California Expected To Defy Federal Pressure, And Reissue 17,000 Non-Domiciled CDLs By Rob Carpenter of FreightWaves California is expected to begin reissuing approximately 17,000 non-domiciled commercial driver’s licenses that the state had planned to revoke following federal enforcement pressure. The decision comes despite ongoing corrective action requirements from FMCSA and raises fundamental questions about federal […]

Justice Department Quietly Reverses Clinton-Era Rule On Immigrant Welfare Benefits For almost 30 years, a key part of America’s 1996 welfare reform laws has existed mostly on paper after the Clinton DOJ effectively nullified it with a loophole. Now, the Trump DOJ says it’s time to enforce those laws as Congress originally wrote them. Clinton signing the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996. […]

Trump Halts Diversity Green Card Lottery After Brown, MIT Shootings Trace To Non-Citizen President Trump ordered the suspension of the U.S. green card diversity lottery after federal investigators said the suspect in the Brown University shooting and the killing of an MIT nuclear scientist was a non-citizen who entered the country through the program. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem wrote in an X post late Thursday that, at […]

Reversing Alzheimer’s: The Forgotten Causes And Cures Big Pharma Buried Authored by A Midwestern Doctor via The Forgotten Side of Medicine, •Due to Alzheimer’s research focusing on a symptom of it (amyloid plaques), rather than its actual cause, Alzheimer’s has remained “incurable” for decades. •Rather than being a single disease, Alzheimer’s has multiple different subtypes (e.g., those due to insulin resistance, […]

Why Netflix Buying Warner Bros. Discovery Is A Bad Bet For Investors Authored by Mark Anthony of Forrester Research, Eaerlier this week, Netflix responded to the vast industry concerns about its deal to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery from the likes of the Writers Guild of America and a who’s-who list of elected officials, including liberal ones like Sens. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, by stating that “the “deal is […]

Venezuela Vows To Defend ‘Homeland At Any Cost’ – Orders Naval Escorts Of Tankers Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com Venezuelan Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino Lopez has said Venezuela would defend the “homeland at any cost” in response to President Trump’s declaration that he’s imposing a blockade on all “sanctioned” tankers entering and leaving Venezuelan ports. “We say to the US government and its president that we […]

Biden White House Coordinated Mar-A-Lago Raid Before Taking Conversations ‘Offline’ Chad Mizelle, former chief of staff to Attorney General Pam Bondi, revealed that the Biden White House was actively “coordinating” with the Department of Justice regarding an FBI search for classified documents at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence – before the discussion later moved “offline.” In an interview with the New York Post, […]

DOJ Releases Epstein Files, And [REDACTED] Update (1756ET): What were you expecting?  The ‘long awaited’ Epstein files were released a few hours ago by the DOJ, as required by the Epstein Files Transparency Act.  TL;DR – A solid collection of new pictures and files with massive redactions throughout, and no bombshells yet. Click into Nick Monroe’s thread of interesting shit if you’re curious: UGH fine. I have the day off […]

Mass Attacks: We’re On Our Own Authored by Mike McDaniel via American Thinker, The attacks at Bondi Beach, Australia and at Brown University remind us western democracies remain uniquely vulnerable to terrorist attacks, even terrorists armed with common firearms rather than the automatic weapons employed in the Middle East and other hot spots.  In Australia at least 16, aged 10-87, were killed and some 40 were wounded at a […]

Trump Admin Launches Retaliatory Strikes In Syria, Hours After Officially Repealing Sanctions Update (1700ET): Just hours after officially repealing sanctions on the country, the US military began a large-scale attack against Islamic State targets in Syria as the Trump admin retaliated for the death of three Americans last week. The Wall Street Journal reports that a U.S. military official said Friday that dozens of targets were […]

Timeline: The Sabotage Of The Clinton Foundation Investigation Authored by Techno Fog via The Reactionary, This week, Senator Chuck Grassley released Department of Justice and FBI records that provide a new look on how FBI and DOJ leadership sabotaged the investigation into the Clinton Foundation. These records, which include internal emails, summaries of high-level meetings and calls, and intelligence from confidential human […]

‘Patriot Games’: UFC Fight At White House To Celebrate America’s 250th Anniversary President Donald Trump announced on Dec. 18 that an athletic contest and a UFC fight will occur next year in honor of America’s 250th birthday. The “Patriot Games” will span four days, featuring high school athletes – a male and a female from each state and territory, the president said. He did not go into details as to what would be played […]

“No Arrests!” But More ‘Developments’… Authored by James Howard Kunstler, The frantic ceremonies of Christmas shopping climax now. . . the stockings are hung by the chimney with care. . . and the republic judders into the darkest season of an evil era. You fear the one gift you have waited for lo these twelve months will not be delivered: the frog-marching of Brennan, Clapper, Comey, Strzok, HRC, Mayorkas, Monaco, Rosenstein, […]

What Inflation Alarmists Missed In Their Warnings Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, Over the last couple of years, inflation alarmists such as Paul Tudor Jones, James Grant, and Jeff Gundlach have all said that inflation is returning with force. In different ways, they each stated that they would not own Treasury bonds due to the expectation that inflation would rise as the dollar declined due to the […]

Kevin Plank, Goldman Sachs Exit Any Further Development Of Billion-Dollar Ghost Town Under Armour founder and CEO Kevin Plank, along with Goldman Sachs, is stepping away from further development of Baltimore Peninsula, formerly known as Port Covington, a 235-acre mixed-use waterfront redevelopment project in South Baltimore. Originally pitched as a 14-million-square-foot mini-city anchored by a new UA headquarters, a new report […]

Russia’s Oil Exports Face Delays As Tankers Take 70% Longer Route By Charles Kennedy of OilPrice.com Oil tankers carrying Russian oil appear to be avoiding the fastest Black Sea route to the Turkish straits and travel along the Georgian and Turkish coasts to avoid drone attacks from Ukraine, according to ship-tracking data compiled by Bloomberg.  In recent weeks, several ships linked to Russia have been hit by Ukrainian drones […]

Centrus Energy Soars After Starting Commercial Uranium Enrichment Activity The long awaited buildout of Centrus Energy’s uranium enrichment facility is finally underway as the company announced this morning it has begun constructing new centrifuges to support commercial production of low-enriched uranium (LEU). LEU stock is surging as much as 14% on the news.  Why should anyone care though? We already have Urenco producing […]

Putin Identifies The Main Issue Which Will Settle Ukraine War In Year-End Q&A Russian President Vladimir Putin made clear during his annual end of year question-and-answer session in Moscow that the matter of Ukraine ceding land which Russia now controls is the heart of the issue when it comes to peace talks. The issue of territory gained, lost, to be ceded or not, remains the prime topic that must be considered, but it’s the […]

Federal Regulators Issue Order Requiring Large-Load Users Pay To Grow Grid Authored by John Haughey via The Epoch Times, Federal regulators have directed the nation’s largest regional electricity transmission organization to link, or “co-locate,” data centers and other industrial users with existing or new power-generating plants in order to speed development, trim infrastructure costs, and require large-load users to pay for […]

How To Profit From Trump’s Space Race Executive Order The space industry is heating up amid news of a SpaceX IPO next year and growing interest in low-Earth-orbit data centers. Starcloud is emerging as an early winner, as these developments coincide with President Trump signing an executive order to secure America’s dominance in the space race. The order “Ensuring American Space Superiority” outlined several of the Trump […]

Russia Keeps Slamming The Door In Europe’s Face By Maartje Wijffelaars, Senior Economist at Rabobank Crash Averted It’s been a busy week in Europe, before the start of the holiday season. Heavy meetings in Brussels, monetary policy decisions, and intense peace talks in which Europe is trying hard to get its foot in the door, while Russia—at times aided by the U.S.—continues to slam it shut. Yesterday, EU leaders have […]

‘A Disgrace’: Dems Erupt As Kennedy Center Board Renames It ‘Trump-Kennedy Center’ UPDATE (16:20): Moving extraordinarily fast — and presenting a fait accompli to those who are eager to seek a restraining order — workers have already added Donald Trump’s name to the facade of what was previously known as the John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts, which is (was?) the only national memorial to the assassinated […]

First-Ever Ukrainian Attack On A Russian ‘Shadow Fleet’ Tanker In Mediterranean Sea Ukraine is hailing a “new, unprecedented special operation” after a Russia-linked oil tanker was attacked off the coast of Libya. Needless to say these waters are very distant from anywhere Ukraine operates in the war with Moscow forces. Officials within the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) are being quoted in international reports as saying the […]

Brown University Accused Of Removing Cameras To Evade ICE Authored by José Niño via Headline USA, A firestorm of controversy has engulfed Brown University following the mass shooting that took place last Saturday.  Critics are now questioning whether the prestigious institution deliberately disabled security cameras, inadvertently creating blind spots that allowed the shooter to escape detection. According to the latest […]

Should The U.S. Overthrow The Maduro Regime With Military Force? LIVE at 9PM ET: With political insiders like Tucker Carlson claiming that Congress has been briefed on the prospect of an imminent war with Venezuela, tensions are high among Republicans in what may be the most contentious policy divide for the party since President Trump took office. To some, Nicolás Maduro’s regime represents an illegitimate dictatorship that […]