All Quiet On The Western Ports… Is This The Calm Before The Trade War Storm? All is quiet on the American front as the week comes to a close, even as Korea JoongAng Daily reports that a high-ranking Chinese trade official from the Ministry of Finance was spotted at the U.S. Treasury Department headquarters in Washington, D.C. earlier today. The meeting between Chinese and U.S. officials comes on the eve of a trade war shock now […]

Epstein Victim Virginia Giuffre Dies By Suicide According To Family Jeffrey Epstein’s most prominent victim, Virginia Giuffre, died by suicide on Thursday according to her family – weeks after she said she had ‘days to live’ and was in renal failure following a collision with a bus. Virginia Giuffre, who accused Prince Andrew of sexual assault, has died, her family said. Pic: Reuters The 41-year-old died in Neergabby, Australia, […]

Is DOGE Creating A “Master Database” To Track And Deport Illegals? The Trump Administration’s efforts to finally put controls on the illegal immigration crisis made a substantial impact, but many conservatives feel the process is still not moving fast enough.  ICE has arrested and deported an estimated 100,000 -150,000 illegals in the past four months.  This is a far cry from the President’s call for 1 million deportations in […]

Trump: Israel Won’t Drag Us Into War With Iran ‘But I’ll Lead The Pack’ If No Deal Made Iran’s top diplomat Abbas Araghchi is in Oman preparing for the next round of nuclear talks with the United States, which will mark the third direct engagement, after President Trump just made an unexpected overture. Trump in a newly published Time interview says he is open to meeting Iran’s supreme leader or president, as the two sides have […]

The Thankless Life Of Elon Musk Authored by Jeffrey A. Tucker via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), There’s a Tesla in my neighborhood with a bumper sticker that seems to be begging people not to key the car. “I bought this car before I knew that Elon was crazy,” it says. Elon Musk looks on during a Cabinet Meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., on March 24, 2025. Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty […]

RFK Jr. Teases Next Target After Artificial Dye Ban If you blinked during Tuesday’s Health and Human Services Department press conference on the agency’s plans to ban artificial dyes, you may have missed Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. teasing his next target. Kennedy announced plans to target pharmaceutical additives, signaling he is getting ready to fire his opening salvo against Big Pharma. A reporter asked, “I’m […]

Syrian Leader Open To Normalizing Ties With Israel Under Abraham Accords Authored by Jason Ditz via AntiWar.com, Syria’s leader Ahmed al-Sharaa has reportedly expressed openness to normalizing relations with Israel under certain circumstances, ending decades of acrimony between the two neighboring states. Sharaa reportedly discussed the matter with Rep. Cory Mills (R – FL) during his visit to Syria. The exact terms of this […]

“Take Control Of Their Food Supply”: Tractor Supply CEO Says Backyard Chicken Demand Skyrockets   President Trump’s swift action to combat soaring egg prices, caused by the Biden-Harris regime’s mass culling of egg-laying hens just before he took office, has been nothing short of spectacular. Egg prices have since collapsed, forcing Democratic strategists to abandon their propaganda warfare efforts with corrupt leftist corporate […]

Cloward-Piven And The Migrant Invasion Authored by Bruce Mayers via AmericanThinker.com, John Maynard Keynes, who should be burning in Hell for his shyster economic theories, is largely responsible for our current looming apocalypse.  His theory basically is that only demand, made more real than just wishing for things by creating fiat money and credit, is important, since in his myopic, context-dropping theory, people produce a […]

FBI Arrests Wisconsin Judge Accused Of Helping Illegal Immigrant Hide From ICE: Patel FBI Director Kash Patel announced Friday that the bureau has arrested Judge Hannah Dugan out of Milwaukee, Wisconsin on charges of obstruction, accusing the Dugan of obstructing an arrest of illegal immigrants last week.  “We believe Judge Dugan intentionally misdirected federal agents away from the subject to be arrested in her courthouse, […]

Jack In The Box Closing Up To 200 Locations When the fast food joints start closing, it’s usually not a great indicator for the economy.  Jack in the Box plans to close up to 200 underperforming locations, aiming to bolster its balance sheet amid declining consumer spending. The San Diego-based chain also announced it’s exploring a sale of its struggling Del Taco brand, according to CBS News. Most closures will target older, […]

The RFK Autism “Controversy” Is Manufactured Outrage… Plain And Simple Authored by Corinne Clark Barron via American Greatness, By now, you’ve probably seen the clip that launched a thousand self-righteous Instagram reels.  Robert F. Kennedy Jr. dared to say something uncomfortable about autism—specifically, the profound kind—and the internet lost its collective mind. Here’s what he said: “Autism destroys family. […]

Are Global Consumers Turning Away From US Brands? Is anti-American sentiment putting consumers off buying U.S. brands?  According to a recent report by Morning Consult, this is the case.  Statista’s Anna Fleck reports that northerly neighbor Canada is perhaps the clearest example of this trend, with consumers having turned away from purchasing U.S. products in protest against U.S. President Donald Trump’s latest policies and […]

Advice For Ivy League Universities: Take The Trump Deal, Before It’s Too Late Authored by Victor Davis Hanson via The Daily Signal, We’ve talked about higher education before, but now it’s come into sharper focus with the Trump administration’s deadlock with Harvard University over its unwillingness or inability—whatever term we like to use—to meet the administration’s demands that it ensures an antisemitic-free […]

LA To Institute Mass Layoffs Of City Workers In Wake Of $1 Billion Deficit For many years now the narrative on California is that it is a country unto itself and it generates so many tax dollars the federal government and red states should be throwing a garden party in its honor.  In reality, California is not a “donor state” as the Rockefeller Institute claims.  It can’t even support itself, let alone bolster the rest of the […]

Former Rep. George Santos Sentenced To More Than 7 Years In Prison Authored by Jackson Richman via The Epoch Times, Former Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.) was sentenced on April 25 to more than 7 years in federal prison on wire fraud and aggravated identity theft charges. The sentence of 87 months behind bars is what was requested by the Department of Justice. He was also ordered to pay almost $374,000 and more than $205,000 in […]

“We Are In A Homelessness Crisis”: California Democrat Wants To Let Broke Students Sleep In Their Cars As California spends over half its budget providing 15 million residents with Medi-cal coverage – a substantial portion of whom are ‘undocumented,’ one state Democrat has proposed new legislation that would allow college students to sleep in their vehicles as the Golden State grapples with a worsening homeless crisis.  Brad […]

Where Things Stand Authored by James Howard Kunstler, “In order for a system to be stabIe, it requires negative feedback, also known as consequences.” – Barrie Drain “Fighting fascism,” for the American Jacobins who lead the Democratic Party, means opposing any attempt to flush the corruption out of the entrenched bureaucracy, just as their pet phrase “our democracy” actually refers to the matrix of grift and […]

RFK Jr. Responds To Report He’s Considering Removing COVID-19 Vaccines From CDC Schedule Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on April 23 did not deny that he’s considering removing COVID-19 vaccines from the childhood vaccination schedule. “We need to ask questions and we need to consult with parents, we need to give people informed consent, and we shouldn’t be making […]

‘Funniest Thing I’ve Read All Day’: Elon Musk Mocks Zelensky For Claiming Every U.S. Taxpayer Dollar Is Accounted For Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has hilariously declared that every single dollar of U.S. taxpayer money sent to Ukraine since Russia’s 2022 invasion has been meticulously tracked and accounted for, dismissing concerns about corruption or misuse. The claim, one of his most audacious yet, came during an […]

Chinese Delegation Spotted Entering Treasury Department, Demands Photos Be Deleted: Report There has been lots of confusion over the past week whether Trump has – or has not – spoken to Xi Jinping, to set trade negotiation talks in motion. According to Trump, he has and more than once… Reporter: Have you spoken to President Xi since the tariffs?@POTUS: “I don’t want to comment on that but I’ve spoken to him many times.” […]

Trade War Shock Looms For Port Of Los Angeles As Goldman Identifies Most-Impacted Products Our latest trade war tracking coverage of critical U.S.-China supply chains shows that China’s export manufacturing base has already been severely impacted, with shockwaves thundering across the Pacific. Ports along the U.S. West Coast—particularly the Port of Los Angeles—are now bracing for a sharp plunge in containerized imports in […]

Stocks Stumble After Trump’s China Comments Stocks are trimming gains after President Donald Trump noted US levies on China won’t be dropped unless “they give us something substantial,” adding that opening up the country would be a “big win.” He also noted that another tariff pause is unlikely. Trump says he is “speaking to a lot of people from China” when a reporter asks if he has spoken to President Xi since taking […]

Walmart Opens Channel For Battered Chinese Exporters To “Quickly Expand” In Domestic Market Walmart in China rolled out a new program this week to support Chinese exporters reeling from President Trump’s 145% tariffs on U.S.-bound goods. The initiative offers exporters a chance to pivot their strategy by selling domestically through Walmart’s hundreds of stores across the world’s second-largest economy.  The new program was […]

USDA Directs States To Make Sure Illegal Immigrants Don’t Receive Food Stamps Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times, The Department of Agriculture (USDA) told states on April 24 to take steps to make sure illegal immigrants do not receive benefits under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), colloquially known as food stamps. States must at a minimum verify the identity of program applicants, collect […]