The problem has been percolating for a while. It’s been subterranean. Lurking underneath the surface. Not necessarily perceptible. Except to those who follow Congress closely. But the issue has gurgled to the top since the House stumbled badly trying to avert a government shutdown last week. To wit: Congress spasmed between a staggering, 1,500-page spending bill. Then defeated a narrow, ...
Michael F. Cannon A while back, after several conversations with Ezra Klein that afforded me a window into how his mind works, I made this prediction: I have sensed this for some time and now I’m ready to predict it: Ezra Klein will die a libertarian. And it won’t be a deathbed conversion, either. Right now, I think he would call himself ...
In an age of advocacy journalism, April Ryan has long been a standout. Ryan routinely engaged in diatribes in White House press conferences during the Trump Administration and has openly opposed all things Republican or conservative. Now, the MSNBC contributor and Grio White House correspondent has declared that President Joe Biden was a ‘standard-bearer for what the Founding Fathers put in ...
The State Department’s foreign disinformation center, accused by conservatives of censoring U.S. citizens, shut its doors due to lack of funding this week. Elon Musk had deemed the Global Engagement Center (GEC), established in 2016, the ‘worst offender in U.S. government censorship & media manipulation,’ and its funding was stripped as part of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), the Pentagon’s ...
A trio of House Democrats in the progressive ‘Squad’ is demanding an end to the U.S.-led investigation into a key ally’s anti-Israel arms embargo. Reps. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., Cori Bush, D-Mo., and Summer Lee, D-Pa., wrote to the Federal Maritime Commission (FMC), an independent agency that oversees maritime trade affecting the U.S., regarding Spain’s ‘decision to deny port entry to ...
Breadth became oversold last week and stocks rebounded this week. Is this a robust rebound or a dead cat bounce? Today’s report will show a key short-term breadth indicator hitting its lowest level in 2024 and becoming oversold. A rebound is in place, but it is still too early to call this a robust rebound and we will show the ...
President-elect Trump dished out a fiery Christmas message on Wednesday in which he wished a ‘Merry Christmas’ to ‘Radical Left Lunatics,’ told the 37 prisoners whose death row sentences were recently commuted by President Biden to ‘GO TO HELL!’ and more. ‘Merry Christmas to the Radical Left Lunatics, who are constantly trying to obstruct our Court System and our Elections, ...
President-elect Trump got the attention of Panama and the entire international community when he said this week that the United States would demand that Panamanian officials return control of the Panama Canal to the United States if Panama does not halt the ‘rip-off’ of the United States. Trump made the case that the United States built it, paid for it and that President Jimmy Carter ‘foolishly gave it ...
Britons are expected to shell out a total of £4.6 billion in the Boxing Day sales this year, with the average shopper forecast to spend £236, new research from Barclays shows. Although that figure is marginally lower than in 2023, when £4.7 billion was spent, it still points to a robust appetite for deals despite ongoing cost-of-living concerns. The projected ...
2024 has been a year of navigating for a lot of businesses in the UK. Navigating an election year with the subsequent budget announcement, a later Black Friday and Christmas than usual, a recession, a cost-of-living crisis, and a multitude of internal issues that require consideration from a business owner. Navigation brings failure, but it also brings learning. So, what ...