Friedman Was Right, Just Mostly Misquoted… Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, Milton Friedman’s famous one-liner that anchors half the inflation debates on financial television leaves out the part where the actual economics live. Once you put it back in, the doomist case gets a lot smaller. Per Bylund recently wrote a sharp piece for The Daily Economy arguing that CPI and GDP have become Goodhart’s Law […]

Iran Responds With Drone Attack On Bahrain, Another Hit On Ship In Hormuz A lot of escalation has ensued in the last 48 hours, starting when Thursday Tehran struck a commercial ship in the Strait of Hormuz, after which by the end of Friday US CENTCOM confirmed a series of fresh attacks on Iranian missile and drone storage sites as well as coastal radar installations, reportedly on Sirik Island located near the Strait of Hormuz. […]

Federal Court Clears Way For Gulf Of America Energy Development Authored by Kimberley Hayek via The Epoch Times, A federal court has quashed a lawsuit objecting to federal supervision of oil and gas operations in the Gulf of America following the government’s steps of exempting those activities from the Endangered Species Act (ESA), citing national security reasons.  The U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland […]

Feds Nab Iranian In Montenegro Over Alleged $3.4BN Cyberattack Campaign Targeting US Institutions In the years leading up to President Trump coming into office and ordering Operation Epic Fury targeting the Islamic Republic for regime change, which failed to accomplish this (early-stated) goal, Iran had frequently been accused of orchestrating major cyberespionage campaigns targeting the United States and its allies. But rarely was […]

EU Joins US-Led Pax Silica Alliance To Secure AI Supply Chains Authored by James Xu via The Epoch Times, The European Commission, Germany, Greece, and the Netherlands have joined the U.S.-led Pax Silica partnership, expanding a group focused on securing supply chains for artificial intelligence and other critical technologies. Semiconductor chips on a circuit board of a computer on Feb. 25, 2022. Florence Lo/Illustration/Reuters […]

Zelensky Telegraphs 40-Day Pressure Offensive On Russia, Fueling Fears Of Slide Toward WW3 The Ukraine war is quite obviously escalating, especially regarding Ukrainian leaders seeking to “bring the war” to Russian soil, amid nightly drone attacks which have come in the hundreds and even thousands of late. President Volodymyr Zelensky is seeking to seize on the momentum of repeat drone hits on Russian refinery and energy […]

When Extremists Run The Government Authored by J.B. Shurk via American Thinker, Two can certainly play the “extremist” game… Politicians, government bureaucrats, central bankers, spy agencies, and mainstream news outlets lie to us every day.   For some people, the previous sentence is patently obvious.  For others, that sentence represents “fringe” thinking.  For certain law enforcement agencies in North […]

US Strikes Iran In Retaliation To Hormuz Ship Attack Update (5:00pm ET): As was expected, the US retaliated against Iran one day after Tehran struck a commercial ship in the Strait of Hormuz, a tit-for-tat exchange similar to one observed a week ago, and one which threatened to break the two countries’ fragile ceasefire although we doubt there will be further escalation. US Central Command said that American aircraft on Friday […]

Russia’s Lavrov Admits That Anchorage Only Bought Time For Ukraine To Rearm Authored by Andrew Korybko, Lavrov sheepishly said during a roundtable event last week that “I do not even want to suspect that Alaska, like the actions of the Europeans, was designed to buy time to rearm the Kyiv regime. I don’t even want to think about it. But in reality, things turned out the way they did.”   This came three and a half […]

The Average Asian American Household Makes More Than Double That Of Blacks Median household income differs significantly across racial and ethnic groups in the United States, with one group sitting well above the rest. In 2024, Asian households reported a median income of $121,700, nearly $30,000 higher than White alone, non-Hispanic households and more than double the median income of Black households. These differences reflect a […]

The Other Problem With Socialism Authored by Chris Talgo via American Thinker, In 1976, Margaret Thatcher said during a television interview, “Socialist governments traditionally do make a financial mess. They always run out of other people’s money.” Over the years, that quote has been whittled down to the renowned proverb: The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money. This is a powerful […]

Trump Expands Critical Minerals Push With Army Bases The Trump administration is taking another step to strengthen the nation’s critical minerals supply chain, announcing plans to build a series of mineral processing facilities on U.S. military bases through partnerships with private industry, according to Bloomberg. The initiative marks the first time commercial mineral processing operations will be located on Army installations. […]

Psychology Journal Under Fire For Retracting Publication Challenging Claims Of Racism Authored by Jonathan Turley via JonathanTurley.org, We have previously discussed academic journals canceling publications that challenge the orthodox views of mainstream scholars. The latest such example can be found in the Journal of the New Zealand College of Clinical Psychologists, which pulled the 2025 article of Arna Mitchell who questioned […]

Rebound In Used Luxury Watches Continues During the COVID-era flood of free money, from stimulus checks to the Federal Reserve’s zero-interest-rate policy, luxury watch prices skyrocketed to the moon. But once that liquidity boom faded and interest rates were pushed sharply higher to rein in the inflation monster fueled by helicopter money, the secondary luxury market slid into a multi-year correction. Over the last year and a […]

Virginia School District Sued Over Concealing Student ‘Gender Transitions’ From Parents Authored by Bryan Hyde via American Greatness, A federal lawsuit was filed against Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS) on behalf of an FCPS parent, alleging that the school district’s “gender transition” policy violates parents’ constitutional rights. Fox News reports that the lawsuit, filed by America First Legal (AFL), alleges that Fairfax […]

Trump-Backed Colombian President-Elect Gives Guerrillas “One Month To Surrender” As Socialist Era Ends Colombia’s president-elect Abelardo de la Espriella gave drug cartels and guerrilla groups one month to surrender, marking a massive U-turn from the soft-on-crime policies of the socialist regime under incumbent President Gustavo Petro. “To all those acting outside the law, you have one month to arrange your submission,” […]

How To Push Back Against The ‘Advancing Beast’ System Authored by Leo Hohmann via substack, The big-picture lesson from the Covid era should have been obvious. It should have screamed loud and clear to every freedom-loving American: The power elites who run things at the local, state and federal levels want to tag and track our movement, but not just our movement. They want to track our diet, our healthcare, our purchasing habits, […]

Debt Tsunami: The Alan Greenspan Legacy Authored by Jeffrey Tucker via The Epoch Times, Alan Greenspan, Fed chair from 1987 to 2006, embodies a striking ideological shift from gold-standard advocate to architect of the modern easy-money, debt-fueled financial system. He has now died at the age of 100, and this marks a good time to assess his legacy and explain why it matters. In the 1960s, as a young economist influenced by Ayn […]

Culture Of Grievance Authored by George Brooks via AmericanThinker.com, Every civilization develops a moral language – a set of virtues that it celebrates and vices that it condemns. For much of human history, societies lauded courage, resilience, self-sacrifice, duty, honor, and perseverance. The individual who overcame adversity was admired. The citizen who contributed more than he consumed was esteemed. To endure hardship […]

America’s Data-Center Revolt Goes Local – And Bipartisan – As Towns Slam The Brakes The pitchforks are out over the AI buildout – as drama unfolds in county commission chambers, where the people who will actually live next to the substations and cooling plants are starting to win. Saline, Michigan, December 1, 2025. Rural Michigan residents rally against the $7 billion Stargate data center planned on southeast Michigan farm land.  […]

Katz Says US Hasn’t Asked Israel To Withdraw From Lebanon – Wouldn’t Do It Anyway Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com, Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said on Wednesday that the US hasn’t asked Israel to withdraw its troops from southern Lebanon despite Iran maintaining that a withdrawal is necessary to implement the US-Iran Memorandum of Understanding, which calls for an end to Israel’s war. “We have announced that in […]

Small Plane Hits Beijing’s Tallest Tower; Was Someone Sending China A Message? A serious airspace breach occurred in Beijing’s Central Business District earlier Friday, when a Sunward SA60L Aurora light aircraft crashed into the 1,700-foot-tall CITIC Tower. The incident is a major wake-up call for Beijing’s airspace defenses, not only in the financial district but also around CITIC Group, one of China’s major state-owned […]

DOJ Finds USDA Preferences For ‘Socially Disadvantaged’ Farmers Discriminatory Authored by Bryan Hyde via American Greatness, The Department of Justice (DOJ) has concluded that the U.S. Agriculture Department’s (USDA) favors for “socially disadvantaged” groups unconstitutionally discriminate based on race and sex. Just the News reports that the Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) has determined conservation‑planning programs […]

FIFA Folds, Allows Rainbow Flags To Fly In Seattle Stadium Despite Objections From Iran, Eqypt Rainbow flags will be allowed inside the stadium in Seattle, where the FIFA World Cup group game between Iran and Egypt is being held on June 26, despite both countries objecting to the standards associated with the LGBT community. Both countries are predominantly Muslim, and homosexuality is illegal in Iran and criminalized in Egypt, […]

The Party Of Algae And ‘Our Democracy’ Authored by James Howard Kunstler, “. . .a political party doesn’t lose 95 percent of a registration advantage because voters are kinda annoyed. Something much, much deeper is going on.” – Richard Landwirth Okay, convince me that gay-Islamic-race-communism is a “progressive” political program America is going to buy like corn flakes. The Lefty-left wants to think so, as it […]