Yes, The Constitution Does Matter… A Lot Authored by Rob Natelson via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Most of my columns for this newspaper relate to the Constitution. A common reaction among some readers—both in the online “comments” section and in direct correspondence—is that I’m wasting my time because the Constitution doesn’t matter any more. It’s irrelevant. I have spent most of the past 30 years working in […]

These Are The Countries With The Most Students Studying Abroad The world’s two most populous nations, China and India, have the highest numbers of students studying overseas. Statista’s Anna Fleck reports that, according to data published by UNESCO, more than one million Chinese students were studying abroad in 2021. India’s total was close to half of this, with around 508,000 students living in other countries. Following […]

Wisconsin Voter Roll Transparency Challenged By Public Interest Legal Foundation Authored by Steven Kovac via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Public access to Wisconsin’s state voter roll is too restricted and too expensive, according to the Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF), a national election integrity watchdog organization. Residents cast their ballots during in-person absentee voting at City Hall in Green Bay, […]

India Leads Global Inbound Remittances India received by far the highest international remittances of any country worldwide in 2022, according to World Bank data published in the International Organization for Migration’s (IOM) 2024 World Migration Report on Tuesday. International remittances are defined as money sent from workers living abroad to their home countries.  Additionally, as Statista’s Anna Fleck reports, it is […]

China Remains World’s Biggest Jailer Of Journalists: World Press Freedom Index 2024 Authored by Alex Wu via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A policeman covers a camera to stop journalists from recording footage outside the Shanghai Pudong New District People’s Court, where Chinese citizen journalist Zhang Zhan is set for trial in Shanghai on Dec. 28, 2020. (Leo Ramirez/AFP via Getty Images) As May 3 marked World Press Freedom Day, […]

MQ-9 Reaper Drone, At $30 Million A Pop, Top’s Zelensky’s Wish List Because it’s never enough… Ukraine is now eyeing the US-made MQ-9 Reaper even while Kiev awaits F-16 deliveries from the West. It is the latest long-range weapon system being sought by the Zelensky government. Politico has reported that the $30 million drone has moved to the top of Kiev’s arms shopping ‘wish list’. Picture alliance/dpa “Ukraine is […]

Trudeau Government Offers Free Access To National Parks For Migrants Only Via The Post Millennial, Parks Canada has decided to offer a real break in 2024 for people looking to enjoy some of Canada’s glorious outdoors and backwoods. But only people who are newcomers and new Canadian citizens. In a Parks Canada post, the federal government agency announced that there will be “Free admission for newcomers to Canada and new […]

Romney Cites Anti-Israel Posts As Latest Reason To Ban TikTok Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com, In a conversation with Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) acknowledged that banning TikTok has such strong support in Congress because the social media platform has hurt Israel’s public relations battle. “Some wonder why there was such overwhelming support for us to shut down, potentially, TikTok or […]

Bad-Loans Hit Record-High As Used-Car Prices Suffer Worst Bear-Market Ever A bear market in the used car market was confirmed in November and has since worsened through April. At the same time, negative equity values are hitting new record highs while auto insurance rates have soared the most since the mid-1970s. While gas prices at the pump are elevated, the environment to operate a vehicle is probably one of the worst […]

China’s 2022 Military Spending Reaches $710 Billion, Over Triple What Beijing Announced By Frank Fang of Epoch Times China’s communist regime spent $710.6 billion on its military in 2022, more than three times Beijing’s publicly stated totals, according to a report from the Washington-based American Enterprise Institute (AEI). “Considering that the Pentagon has labeled China the ‘pacing challenge,’ this revelation […]

Russian Fuel Cargos Pile Up at Sea as South Korean Buyers Grow Cautious By Charles Kennedy of OilPrice.com Russian oil product cargos are piling up at sea as their South Korean buyers grow reluctant to go through with their deals amid a government crackdown on sanction evasion, Bloomberg has reported, citing unnamed sources. According to Kpler data, there are over 2 million barrels of Russian naphtha sitting off the coast of […]

The Marine Corps That Should Have Been Authored by Gary Anderson via RealClearPolitics, Say what one wants about the Israeli incursion into Gaza, but not a single rocket or missile has been fired from what is left of it since the start of fighting. Compare this with the relative ineffectiveness of American efforts stop Yemen’s Houthis from slinging missiles at shipping in the Red Sea. The difference is simply geography. The […]

FBI File On Jeff Bezos’ Grandfather, A DARPA Co-Founder, Has Been Destroyed What’s not widely known is that Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’ grandfather, Lawrence Preston Gise, helped form the Pentagon’s supersecret Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA—renamed DARPA) in 1958. Years later, DARPA developed the internet and spurred breakthroughs in high-speed networking, voice recognition, and internet search.  One year […]

Rural Western North Carolina Community Protests ‘Covert’ Plans For EV Battery Plant Authored by Matt McGregor via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A group of residents in western North Carolina are protesting their county board’s lack of transparency over furtive moves to welcome an electric vehicle (EV) battery manufacturing the residents believe would pollute their waters and ruin their scenic countryside. A view of the […]

Stan Druckenmiller Gives Bidenomics An “F”   Billionaire investor and Duquesne Family Office Chairman & CEO Stan Druckenmiller slammed Bidenomics and warned the Federal Reserve and federal government “misdiagnosed Covid and thought it was — we were going into a depression.” Druckenmiller has been irritated by the massive fiscal spending by the federal government, which we outlined last year as a “stealth stimulus” […]

Trojan Tomato: A New GMO Is Designed To Infiltrate America’s Gardens Authored by Sina McCullough via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), As spring gardening approaches, a new contender has entered the fray—the genetically modified (GM) Purple Tomato. Unlike its GM predecessors, the GM Purple Tomato is not destined solely for the fields of commercial agriculture—it has made its debut in the backyards of home gardeners across the […]

F-22 Stealth Fighter Suffers “Mishap” At Savannah Airport  Isn’t it remarkable that while the military-industrial complex, neoconservative warmongers, and radical leftists in the White House seem to push for further conflict in Eastern Europe without even a hint of suggesting peace negotiations with Russia, some of America’s most advanced military jets are unfit for combat? The latest example comes from Savannah/Hilton Head […]

Trump Is A Rorschach Test For The Body Politic Authored by Frank Miele via RealClearPolitics, It is no secret that Donald Trump is a hot wire that either fires up the imagination of voters or fries the brain. For those of us who experience Trump as a Promethean bringer of enlightening fire to the dark barren fields of modern politics, it is hard to fathom the reaction of those who are terrified of him. We just say they have […]

Trump Classified Document Trial Postponed Indefinitely Days After ‘Mishandled Evidence’ Bombshell One day after postponing a filing deadline in Donald Trump’s classified documents case, Judge Aileen M. Cannon has postponed the whole thing indefinitely. In a Tuesday decision, Cannon vacated (canceled) Trump’s May 20 trial date, and wrote that setting a new date given the enormous stack of pre-trial matters would be “imprudent.” […]

7 Numbers That Clearly Reveal The Direction That America Has Chosen Authored by Michael Snyder via TheMostImportantNews.com, Over the past several decades, America’s culture has been transformed at a pace that is absolutely breathtaking.  When I was growing up, I was convinced that I believed in a shared set of national values that most other Americans also embraced.  But in our day and age those values have been discarded and […]

WTI Dips After API Reports Across-The-Board Inventory Builds Oil prices ended the day flat today (after touching the lowest level in almost two months on news reports said Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak indicated OPEC+ could move to raise crude production). Novak told Russia’s Interfax news agency that the possibility of increasing oil production within the OPEC+ framework was still being analyzed. “It always […]

Withdrawing From The Rat-Race Is Going Global Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, Mere mortals are left in a hopeless situation. In response, they’re withdrawing from the competition en masse. The world has changed over the past two generations in ways that don’t fit the heavily promoted narratives of “growth” and “progress.” The “growth” and “progress” narratives hold that everything is getting better in every […]

‘Clothes Off, Bra On, Missionary Position’: Stormy Goes Into Specifics During Trump Trial Testimony Update (1400ET): Daniels went into further detail about her alleged encounter with Trump, testifying that at one point she went to the bathroom in a hotel room and emerged to find Trump waiting for her in his underwear. “He was just up on the bed like this,” she said, pulling her leg up to her waist on the witness stand. She […]

Kashkari & Consumer Credit Curtail Stock & Bond Gains Another quiet macro day (although an ugly picture was painted late on by the unexpectedly weak revolving credit increase – potentially signaling a US consumer who really has hit their limit). Some FedSpeak wiped a little lipstick off the early pig’s squeeze higher as Kashkari seemed to offer both sides some hope (but it spoiled the fun with the ‘we could hike’ line): […]

Pfizer Stock Hit After Boy Dies Of Cardiac Arrest During Gene Therapy Trial Stock in Pfizer dropped on Tuesday after a young boy receiving experimental gene therapy for Duchenne muscular dystrophy died during the trial. According to STAT News, Pfizer has yet to determine exactly what happened or how the boy died Pfizer has confirmed that the boy suffered cardiac arrest, and is pausing crossing over patients in its randomized […]