Dems Need A Serious, Grown-Up Approach To The Border Authored by Ruy Teixeira via The Liberal Patriot, Back in 1956, Elvis Presley recorded his massive hit “Don’t Be Cruel.” With all due respect to the King, this great song has many virtues but providing a guide to policy isn’t one of them. Yet it appears to be dictating Democrats’ current approach to the red-hot immigration issue despite its profound inadequacy in the […]

DOJ Probes Gov. Walz, Minneapolis Mayor Over Alleged Effort To Obstruct ICE The Justice Department is investigating leftist Gov. Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey over an alleged conspiracy to impede federal immigration agents during deportation operations, sources familiar with the matter told CBS News. Sources say the probe centers on statements Walz and Frey have made about ICE and Border Patrol agents deployed to the […]

West Virginia Lawmakers Propose Bitcoin Investments With State Funds Authored by Micah Zimmerman via Bitcoin Magazine, West Virginia lawmakers introduced legislation this week that would authorize the state treasurer to invest a portion of public funds in bitcoin, precious metals, and regulated stablecoins, marking a significant step toward integrating digital assets into state-level finance. West Virginia Senate Bill 143, […]

Rieder Meets With Trump As Fed Chair Decision Looms, Hassett Now Out Of Contention Rick Rieder, senior investment executive at BlackRock, met with President Donald Trump yesterday, according to Bloomberg, a development that has intensified speculation around who Trump will choose as his next chair of the Federal Reserve. The meeting immediately elevated Rieder’s standing in what is now a narrowing field of candidates. Rieder is […]

Maine Officials Say They’re Expecting ICE Operations In Coming Days Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Top officials in Maine said they are expecting the Trump administration to send Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents to the state for enforcement operations soon. Democratic Gov. Janet Mills on Wednesday in a video uploaded on X said operations may be conducted in the state “in the […]

The $134 Billion Betrayal: Inside Elon Musk’s Explosive Lawsuit With OpenAI Elon Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft has evolved into a high-stakes dispute over whether OpenAI stayed true to the mission it was founded on or quietly outgrew it while relying on that original promise. Musk is seeking between $79 billion and $134 billion in damages, a figure derived from an expert valuation that treats his early funding and […]

Trump Appoints Rubio, Witkoff, Kushner, And Blair To Gaza ‘Board Of Peace’ Authored by Aldgra Fredly via The Epoch Times, The White House announced on Jan. 16 the names of members appointed to the Gaza Board of Peace, which President Donald Trump created as part of phase two of a U.S.-backed plan to end the war in Gaza. Among the “founding executive board” members are U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, presidential special […]

Border Czar Tom Homan Has Plan To Target Anti-Ice Agitators Minneapolis has erupted into chaos as anti-ICE mobs rampage through the city. On Wednesday, an ICE agent fired in self-defense after being attacked by three illegal immigrants from Venezuela armed with shovels. Governor Tim Walz and Mayor Jacob Frey have fanned the flames straight out of the ‘defund the police’ playbook – turning a law enforcement operation into a […]

How The EU Is Messing Up The AI Boom Authored by Thomas Kolbe via American Thinker, Economic prosperity is created in free markets by innovative companies. Over 50 percent of globally operating AI unicorns are located in the U.S., while Europe plays virtually no role. The race for the next future technology is already decided. It seems that economic history is repeating itself. On the stock markets, companies in the artificial […]

Biden-Appointed Minnesota Judge Limits Federal Immigration Enforcement Actions At Protests A federal judge in Minnesota on Friday ruled that federal immigration agents can’t detain or use nonlethal munitions and crowd dispersal tools on peaceful protesters who aren’t obstructing authorities, including when these people are observing the agents. The decision, handed down by U.S. District Judge Kate Menendez – appointed by […]

If Britain Bans X, How Far Will It Go To Block Free Speech? Authored by Ted Newson via RealClearPolitics, In what appears to be a rolling back on free speech and citizen journalism, Britain is fast-tracking a law that will ban non-consensual intimate deepfake images. This is likely aimed at the social media site X.com after its AI assistant Grok allegedly generated inappropriate images. In the scope of the global news cycle and a […]

CIA Releases New Video To Encourage Chinese To Divulge ‘Truth About China’ Authored by Michael Zhung via The Epoch Times, The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has released a new video for Chinese citizens outlining nine step-by-step methods for establishing secure contact with the agency, according to a Jan. 16 post on X. […]

Seattle Ranks Second As Most Stressed And Burned Out U.S. City For Workers A new study ranks Seattle as the second most stressed and burned-out city in the U.S. for workers, behind only Atlanta, according to KIRO7. In a city full of professional “activists”, who could have guessed? The report by Compare the Market analyzed online searches related to job stress, including terms such as “work burnout,” “work depression,” […]

Human Evolution: ‘Our Ultimate Fate Comes Down To… Three Possibilities’ Authored by Ross Pomeroy via RealClearScience, Everything around us seems to be changing at breakneck speed. Twenty years ago, smartphones were niche products. Twenty years before that, computers were clunky behemoths. Forty years before that, far more Americans traveled by train than by plane. Forty years before that, cars were just starting to supplant […]

FDA Removes Web Content Saying Cellphones Are Harmless – HHS Launches Study Without fanfare, the Food and Drug Administration has deleted multiple web pages asserting that cellphones are not dangerous. First reported by the Wall Street Journal, the move comes as the Department of Health and Human Services has begun a new investigation into potential health effects of cellphone radiation. HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr has […]

How The 1917 Virgin Islands Deal Is A Blueprint For Buying Greenland Authored by Dustin Bass via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), When Secretary of State Marco Rubio stood before reporters on Jan. 7 to discuss the military operation that took place in Venezuela four days prior, he added another element of intrigue. He planned to meet with Danish officials this week to discuss purchasing the world’s largest non-continental island: […]

Nuclear Bunker Faces Final Days As Coastline Rapidly Erodes A nuclear bunker on the East Yorkshire coast is close to falling into the sea after decades of coastal erosion, according to the BBC. The structure near Tunstall, built around 1959 as a Cold War lookout post, was once more than 100 yards from the shoreline but is now dangerously exposed on the cliff edge. Local historian Davey Robinson, who has been filming the site, said: […]

How Expanded Obamacare Made Premiums Spiral, Americans Dependent Authored by Lawrence Wilson and Sylvia Xu via The Epoch Times, Congress responded to the COVID-19 pandemic by passing the American Rescue Plan Act in early 2021. This $1.9 trillion spending bill was intended to provide relief and spark an economic recovery. Among other provisions, the law expanded the availability of government-subsidized health care through the […]

Time To DOGE Baltimore: Top City Leaders Admit They Can’t Track Tax Dollars Flowing To Nonprofits Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s interview with Christopher Rufo last week highlighted that there is still unfinished business at DOGE, where fraud, waste, and abuse may account for as much as 10% of the total federal budget. We even joked that the scale of recent fraud uncovered in Democratic states could compel Elon Musk to return […]

“They’ve Totally Lost Control”; Trump Threatens ‘Agitators’ As Civil Unrest Soars In Minnesota Update: President Trump escalated his threat to use the Insurrection Act (as we detailed here) earlier today, warning that state and city officials “have totally lost control.” The origin of the chaos appears to be mostly manufactured and began hours after the legal observer was shot and killed last Wednesday: Minneapolis ICE […]

Rashida Tlaib Melts Down Over America  Democratic Socialist Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) was triggered this week by a Homeland Security post on X featuring a B-2 stealth bomber overhead and a cowboy below, accompanied by the text in the center of the image that read: “We’ll Have Our Home Again.” “What does it evoke in you when you see this? Literally, when I see it, as a Muslim, as a Palestinian, as a child of immigrants, I see it as […]

US Foreclosures Up 14% In 2025; Florida Tops States Authored by  Mary Prenon via The Epoch Times, Home foreclosures across America were on the rise in 2025, increasing by 14 percent from 2024, with Florida experiencing the highest numbers in the nation. In its Jan. 15 report, property data and analytics provider ATTOM, said that 367,460 U.S. properties were involved with default notices, scheduled auctions, or bank […]

Biden-Appointed Federal Judge Blocks Trump Admin’s Move To Withhold Minnesota Food Stamp Funds A federal judge on Jan. 14 stopped the Trump administration from withholding $80 million in administrative costs for Minnesota’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), ruling that the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s tight deadline for reviewing the eligibility of 100,000 households was likely illegal. U.S. District Judge […]

To Combat Academic Fraud, Scholars Confront Hallowed Tradition Authored by Vince Bielski via RealClearInvestigations, This is the fourth part of a series on the crisis in academic research and publishing. Read the first three parts here, here and here. The driving ethos of academia, “publish or perish,” is fighting for its life.  The requirement that scholars constantly publish or face academic ruin has been considered […]

New York Scammers Plead Guilty In $68M Adult Day Care Fraud Scheme Two scammers in Brooklyn pleaded guilty on Thursday to defrauding the state’s controversial Medicaid home care program to the tune of $60 million.  Google Maps Manal Wasef and Elaine Antao, both 46, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit health care fraud. Their scheme involved referring Medicaid recipients to two Brooklyn social adult day care centers and a […]