A Dollar Is Not A Dollar: A Plea To Make Dollar Policy Great Again Authored by John Tamny via RealClearMarkets, Le Diplomate is one of the toughest tables in Washington, DC. When it opened in 2013 its wildly popular Burger Americain (with French fries) set diners back $14, according to the Washington Post. Thirteen years later, the same meal retails for $29. As Tim Carman and Federica Cocca report at the Post, “the wholesale price […]

Nor’easter Hammers East Coast: 62 MPH Gusts Blast Nantucket, High Winds Hit Bethany Beach Folks in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast are waking up this morning to a power nor’easter with damaging winds, coastal flooding, and heavy rain.  Coastal wind gusts reached 62 mph on Nantucket, 58 mph in Bethany Beach, Delaware, and 55 mph in Chatham, Massachusetts, according to local weather data. New York’s JFK Airport recorded a 53 mph […]

“I’m Rejecting Their Deal”: Trump Blasts Iranian Proposal Amid Reports He’ll Resume Bombing After Midterms Speaking to reporters Saturday on the White House lawn, President Trump offered his first direct confirmation that he has rejected an Iranian proposal for a seven-day ceasefire and is open to the resumption of attacks on the Islamic Republic, as it still insists on its strict demands for reopening the Strait of Hormuz and […]

Syria Opens Overland Fuel Transit Route To Iraq Amid Hormuz Closure Via The Cradle Syria has begun trucking imported gasoline from its Baniyas Refinery into Iraq, adding a return leg to a route Baghdad has used to export its fuel since the US war on Iran led to the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, a senior Syrian oil official told Reuters on 25 September. According to Tareq Shallash, who heads the Refining Directorate at the […]

The Commercial Real Estate Crash Is Moving From Paper Losses To Realized Losses The great commercial real estate waiting game may finally be running out of time, according to Bloomberg. For years after Covid fundamentally changed how Americans use office space, lenders and property owners managed to postpone much of the financial damage. Loans were modified, maturities were pushed out and buildings were given more time to recover. […]

Quantum Computing Flees Europe Authored by Thomas Kolbe via American Thinker, Caught between climate regulation and catastrophic energy-policy decisions, a growing number of high-tech companies in the EU are packing up and leaving. Through stock-market deals, two top quantum-computing companies, IQM and Pasqal, are gradually moving toward the United States. The bleeding of the European economy is now being accepted with remarkable […]

China Pledges Major US Coal Purchases But Falls Short On Rare Earth Crisis Resolution Barclays senior China economist Yingke Zhou poured cold water on the Trump-Xi state visit this past week, calling it “more signaling, less substance.” Shortages of rare earths and critical materials in the West, caused by China’s weaponization of its export channels in what can only be viewed as resource nationalism, have yet to be resolved. […]

Another New UK Government Unit Created To Police ‘Untrue Narratives’ Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, British Prime Minister Andy Burnham used his first United Nations speech this week to announce a ‘National Centre for Information Defence’ – a new state machine to “detect, attribute and disrupt” what ministers call hostile information attacks, and to stop a “distorted and untrue narrative about Britain.” Burnham […]

AI Doom: A Brief History Of Bad Tech Predictions Go back three decades to 1995 when the Internet was just taking off and opinions proliferated about the future and impact of this novel creation: some said it would supercharge global productivity. Others said it would be no more useful than a fax machine. With the benefit of hindsight some 30 years later, we can say that the Internet debate has been settled, and as Deutsche Bank’s […]

“The Netherlands Also Has Islamic Grooming Gangs”; Dutch MP Warns After 18-Year-Old Girl Raped By 10 Men Via Remix News, An 18-year-old woman has been gang raped and beaten by up to ten different men, many of them with a Syrian background, in the Dutch city of Dordrecht. Although the rape occurred in May 2025, the suspects are only now being arrested. In response to the rape, political leader Geert Wilders wrote that the […]

Saudi, Turkish, Pakistani Military Chiefs To Hold Urgent Meeting Over Yemen War Saudi, Turkish and Pakistani army heads are set to urgent talks on the Yemen crisis. Crucially, these countries represent signatories to the Mecca Defense Pact, which vows mutual defense in the instance that any member is attacked. Of course, the Iran-aligned Houthis have been semi-frequently targeting the Saudi kingdom’s territory, gong after oil […]

Diesel Export Ban Off The Table? Ted Cruz Relays White House Assurances To Refinery Heads As of early Saturday morning, AAA data put the national average retail diesel price at about $6.48 a gallon, slightly below its recent record high, while Brent crude settled on Friday around $104.30 a barrel. The modest pullback leaves fuel costs elevated and maintains pressure on the White House to deliver relief before the midterms. The […]

Should Europeans Overthrow Their ‘Ruling Class’ Authored by J.B. Shurk via American Thinker, War fever is ramping up again across Europe. This has happened several times in the four and a half years since Russia invaded Ukraine, usually coinciding with important national elections – particularly those in Romania, Moldova, Hungary, Poland, and Germany – when certain domestic political parties have been demonized as “pro-Putin” and […]

The Fog Bezmenov Warned About Has An American Address Authored by Jay Rogers via American Greatness, Sunday, June 14, 2026. UFC Freedom 250 on the White House lawn. Five men, coordinating over Signal, planned to send explosives-rigged drones over the arena, force a panicked evacuation, and then use sniper positions to cut down fleeing “high-value targets.” One plotter typed the plan out like a game plan: “Position your teams in the […]

Is California Running A Shadow Welfare System For Illegal Immigrants The state of California spends billions of state and local tax dollars each year on welfare benefits for illegal immigrants through programs built to sidestep federal restrictions on public assistance, according to a new report from City Journal. The report estimates that California taxpayers spent at least $11 billion subsidizing illegal immigrants during the […]

Will We See Western Capitals Fall? Authored by J.B. Shurk via American Thinker, Consider these recent news headlines: (1) “NYC Turns Back to Gas Buses After Finding Out the Hard Way That the Electric Versions Have Big Problems,” (2) “As a Former Head of MI6 it’s Clear That Britain’s Climate Policy is Leaving Us Dangerously Exposed to Our Enemies,” and (3) “Spain: 74% of sex-crime suspects are foreigners in Basque Country.” […]

Inside Russia’s New Jet-Powered Attack Drone: Teardown Reveals Texas Instruments Chips Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL), a US government-funded international news organization, has released a new report on the teardown of a mostly intact Russian Geran-4 “Seeker” turbojet drone, revealing what makes these new one-way attack drones deadlier than the older piston-powered Geran-2s. We first detailed the new 300 mph Geran-4 […]

Trump Rejects Iran 7-Day Ceasefire Plan, Likely To Renew Bombing After Midterms Summary Trump rejects Iran proposal: WSJ Tehran denes reports of ‘technical talks’ after it proposed 7-day roadmap to end the war and (eventually) restart nuclear talks. Hormuz reopening discussed in exchange for US concessions in NY, including lifting the blockade.  Tehran seeks sanctions relief, declares will hold to conditions, […]

China’s Newest Power Plant Swaps Steam For Supercritical CO2 Authored by Haley Zaremba via OilPrice.com, China just broke ground on a revolutionary new hybridized energy production and storage facility. The power plant will store excess energy in the form of molten salt, and then produce electricity during peak demand times through a supercritical carbon dioxide system. The goal of the project is to limit energy waste while also […]

Yemen’s Saudi-Backed President Calls On Citizens To Mobilize, In Sign Of Desperation The Ansar Allah movement, commonly called the Houthis, have remained the most recognizable name and force in Yemen of late, but lesser known among many headline consumers is the country’s internationally recognized government, which is directly backed by the Saudis and recognized by the United Nations. Rashid Al-Alimi, ​president of the […]

China Sent Over 1,000 Shipments Of Missile, Drone Parts To Iran In 2026 Authored by News Desk via The Cradle, China has sent Iran around 1,300 shipments of missile and drone parts this year through the end of June, as the Islamic Republic faced a brutal US-Israeli campaign against it, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported on 23 September. (Photo credit: NurPhoto/Getty Images)One of the shipments arrived the same day the April […]

Mystery Deepens As Spy Aircraft Disappears From US Air Base Without Explanation An SR-71 Blackbird parked for years on an outdoor display at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center is no longer visible in commercial satellite imagery, and the agency has offered no public explanation of where it went. The spy aircraft, the NASA 844, has been absent from its pad since at least May 17, according to Aviation Week. Sources told […]

Federal Judge Blocks Oklahoma Religious Ban On Jewish Charter School Bid Authored by Matthew Vadum via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A federal judge in Oklahoma on Sept. 24 blocked the state from using religion as an automatic bar to a charter application, allowing a proposed Jewish virtual school to keep seeking approval after officials rejected it because of its faith. The Oklahoma Supreme Court in Oklahoma City on May 19, […]

Energy Secretary Announces $2 Billion For Improving Electric Grid With Smart Technology The U.S. Department of Energy has committed $2 billion for smart technology improvements to the nation’s electric grid, aiming to address concerns about artificial intelligence power usage, blackouts, and higher utility bills heading into the colder seasons. During a press conference on Sept. 24, Energy Secretary Chris Wright said the investment […]

Border Czar Says Illegal Immigrant In Austin Was Shot While Fleeing From Agents Authored by Jacki Thrapp and Jan Jekielek via The Epoch Times, White House border czar Tom Homan said in an exclusive interview with The Epoch Times that a Venezuelan illegal immigrant attempted to evade arrest before he was shot by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer in Austin, Texas, on Sept. 20. “We were trying to arrest him in […]