Germany’s Corporate Tax Collapse Signals Economic Crisis By Thomas Kolbe The ten-minute applause of delegates at the CDU party congress still echoed when the Federal Ministry of Finance spoiled the festive mood in Stuttgart. Finance Minister Lars Klingbeil’s (SPD) department reported a nationwide collapse of corporate tax revenue by 79 percent in January 2026 compared to last year. At the same time, revenue from assessed income […]

The Fix Is In To Defeat Alberta Independence Authored by Bruce Pardy via The Brownstone Institute, Last week, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith announced a referendum for October 19. It will ask Albertans a slate of policy and constitutional questions. Independence, she said the next day, will be added to the ballot if the requisite number of signatures is met in the petition drive, which is likely. Albertans will get their […]

Jeffrey Sachs: ‘Trump Is An Utter Disgrace To Our Nation – He Lied To Us’ Columbia University economics professor Jeffrey D. Sachs appeared on Judge Napolitano’s ‘Judging Freedom’ podcast Monday, where he railed against the US-Israeli attack on Iran and the ‘CIA-led security state,’ calling President Donald Trump a ‘disgrace to our nation’ because ‘he lied to us.’ Watch: Sachs, a longtime critic of U.S. foreign policy, […]

Israel Claims to Strike Iranian Nuclear Weapons Lab Iran’s nuclear complexes are seeing renewed attacks for both new buildings constructed since the 12-Day War, as well as long-existing infrastructure previously left alone. From what can be seen in recent satellite imagery, the U.S. and Israel are quickly finishing what they started last year.   The IDF announced it has struck a covert underground compound outside Tehran where […]

Operation Epic Fury Sparks Homeland Terror Fears Amid Fallout From Biden’s Illegal Alien Invasion Fears of Iranian-backed terror cells operating inside the U.S. are resurfacing (again) as concerns grow that President Trump’s Operation Epic Fury could trigger retaliatory threats against the homeland, particularly since the Biden-Harris regime’s open border policies flooded the nation with millions of illegal aliens, including some […]

Asian Refiners Mull Slashing Crude Processing As Iran War Threatens Supply By Michael Kern of OilPrice.com Asian refiners, particularly state-held majors heavily dependent on Middle East oil supply, are considering slashing crude run rates by up to 30% amid the war in Iran that is holding up millions of barrels of Middle Eastern crude stuck near the Strait of Hormuz.   The de facto halted shipments via the Strait of […]

Senators Ask Treasury To Unilaterally Index Capital Gains, Bypassing Congress Senators Ted Cruz and Tim Scott are asking Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to unilaterally implement a major capital gains tax cut — by letting taxpayers adjust their cost basis to account for the effects of inflation. In a letter they intended to send on Tuesday, the pair will argue that it’s within Bessent’s authority to make such a move, without the […]

Nancy Mace And Ilhan Omar Go Full Jerry Springer Over Iran Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, Rep. Nancy Mace obliterated Ilhan Omar on X after the Somali-born Democrat raged about U.S. strikes on Iran during Ramadan, escalating calls to expose Omar’s alleged immigration fraud and boot her back to Somalia. The feud erupted over the weekend when Mace trolled Omar and fellow Squad member Rashida Tlaib, sending them […]

Tankers Burn From Strait Of Hormuz To Mediterranean Sea Amid Spillover War Risks Times of Malta reports that the Russian-flagged LNG tanker Arctic Metagaz, identified as part of Russia’s shadow fleet, suffered an explosion while transiting the Mediterranean Sea between Malta and Libya. Multiple sources told the local newspaper that Arctic Metagaz experienced a “series of explosions” and that it “was a case of deflagration; […]

Feds Told New Mexico To Back Off Epstein; Then They Did Nothing… Authored by José Niño via Headline USA, In September 2019, federal prosecutors asked New Mexico to shut down its active investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s desert compound. The state complied. The feds never held up their end of the deal. According to a report by The Albuquerque Journal, former New Mexico Attorney General Hector Balderas revealed […]

CIA Moves To Arm Kurdish Forces To Foment Govt Collapse In Iran: Officials Here are the most critical developments unfolding in the US-Iran conflict:  CIA working to arm Kurdish forces to spark uprising in Iran, sources say: CNN State Department securing military aircraft, charter flights to get Americans out of Middle East Iran International is claiming (unverified) Iran’s Assembly of Experts chose Mojtaba Khamenei as […]

Los Angeles Superintendent Praised By Gavin Newsom Placed On Leave Following FBI Raid Los Angeles schools were thrown into chaos after the FBI raided the home and office of embattled Superintendent Alberto Carvalho in connection with a widening investigation into a $6 million deal between the nation’s second-largest school system and an AI startup. Days later, the district’s board put him on paid administrative leave (he makes […]

Hormuz Freeze Sends Brent-Dubai Spread to Multi-Year High By Julianne Geiger of OilPrice, Brent’s premium to the Middle East’s Dubai benchmark has blown out to its widest level since 2022, confirmation that the global oil market is squarely trading on disruption. As of Tuesday morning, Brent was trading around $83–$84 per barrel, up more than 7% on the day, while Dubai crude sat near $68, barely moving. The spread between […]

New Jersey Faces Structural Deficit Crisis And Democrats Blame Trump When all else fails, blame Trump.  It might be the only political strategy the Democrats have left but it doesn’t work for everything.   New Jersey Governor Mikie Sherrill, who took office this year, warns that the state faces a serious structural deficit (spending exceeding revenues annually) of roughly $3 billion, despite a projected surplus of $7.2 billion […]

US Arranging Charter, Military Flights For Americans In The Middle East Authored by Savannah Hulsey Pointer via The Epoch Times, The U.S. State Department is looking to help Americans in the Middle East find a way home. The State Department said on March 3 it is working to charter aircraft to fly Americans home following the start of the U.S.–Israel military strikes on Iran. “The State Department is actively securing […]

“Account Temporarily Unavailable”: Facebook Outages Reported In U.S. Facebook appears to be suffering widespread outages, as login attempts on the social media site produce the error: “Account Temporarily Unavailable.” The full error reads: “Account Temporarily Unavailable. Your account is currently unavailable due to a site issue. We expect this to be resolved shortly. Please try again in a few minutes.” Users on the […]

Behind America’s New Industrial Revolution Authored by Emel Akan via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The U.S. economy grew faster than many predicted over the past year, outpacing other advanced economies, especially in Europe, where growth has nearly stalled. The manufacturing facilities of the Independent Can Company in Belcamp, Md., on June 25, 2025. Ryan Collerd/AFP via Getty Images Analysts say President Donald Trump’s […]

Bill Pervs Out Over Epstein Memories, Hillary Goes Berserk, And They Both Lied: Top Viral Moments From Clinton Depositions The House Oversight Committee dropped more than nine hours of raw video from Bill and Hillary Clinton’s closed-door Epstein depositions on Monday, where the pair were questioned over their longstanding relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. Here are a few of the most memorable moments:  1. Bill Clinton Smirks […]

From Whiskey To Weed: A Second Amendment Fight Authored by John R. Lott Jr. & Laura Lott via RealClearPolitics, Are regular marijuana users the modern equivalent of “habitual drunkards” at the Founding? What about someone who regularly takes a sleep gummy? In oral arguments before the Supreme Court today in United States v. Hemani, the federal government argues that they are the same. In August 2022, FBI agents searched […]

Trump Floats Backing Anti-Tehran Insurgency As Alternative To US Boots On Ground It’s only day four of the US-Israeli ‘Operation Epic Fury’ and there’s already talks of a ground war and insurgency in Iran. Of course, the White House is still saying it doesn’t plan to send US boots on the ground (though is ‘not ruling it out’), while also proclaiming the US wants regime change in Tehran, and the dismantling of the Islamic Republic […]

‘They’re Not MAGA’: Trump Remarks On Tucker Carlson And Megyn Kelly’s Iran Criticism Authored by Steve Watson via modernity.news, President Donald Trump delivered a clear message to critics within conservative media circles Monday, asserting that ‘true’ MAGA supporters back his moves to neutralize the Iranian threat and prevent nuclear proliferation that endangers the U.S. and its allies. Dismissing pushback from Tucker […]

‘Toxic Indoctrination’: Dept Of War Cuts Fellowships At 13 ‘Elite’ Universities Authored by Gabrielle Temaat via The College Fix, The U.S. Department of Defense announced the cancellation of its military education fellowships at 13 top universities on Friday, citing “toxic indoctrination.” “We are eliminating certain Senior Service College (SSC) Fellowship programs for the 2026-2027 academic year and beyond. I am also […]

Trump Announces US To Cover Insurance For All Ships Traveling Through Gulf, Will Provide US Navy Escorts Update (1440ET): Moments ago President Trump announced that the United States will provide insurance for “ALL Maritime Trade” via the US Development Finance Corporation (DFC), and will provide Navy escorts, “if necessary.” Effective IMMEDIATELY, I have ordered the United States Development Finance Corporation (DFC) to […]

Visualizing Data Center Power Surge Before White House Meets With Big Tech Ahead of tomorrow’s White House meeting, where representatives from Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, xAI, Oracle, and OpenAI are expected to pledge that their data-center buildouts will not drive higher power bills for households near those facilities, UBS analyst Arend Kapteyn has published a new note featuring a chart of the day that visualizes the rapid […]

In Stunning Flip-Flop, DOJ Suddenly Revives Bid To Sanction Law Firms Update (1400ET): In a stunning flip-flop, just 24 hours after The Justice Department said it was dropping its appeal of four trial-court rulings that struck down Trump’s sanctions against law firms Jenner & Block, WilmerHale, Perkins Coie and Susman Godfrey, the DoJ told a court Tuesday that it plans to press forward with the defense of President Trump’s […]