Vindication For The Unvaccinated? Authored by David Marks via The Brownstone Institute, At a recent family gathering, I sat at the dinner table with a group of loved ones for the first time since the Covid-19 fiasco. Most of the cheerful discussion focused on the spectacular event of the week: my mother’s 100th birthday.  I was the only person at the table who hadn’t had any form of flu for many years, while all of the […]

Supreme Court Hands Trump Huge Win On Deporting ‘Worst Of The Worst’ Illegals The US Supreme Court just lifted a lower court’s order that required the Trump administration to give people 10 days’ notice and a chance to object before deporting them to a third country. “The United States is facing a crisis of illegal immigration, in no small part because many aliens most deserving of removal are often the hardest to remove,” […]

Run, Gavin, Run Authored by Arthur Schaper via American Greatness, I was born in California and have a firsthand view of the damage done to the Golden State under sixteen years of Democratic trifecta rule. Yet, for all the troubles, I don’t plan on leaving unless: California joins Canada The Democratic Party starts building concentration camps Criminals get elected to every major office in the state Also, I have […]

DHS Alerts US Public On Iran Retaliation Threat: Just Some ‘Low-Level’ Cyberattacks? The latest Department of Homeland (DHS) alerts are telling the American public to expect some form of Iranian retaliation in response to this weekend’s major US bombing raids targeting three key Iranian nuclear energy and uranium enrichment sites. And the Pentagon is preparing for potential attack on US bases in the Middle East, whether in Iraq or […]

Dollar’s Decline Meets Rising Dedollarization: The Threat Comes From Within Authored by Peter Earle via TheDailyEconomy.org, The recent weakness in the US dollar has reignited the debate over the durability of the dollar’s dominance in global finance. Over the first half of the year, the Bloomberg Dollar Index has fallen nearly 8.5 percent, marking one of the sharpest declines since the mid-1980s. Yet while this drawdown has […]

NYC Mayor’s Race Upended As Business-Unfriendly Former Rapper Socialist Tops Cuomo A major poll before primary day in New York City shows Queens Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani pulling ahead of former Gov. Andrew Cuomo in the race to become the city’s next mayor.  According to Emerson College / Pix11 / The Hill, Mamdani – a socialist and former rapper who went by “Mr. Cardamom,” has a 52% edge over Cuomo’s 48% among early voters and […]

“America’s Hive-Mind Is Aflame With Histrionic Hypotheticals Over Iran…” Authored by James Howard Kunstler, Boom “In eight days, the United States and Israel eliminated Iran’s nuclear capabilities with minimal civilian casualties. One of the greatest military achievements ever.”  – Bill Ackman Of course, you must expect a whole lot of deranged thinking after the USA’s Saturday night “Mother of All Bombs” (MOAB) […]

“Congrats World, It’s Time For Peace” – Trump “Thanks” Iran After “Very Weak Response” Summary: The mainstream media and US officials are collectively reporting it’s all over folks – and there’s currently a surprisingly open level of acknowledgement that this ‘retaliation’ on US bases was telegraphed and even coordinated between Iran and Qatar (and that yes, the US knew about it). Tehran is saying the same number of missiles were […]

“A Complete Bait And Switch”: Marjorie Taylor Greene Flips On Trump, Joins Massie In Iran Pushback Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) has joined Kentucky Republican Rep. Thomas Massie in slamming the Trump administration’s bombing of Iran, calling it a “bait and switch.” Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) speaks during a hearing on trans people in women’s sports on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on May 7. Photo: Oliver […]

Who Killed Pride Month? Authored by Stephen Soukup via American Greatness, As you may have noticed, celebrations of “pride” have been much more subdued this Pride Month than they were in recent memory. The parades this year are less conspicuous and bombastic. Corporate websites are less obnoxious and explicit. And perhaps most notably, triumphant in-store displays have disappeared almost entirely or, at the very least, are much […]

Widespread GPS Jamming Across Strait Of Hormuz; Six Supertankers Perform Abrupt U-Turns Update (1255ET):  Earlier reports confirmed that six supertankers abruptly reversed course in the Strait of Hormuz. Now, new alerts indicate Iranian missiles have been spotted over Doha. This brings us to GPSJam—a site that publishes daily heat maps of GPS/GNSS disruptions impacting aircraft—which now shows widespread “high-interference” […]

“Too Early For Turnaround”: Goldman Finds Target Boycott Persists As Democratic Shoppers Begin Losing Faith  Goldman analysts, led by Kate McShane, note that the ongoing social media-driven boycott continues to pressure Target’s traffic and sales. McShane maintains a “Neutral” rating on the stock—downgraded from “Buy” in April—as consumer perception of the woke retailer has yet to recover. McShane and her team analyzed X […]

Leftist Senate Parliamentarian Cuts Immigration Enforcement, Other Items In GOP Megabill Senate parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough (D) has booted several major provisions from the Republican megabill to enact President Trump’s agenda – including language which would authorize states to conduct border security and immigration enforcement (which are traditionally duties of the federal government).  The U.S. Capitol building in […]

Victor Davis Hanson: Ten Iranian Questions Authored by Victor Davis Hanson via American Greatness, 1. What are we to make of Saturday night’s destruction of the three Iranian nuclear sites at Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan? Trump and the U.S. military took a great risk and succeeded in astounding fashion. Operationally, the destruction of the nuclear sites seems to have gone perfectly, in contrast to a long history of America’s […]

Russia Ready To Help Iran, Says Has ‘Every Right’ To Nuclear Energy Program The Kremlin has announced Monday that Russia stands ready to help Iran in its ongoing conflict with Israel and the United States in the Middle East, based on specific requests. Such assistance “all depends on what Iran needs,” presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov explained, as quoted in TASS. “We have offered our mediation efforts. This is concrete. We […]

Musk Wants Grok AI To “Rewrite The Entire Corpus Of Human Knowledge” Authored by Jesse Coghlan via CoinTelegraph.com, Elon Musk says his artificial intelligence company xAI will retrain its AI model, Grok, on a new knowledge base free of “garbage” and “uncorrected data” — by first using it to rewrite history.  In an X post on Saturday, Musk said the upcoming Grok 3.5 model will have “advanced reasoning” and wanted […]

“Where’s Jackie?”: Why The Public Needs Answers On Biden’s Alleged Incapacity Authored by Jonathan Turley, “Jackie, are you here? Where’s Jackie?” When then-President Joe Biden asked in September 2022 if House Rep. Jackie Walorski, an Indiana Republican who had died weeks earlier in a car accident, was in a meeting, observers were shocked. Biden had not only issued a statement of condolence; he had attended the […]

Power Blackout Hits Parts Of Queens, NYC: Con Edison Urges Energy Conservation As Temps Spike Nearly 9,000 Consolidated Edison customers were without power Monday morning, with the majority of outages concentrated in Southeast Queens. Con Edison blamed the blackout on the “heat wave affecting the region” and asked customers “to conserve energy while crews repair equipment.” The blackout zone—home to 166,000 customers—includes […]

JD Vance Says Don’t Worry About New Forever War As President Trump Isn’t ‘Dumb’ Vice President JD Vance on Sunday issued some surprisingly blunt comments in the wake of the US bombing campaign against Iran’s nuclear sites, saying that Americans who are opposed to another war in the Middle East shouldn’t worry because President Trump isn’t “dumb.” Vance in the NBC appearance defended President Trump’s bombing of Iranian nuclear […]

Key Events This Week: GDP, Core PCE, Durables, Powell And Fed Speakers Galore There’s a lot going on this week but the latest developments in the Israel-Iran conflict will clearly dominate, especially now the US is involved. Against this backdrop, the NATO summit will be held in The Hague tomorrow and Wednesday. It seems all members will agree to a 5% of GDP defense spending plan apart from Spain who will get an exemption. The […]

Judge Orders ‘Maryland Father’ Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s Release Before Trial Authored by Ken Silva via Headline USA, A federal judge in Tennessee plans to order the release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the alleged MS-13 member whom mainstream media dubbed “Maryland man” after he was deported to El Salvador, while he awaits a federal trial on human smuggling charges. But Abrego Garcia is not expected to go free because U.S. […]

New York To Build Gigawatt Nuclear Power Plant, Backed By Trump-Era Reforms New York is going to build the first major new US nuclear-power plant in more than 15 years, in what the Wall Street Journal described as “a big test of President Trump’s promise to expedite permitting for such projects.”  Constellation Energy nuclear-power plant in Oswego, N.Y. Governor Kathy Hochul told the outlet that she has directed the New York […]

Rabo: Even If Iran Does Not Close Hormuz, Insurance Costs Will Soar Pushing Oil Prices Higher By Michael Every and Benjamin Picton of Rabobank The world didn’t have to wait long for Donald Trump to make up his mind over bombing Iran’s nuclear facilities. Trump last week suggested that he would make a decision “within the next two weeks”, but that appears to have been a case of misdirection with a mission already in train to […]

Bowman Joins Race For Powell’s Job, Supports July Rate Cut Fed governor Chris Waller may have thought he was a shoo-in for Powell’s replacement (and the role of shadow Fed chair) when he said last week that, contrary to the Powell narrative and FOMC consensus, the Fed should cut as soon as July. Waller Puts In Bid For Next Fed Chair, Says Powell Should Cut “As Early As July” https://t.co/uiN1Umb49j — zerohedge (@zerohedge) June […]

US Existing Home Sales Print Weakest May Since 2009 Existing home sales in the US rose by a modest 0.75% MoM in May (better than the -1.3% MoM expected), but remain down 0.75% YoY… Source: Bloomberg This is the fourth straight month of YoY declines for existing home sales (down 4% on an unadjusted basis compared with a year ago). “The relatively subdued sales are largely due to persistently high mortgage rates,” NAR […]