The Alchemy Of Wealth Taxation Authored by Robert Blumen via The Mises Institute, “Transmutation” is the process of changing one substance, element, or form into another. We owe this word to the ancient pursuit of alchemy, which sought to accomplish the artificial production of gold from base metals. While it is now considered a pseudo-science, in our rational age, its aspirations survive in currently popular proposals for […]

CNN Panel Melts Down As Democrats Blast GOP Over El-Sayed Ad For Using His Full Name Following his Michigan Senate primary win, Republicans launched attack ads against Abdul El-Sayed. The ad opens with a narrator branding him “the most radical Senate candidate in America,” shows him standing alongside left-wing streamer Hasan Piker – who once said Americans deserved 9/11 – and cuts to El-Sayed declaring himself “pretty damn […]

No Fourth Amendment In American Airports? Authored by M. Walter via AmericanThinker.com, Do you, as an American citizen, have to hand over your cell phone — along with the access code to open it — upon a (warrantless) demand by a border agent at the airport? There’s a case grinding through the courts about that right now because one man, a Mr. Sam Tunick, refused.   Not only did he refuse but he had an app on his phone […]

Russia Agrees To Repurpose Strategic Military Bases In Post-Assad Syria Some 20 months after Syria’s Bashar al-Assad fled Damascus and went to Moscow, amid jihadist groups taking over the capital city in December of 2024, Russia has finally reached a negotiated settlement over the fate of its Syrian bases with the new Sharaa government. Russia’s Foreign Ministry said Tuesday that a memorandum of understanding over the future of its […]

Fauci Privately Flagged Miscarriage Risk Before Telling Pregnant Women There Were ‘No Red Flags’ Newly disclosed text messages show Dr. Anthony Fauci privately entertained the possibility that the COVID-19 vaccine could trigger first-trimester miscarriages, months before he told the public there was no risk. The messages come from a trove that Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) released, containing more than […]

Massachusetts Legalizes Abortion Up To Birth As Liberals Cheer Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News, Massachusetts Democratic Governor Maura Healey has signed into law a measure that effectively permits abortion through all nine months of pregnancy, right up to the point of birth. Liberal women packed the room and gleefully cheered as she put pen to paper. The previous statute restricted abortions after 24 weeks to […]

Bank Of America: The US Unemployment Rate Is Falling Because Americans Are Too Rich Last Friday’s dismal jobs report (where 23K jobs were lost) had a silver lining: the unemployment rate dropped to 4.1%, the lowest since June 2025, dinging expectations that the AI revolution would lead to a spike in unemployment. There was just one problem: unemployment dropped not because more people found a job, but because the labor force shrank […]

Florida Seeks NY Times Internal Documents Over Errors In Israel-Hamas War Coverage Authored by Jill McLaughlin via The Epoch Times, Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier sought to inspect records from The New York Times on Aug. 10, claiming the newspaper’s pattern of admitted mistakes covering the Israel-Hamas war threatens the state’s pension fund. The New York Times building in Manhattan on Feb. 5, 2024. Samira Bouaou/The Epoch […]

Mysterious Drone Threat Emerges At America’s “Unsinkable Aircraft Carrier,” Prompting Curfews One of the most strategically important US military bases outside the continental U.S., often described as an “unsinkable aircraft carrier” in the central Indian Ocean, faces a mysterious drone threat, according to a new report. TWZ cited the UK Ministry of Defense, which said it was aware of reported drone sightings over the remote US-UK […]

Looking Back At The Uranium One Scandal Authored by Stu Cvrk via American Greatness, The Uranium One scandal was a 2010 controversy in which the Obama administration approved the takeover of Uranium One – a Canadian company with significant uranium mining assets in the United States – by Russia’s state-owned Rosatom corporation. Critics alleged a pay-to-play scheme, pointing to large donations (roughly $145 million) to the Clinton […]

Woman Who Defrauded USAID-Funded Nonprofit Avoids Prison, Settles Civil Claims For $160,000 A Maryland woman has agreed to pay the U.S. government $160,000 to resolve civil allegations that she submitted false claims for payment, following her earlier criminal conviction for defrauding a nonprofit that received USAID funding. Carleena Graham, 59, formerly served as vice president of human resources at World Learning, a nonprofit […]

Homeschool Families Are Pushing For High School Sports Participation Authored by Aaron Gifford via The Epoch Times, Luke Cecchi watched from the bleachers as his friends and neighbors played varsity sports. Illustration by The Epoch Times, Courtesy of Sherry Luke Photography, Courtesy of Luke Cecchi, Clemed/CC BY-SA 3.0 The homeschooled student from Cazenovia, New York, wasn’t allowed to try out for the local high school soccer […]

California Orders NGO Serving As “Financial Backbone” For Singham-Linked Marxism Causes To Cease Operations Foreign policy investigator Adam Kredo of The Washington Free Beacon revealed on Monday that California regulators ordered Arc of Justice, a nonprofit operated by left-wing Code Pink cofounder Medea Benjamin, to cease charitable operations after years of missing tax filings and unanswered questions about what happened to […]

China’s Teapot Refiners Poised to Ramp Up Iranian Oil Buying By Tsvetana Paraskova of OilPrice.com China’s independent refiners are likely to return to buying higher volumes of Iran’s crude oil this month as stockpiles in Shandong, home to the independent Chinese refiners, have dropped to the lowest level this year after the biggest estimated monthly draw in a decade. For most of the Middle East conflict, now in its sixth […]

Hegseth Pushes $1.5 Trillion Military Budget As Tribute To Lindsey Graham Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com, US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth called on Congress to approve his request for a $1.5 trillion military budget for 2027 during remarks at a ceremony in South Carolina for the renaming of Joint Base Charleston to Joint Base Lindsey Graham in honor of the late Sen. Lindsey Graham, who died unexpectedly last month. […]

Phoebe Gates & Co-Founder Caught In The Cookie Jar: Slack Logs Contradict Phia’s ’24-Hour Bug’ BS When Bloomberg first caught Phia – the AI “personal shopping assistant” co-founded by Bill Gates’ daughter Phoebe Gates and climate-activist-turned-founder Sophia Kianni – claiming affiliate commissions on sales it had nothing to do with, the company’s ham-fisted damage control was a Silicon Valley classic: an unfortunate software […]

Not Winning? Just Change The Rules… Authored by Victor Davis Hanson via American Greatness, What binds the new Democratic Party to the new Democratic Socialists is a set of shared issues and values. That is, the radicalism of the Democrats in the age of Trump Derangement Syndrome – lawfare, de-balloting, the Mar-a-Lago raid, and calls to destroy the Electoral College, the nine-justice Supreme Court, and the filibuster – helped […]

The Diamond Crash Accelerates The Diamond Standard Index, tracked on Bloomberg under the ticker DIAMINDX, tumbled to new record lows during the first half of August as a surge in affordable lab-grown stones eroded the scarcity premium underpinning natural diamond prices. “Technological progress in growing diamonds in labs has been amazing. It’s no surprise most engagement rings are now using lab diamonds,” X user Crémieux said. […]

Judge (Partly) Rejects Minnesota Bid To Block Trump Admin Title IX Rules On Trans Students Authored by Kimberley Hayek via The Epoch Times, A federal judge on Monday largely dismissed Minnesota’s lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s interpretation of Title IX, the 1972 law that bars sex discrimination in federally funded education programs and activities. U.S. District Chief Judge Eric Tostrud of the District of […]

Putin Pardons Ailing Former US Marine After Years In Russian Prison A Marine veteran who had been held in Russian prisons since his arrest in January 2022 has been released back to US custody, reportedly after a consistent pressure campaign from Trump administration officials and global advocacy groups. 32-year old Robert Gilman, a former US Marine and English teacher imprisoned in Russia, is said to have received direct pardon […]

Hormuz Traffic Sank To Just Six Vessels Monday Vessel traffic at the Strait of Hormuz continues to decline as last week’s hopes of negotiations of a U.S.-Iran deal began to fade, yet again. As OilPrice notes, on Monday, only six commodity vessels transited the Strait of Hormuz in either direction, down from 11 ships in the latest 10-day average, according to shipping data from Kpler cited by Reuters on Tuesday. Four commodity […]

A Tale Of 2 Deserts: Utah, California, & The Race To Power America’s Next 50 Years Authored by Lance Christensen via The Epoch Times, In July, as America turned 250, a reactor the size of a minivan went critical in the red-rock desert of Emery County, Utah. The company that built it, Valar Atomics, isn’t a Utah company at all. It’s based in El Segundo, California, in the shadow of the aerospace giants that once made […]

Even Lefty Joe Scarborough Goes Nuclear On Dems For Refusing To Disavow Democratic Socialists “Morning Joe” host Joe Scarborough went absolutely nuclear on elected Democrats Monday morning for refusing to denounce the party’s rising far-left wing. He specifically cited far-left types such as Hasan Piker, a self-described Marxist who is the unofficial spokesman for the Democratic Socialists of America. Some DSA leaders have said in […]

Solid 3Y Auction Stops Through Ahead Of Tomorrow’s CPI Report Ahead of tomorrow’s CPI report (which will come in tame thanks to continued housing disinflation), moments ago the US Treasury sold its first refunding auction, which came in very strong, stopping through the When Issued, and with above par metrics. Pricing at a high yield of 4.291%, up from 4.179% in July and the highest since Feb 2025, the auction stopped through the […]

Syria’s Hardline Sunni Regime Sentences Bashar al-Assad To Death In Absentia The new government in Damascus has tried to press Moscow to return to Syria the former longtime President Bashar al-Assad. He’s reportedly lived in a posh area of the Russian capital, under heavy security, since he was ousted in December 2024 and forced to flee. Perhaps realizing they will never apprehend him, a Syrian court under the new hardline Sunni […]