The Progressive Flight From Reality Authored by J. Peder Zane via RealClearPolitics, Progressivism isn’t just an ideology; it’s also becoming a mental health condition. Spiraling past the tendentious spin and lies that have long shaped American discourse on both sides of the aisle, the loudest voices on the left are losing the capacity to grasp reality. As a character in a recent Wall Street Journal cartoon put it: “You’ve […]

Mapping Extreme Poverty Across All American States In 2024, 6% of the U.S. population lived in extreme poverty, equal to 20.4 million people. While there are different definitions of extreme poverty, this is represented as those earning less than $8,160 in annual income, or half of the poverty line. As the federal budget makes cuts to food assistance and healthcare, levels of extreme poverty run the risk of worsening even further. […]

US Takes 10% Stake In Alaska Miner Trilogy Metals Trump’s Industrial Policy juggernaut continues. Moments after the close when we saw some abnormal moves in the stock of yet another North American small cap stock focused on mining strategic minerals, we quickly skimmed through Trilogy Metals’ just released presentation and told readers that yet another “Uncle Sam bear hug” deal was in the works, pointing out the company’s […]

Milken And Friends Build A $500 Million Monument To Their Version Of The American Dream Authored by Eric Salzman via Racket News, I almost fell off my chair a couple of weeks ago when I saw a Bloomberg article titled “The Junk Bond King Opens a Shrine to Capitalism Near the White House.” My thoughts instantly turned to an episode of “The Sopranos” in which Tony and the crew discuss building the Newark Museum of Science and […]

The Influence Of Influencers Most people trust the opinion of their social circle when making purchasing decisions. As Statista’s Katharina Buchholz details below, data from Statista Consumer Insights shows, many also trust the friendly people who freely share their lives with us on social media and at least feel like our acquaintances: influencers. You will find more infographics at Statista Influencers currently yield the […]

Unaccountable: The FBI’s Strange Refusal To Fix Key Crime Stat Authored by John R. Lott Jr. via RealClearInvestigations, Three years ago, RealClearInvestigations reported that the FBI was undercounting the number of armed civilians who had thwarted active shooters by a factor of three. Even though the FBI acknowledged the issue at the time, it never corrected the error involving the politically fraught issue. In the years […]

Bezos Sees Data Centers in Space – Predicts AI ‘Bubble’ To Pay Off Like Dot-Coms In a jaw-dropping vision of the future, Amazon founder and executive chair Jeff Bezos predicted Friday that “gigawatt-scale” data centers will be built in space within the next 10 to 20 years, powered by endless solar energy – and that they’ll eventually outperform their Earth-bound counterparts. “We’re going to start building these giant […]

$17,000 per Month: How Sky-High Prescription Prices Take Toll On Patients Authored by Lawrence Wilson via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), “If I were 10 percent less mean or 10 percent less stubborn, I’d probably be dead,” Sarah, a multiple sclerosis patient, said when describing her year-long battle to obtain the medication that could alter the course of the incurable condition and extend her productive life for years. […]

Standoff Authored by James Howard Kunstler via Clusterfuck Nation, Welcome to the first Monday in October. Know what that means? It means, by federal statute (28 U.S.C. § 2), that the Supreme Court convenes for its new term. Thank goodness, because it’s pretty obvious by now that the Party of Chaos seeks to hogtie and paralyze the executive branch of the government in order to promote the chaos that the Party of Chaos has deftly […]

Trump Threatens To Bomb Iran Again, Says He’s ‘Not Going To Wait So Long’ Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com, President Trump on Sunday said that he would bomb Iran again if the country restarts its nuclear program, warning the US was “not going to wait so long this time,” a threat that comes amid growing signs that another US-Israeli war against Iran may be coming. “The B2s, what they did. Those beautiful flying wings, what […]

Israeli Official Who Fled US After Pedo Sting Indicted; Trump DHS Appointee Is His Lawyer A senior official in Israel’s cybersecurity agency who was arrested in a child sex sting in August has been indicted by a Clark County grand jury on Friday, six weeks after he was mysteriously allowed to flee the United States back to Israel. Tom Alexandrovich, who helps guide Israel’s cybersecurity policy, was representing Israel at […]

“Civil War Rematch”!? Chicago Mayor Establishes “ICE-Free Zones” After Abandoning Border Agents Under Attack Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson signed an executive order Monday blocking federal immigration agents from using city-owned property for immigration enforcement operations – just one day after we learned that the city ‘waved off’ cops responding to a vehicle-ramming attack on Border Patrol agents over the weekend. Chicago […]

“We Are Not Messing Around”: More Than 8,600 People Arrested In FBI Campaign Targeting Violent Crimes Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and its partners have arrested 8,629 individuals across the United States as part of its “Summer Heat” campaign, the agency said in an Oct. 2 statement. FBI Director Kash Patel testifies before the House Judiciary […]

Details Leak On OpenAI’s Secretive Wearable Device, Plagued By Major Issues A Financial Times investigation reveals that OpenAI’s ambitious wearable AI project, created in partnership with renowned designer Jony Ive, whose work defined Apple’s aesthetic for decades, is encountering substantial roadblocks as it attempts to bring the concept to market. Making dystopian AI wearables is harder than it looks. Former Apple designer Jony […]

A Third Of Countries Plagued by “Abnormally High” Food Prices – Brings Risks Of Social Unrest The UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) highlights in a new report that high food prices continue to persist worldwide, citing data that shows a fivefold increase across many countries. This exponential rise makes conditions ripe for social unrest, particularly in developing or politically fragile countries. We’ve seen this story […]

Israel Rejects As ‘Brazen Lies’ Reports That Greta Thunberg Abused In Detention Via The Libertarian Institute  National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir touted Israel’s mistreatment of activists who were members of a flotilla that was attempting to bring food and baby formula to the starving people of Gaza. Allegations have been made that Israel abused Swedish activist Greta Thunberg. Ben Gvir stated that he visited the […]

Hollywood Actors Bring Back Soviet Era “Committee For The First Amendment” A group of 550 Hollywood celebrities led by Jane Fonda (Hanoi Jane) have announced – after a decade canceling conservatives within their industry –  that they are resurrecting a Soviet era celebrity organization called the “Committee for the First Amendment” to “defend the constitutional rights” of actors and public figures from the entertainment […]

Chapter 7 Individual Bankruptcy Filings Jump 15 Percent In First 9 Months Of 2025 Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A total of 249,152 individual Chapter 7 bankruptcy filings were made in the first nine months of this year in the United States, which is a 15 percent jump compared to the same period last year, the American Bankruptcy Institute (ABI) said in an Oct. 3 statement. A person arrives at […]

Political Turmoil: France’s Le Maire Resigns Hours After Prime Minister Steps Down Update (1240ET):  France’s former finance minister, Bruno Le Maire, who was appointed head of the Ministry of the Armed Forces on Sunday, announced his resignation less than 24 hours after taking the job, amid ongoing political turmoil that rattled stocks and bonds in Paris on Monday.  Bloomberg noted, “President Emmanuel Macron’s decision late […]

First Tricolor Subprime Meltdown, Now UBS Warns: Consumer Weakness Spreading From Low-Income To Middle-Class Restaurant spending has historically been among the first discretionary categories to decline when consumers experience economic hardship. The picture now emerging is one of “lower-income consumer weakness spreading to at least middle-income consumers,” according to a team of UBS analysts led by Dennis Geiger.  This […]

The Great Barrington Declaration At Five Years Authored by Jeffrey A. Tucker via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Commentary It was 8:45 a.m. and the date was Aug. 23, 2020. We were five months into the pandemic panic. The isolation and strangeness had become unbearable not only to me personally but to vast numbers. The businesses and schools were closed. Anthony Fauci of NIAID and all his media cheerleaders seemed to be the only […]

Ukraine Mounts Major Drone Attack On Russian Ammo Plant, Oil Terminal & Arms Depot Over the weekend we reported that largescale Saturday overnight Russian attacks on Ukraine reportedly hit major arms production facilities and the energy infrastructure supplying them, particularly in Lviv region, not far from the Polish border. Sumy, Kharkov, Ivano-Frankovsk, Vinnitsa, Poltava, Chernigov and Odessa regions, were also struck in […]

Illinois Sues Trump Admin to Halt National Guard Deployment; FBI Arrests Border Patrol Ramming Suspects By Matthew Vadum of Epoch Times The state of Illinois filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration on Oct. 6 in a bid to halt the federal government from deploying National Guard troops to Chicago. The state is arguing in the new legal complaint filed in federal district court in Illinois that the federal government has no […]

Wall Street Slaughtered On Its Consensus Yen Long As Traders Position for Much More Losses Versus Dollar After this weekend’s victory of Japan’s first soon-to-be-female Prime Minister, Sanae Takaichi – which came as a shock to everyone with Goldman saying that “virtually no one—including media, political analysts, opposition parties, and even LDP insiders—had expected this result” – no one perhaps… except our readers whom we […]

Supreme Court Rejects Ghislaine Maxwell’s Appeal For Sex Trafficking Minors The Supreme Court on Monday refused to hear Ghislaine Maxwell’s appeal to overturn her 2022 conviction for sex trafficking minors with Jeffrey Epstein. Maxwell, who was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison, had sought to overturn her conviction on the grounds that she was unlawfully prosecuted. She filed her appeal three days after meeting with a top […]