Frugality Rules As Americans Start Making The Most In A Hand-Me-Down Market Authored by Allan Stein via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), PHOENIX—While many retailers have struggled, business has thrived since Estefania Gasca and her husband, Cristobal Zepeda, established Thrift It Forward consignment store in Phoenix nearly two years ago. Deborah Locker, an employee at Christian Family Care Thrift Store in Phoenix, Ariz., stands […]

Bibi Defiant, Unfazed: ‘All Of Gaza Will Be Under Israel’s Control’ Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has remained defiant and came out swinging in a Wednesday press conference amid growing international isolation and pressure, even from allies. He declared at a press conference in Jerusalem that Israel will control all of Gaza when the military offensive ends, and this remains the ultimate goal – to fully and finally crush […]

John Stewart Is Right… Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, Every now and then John Stewart says something that undeniably hits the nail on the head, and he’s done it again while commenting on the renewed Biden cognitive decline and cancer saga. In a Daily Show segment Stewart said of the cancer diagnosis “Maybe it is another cover-up. I don’t f***ing know. If they came out and said, yeah, Biden knew about it […]

Boys Targeted With Investigation After Complaining About Trans Student In School Locker Room In 2021 Loudon County Schools in Virginia were implementing DEI policies that allowed for trans students to use the bathrooms and locker rooms of their preferred gender.  The institutional decision to let trans students essentially do whatever they please regardless of safety concerns led to an incident in May of that year in which a trans […]

A Three Step Solution To Rebuild The Marine Corps Authored by Gary Anderson via RealClearDefense, I recently received a call from an old Marine Corps acquaintance who now works for the Corps as a contractor. He has been heavily involved in the controversial Force Design (FD) project begun by former commandant, General David Berger, and continued by his successor General Eric Smith. FD has caused an intellectual civil war within the […]

Putin Has ‘Mission Accomplished’ Moment In Touring Liberated Kursk Region On Tuesday into Wednesday Russian President Vladimir Putin had a ‘mission accomplished’ moment by visiting Kursk region for the first time since its full liberation from Ukrainian forces. It was in late April which Putin first announced that all Ukrainian troops have been booted out and retreated, after their risky cross-border raid which started in early […]

China’s Numerous Aging Dams Pose A Serious Threat To Safety Authored by Wang Weiluo via The Epoch Times, Before 1949, China had only 22 of the 5,000 large dams worldwide. Today, China’s top water resources official boasts that the country has since built 94,877 dams of various sizes. What’s surprising, however, is that the number of dams cited by Minister of Water Resources Li Guoying has actually dropped by 3,689 since […]

USDA Approves Nebraska’s Banning Soda And Energy Drinks From Food Stamps Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins issued a waiver on May 19 restricting the use of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) funds to buy soda or energy drinks in Nebraska, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) said in a May 19 statement. This is the first-ever state waiver banning soda and energy drinks from SNAP, popularly known as food […]

MAGA Think Tank Staffing Trump 2.0: America First Policy Institute Authored by Philip Wegmann via RealClearPolitics, Dubbed a White House-in-waiting during his exile, the America First Policy Institute now seems nearly like another White House campus – almost half of President Trump’s Cabinet is expected to address the AFPI policy summit this week in Washington, D.C. The roster of speakers reflects not just the rising […]

Watch: Tourists Scramble As Ancient Chinese Tower Partially Collapses  China’s largest remaining drum tower partially collapsed on Monday, and the entire incident was captured on camera.  NEW: The roof of a 650-year-old drum tower in Anhui, China, collapses. The incident happened at the Fengyang Drum Tower in eastern China. Officials have since launched an investigation. The structure was first built in 1375 during the Ming […]

Students Wearing Masks Need Not Apply Authored by Kenneth Tashjy via The Epoch Times, Enough already. It is time for colleges and universities to get tough on student protesters who hide behind masks while engaging in violent or unlawful campus demonstrations. Let’s be clear: The First Amendment protects the right of students at public colleges to engage in peaceful protest.  If a student wants to wear a mask or face […]

Major Papers Publish AI-Hallucinated Summer Reading List Of Nonexistent Books In an embarrassing episode that will help aggravate society’s uneasy relationship with artificial intelligence, the Chicago Sun-Times, Philadelphia Inquirer and other newspapers around the country published a summer-reading list where most of the books were entirely made up by ChatGPT.  The article was licensed content provided by King Features […]

Energy Should Never Be In Question Authored by Gary Abernathy via RealClearEnergy, When our nation’s founders collaborated on a constitution to outline the country’s guiding principles and establish the structure of a new government, there were concerns that the original document allowed for federal government overreach and did not go far enough to guarantee individual liberties. To address those concerns, James Madison […]

Watch: Israeli Troops Fire Shots On International Diplomats Visiting West Bank International pressure on Israel and the Netanyahu government is already at a historic high, even from Western allies which have been sanctioning hardline Israeli settler groups and individuals, and a new international incident has unfolded Wednesday in the West Bank. “Israeli soldiers mistakenly fired warning shots at diplomats representing the European […]

Masked NIH Employees Storm Out Of Meeting After Director Bhattacharya Questions Agency’s Role In COVID-19 Origins Via American Greatness, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), sparked a mass walkout of NIH employees after suggesting that COVID-19 may have originated from a Wuhan lab and that NIH helped fund it. During a staff town hall meeting on Monday, Bhattacharya told NIH employees, […]

Schiff: Strong Dollar Or Exports? Pick One… Via SchiffGold.com, Last week, Peter joined Glenn Diesen for an interview on the post-trade deal economy. Peter takes on the myths surrounding Trump’s trade war with China, the real impact of tariffs on Americans, and where he sees the dollar heading as the world’s reserve currency. He explains why the perceived victories of protectionist trade policy are little more than […]

SBA Overhauling Biden-Era Loan Program Following High Default Rates Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The Small Business Administration (SBA) is overhauling a Biden-era lending initiative, citing its “alarmingly high rates” of loan default, the agency said in a May 19 statement. Signage thanking customers for shopping at a small business. Tim Mossholder/Unsplash.com The Community Advantage […]

China Demands US Scrap Golden Dome Missile Defense System As It Will ‘Turn Space Into A Battlefield’ China has reacted fiercely to President Trump’s newly unveiled plans to develop a cutting edge massive missile defense system to cover the entire territory of the United States, dubbed the “Golden Dome” – and which would utilize space. The plan is for space-based interceptors to be able to shoot down the most advanced missiles in […]

FDA No Longer Recommends COVID Vaccine For Healthy Babies Via Headline USA, The U.S. government no longer recommends the COVID-19 vaccine for healthy babies thanks to new guidelines from the Trump administration, which said Tuesday it will limit approval for seasonal COVID-19 shots to seniors and others at high risk pending more data on everyone else. Top officials for the Food and Drug Administration laid out new standards […]

Waste Of The Day: Still No CA Rail Line Authored by Jeremy Portnoy via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Topline: California’s high-speed rail line has more than tripled in price from $40 billion to $128 billion, causing President Donald Trump to rescind $4 billion in federal funding and claim the project has “the worst overruns that there have ever been in the history of our country,” The Washington Free Beacon quoted him as […]

Yields Soar, Stocks Plunge After Ugly 20Y Auction Sees Biggest Tail Of 2025 While it wasn’t quite as catastrophic as Japan’s 20Y auction earlier this week which saw the biggest tail since 1987, moments ago the US also sold 20Y paper in what was one of the worst auctions for this tenor since its launch 5 years ago. Indeed, exactly 5 years since the first 20Year auction took place in May 2020, moments ago the US Treasury sold $16 […]

Watch: Trump Stuns South Africa’s Ramaphosa, Plays ‘Kill The Boer’ Clip In The Oval Office, Destroys NBC Reporter Update (1300ET): Well, for those who were anticipating a Vance-Zelensky shitshow redux at today’s meeting between US President Trump and South African President Ramaphosa… they were not disappointed. As the topic of white genocide cam up, Ramaphosa was quick to dispel the ‘conspiracy’; but Trump very quickly told his […]

Mercenary Firm Set To Oversee Gaza Aid For Israel Goes On LinkedIn Hiring Spree Via Middle East Eye The US private military contracting firm set to oversee Gaza aid distribution on Israel’s behalf is actively hiring for positions on LinkedIn, according to job postings shared with Middle East Eye by current and former US officials. The firm, Safe Reach Solutions, or SRS, says it is actively looking for “Humanitarian Liaison […]

US Senate Votes To Move Ahead With GENIUS Act; ‘Legitimizing’ Stablecoins For Global Institutional Adoption The GENIUS Act moved through a procedural vote on Monday (66-32), and has just passed its latest hurdle (69-31) allowing Senate Republican leaders to bring the legislation to the floor for debate and a final vote, as soon as this week A challenging amendment pricess awaits as the Senate bill, if passed, would need to be […]

UnitedHealth Shares Drop After Report Alleges Secret Bonus Payments To Nursing Homes For Cutting Hospital Transfers UnitedHealth Group shares dropped as much as 7.5% in premarket trading Wednesday in New York, following a Guardian investigation that revealed the health insurer shelled out “Premium Dividend” and “Shared Savings” bonuses to nursing homes that reduced hospital transfers for sick residents.  The Guardian’s […]