Can Biden Clear The Next Hurdle? Stakes High For Friday Primetime Interview Though he separately assured staffers and governors on Wednesday that he’s staying in the race all the way to Election Day, President Biden has privately conceded to close allies that he must excel in his public appearances over the next several days if his campaign is to survive, according to the New York Times.   Those upcoming events include weekend […]

Smith: It’s Damned Hard To Be Proud Of America Authored by Justin Smith via The Burning Platform blog, Americans probably still have many good reasons to be proud of America, but as I sat thinking about what I would write to commemorate our Independence Day, they all seemed to evade me at the moment, given where we find our country today. And even tho’ we have seen some recent gains moving the country away from the Marxist-Maoist […]

New Study Reveals Ozempic, Wegovy Linked To ‘Potentially Blinding Eye Condition’  Shares of Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly extended declines after Mass Eye and Ear, a Harvard-affiliated hospital, revealed in a new study published in the journal JAMA Ophthalmology that people prescribed semaglutide, sold as Ozempic and Wegovy (Novo), have an elevated risk of developing a “potentially blinding eye condition” called nonarteritic […]

E Pluribus Airhead Submitted by QTR’s Fringe Finance It was only a couple of days ago that I reminded my readers that, if it was necessary to replace Joe Biden, the DNC would do what both politically parties consistently do: make the worst decision possible. And now it looks like that’s exactly what’s happening. On Wednesday the New York Times reported that President Biden was reconsidering his options for running, stating […]

Le Pen Accuses Macron Of Preparing ‘Coup D’Etat’ After Series Of Last Minute Appointments French President Emmanuel Macron’s office issued a statement Wednesday urging “cool-headedness” and “moderation” aimed at the National Rally (RN) party and its supporters, after Marine Le Pen on Tuesday charged that Macron is leading an “administrative coup d’état” to make last-minute appointments, in order to throw up roadblocks should […]

Trump’s Reported Plan For NATO Is Already Being Partially Implemented Authored by Andrew Korybko via substack, Politico published a piece on Tuesday about how “Trump’s Plan for NATO Is Emerging”, which cites some on-the-record and unnamed sources to describe his approach towards the bloc if he’s re-elected. It’s based upon a policy brief that was written by Dr. Sumantra Maitra in February 2023 for the Trump-affiliated […]

Threat Map Shows Hezbollah’s Drone Ranges As Conflict Area Spillover Risks Rise Hezbollah’s use of drones is a nightmare for Israel’s defenses. Difficult to track and identify, these drones can overwhelm and evade even the most advanced air defense systems. This threat was realized on Sunday when more than a dozen IDF soldiers were injured in a drone attack.  Bloomberg reported on Sunday that 18 soldiers were injured in a […]

A Former Prime Minister Reveals Why The UK’s Blob Must Be Destroyed Authored by Iain Murray via The American Institute for Economic Research, In 2023, the British Conservative Party decided to oust its leader, Boris Johnson, who had led them to a resounding electoral victory in 2019, over a slice of cake. He was succeeded by his Foreign Secretary, Liz Truss. I was delighted by this appointment; while Boris had been an excellent […]

Gingrich: The Key ‘Lessons In Liberty’ Authored by Newt Gingrich via RealClearPolicy, Historic leaders often share something important in common. They are not born great. Their greatness is a result of a lifetime of difficulty and consequential choices. As Jeremy S. Adams discussed in his book, “Lessons in Liberty,” this is especially true for remarkable Americans. In the book, Adams details the inspiring lives of […]

Inside The Chinese Money-Laundering Network Fueling America’s Fentanyl Crisis It’s worth noting that 100,000 Americans die in drug-related deaths per year, the vast majority from pills cooked with fentanyl, an opioid analog 50 times more potent than heroin. Every six months, the US drug death catastrophe eclipses the Vietnam War. Fueling the fentanyl epidemic across the US are Chinese money launderers helping international […]

Crime Trends Have Been Tough To Track. Breaking Down The 10 Biggest Cities Authored by Petr Svab via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Is crime rising or falling across the United States? National crime trends have been difficult to track in recent years because of changes in the way that police departments report their statistics to the FBI. (Illustration by The Epoch Times, Shutterstock) But by examining crime data from large […]

Bidenomics: Man Sparks Internet Outrage After Paying $9.35 For A Diet Coke At Six Flags Just when you’ve thought you’ve seen the worst, most egregious examples of inflation rearing its head, we give you: Six Flags. The theme park was in the news this week after a customer went viral for spending $9 for a single Diet Coke at the park’s concessions, as was reported by DailyDot.  Guyset (@theguyset) posted a viral video on TikTok […]

From Milk-Runs To MAD To Madness Authored by George Ford Smith via The Mises Institute, There are no secrets about the world of nature. There are secrets about the thoughts and intentions of men. – J. Robert Oppenheimer No big deal, it was just “a milk run.” So remarked Paul Tibbets Jr., pilot of the Enola Gay, a United States B-29 Superfortress, describing his trip to Hiroshima, Japan, on August 6, 1945. His cargo […]

Watch: Dramatic Video Shows Russia Repelling Drone Boat Attack On Key Port Russia’s defense ministry (MoD) on Wednesday published some rare and intense footage of a Ukrainian naval suicide drones which got close to the Black Sea port of Novorossiysk. The speedboat-type drones were approaching the coast in the darkness of the early morning hours when Russian Navy assets opened up heavy machine gun and rocket fire on the vessels. […]

Anti-Slavery California Ballot Measure Would Ban Forced Prison Labor Authored by Summer Lane via The Epoch Times, A measure seeking to ban forced prison labor and formally prohibit slavery in California will be on the November ballot. Assembly Constitutional Amendment No. 8 would change the California Constitution to prohibit the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation from disciplining any incarcerated person for refusing […]

Egypt Teeters On Brink Of Economic Ruin As Public Debt Mounts, Poverty Rate Soars Via Middle East Eye Last autumn, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi gave a speech in the New Administrative Capital in Cairo, the $300bn project that will ultimately define his presidency.  He said hunger was a small price to pay for progress: “If progress, prosperity and development come at the price of hunger and deprivation, […]

Explosion Rocks General Dynamics’ Hellfire & Javelin Missile Factory In Arkansas An early Wednesday morning explosion rocked the General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems facility in Camden, Arkansas, injuring at least two people and leaving one person missing. Local media outlet Camden News quoted General Dynamics in a statement as saying:  “Today at 8:15 am CDT, an incident involving pyrotechnics occurred at the […]

Putin & Xi Meet Again, Plot Countering US, While White House Consumed With Crisis Of Biden’s Decline In their second face-to-face meeting in as many months, Russian President Vladimir Putin told his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping that “Russian-Chinese relations of comprehensive partnership and strategic cooperation are in the best period of their history.” Russian state media subsequently likened it to a golden age in […]

From Big Cities To Small Town Main Streets, America To Celebrate July 4 In Record Style Authored by John Haughey via The Epoch Times, Americans are projected to travel in record numbers, spend more than ever, and endure searing temperatures and violent thunderstorms in many areas when they commemorate the nation’s 248th Independence Day on Thursday. Heat and storms aside, they will, nevertheless, celebrate. From Boston’s […]

Houthi Attacks On Ships Soar Most This Year In June As Critical Maritime Chokepoint Ablaze In Conflict About eight months after Iran-backed Houthi rebels began seriously disrupting maritime traffic in the southern Red Sea and Gulf of Aden, June recorded the highest number of missile and drone attacks on commercial vessels this year and the second-largest since December. As instability in the Middle East intensifies, Houthi […]

The Green New Scam Is Dying Authored by James Rickards via DailyReckoning.com, It’s no secret that the vast majority of the so-called elites are advocates of climate alarmism and are taken in by the Green New Scam. Whether this preference is based on ignorance of the science, ideological zeal, a willful desire to hurt American growth or simple greed because of their investments in Green New Scam infrastructure varies case by […]

Cat 4 Hurricane Beryl Heads Towards Texas, Threatening Major Oil Refineries  The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) National Hurricane Center (NHC) downgraded Hurricane Beryl to a Category 4 storm from a Category 5 on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale on Wednesday morning. Beryl is the earliest hurricane on record to strengthen into a Category 5 as it churns across the southeastern Caribbean Sea. It is […]

How Much Are State And Local Government Workers Overpaid? Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com, Let’s discuss the latest BLS report on employer costs with a special focus on teachers. Employer costs from the BLS, chart by Mish Employer Cost Synopsis Government Wages Plus Benefits: $61.27 Private Wages and Benefits: $43.78 Government Wages: $37.90 Private Wages: $30.76 Government hourly wages are 23.2 […]

Israel Takes Out 2nd Senior Hezbollah Commander In Less Than Two Weeks Another senior Hezbollah commander has been killed in an Israeli airstrike in southern Lebanon on Wednesday. He was killed in a daytime strike on the coastal city of Tyre, in what appears a neighborhood or city area (according to widely circulating video). Hezbollah in a statement confirmed the death Muhammad Nimah Nasser, also known as Abu Nimah. Regional […]

Fact-Checking The ‘Fact-Checking’ New York Times Authored by Daniel Oliver via American Greatness, “They” just can’t let Donald Trump go. For them, Donald Trump is Evil personified. But not for the rest of the world. Here are some of the New York Times’s fact-check charges against Trump; here is why people no longer trust the New York Times. Social Security Trump said: “But Social Security, he’s [Biden’s] […]