Is ‘Communist’ No Longer A Slur? Authored by Victor Davis Hanson via American Greatness, It is not difficult, these days, to see the neo-communist flipside of “Democratic Socialists”—once they find power. Indeed, the more the ossified Democratic Party claims that its growing cadre of socialist renegades are not really socialists, the more they act like—and even appear comfortable being called—communists. With every new […]

The Byproduct Ate The Product: Inside America’s Proteinmaxxing Cheese Glut For most of the history of dairy, whey was the stuff you got rid of – the watery byproduct left after milk becomes cheese, fed to hogs or poured out while the actual product went to market. In 2026, with an entire nation proteinmaxxing its way through GLP-1 prescriptions and 40-gram breakfast bars, the ‘cheddar’ isn’t in the cheese itself: America is now […]

Oil Tumbles On Iran Deal Buzz As Rubio Still Insists ‘Denuclearization’ Is The ‘Ultimate’ Goal Summary Rubio: The “ultimate deal” is the denuclearization of Iran, while Omani talks focus on reopening Hormuz. Stalemate persists: Iran refuses nuclear negotiations until the conflict ends, leaving both sides far apart. Deal optimism sees oil slide: Brent fell below $80 on reports of progress in Oman-mediated Hormuz talks. Bessent […]

The New McCarthys: 40% Of Professors Against Hiring A Trump-Voter Authored by Jonathan Turley, According to a new survey, roughly 40 percent of college faculty would “oppose hiring a Trump supporter.” The results of the study are not surprising to many in the field of teaching. Indeed, it may be low given faculty reluctance to admit political bias or the delusion of others that they are without it. Yet, the virtual purging of […]

“It Could Be Tomorrow”: California’s Top Earthquake Expert Sounds Alarm On “The Big One” A new peer-reviewed study found that the fault system running beneath Los Angeles and the Inland Empire is carrying more stress today than at any point in the last millennium, and that a single rupture could tear across both the San Andreas and San Jacinto faults at once. The research, led by Dr. Liliane Burkhard of the University of Bern and […]

New York Cannot Ban Federal Agents From Wearing Masks, Judge Rules Authored by Chris Summers via The Epoch Times, A judge ruled on Aug. 3 that New York cannot ban federal agents from wearing masks or balaclavas, or require them to wear visible identification. Masked federal agents wait outside an immigration courtroom in New York on July 8, 2025. Olga Fedorova/AP U.S. District Judge Mae D’Agostino, for the Northern District of New […]

This Is The Income Needed To Be Happy In 50 US Cities How much money does it take before earning more no longer makes people happier? Researchers call this threshold the satiation point, and it varies considerably across the United States. This graphic, via Visual Capitalist’s Niccolo Conte, ranks 50 of the most populous U.S. cities by the annual income at which self-reported life evaluation stops improving, using data […]

From Forward Guidance To Market Guidance: Warsh’s Reflexive Wrecking Ball? Authored by Nohshad Shah, Citadel Securities EMEA Head of Fixed Income, The Fed sounds hawkish… but markets are testing the reaction function Chair Warsh was unequivocal that there is “no soft inflation target”, that five-plus years of above-target inflation cannot be cured by nine weeks of better data, and that this Fed “will not waver”. Yet […]

Darline Graham Stumbles Out Of Gate In Bid For Lindsey’s Senate Seat In recent years, few forces in electoral politics have been as potent as an endorsement from Donald Trump. However, the first polls in the special South Carolina primary race for the Senate seat that was held by the late Lindsey Graham shows his sister Darline is in second place, with half of GOP voters saying her Trump endorsement is irrelevant to them. Graham’s […]

Nick Shirley’s New Video Dismantles The Left’s Narrative On Ceuta’s Migrant Crisis Authored by Aaron Hanscom via PJ Media, Intrepid investigative journalist Nick Shirley isn’t one to shrink from danger. He had to escape from Cuba when spies followed him during his trip to the communist island and was forced to hire 24/7 security after exposing Somali fraud in Minneapolis. In his latest video, Shirley once again finds himself in […]

NY School District Pauses Classroom Humanoid Robot Amid Privacy Concerns Authored by AG News Staff via American Greatness, A western New York school district has hit pause on a plan to place a lifelike humanoid robot inside a high school classroom after regulators and community members raised concerns over student data privacy. Salamanca City Central School District announced July 24 it was suspending a pilot program with […]

AMD Crashes Despite Big Beat, CapEx Almost Triple Expectations AMD beat on its top- and bottom-line: Revenue: $11.54B vs $11.28B expected Adjusted EPS: $1.66 vs $1.62 expected Good news. With Data center revenue up 107% year over year to  $6.72B, better than the $6.6B expected. More good news. As Bloomberg reports, last month, Chief Executive Officer Lisa Su rolled out new products that the company said will […]

SpaceX Slides Despite Big Revenue Beat, Tame CapEx Ahead of the SpaceX earnings today – its first as a public company – we said that investor focus is increasingly shifting beyond the quarter itself, and while revenue and EBITDA performance will matter, the August 6 lockup expiration appears likely to be the bigger near-term driver, opening the door to the first meaningful wave of insider selling just days after results. On the […]

Reality Denied Authored by James Thorne via RealClearPolitics.com, Elon Musk’s recent interview with The Economist underscored a simple but increasingly uncomfortable truth: In today’s political climate, stating the obvious can sound like provocation. The Overton Window, the range of ideas considered acceptable in public debate, has not merely drifted, it has been pulled away from the constraints of reality. Musk’s real […]

World’s Largest PC Makers Start Using Memory Chips From China’s CXMT It’s not just Apple that is scrambling to find cheap memory alternatives to the DRAM offerings from the memory “cartel” of Samsung, SK Hynix and Micron: according to the Nikkei Asia, a trio of the world’s leading PC makers – HP, Asus and Acer – have started to use small amounts of chips from China’s ChangXin Memory Technologies (better known as the recently IPOed […]

Chipotle Pulls Jalapeños As Minnesota Salmonella Outbreak Widens To 15 States; Shares Tumble Chipotle Mexican Grill (CMG) shares fell sharply Tuesday after Bloomberg reported that the chain had removed jalapeños from Minnesota restaurants over a suspected link to a salmonella outbreak that has sickened 110 people in the state – while WaPo reports that the outbreak has spread to 15 states. Chipotle stock fell as much as 8.5% […]

Democratic Socialists Openly Call For The Erasure Of Constitutional Government Joseph McCarthy was right about everything.  Communist movements have been playing the long game from inside western nations, exploiting the liberal freedoms westerners enjoy as a backdoor to sabotage free market choice and constitutional checks and balances from within.  The players might have changed over the decades, but the ideological goals remain […]

Musk Taunts SpaceX Bears Ahead Of Earnings: “I Tried To Warn Them, But They Just Double Down” Summary:  Musk Warns Bears (Again)  Earnings at 1600 ET; Earnings Call at 1630 ET  SPCX Short Position Soars  SpaceX Earnings Preview: The Five Questions That Matter Most  Musk Comments On ZH X Post  Elon Musk has delivered another reminder to bears piling into SPCX shorts that “doubling down” can be a very costly strategy. The […]

Apple Demands Forensics, Injunction On OpenAI – Which Fired Back Hours Later Apple went to a federal judge on Monday with a sweeping demand in its case against OpenAI – in which two former Apple employees stand accused of funneling confidential information to the ChatGPT maker. Apple wants an order barring OpenAI, io Products, Chang Liu, and Tang Yew Tan from touching its alleged trade secrets, plus forensic imaging of OpenAI’s […]

Palisades Fire Fraud: Man Headed To Prison After Scamming $64K Out Of FEMA An East Hollywood man is headed to federal prison for a year and a day after collecting more than $64,000 in wildfire disaster relief on a Pacific Palisades home he had no connection to whatsoever. People gathered on the beach near cleared lots where houses were destroyed in the Palisades Fire at the Pacific Palisades Bowl Mobile Estates in Los Angeles on […]

Former FBI Agent Charged With Stealing Nearly $1 Million In Crypto, Asked ChatGPT How To Hide It Authored by Jesse Hamilton via CoinDesk.com, A supervising U.S. FBI agent who worked in intelligence at the national headquarters has been arrested and accused in a federal court filing of stealing more than $1 million in cryptocurrency. The high-level special agent, identified as Patrick Steven Yarmoch, allegedly turned himself in […]

New Signals Point To Another Possible Migrant Invasion Against Ceuta The scenes from the Ceuta invasion were deeply alarming, as 60,000 predominantly military-aged men, many carrying no supplies, crossed from Morocco into the Spanish enclave. The invasion set off alarm bells across the West, reinforcing concerns that uncontrolled mass migration poses a major national security risk. According to The Sun, there are new concerns […]

Undrain The Swamp: JOLTS Miss Despite Shocking Surge In Government Job Openings To Biden Admin Levels After five straight months of JOLTS beats, including two blowout prints for April and May and zero misses since 2025… … it was inevitable that the BLS would eventually pot out a disappointment, if only to preserve the myth of “accurate data.”  That’s what happened today when in the latest JOLTS report, the US dept of labor […]

CLARITY Act Failure Could Send Crypto Valuations Lower: Bernstein Authored by Zoltan Vardai via CoinTelegraph.com, The odds of the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act’s (CLARITY) passage are dwindling as the US Senate is scheduled to begin summer recess at the end of this week, threatening another leg down for cryptocurrency valuations, according to wealth manager Bernstein. Bernstein said that the Senate’s failure to pass the […]

Waymo Robotaxi Crash Rate 68% Lower Than Human Drivers, Study Finds Though they’ve have racked up quite a few troubling anecdotes on America’s roads, Waymo robotaxis have achieved a crash rate that’s far lower than what’s observed when humans are driving, according to a recent study published by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. A private scientific organization funded by insurance companies, IIHS is regarded by many as a […]