Behind The Utter Failure Of Russian Anti-Air Systems In Venezuela There are reports that during the Trump-ordered military raid on Venezuela to oust and capture President Nicolás Maduro, at least one US helicopter was hit by surface fire or possibly small missile, but the chopper managed to keep flying – with the pilot wounded – and the damaged aircraft made it back from the mission safely. But this raised the question: what […]

10 Commandment Displays Became Law In Texas, Then The Lawsuits Came Authored by Darlene McCormick Sanchez via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Melissa Martin, a veteran Texas educator with some 30 years of experience, was thrilled when the state passed a law in 2025 that required the state’s 9,000 public schools to post the Ten Commandments in classrooms. Lorne Liechty poses with a copy of the Ten Commandments in Rockwall, Texas, […]

New Documents Detail Jack Smith’s $20K Bribe To Informant In 2023, then-Special Counsel Jack Smith’s office approved a shady $20,000 payment to a confidential human source for information in the controversial FBI probe, code-named Arctic Frost, which investigated efforts by President Donald Trump and his supporters to challenge the 2020 election results, according to documents FBI Director Kash Patel turned over to Congress this […]

Their Bodies Were Irreversibly Damaged, Now These Former Transgender Teens Are Fighting for Justice Authored by Darlene McCormick Sanchez via The Epoch Times, Young people who used to identify as transgender have filed dozens of lawsuits in the past few years, but have yet to win a verdict in their favor. They are known as “detransitioners,” those who regret changing their gender identity, often after making irreversible […]

Russia Belatedly Reveals Ukrainian Target Destroyed By Oreshnik Hypersonic Missile The NY Times had called it a warning delivered to Europe at Mach 10: “The message came screaming through the skies at 8,000 miles per hour. Early Friday morning, for just the second time since its all-out invasion of Ukraine, Russia fired a nuclear-capable Oreshnik missile — a hypersonic intermediate-range ballistic weapon that until recently was […]

“The Globalist Deep State Is In Panic Mode” After Trump’s Cash Cut-Off Via Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com, Journalist Alex Newman, author of the popular book “Deep State” (which is soon to be massively updated and re-released), thinks evil powers trying to overthrow America are distraught because their money and plans are drying up.  Newman says, “I think the globalist Deep State is in panic mode, and I think the Left […]

DoJ Charges Venezuelan Illegal Over Border Patrol Vehicle Ramming Attack Fox News reporter Bill Melugin reports that the Department of Justice has charged a Venezuelan national, who was shot by Border Patrol in the Portland metro area last Thursday, with aggravated assault on a federal officer with a deadly weapon after allegedly using his red pickup truck to ram a federal vehicle. This follows the recent ICE shooting in […]

South Korea To Lift Ban On Corporate Crypto Investment: Report Authored by Martin Young via CoinTelegraph.com, South Korea’s Financial Services Commission (FSC) is reportedly updating its guidelines to allow corporations to invest in digital assets after a nine-year ban.  Listed companies and professional investors will be able to invest up to 5% of their equity capital in crypto assets, reported local news outlet Seoul […]

Mexico Reports Positive Conversation With Trump On Security, Drug Trafficking Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said on Jan. 12 that she had a productive dialogue with President Donald Trump on efforts to combat drug trafficking and other issues of mutual concern. “We had a very good conversation with the President of the United States, Donald Trump,” Sheinbaum wrote in a post on X on Monday. “We discussed various topics, […]

Trump Imposes 25% Tariff On Any Country Doing Business With Iran “Effective Immediately” After it quietly faded away in late summer, that trade war with China is about to make a triumphal reappearance. In a day that was already flooded by a relentless firehose of newsflow, Trump added to the leaning tower of chaos when said on Truth Social that he was imposing a 25% tariff on goods from countries “doing business” with Iran […]

Trump ‘Favors’ Attacking Iran, Vance Pushing Back, As President Pezeshkian In Streets For Large Counter-Protests Update(1820ET): There are reports of a significant internal Trump administration divide over Iran policy, with Vice President Vance said to be leading the charge for the non-interventionist camp, which much of MAGA might welcome while seeing in Vance the top contender for 2028: President Trump currently leans toward […]

The ICE Elephant: Why The Law Requires All The Facts Authored by Jonathan Turley, In a famous Indian parable, five blind men are brought to an elephant. Each feels a different part of the animal, and they come to radically different views of what an elephant is. It depended on which parts they touched, from tusk to tail. The controversy over the shooting of Renee Nicole Good, 37, is a type of political elephant parable. People […]

Australia Joins The Rare Earth Reserve Rush Australia will begin purchasing and storing key minerals for defense and high-tech industries from local miners as part of a A$1.2 billion ($802 million) national reserve aimed at strengthening global supply chains, according to a new report from Bloomberg. Bloomberg reports that the initial stockpile will target rare earths, antimony and gallium, according to Treasurer Jim Chalmers, […]

States Poised To Win Supreme Court Battle Over Men In Women’s Sports, Legal Experts Predict Authored by Matthew Vadum via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The U.S. Supreme Court will uphold two state laws that ban male athletes who don’t identify with their sex from competing on school sports teams intended for females, legal experts say. The U.S. Supreme Court in Washington on Jan. 5, 2026. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch Times Their […]

House Republicans Coalesce Around Stock-Trading Ban For Lawmakers House Republicans are lining up behind a long-sought effort to curb stock trading by members of Congress, signaling what party leaders say may be their strongest opportunity yet to address concerns that lawmakers can profit from insider information. (Image credit: Illustrated | Getty Images) The proposal, drafted by Rep. Bryan Steil (R-WI), chairman of the Committee […]

On The Lefty-Left’s Largely Female Hysteria Authored by James Howard Kunstler, Permission Granted: Go Kill Yourself “A mascrosocial cluster B crisis is ripping this nation apart because Leftism has hijacked the minds of progressive females who then LARP out dangerous Gnostic heroic delusions.” – JD Haltigan Historians of the future, grilling beaver-tail paninis over their campfires, will look back in wonder and nausea at […]

Socialism, Not Sanctions, Is Responsible For The Destruction Of Venezuela Authored by Daniel Lacalle, Venezuela is not poor due to sanctions. It is poor because the Chavez-Maduro regime stole hundreds of billions of dollars and demolished the productive fabric of the economy. Venezuela had 12,700 private companies when Chávez came to power, according to Conindustria. Only about 3,800 manufacturing industries are still […]

UK, Germany, France Push New Plan To Appease Trump On Greenland President Trump’s Friday’s remarks to reporters Friday made clear he is willing to take control of Greenland – even if it’s the “hard way” – and this sent the Europeans scrambling over the weekend to come up with plans or strategies for quickly de-escalating inter-NATO tensions. “I’m not talking about money for Greenland yet. I might talk about that. But right now we […]

UBS Explains Why Trump’s 10% Credit Card Rate Cap Is “Unlikely” To Happen Update (1520ET): Analysts Erika Najarian and Tim Chiodo told clients that President Trump’s proposed 10% one-year cap on credit card interest rates is “unlikely.” The analysts explain their reasoning: With the midterms ahead and affordability remaining top of mind for voters, President Trump posted on social media that he is calling for a 10% rate cap on […]

Most US Debanking Cases Stem From Government Pressure, Report Says Authored by Stephen Katte via CoinTelegraph.com, The majority of debanking cases in the US are a result of government pressure, rather than individual banks’ policies, according to a new report from the American think tank the Cato Institute. Cato Institute analyst Nicholas Anthony explained in a report on Thursday that debanking could take several forms: […]

Small Modular Reactor Developers Push New Partnerships And Use Cases Hot on the heels of the biggest nuclear energy deal by a tech company to date, one which saw Meta validate Oklo’s “proof of concept” by committing to purchase 1.2 GW of new energy … … peer Small Module Reactor (SMR) developers, Nano Nuclear and NuScale Power, released their own updates on new engineering partnerships and potential use cases. Nano Nuclear, […]

Going Full Spartacus: Democrats Hold Chest-Thumping Press Conferences To Fuel Anti-ICE Rage Authored by Jonathan Turley, “Say her name.” From Portland to Philadelphia, the mantra is being used by politicians to fuel the anger over the shooting of Renee Good in Minneapolis. While many of us have noted that the shooting appears to fall within the guidelines set by the Supreme Court for the justified use of lethal force, there […]

Trump May Freeze Exxon Out Of Venezuela After CEO Darren Woods Called It “Uninvestable” Tensions flared between Exxon Mobil and the White House after CEO Darren Woods cast doubt on Venezuela’s appeal as an investment destination during a closed-door meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump and other oil executives last week, according to Reuters. Woods argued that without sweeping legal and regulatory changes, the country could […]

10Y Auction Stops Through In Solid Start For 2026 Treasury Sales Shortly after a solid 3Y auction, the first of the year, priced just through the WI by 0.1bps, moments ago we got the first sale of benchmark 10Y paper for 2026 in what was another solid auction. Today’s sale of $39BN in 10Y paper priced at 4.173% just after 1pm ET. This was barely changed from the 4.175% in December in what appears to be duration paralysis. And with […]

Republicans Have Quickly Rallied Behind Trump On Venezuela A week after “Operation Absolute Resolve”, which saw the U.S. military attack targets in Venezuela to capture and extract President Nicolás Maduro, the international community is still grappling over the legality of the U.S. intervention. While some experts are saying that the illegality of the U.S. attack is beyond doubt, U.S. allies are hesitant to openly denounce the […]