Musk’s Boring Company To Build Free 1-Mile Tunnel In “Tunnel Vision Challenge!” In a new contest, Elon Musk’s tunneling firm, The Boring Company, will build a 1-mile tunnel for free to the best idea submitted to the company.  The Boring Company’s Prufrock 5 tunneler (via X) “Announcing the Tunnel Vision Challenge!” the company wrote on X. “Pitch us your best 1-mile tunnel idea (Loop, freight, pedestrian, utility, etc.), we’ll […]

Why California Is Bleeding Tech Jobs: Decline Is A Policy Choice Authored by Vance Ginn via the American Institute for Economic Research, For much of the past half-century, California benefited from a powerful first-mover advantage. Dense networks of talent, capital, and research institutions allowed the state to absorb policy mistakes that would have crippled competitors. High spending and taxes, restrictive housing rules, and […]

Canada Weighs Token Troop Deployment To Greenland, But Fears Trump Wrath The Canadian government is weighing whether to deploy a small contingent of troops to take part in training exercises in Greenland after several European and NATO member countries already sent in dozens of soldiers. The discussions come as President Trump argues that the United States “needs” the Danish autonomous territory for national security reasons and […]

‘We Must Pass The SAVE Act’: Republicans Engage In Serious Push For Voter ID House Republicans are going “full steam ahead” on a supercharged version of the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act, a GOP-sponsored bill to prevent non-citizen voting in federal elections. It would amend the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 to require documentary proof of US citizenship (passport, birth certificate, or REAL […]

Why People Feel The Economy Is Bad, When Data Show Improvement Authored by Petr Svab via The Epoch Times, The U.S. economy is either chugging along nicely or seriously struggling, depending on who is asked. The mismatch stems from perception and perspective. While many of the macroeconomic data look benign, they don’t capture the pain experienced by a large segment of society, several experts told The Epoch Times. At 4.4 […]

“Decades Of Underinvestment”: LA Firefighters Turn To Voters Amid Budget Crisis Los Angeles firefighters say years of underfunding have pushed their department into crisis, forcing them to appeal directly to voters for money to cover what they describe as basic public safety needs—even as the city spends about $1 billion a year on homelessness programs, according to the NY Post. This week, firefighters launched petition drives to […]

This Could Be The Big One Authored by weather observer Ryan Hall,  There are winter storms, and then there are storms that come from a real pattern shift. The kind that don’t just brush one region, but impact a big chunk of the country. This upcoming setup is starting to look like the second type. Over the last day or so, confidence has increased that we’re heading into a legitimate winter storm window late this week into the […]

Newsom Strains To Flip Script On California’s Failures Authored by Susan Crabtree via American Greatness, It’s an odd predicament for a leading Democratic presidential contender. Gavin Newsom’s biggest strength—political spin and performance come almost second nature to him—could also be his biggest liability as he strains to remake the tarnished image of the state he has governed for the last seven years. Newsom, with […]

Kansas School Bans Students From Naming Kirk, Trump Or Jesus As Role Models Yet another example of why American parents are increasingly pulling their kids out of public institutions and turning to home schooling.  Parents at an elementary school in Kansas are upset after students were reportedly told that they were not allowed to list President Donald Trump, late conservative activist Charlie Kirk and even Jesus Christ as their […]

US Lender Newrez To Accept Crypto Holdings In Mortgage Approval Authored by Nate Kostar via CoinTelegraph.com, Newrez plans to treat eligible cryptocurrency holdings as qualifying assets in its mortgage underwriting process, a move that could broaden access to home loans for crypto holders. The change is expected to take effect in February across the lender’s non-agency products, covering home purchases, refinancings and […]

Minneapolis Police Face Mass Exodus As New Paid Leave Program Hits Amid Riots Minneapolis faces a compounding crisis, as dozens of police officers are expected to tap into a new state paid leave program while the city grapples with anti-ICE riots and a staffing shortage that has stretched the department to its breaking point.  Between 60 and 100 officers from the Minneapolis Police Department have applied for or plan to apply […]

Happening Now: Largest Solar Storm In Two Decades Pounding Earth Update (Sunday Afternoon): The Space Weather Prediction Center issued an alert on X, saying the Earth-directed coronal mass ejection first identified on Saturday is now producing one of the largest solar radiation storms in more than two decades. “An S4 severe solar radiation storm is now in progress – this is the largest solar radiation storm in over 20 years. The […]

NYC Mayor Mamdani Under Fire Not For Snubbing Black Appointees Authored by Luis Cornelio via Headline USA, Zohran Mamdani, New York City’s newly sworn-in mayor, is already facing criticism less than a month into his tenure. Not for his democratic socialist agenda, but for failing to appoint black and Hispanic officials.  In New York City, the mayor relies heavily on deputy mayors, a group that functions much […]

Gold And Silver Explosion: Something Big Is Happening Gold and silver prices, according to Brandon Smith of Alt-Market.com, are signaling stress under the surface of the economy. From shrinking physical inventories to record central bank buying, precious metals warn that the underlying issues aren’t resolved… In early 2020 at the beginning of the pandemic hysteria I noted that the covid panic seemed to perfectly coincide with […]

Denmark Skips Davos Forum In Protest Over Deepening Greenland Crisis The World Economic Forum (WEF) Annual Meeting in Davos for 2026 is scheduled for this week (Jan. 19-23), focusing on the theme “A Spirit of Dialogue”. Day one, which has kicked off Monday, isn’t much of a display of “dialogue” as some key officials are absent, amid Europe’s ongoing spat with President Trump over the future fate of Greenland. Among a record number […]

Don Lemon Faces KKK Act Charges On MLK Holiday Update (1408ET): Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon told conservative podcaster Benny Johnson that former CNN host Don Lemon has been put “on notice” by the Justice Department and could face charges under federal civil-rights laws, including the Ku Klux Klan Act, for his role in storming a church service in Minnesota. Lemon allegedly joined a far-left mob […]

Nobel Foundation Says Prize Can’t Be Passed On To Others After Trump–Machado Meeting Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The Nobel Foundation said Sunday reiterated its prestigious Nobel Peace Prize cannot be passed on to another person after a Venezuelan opposition leader gifted the prize that she won to President Donald Trump last week. President Donald Trump meets with Venezuelan opposition leader […]

Nigerian King Must Pay $72k Restitution For Defrauding NC Medicaid During Pandemic Authored by Stephen Horn via The Triangle Trumpet, Ekelekamchukwu Alphonsus Ngwadom, 61, received a suspended sentence requiring three years probation and $72,014.66 in restitution after pleading guilty to twenty-seven felonies in regards to hundreds of Medicaid claims for children’s therapy he fraudulently filed in 2020 and 2021 at his Raleigh […]

Trump To Norway: No Nobel, No Greenland? The Letter That Has Shocked Europe As news began breaking very early Monday of President Trump’s scathing letter to Norway over the country’s failure to award him the Nobel Peace Prize, some pundits and journalists immediately questioned whether it is real. But confirmation came soon after. In the letter addressed to Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store, Trump explained that he no […]

Japanese Yields Soar To All Time High After PM Takaichi Calls Snap Election Seeking More Spending, Less Taxes In the rapidly approaching endgame for Japan’s monetary experiment, overnight Japanese bond yields hit new record highs, with the long end surging as much as 10bps… … which in turn helped send gold to fresh record highs above $4,600 (as we discussed previously)… … after Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said she […]

Mr. Trump Goes To Davos… Authored by James Howard Kunstler, Monsters Of The Deep “Timing, not haste, drives what will happen next.” – Thomas Sowell Minneapolis, the sucking chest wound on America’s body politic, gets a break this week from Gawda’mighty, who is turning the heat down to subzero so that ICE-Watch nose-rings can hole-up in their Soros-paid motels, play League of Legends with their DoorDashed Chick-fil-A […]

Where The Department of Energy Is Investing Submitted by Tight Spreads The DOE has been flooding their sites with white-papers and latest Fusion Science and Technology Roadmap (FS&T Roadmap) are not just a scientific plan, but an industrial policy designed to transition fusion from the laboratory to the commercial market by the mid-2030s. The DOE has prioritized its actions to align with the aggressive “fast-track” […]

NatGas Futs Erupt As Arctic Air Invasion Penetrates Deep Into US South US natural gas futures erupted Monday morning as some of the coldest Arctic air of the Northern Hemisphere winter season poured into the eastern half of the Lower 48. Snow threats across the region are increasing through the end of the month. Average temperatures across Washington, DC, are plunging and could average around 10°F by the weekend. This cold blast […]

Greenland Is Very Nice… By Benjamin Picton, senior markets strategist at Rabobank If Mighty Ducks 2 taught me anything it’s that “Greenland is covered with ice, and Iceland is very nice.” While that might be a handy geographic mnemonic, for the purposes of US national security policy it is, in fact, Greenland that is very nice.. Over the weekend President Trump announced additional tariffs of 10% from February 1st – […]

Putin Offered Seat On Trump’s Gaza Peace Board, Kremlin Says Russia has been invited to take part in the new US-backed ‘Peace Board’ put forward by President Donald Trump to oversee post-conflict governance and reconstruction in Gaza, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has announced, in a somewhat surprising and hugely symbolic diplomatic move and overture. Peskov told reporters Monday that President Vladimir Putin had received an […]