Latest US Attacks On Drug Boats Brings Total To 19, As Conservatives Urge Trump Stop Foreign Distractions At a moment that more and more conservative voices are calling on President Trump to drop the distraction of entangling foreign policy issues and instead work on setting domestic issues in order after a lengthy government shutdown, the Pentagon has announced yet more strikes on alleged drug boats off the coast of South America. […]

Trump Admin To Lend “Hundreds Of Billions” To Build Nuclear Power Plants While the market is finally starting to grapple with the most unpleasant question of who will plug the funding gap needed to build out all the data centers required to make the AI dream a reality, a gap which Morgan Stanley recently calculated would be as large as $2.9 trillion in capex funding needs, of which at least $1 trillion will come in the form of debt […]

SNAP And The Growth Of The American Welfare State Authored by Sylvia Xu and Lawrence Wilson via The Epoch Times, The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, commonly known as SNAP, unexpectedly took center stage in debates over the federal government shutdown. As funding for the program, formerly known as Food Stamps, ran out in October, Congress, President Donald Trump, and the federal courts have wrestled with what to do […]

Wall Street Sees Hegseth’s Pentagon Procurement Overhaul As “Wake-Up Call” For Prime Contractors U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s sweeping reforms to secure “drone domain dominance” by 2027 are accelerating, following a Reuters report last week that the U.S. Army plans to acquire at least one million drones in the coming years. The initiative, driven by the Pentagon’s DOGE modernization team, marks a major shift toward a new […]

Lukoil Declares Force Majeure At Major Iraqi Oil Field Due To New US Sanctions Via The Cradle Russian energy corporation Lukoil has declared force majeure at Iraq’s West Qurna-2 oil field as a result of US sanctions on the firm, four sources told Reuters on Monday.  “Iraq has halted all cash and crude payments to Lukoil,” the sources said. The Russian energy firm operated Iraq’s West Qurna-2 oil field, which produces 480,000 […]

Senate Passes Bill To End Shutdown – Now On To The House Update (2135ET): The Senate has finally approved a long-sought funding package to end the government shutdown, after eight Democrats crossed the aisle to back the bill – which will keep the lights on until Jan. 30 when we get to do this all over again. The legislation now heads to the House for approval. Senate Majority Leader John Thune. R-S.D. The final version also […]

“Motivated To Get Income And End Their Housing Crisis”: Homeless Job Training Spikes 38% In San Diego San Diego’s Father Joe’s Villages reports a sharp rise in job training completions through its Gene Burkard Employment and Education Services program, which helps people experiencing homelessness or housing insecurity re-enter the workforce, CBS 8 reported last week. Father Joe’s Villages is one of Southern California’s […]

Trump Threatens Legal Action Against BBC Over Editing Of His Jan. 6 Speech Authored by Victoria Friedman via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), President Donald Trump has threatened legal action against the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) for its editing of the president’s speech on Jan. 6, 2021, which was presented in a documentary aired one week before the 2024 presidential election. President Donald Trump speaks to […]

“At What Point Does This Become Treason?” The color-revolution playbook used by Deep State elites, some of whom are inside the Capital Beltway, has targeted President Trump and the populist movement for nearly a decade. If the White House and its staff fail to figure out how to dismantle these radical left networks, the same dark-money NGOs they declared war on earlier this fall, they risk a MAGA agenda being derailed. A series […]

CoreWeave Tumbles After Slashing Revenue Forecast When Coreweave IPOed at the end of March, many wondered just how successful this former cryptocurrency miner turned GPU renter, would be in the long-term. Those questions were magnified after the close, when the stock of Coreweave slumped after the company slashed its annual revenue forecast after suffering a delay fulfilling a customer contract, marking a setback for a company that […]

Florida Attorney General Probes JPMorgan Over Cooperation With “Arctic Frost” While Debanking Trumpworld While JPMorgan didn’t debank Jeffrey Epstein despite a mountain of evidence he was engaged in sex-trafficking, the bank is now under fire from Florida officials over its cooperation with the Biden DOJ’s anti-Trump investigation known as “Arctic Frost,” – providing sensitive banking information to Biden prosecutor Jack […]

After Crushing Prop 50 Defeat, California GOP Turns To The Courts Authored by Susan Crabtree via American Greatness, California Republicans appeared down but not out on Wednesday after enduring a resounding defeat on Prop 50, handing Democrats a potential gain of up to five House seats in next year’s midterms and giving Gov. Gavin Newsom a huge win to boost his 2028 presidential ambitions. California GOP Chairwoman Corrin […]

Polar Blast Sweeps Across U.S. East, Unleashing First Snow Of Season Global-warming alarmists and their Democratic Party allies, brainwashed by the globalist climate-hoax cult, are likely scratching their heads as Monday morning gets underway.  A winter jacket is now a must-have today across two-thirds of the U.S., as an Arctic blast breaking off from the polar vortex over Canada pours frigid air deep into the Lower 48, […]

The Race For The Trump Economy Authored by Victor Davis Hanson via American Greatness, The current economic indicators, at least those attributable to the 10-month Trump administration, are strong. Fourth-quarter GDP is estimated to grow between 2.7 and 4 percent, the robust latter figure according to the Atlanta Federal Reserve Bank. Inflation from June to August ranged from 2.7 to 2.9 percent, significantly lower than the 5 […]

Microsoft Can’t Power All Its AI Chips, Says CEO Satya Nadella Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says the company doesn’t have enough electricity to power all its AI GPUs, underscoring one of the biggest challenges in the current AI boom: energy supply. Speaking on the Bg2 Pod with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Nadella explained that the problem isn’t too many chips but too little power to run them, according to Tom’s Hardware, who […]

“I’m Going Quiet”: Warren Buffett Speeds Up Donations, Says ‘Luck Has Its Limits’ Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times, Warren Buffett, CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, wrote in his annual letter to shareholders that he will be “going quiet” after he steps down as the company’s chief executive at the end of 2025. In the letter, dated Monday, the 95-year-old said that he will no longer speak at the company’s annual […]

The Flood Of Stunning New Evidence That J6 Was A Fedsurrection Can’t Be Ignored Authored by Victoria Taft via PJ Media, Like many of you, after the initial shock wore off, it became quite clear that something nefarious was behind the Jan. 6, 2021, breach of the Capitol Complex. Things were too pat. Narratives were set and eagerly parroted by the media within hours. Buses filled with non-MAGA people were reported and verified by […]

Stalemate? Zelensky In Denial As Russian Troops Press In On Pokrovsk As fighting has intensified in the eastern city of Pokrovsk, and with Russian troops having already penetrated some districts of the key logistical hub in the Donbass region, President Volodymyr Zelensky appears to be in denial. On Monday he issued a statement on X claiming that Putin and his forces are at a “stalemate” and that the Russian president is more […]

“We Live In The Dumbest Of Times” As The Nation Hopscotches Towards Insolvency & Breakdown Authored by James Howard Kunstler, Winter Storm Watch “We live in the dumbest of times and Democrats are truly led by the dumbest of all of us.” – Sean Davis, The Federalist You can suppose the government will re-open this week, and then what? It could close back down in January when the latest funding patch runs out. And then […]

Trump’s Private Meeting With Syria’s Sharaa Blasted By MGT, Loomer Update(1559): Sharaa was ushered through the back of the White House for a private meeting in the Oval, no cameras or Q&A from reporters, with President Trump on Monday. But a few photos did come out of it: The meeting was joined by Rubio and covered “a number of regional and international issues of common interest” – including the dropping of Caesar […]

Energy Secretary: Trump’s Reinvigoration & Expansion Of Coal Industry ‘Critical To Our Country’ Via American Greatness, The Trump administration has announced the $625 million expansion of a number of programs to boost America’s coal industry by keeping coal-fired power plants open, lowering energy costs and keeping the U.S. competitive globally. U.S. Energy Secretary Christopher Wright made the announcement last week on […]

Soft iPhone Air Sales May Force Apple To Hit Pause On Next Version  Building on last month’s report that Apple had “sharply” scaled back iPhone Air production amid soft demand while ramping up orders for the iPhone 17 base and Pro models, a new report reveals that the next-generation iPhone Air, initially slated for a fall 2026 launch, has been postponed.  The Information, citing people familiar with Apple’s production plans, […]

Transgender Virginia Teacher Posts Rainbow ‘Gun’ Pointed At Person’s Head, Demands Pronouns Be ‘Put Back In Emails’ Authored by Dave Huber via TheCollegeFix.com, A reportedly transgender high school history teacher in Virginia is on leave after posting an image to his Instagram of a “rainbow gun” pointed at a person’s head and the demand “PUT THE PRONOUNS BACK IN THE EMAIL.” The image, posted on X by Libs of TikTok, […]

Big Government Is The Problem, Not The Solution Authored by Daniel Lacalle, Socialism has never reduced prices or improved affordability. Never. Interventionism is the root of all inflationary and scarcity problems. Only competition, open markets and technology can reduce prices and ease the bottlenecks created by governments through asphyxiating regulations and taxes. Zohran Mamdani stated that “there is no problem big […]

Jewish FDNY Commissioner Resigned Just Hours After Mamdani’s Election Victory FDNY Commissioner Robert Tucker resigned last Wednesday morning, less than 12 hours after Zohran Mamdani’s victory in the New York City mayoral race over Andrew Cuomo and Curtis Sliwa, according to the Daily News and Firehouse. In a letter to Mayor Eric Adams, Tucker said his final day will be Dec. 19. “Between now and then, I will continue to lead […]