New York City Appropriates $7 Million For ‘Trans Equity’, Drag Queen Story Hours Authored by Bryan Hyde via American Greatness, A massive $126 billion spending plan approved by the New York City Council earlier this week includes nearly $7 million for so-called ‘trans equity’ programs and drag queen story hours. The New York Post reports that the budget was approved by Mayor Zohran Mamdani and directs the taxpayer money […]

Ships Abruptly U-Turn Near Hormuz As Some Shift To Iran-Approved Routes The reopening of the Hormuz chokepoint has proceeded relatively smoothly for weeks, but an overnight development shows that the process remains fragile. At least eight ships attempting to exit the Persian Gulf abruptly reversed course near the critical waterway. Bloomberg cites ship-tracking data showing that the vessels, including oil tankers, product […]

10 Charts Show How America Has Changed In 250 Years Authored by Sylvia Xu via The Epoch Times, The United States has transformed from a collection of 13 eastern colonies into a transcontinental nation spanning 50 states, one district, and five major territories—a geographic expansion forged through land purchases and war treaties. America’s two-and-a-half-century evolution includes not only geographic growth, but also […]

Heat Dome Threatens America’s 250th Birthday As Power Grid Crisis Continues A massive heat dome continues to threaten the eastern half of the US, with the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast at the epicenter of the sweltering conditions. The summer heat is already disrupting July 4 celebrations and World Cup matches, while pushing the nation’s largest power grid toward crisis mode later this afternoon for the third consecutive day. The […]

Russia Planning Provocation Against Poland To Test NATO Resolve, US Reportedly Warned The Telegraph along with various Eastern European media outlets, including Polish national sources, are reporting that United States passed Warsaw a warning based on intelligence that Moscow is considering an armed provocation against Poland to “test NATO’s resolve”. Provocation scenarios are said to potentially include drone attacks on critical […]

ISIS Terrorist Reaches Britain Via Small Boat After TikTok Assured Him UK ‘Accepts Everyone’ Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News, A convicted ISIS terrorist who attended beheadings and public floggings in Iraq has been jailed for two years after arriving in Britain on a small boat. He told officials he came because he heard on TikTok that the UK “accepts everyone” and respects human rights. Mohammed Yaseen, 35, had lived […]

German Clampdown On Sick Leave: No More Phoning It In, Doc Note Needed On Day 1 In a stark departure from its reputation for employee-coddling, the German government is attacking the mass abuse of sick leave with strict new policies that would require a doctor’s note obtained on the very first day an employee is sick, with no ability to simply take a sick day with a mere phone call. The reform package also targets retirement ages, […]

The American System Rejects Europe’s Economic Suicide Authored by J.B. Shurk via American Thinker, National self-sufficiency beats globalism’s mass dependency. What makes a nation wealthy?  It’s not just arable lands surrounded by other lands filled with water, timber, coal, gas, oil, metals, and minerals.  It’s the farmer who knows best how to cultivate those lands in order to maximize food production.  It’s the […]

Would The Founders Still Recognize Their Republic? Authored by Andrew P. Napolitano Which is better — to be ruled by one tyrant 3,000 miles away or by 3,000 tyrants one mile away? — Rev. Mather Byles (1706-1788) Does it really matter if the instrument curtailing liberty is a monarch or a popularly elected legislature? This conundrum, along with the witty version of it put to a Boston crowd in 1775 by the little-known […]

First $1 Billion, Now $50 Million: Khanna Says Wealth Tax “Must Not Stop At Billionaires” Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) – fresh off endorsing California’s November ballot measure to seize 5% of billionaire wealth – published a Substack essay Wednesday titled, no really, “Why I Support a Billionaire Wealth Tax.” He makes it roughly a dozen paragraphs before explaining that it isn’t one. “The tax should not stop at billionaires, it must […]

Alibaba Bans Employees From Using Anthropic’s Coding Tool Over Distillation Scandal While in the US, the government’s periodic bans of the latest model from Anthropic (which has made AI doomerism – in hopes of getting the government to regulate everyone else expect Anthropic, yet repeatedly achieving just the opposite – into an art form) has been all the rage in recent months, in China it is the other way around, with China’s tech […]

US At 250: Why America Has Been So Successful And Can It Continue To mark the 250 year anniversary of the US Declaration of Independence, Deutsche Bank has published a report looking at how the US emerged as a global superpower, and why it’s likely to remain one despite new challenges. First, DB considers how the US went from being a comparatively small country to the world’s pre-eminent global power. These reasons range from the […]

Mamdani Delivers Anti-America Speech For The Nation’s 250th Birthday New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani sat at a desk to commemorate America’s semiquincentennial, and the socialist wasted little time turning the occasion into an anti-America lecture. He told his audience they each hold “the power to determine what America means,” then spent the rest of the speech explaining what it means to him, and it was mostly bad. “The […]

Tucker Carlson Unveils Major Political Plan Authored by Luis Cornelio via Headline USA, Popular podcast host Tucker Carlson has long dismissed questions about whether he would ever seek public office. But this week, he hinted at a major political move, though don’t expect to see his name on the ballot. Speaking with the Columbia Journalism Review in an interview published Wednesday, Carlson said he plans to “help […]

Two Thirds Of Americans Still Think It’s A Bad Time To Buy A House Americans looking to buy a house are currently facing conditions that make it hard for anyone but the very wealthy to afford buying a home. Elevated home prices combined with mortgage rates that have rebounded from historic mid-pandemic lows to levels last seen in the early 2000s are causing major headaches for would-be home buyers. To make things worse, many […]

America Turns 250. At 125, It Looked Like The End… Authored by James Hickman via SchiffSovereign.com, On the afternoon of September 6, 1901, President William McKinley stood in a receiving line at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York, shaking hands with a crowd of well-wishers. One of the people in the crowd was a young man named Leon Czolgosz… who was patiently waiting with a revolver wrapped in a handkerchief. […]

China-Linked Socialist NGO Derailed $23.6 Billion In Data Center Buildouts: Report Our note on Thursday titled “World’s Largest Data Center Project On Verge Of Collapse After Blackstone Unexpectedly Pulls Out” detailed Blackstone dialing back its presence from Northern Virginia’s data-center alley, raising questions about whether the AI infrastructure buildout, colliding with local resistance movements, has begun to hit hard […]

Backlash After Columbus, Ohio Announces It Will Raise Flag Of Somalia At City Hall Via American Greatness, The city of Columbus faced criticism from conservatives after a now-deleted social media post stated that City Hall would raise the Somali flag in recognition of Somali Independence Day. The post, published Wednesday by the Columbus Recreation and Parks Department on X, read: “Happy Somali Independence Day! As we […]

Independence Week By Bas van Geffen, Senior Macro Strategist at Rabobank It was a reassuring week for those who are concerned about central bank independence. At the ECB’s annual conference in Sintra, moderator Sarah Eisen channeled a bit of her inner Beyoncé, asking a panel of central bank heads “To all you [bankers], who are independent, throw your hands up at me.” All four policymakers, including Fed Chairman Warsh, […]

Massive Security Presence For Khamenei’s ‘Multi-City’ Funeral Amid Hezbollah, Hamas, Taliban, China, Russia Paying Respects Via The Cradle Intensive preparations and security measures took place on Friday for late Iranian supreme leader Ali Khamenei’s massive funeral, as foreign officials and delegations began arriving in the country from dozens of nations to pay their respects.  The heightened security measures, including […]

US Believed Israel Tried To Assassinate Iran’s Top Negotiators As Ghalibaf’s Plane Made Emergency Landing The New York Times has issued a new report citing unnamed US officials who believe that Israel came close to assassinating Iran’s top negotiators Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf and Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi. According to the report, a concrete Israeli threat against Ghalibaf and the FM emerged while they were traveling back to […]

Foreign-Born Population Grows, But Relative Size Not Unprecedented While the number of immigrants in the U.S. as well as their share of the population has generally been rising, Statista’s Katharina Buchholz points out that the level of the foreign-born population is not unprecedented. As of 2024, the latest year available through U.S. Census data, 14.8 percent of the U.S. population was foreign-born.  Data aggregated by the […]

“You Cannot Kill The Beast Until You Name It”: Democratic Politician Denounces Declaration Of Independence Authored by Jonathan Turley, Pennsylvania state and socialist Chris Rabb, the Democratic nominee for Pennsylvania’s 3rd Congressional District, has joined the growing chorus of Democrats denouncing the founding documents and core institutions in the country on our 250th anniversary. The Democratic socialist is running […]

Anthropic Moves To Shut Loopholes Letting Chinese Tech Firms Access Claude Days after the Commerce Department lifted three-week-old export controls on Anthropic’s Fable and Mythos AI models over national security concerns, a new report says the company is moving to close loopholes that have allowed Chinese firms to access its most advanced models. The Financial Times cites people familiar with the matter who say Chinese companies, […]

Saudi Delegation Makes Unexpected Appearance In Tehran For Start Of Ayatollah’s Funeral Friday and Saturday kick off what will be up to a week of solemn funeral observances for slain Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei – a major historic event which is expected to draw some 15 to 20 million mourners in Tehran and across Iranian cities. Iran on Thursday issued a warning to the United States and Israel, Reuters reported: […]