Governor Pritzker’s Sanctuary Policies Freed 1,700 Criminal Aliens Since January Illinois sanctuary policies have allowed more than 1,700 criminal illegal aliens to slip back onto the streets since President Trump took office on January 20, and the Department of Homeland Security is now calling out state officials for putting politics ahead of public safety. Among those released are individuals charged with or convicted of homicide, […]

Immigration Gone Wild Authored by Victor Davis Hanson via American Greatness, It is hard now even for Democrats to defend illegal immigration, given that the Biden administration allowed in more than 10 million entrants. Among them were an estimated 500,000 criminals. No one believes that was wise or should ever be repeated. Worse, the message went out that there would be few, if any, deportations and no real ICE kinetic […]

Japan Urges More Support From Trump In Spat With China Several reports say that Japan is currently pressing the United States to step up its public support for Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi amid the spat with China unleashed in the wake of her recent controversial comments about willingness to defend Taiwan. The Japanese government has reportedly disappointed by what it views as insufficient backing from Washington, after […]

Gen Z, Socialism, And The System That Failed Them Authored by Steve Cortes via Cortes Investigates, There’s real angst among older Americans about Gen Z’s openness to socialism. For those of us shaped by the Cold War, this flirtation with Marxism-lite feels alarming. But we need to pause and rethink what we’re actually seeing. Gen Z isn’t embracing socialism because they dream of five-year plans. They’re listening […]

Australia Imposes World’s First Under-16 Social Media Ban Australia will soon bar anyone aged 15 and under from using major social media platforms — an unprecedented national ban set to take effect Wednesday — leaving many young users bracing for sudden offline life, according to Nikkei.  Fourteen-year-old TikTok creator Zoey, whose account will be frozen despite more than 50,000 followers, told Nikkei Asia she expects to feel […]

Homan Defends Operations Against Illegal Somalis In Minnesota Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times, The Trump administration’s immigration crackdown on Somalis in Minnesota is targeted at illegal immigrants and felons, White House border czar Tom Homan said in a Dec. 7 interview with CNN, dismissing concerns of unjust targeting. “There’s a large illegal Somali community there … if you’re a U.S. citizen, you […]

Americans Spent $2.6 Billion On OnlyFans In 2025 The United States is now the most OnlyFans-obsessed country on the planet, according to a new global rankings study that is almost certain to fuel debate online. The “OnlyFans Wrapped 2025” report, published by platform search engine OnlyGuider, names the U.S. as both the biggest market overall and home to the most intensely engaged cities anywhere in the world. While Americans […]

Saudi Arabia Didn’t Learn Anything From China’s ‘Ghost Cities’ Authored by Stefan Barti via TheDailyEconomy.org, You can’t build a castle on sand, and you can’t build a city on assumptions. Saudi Arabia unveiled The Line in January 2021 as a perfect, linear utopia stretching 170 kilometers across the desert. Three years later, the castle is already sinking. When Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman announced The Line on […]

Hypersonics, AI, Space Weapons, & Directed Energy: Lawmakers Release Defense Bill As Expiring Obamacare Subsidies Marinate On Back-Burner With Congress in its second-to-last week in session for this year, lawmakers on the House Armed Services Committee released the final bill text of the 2026 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) Sunday night, which allocates a topline of roughly $8 billion over the $892.6 billion the […]

Trump Envoy Says ‘Benevolent Monarchies’ Work Best In Mideast While Hailing Syria’s Sharaa Via Middle East Eye The US special envoy for Syria, Tom Barrack, has stated that a “benevolent monarchy” has “worked best” in the Middle East. Speaking at a panel on Syria during the Doha Forum on Sunday, Barrack praised the Syrian administration of President Ahmad al-Sharaa’s “epic” and “heroic” achievements following the fall of […]

NJ Governor Murphy Using Last Months In Office To Free 31 Convicted Killers…And Promises Even More New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy is using his last months in office to release dozens of inmates convicted of homicide — and says many more are coming, according to NJ 101.5. Since December 2024, Murphy has granted clemency to 283 offenders, including 31 people convicted of murder, felony murder, or aggravated manslaughter, according […]

Greed, Centralization, Monopoly, Ruin Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, Greed is good up to the point that it delivers ruin. The primary characteristic of this era is the purposeful confusion of profit and greed, as if they are the same thing. Greed is good because profit is good, and profit is good because the profit motive is the engine of Capitalism which is the engine of global prosperity. The problem […]

“Things Are About To Snap”: China’s Trade Surplus Tops $1 Trillion For The First Time, Sparking Global Howls Of Outrage With Europe finally realizing – very belatedly, as usual – that Trump was right all along in his crusade to hammer Beijing’s relentless dumping of exports to flood foreign markets with its below-cost wares as China no longer has nearly the required demand for goods and services and so has to crush and dominate […]

Trump Says He Has ‘Other Methods’ To Impose Tariffs If Supreme Court Limits Powers Authored by Tom Ozimek via The Epoch Times, President Donald Trump on Dec. 7 urged the Supreme Court to uphold his tariff program, saying a ruling against his use of emergency economic powers would weaken national security, while also saying there are alternative legal tools to keep the duties in place. Trump said in a Dec. 7 post on Truth Social […]

“Xi Responded Positively”: NVDA Spikes After Trump Allows H200 Chip Exports To China Having pumped (and dumped) earlier today on reports that the Trump administration will allow H200 chip exports to China, NVDA shares extending gains the after-hours (to the highs of the day) after President issued a statement on X, confirming he will allow Nvidia to ship its chips to China and noting that “President Xi respondedly positively.” NVDA […]

DC Police Chief Resigns As ‘Massive Scandal’ Over Crime Stats Heats Up Washington DC Mayor Muriel Bowser announced on Monday that Police Chief Pamela A. Smith will be stepping down, three months after we reported that the DOJ was investigating a “massive scandal” over manipulated crime data. Smith, who also doesn’t know what the term “chain of command” means, is out for unknown reasons – however she told Fox 5 that she […]

When They Say “Democracy”, They Don’t Mean Democracy Authored by James Howard Kunstler, “Imagine if the US and EU were still aligned on the censorship-by-proxy strategy. Few people realize how close we were to global totalitarianism.” – Michael Shellenberger Western Civ is choking itself to death with lawfare in the name of “democracy.” If you think just a little bit past the sale, you will realize that few will say what […]

Offer Royale: Paramount-Netflix Bidding War For Warner Bros Heats Up In A Blockbuster Showdown Update (1324ET):  Here’s the side-by-side comparison of the Netflix versus Paramount-Skydance offers as the bidding war for Warner Bros.’ assets goes into overdrive. In markets, Netflix shares were down about 4% in early afternoon trading in New York, while Paramount shares were up nearly 10%. Fox Business reporter Charles […]

Wendy’s Data Pinpoints When Working-Poor Customers Ditched “Dave’s Single” Burger Readers have been well informed about the bifurcated consumer landscape, where financial conditions look relatively stable for upper-middle-class and wealthy households. But for anyone earning less than $100,000 a year, financial misery persists, with many pressures lingering after four years of the disastrous Biden-Harris regime era. Last week at the […]

Supreme Court Seems Poised To Side With Trump In FTC Firing Case Authored by Sam Dorman via The Epoch Times, The Supreme Court seemed inclined to remove certain limits on President Donald Trump’s power to remove bureaucrats, but oral arguments on Dec. 8 left questions about how far their eventual decision would go in empowering the executive. The case – Trump v. Slaughter – focused on President Donald Trump’s request to […]

“Do Not Mistake Compliance For Surrender” – Alina Habba Steps Down As Acting US Attorney For New Jersey Alina Habba, the former personal attorney to President Trump, is stepping down from her contested position atop the federal prosecuting office in New Jersey. “As a result of the Third Circuit’s ruling, and to protect the stability and integrity of the office which I love, I have decided to step down in my role,” she said in a […]

Border Czar Says 62,000 Illegally Smuggled Children Rescued So Far Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times, White House border czar Tom Homan on Dec. 7 said more than 60,000 children who were illegally smuggled into the United States have been located by the Trump administration and that some were rescued from dire situations, including sex trafficking and forced labor. In an interview with the Fox News show “Fox & […]

India Plans Coal Expansion Through 2047 Despite Supposed “Climate Goals” It’s funny how no one actually seems to care about climate change malarky when there isn’t an environmentalist Democrat in the White House to try and impress… Along that vein, India is weighing a major expansion of coal power that could extend new plant construction until at least 2047, according to people familiar with ongoing discussions between the […]

Rickards: 8 Events Driving The Gold Frenzy Authored by James Rickards via Investors Daily, Events are moving quickly in the gold market. You know about the run-up in the price of gold; it has become a mainstream media story. But the gold situation is bigger than that. There are important developments almost daily that will sustain the gold bull market for years to come. Let’s look briefly at the gold price action and then turn to […]

Ukraine Claims It Can Intercept Conversations Of Kremlin Officials The head of Ukraine’s military intelligence agency has boasted of being capable of intercepting conversations of senior Russian officials. He made the big claim in a fresh local media interview, but didn’t back it up by proof or any specifics. “Yes, we can. We get paid for this,” stated the agency’s chief, Kyrylo Budanov, to RBC-Ukraine on Sunday. He had […]