What The Scopes Trial Was Really About Authored by J Scott Turner via RealClearScience, This is the centennial year for the Scopes “monkey trial” in Dayton, Tennessee, 1925’s “trial of the century”. In the dock was John Scopes, a substitute high school teacher who was accused of violating the state’s recently passed Butler Act, which prohibited any state school from teaching any theory of the origin of man that […]

Ancient RNA Extracted From Extinct Woolly Mammoth Fuels De-Extinction Dreams European researchers have achieved a milestone in paleogenomics by sequencing RNA from a woolly mammoth specimen dating back approximately 39,000 to 40,000 years, roughly three times older than the previous record for ancient RNA. The RNA was recovered from a well-preserved juvenile mammoth known as Yuka, discovered in northern Siberian permafrost in […]

Trump Administration Faces Balancing Act On Agriculture Authored by Beige Luciano-Adams via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The Trump administration has in recent months rolled out a series of actions to address the long-brewing existential crisis facing America’s family farmers and ranchers, who for years have been pummeled by industry consolidation and rising costs, as well as regulatory, environmental, and trade issues. Cows […]

Meta Chose Revenue Over Policing Chinese Scam Ads, Documents Show Meta knowingly tolerated large volumes of fraudulent advertising from China to protect billions of dollars in revenue, a new investigation from Reuters unveiled this week. Internal documents show executives prioritized minimizing “revenue impact” over fully cracking down on scams, illegal gambling, pornography and other banned ads. Although Meta platforms are […]

‘I Inherited A Mess And I’m Fixing It’: Watch President Trump Unveil ‘Warrior Dividend’, Signal Housing Reform, Not Mention Venezuela Update (2120ET): As expected, President Trump celebrated the successes of his first year back in office as part of tonight’s national address from the White House. “11 months ago, I inherited a mess, and I’m fixing it,” Trump began. “When I took office, inflation was the worst in 48 […]

Polysilicon: An Opportunity To Demonstrate ‘America First’ Authored by Emma Bishop via RealClearPolicy, If the world’s future is powered by semiconductors and designed by advanced AI chips, then it will be printed on polysilicon; the purest manmade material and the foundation for any semiconductor chip. Without it, advanced technologies and electronics would not exist. Importantly, the U.S. currently faces a decision: to rely […]

One-Party-Rule Maryland Democrats Ignore Power Bill Crisis, Push Ahead With Slavery Reparations Study Instead of addressing the state’s mounting crises, from fiscal mess, soaring power bills, and exodus of residents to violent crime and illegal aliens, unhinged Democrats in Annapolis spent their time on Tuesday overriding Gov. Wes Moore’s veto of Senate Bill 587, creating a reparations commission to study how Maryland should […]

67% Of Canadians Say Cost Of Living In Their Region Is Worst They’ve Seen Authored by Jennifer Cowan via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Nearly seven in every 10 Canadians are identifying the cost of living in their area as a major issue, according to a newly released survey. A person pushes a shopping cart through the produce section of a grocery store in Toronto, on Nov. 22, 2022. Carlos Osorio/Reuters An Abacus Data poll found […]

Conrad Black: China’s Expanding Influence Rekindles US Engagement In Latin America Authored by Conrad Black via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Venezuela has followed a sharply sloping descent from being the most prosperous country in Latin America 50 years ago, based on its ample oil resources, to a catastrophic condition today. With the election of Marxist Hugo Chavez in 1999, and the succession of Nicolas Maduro as president in […]

Trump Expands Travel Ban To Block Palestinians, Others From Entering The US President Donald Trump has once again expanded the U.S. travel ban, adding seven new countries and, for the first time, holders of Palestinian Authority passports to a growing list of nations whose citizens are barred from entering the United States. The move brings the number of countries facing travel restrictions to nearly 40, as the administration […]

Executives At Bankrupt Subprime Auto Lender Tricolor Charged With Fraud Authored by Rob Sabo via The Epoch Times, The former CEO and chief operating officer of subprime auto dealer and financier Tricolor Holdings were formally charged on Dec. 16 with bank and wire fraud for their alleged roles in what officials say was a years-long scheme to defraud banks and private credit lenders of hundreds of millions of dollars. Tricolor […]

AI Won’t End Marketing, It Will Elevate It To Its Full Potential Authored by Mark Penn via RealClearMarkets, For decades, marketers have been chasing the holy grail of marketing – the perfect ability to get the right ad to the right person at the right time in an effortless fashion. Before AI, this was never really possible. We moved from radio advertising to linear TV to digital, each  time getting closer to the holy grail but […]

Uniformed Armed Guards Spotted On Russian ‘Shadow Fleet’ Vessels Off Europe Russia is upping the ante at a moment the US and some European countries are threatening action and new sanctions on vessels transporting Russian oil and gas to global markets, in defiance of Western sanctions. Sweden’s navy announced Wednesday it has spotted armed personnel in uniform providing security for vessels linked to Russia’s so-called “shadow […]

Vance Fires Back At Media Smear: “I Only Believe In The Conspiracy Theories That Are True” Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, In a brazen attempt by legacy media to sow discord within the Trump administration, Vanity Fair dropped a so-called “exclusive” interview with White House chief of staff Susie Wiles, cherry-picking her words to paint Vice President JD Vance as some wild-eyed “conspiracy theorist.” But Vance […]

Where Did Global Warming Go? US East Sees Snowiest Start In Nearly Two Decades The so-called “climate crisis” narrative was built on a house of cards and has been unraveling ever since Bill Gates acknowledged the risks were overstated, and a major study long used to project climate catastrophe was recently retracted. In reality, the narrative became a vehicle for globalist Democrats to raid the U.S. Treasury and push de-growth […]

It’s Affordability, Stupid? Authored by Victor Davis Hanson via American Greatness, The recent Democratic cry of “affordability” is ironic in many ways. The left-wing narrative of Trump hyperinflation was one of desperation and came only after previous memes had failed to resonate. The 2025 generic “dictator,” “fascist,” and “Nazi” smear points never helped the left much. Nor did the nihilist government shutdown […]

Wall Street’s $4 Quadrillion Backbone To Roll-Out Tokenized US Treasuries Authored by Jesse Coghlan via CoinTelegraph.com, The Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation said it is set to bring tokenized US Treasurys onchain, and plans to expand to a “broad spectrum” of assets in the future. The DTCC said on Wednesday that it plans to “enable a subset of US Treasury securities” custodied at its subsidiary, the Depository […]

DOD Flirting With Aviation Disaster: 2nd Near-Collision With USAF Tanker Off Venezuela Just one day after almost killing everyone aboard a passenger jet, the US Air Force narrowly dodged another near-disaster off the coast of Venezuela — this time with a business jet. For many, the two frightening incidents intensify a perception that the administration’s militarism against Venezuela is as reckless as it is unwarranted and […]

Gavin Newsom Singles Out CZ, Ross Ulbricht, Arthur Hayes As Trump’s “Criminal Cronies” Authored by Vismaya V via Decrypt.co, California Governor Gavin Newsom has launched a website tracking what he calls President Donald Trump’s “criminal cronies,” a list that includes Trump himself alongside convicted drug lords, January 6 insurrectionists, and several prominent crypto figures who have received presidential pardons. […]

Ford To Lay Off 1,600 Workers As Kentucky EV Battery Plant Pivots To Data Center Storage Ford will lay off all 1,600 workers at its newly built electric-vehicle battery plant in Glendale, Kentucky, as it pivots away from EV production and converts the facility to make battery-storage systems for data centers, utilities, and renewable-energy developers, according to WDRB. The company said Monday it plans to begin shipping battery […]

Trump Admin Demands Tim Walz’s Resignation After Another Fraud Discovery Authored by Luis Cornelio via Headline USA, Education Secretary Linda McMahon demanded on Monday that Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz step down over allegations that his administration allowed millions in taxpayer money to be stolen by “ghost students.”  Tim Walz / IMAGE: @AlphaNews via X McMahon’s scathing letter, published on X, came after the Education […]

Shell Oil Sued Over “Causing Typhoon” In Philippines In Major Test Case Authored by Chris Morrison via DailySceptic.org, A massive ‘lawfare’ claim backed by Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth has been filed in the UK’s Royal Courts of Justice claiming that Shell Oil played a part in a devastating typhoon in the Philippines in 2021. At the centre of the case is a Green Blob-funded weather ‘attribution’ study that claims […]

Four Days Later: Brown University Shooter Still At Large As Bizarre Anomalies Mount In Investigation Anger mounts as the investigation into the Brown University shooting runs into ongoing hurdles: no identifiable suspect, a series of dead-end leads involving so-called persons of interest, and bizarre anomalies as the probe enters its fourth day. The shooting at Brown occurred Saturday afternoon at the Barus and Holley Engineering […]

Solid 20Y Auction Stops Through After Jump In Foreign Demand With stocks selling off again, and with capital – especially tech capital – scrambling for a flight to safety, it should hardly surprise anyone that today’s 20Y auction was strong.  Pricing at a high yield of 4.798%, this was almost 10bps higher than the 4.71% stop in November (when the auction tailed by 0.2bps), and stopped through today’s When Issued 4.799% by 0.1bps, […]

California Allows Tesla To Continue Sales In State… For Now Authored by Kimberly Hayek via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), California’s Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) has placed on hold an order suspending Tesla’s car sales in the state, granting the electric vehicle maker additional time to respond to allegations of misleading marketing and overstated self-driving capabilities. Teslas fill the charging stations at a […]