Gaza on Monday, which included the deaths of five journalists. He called it a “tragic mishap” and expressed deep “regret” – amid mounting […]

The Big Beautiful Bill Brings Big Changes For Taxpayers Authored by Sandra Block via Kiplinger’s Perosnal Finance, The One Big Beautiful Bill Act, signed by President Trump on July 4, includes tax breaks for an expansive range of taxpayers, while scrapping credits for energy-saving vehicles and home improvements. More broadly, the legislation makes the tax cuts in the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act permanent, which means tax rates […]

San Francisco Judge Forces Trump To Keep Funding Sanctuary Cities A federal judge in San Francisco ruled on Friday that the Trump administration cannot suspend funding to 34 ‘sanctuary’ cities which limit or refuse cooperation with federal immigration enforcement. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers arrest a illegal immmigrant during an operation in the Bushwick neighborhood of Brooklyn in New York City on April 11, 2018. […]

What To Know About California’s Redistricting Ballot Measure Authored by Joseph Lord via The Epoch Times, On Nov. 4, Californians will go to the polls to vote in a referendum over whether to authorize replacing the state’s current congressional map with one designed to favor Democrats – a decision usually made by an independent commission. California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill on Aug. 21 to authorize the referendum. […]

Tensions On Korean Peninsula Spike As Warning Shots Fired Along DMZ Via The Libertarian Institute Tensions on the Korean Peninsula are spiking as South Korean troops fired on North Korean soldiers near the demilitarized zone. The friction between Pyongyang, Seoul, and Washington has escalated due to large-scale US and South Korean war games.  Seoul claimed on Saturday that its forces had fired on North Korean soldiers who had […]

CDC Advisory Committee Launches Review Of COVID-19 Vaccines Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times, A committee that advises the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is going to review various aspects of COVID-19 vaccines, including concerns about the persistence of messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA), according to a new document. The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) work group on COVID-19 vaccines […]

Trump Signs Order Targeting American-Flag-Burning, Desecration President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Aug. 25 that directs the attorney general to prosecute those caught burning the American flag or desecrating it in other ways. “If you burn a flag, you get one year in jail,” Trump said. “You will see flag burning stop immediately.” “The people in our country don’t want to see our flag burned and spit on.” […]

‘Buy Every Dip’ Remains The Winning Strategy… For Now Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, “Buy Every Dip” has lately been the “Siren’s Song” for this market. Such is seen in the flows into ETFs over the course of this year. Retail investors treat pullbacks as temporary noise, and their behavior borders on mechanical. Every sell-off is seen as an opportunity, not a warning. Meanwhile, institutional […]

Musk Takes On Apple, OpenAI In Antitrust Showdown Over Chatbots  Elon Musk’s X and xAI have filed a federal lawsuit in Fort Worth, Texas, accusing Apple and OpenAI of “locking up markets” to preserve their monopolies and shut out rivals. This comes as Musk’s long-running feud with OpenAI chief Sam Altman intensifies. The lawsuit centers on Apple’s recent deal to make OpenAI’s ChatGPT the only generative AI chatbot on the […]

Former Secret Service Chief Paid Himself A Bonus Authored by Susan Crabtree via RealClearInvestigations, Former acting Secret Service Director Ron Rowe gave himself a senior leadership “performance” bonus around the holidays in December after previously serving as the second in command of the agency, leading up to the two assassination attempts against President Trump last year, according to multiple knowledgeable sources. The […]

MAGA Jay And Silent Blob By Benjamin Picton, senior market strategist at Rabobank Jerome Powell used his set-piece speech at Jackson Hole on Friday to execute a dovish pivot. The S&P500 closed within 2pts of an all-time high and 10-year Treasury yields fell 7bps after the Fed Chair said that recent weakening in the labor market that was highlighted by sluggish employment growth in the most recent non-farm payrolls report – […]

France Summons US Ambassador Kushner After He Accused Macron Of Fostering Antisemitism  France has summoned the US ambassador in Paris over a diplomatic row and surprisingly blunt accusations involving Israel-Gaza policy. The spat started when Ambassador Charles Kushner published open letter to President Emmanuel Macron in The Wall Street Journal on Sunday. Ambassador Charles Kushner accused the French government of not taking […]

The Collapse Of The Democratic Party And Their Deep State Forces Authored by Larry Kudlow via RealClearPolitics.com, If you take a careful look at the decision of a New York appellate court today to throw out the unconstitutional and disgraceful $500 million penalty on President Trump and his businesses… And then you keep your nose in the newspapers and watch New York’s attorney general, Letitia James, getting busted for […]