Virginia Family’s EZ-Pass Charged $576 After Driving RV Just 45 Miles On State Toll Road It’s easy to laugh off people who constantly complain that the government is watching their every move and has hands in their wallets. Then, you stumble upon a story like Jeff Landry’s.  When Landry set off for a camping trip with his family near Virginia’s Luray Caverns in early October, he expected to pay some tolls – especially because he […]

Did Trump Really Call Putin Late Last Week? Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack, There are reasons to doubt WaPo’s report… The Washington Post’s (WaPo) report alleging that Trump called Putin the Thursday after he won the election and told him not to escalate the conflict was contradicted by both the Kremlin and Kiev. The first called it “pure fiction” while the second said that it was “unaware” of the call […]

West Bank Annexation ‘Of Course’ A Possibility, Says Trump’s Israel Envoy Pick Huckabee Mike Huckabee, announced Tuesday as the incoming Trump administration’s designated US Ambassador to Israel, spoke to Israel’s Army Radio in a short interview Wednesday morning. He issued some surprisingly bold statements, amid controversy from some corners of US Congress who are alarmed at the choice, given he has long been among the most […]

Peter Schiff: The Fed Is Trying To Save Itself At Your Expense Authored by Peter Schiff via SchiffSovereign.com, Well, inflation is up again. You’re probably not surprised, and neither are we. Over the past few months, in fact, we’ve repeated again and again that inflation will keep rising, and even identified some strange reasons why. Remember back during the early days of the pandemic when used car prices went through the […]

Dear Border Czar: This Nonprofit Boasts A List Of 400 Companies That Employ Migrants President-elect Donald Trump made public safety and national security a central element of his campaign, ensuring the American people that illegal aliens would be deported.  On Monday, incoming “border czar,” Tom Homan, told “Fox & Friends” hosts, “Public safety threats and national security threats will be the priority…they pose the most […]

Tucker: Joe Rogan Has “Changed American History” Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, During a recent discussion with Joe Polish‬ at the Genius Network Annual Event, Tucker Carlson heaped praise on Joe Rogan, going as far to say that the podcast king has “changed American history.” Tucker noted that “Rogan created the genre of podcasting. I’ve been in the media my whole life. Rogan used to be a sitcom actor, a […]

Southwest Airlines Offering “Voluntary Separation Packages” Due To “Overstaffing” We just saw the ‘success’ of the Biden administration not allowing M&A in the airline industry when Spirit, once slated to merge with jetBlue, instead filed for bankruptcy this week. “That’s the miracle of Bidenomics!” And they aren’t the only carrier under distress, it appears.  Southwest Airlines, based in Dallas, is addressing overstaffing […]

Doug Casey On Trump’s Second Term: What It Means For America And Investors Via InternationalMan.com, International Man: What are your overall thoughts on Trump’s second term? How do you expect it to differ from his first term? Doug Casey: Thank heavens Kamala lost. If she’d won, the Jacobins would have cemented their hold on the country, and it would have been “game over.” We would have seen an acceleration of […]

OpenAI, Google, & Anthropic Face Hurdles In Advancing AI Models, Casting Doubt On Near-Term AGI Tech companies focused on chatbot development, like OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic, have faced significant near-term headwinds in advancing large language models. Despite tens of billions of dollars in investments, these tech firms are experiencing diminishing returns in advancing more sophisticated LLMs. Sources told Bloomberg […]

Why Roger Ver Deserves A Presidential Pardon Authored by Aaron Day via The Brownstone Institute, The US government is attempting to imprison Roger Ver for 109 years for the crime of following his lawyers’ advice.  His case represents an unprecedented attack on attorney-client privilege that threatens everyone who relies on professional counsel. Today, Ver sits silenced in Spain, unable to defend himself publicly, while […]

“Grand Political Theatre” – FBI Raids Home Of Polymarket CEO; Seize Phone, Electronics With just a few short weeks until President Trump (and his freshly appointed new AG Matt Gaetz) take over, the FBI has decided to rush in and raid the home of the founder and chief executive of Polymarket, the crypto-based prediction market that was a popular (and very accurate) platform for bets on the US presidential election. The NY Post […]

Schoolhouse Limbo: How Low Will Educators Go To ‘Better’ Grades? Authored by Vince Bielski via RealClearEducation, Maryland’s new education chief, Carey Wright, an old-school champion of rigorous standards, is pushing back against efforts in other states to boost test scores by essentially lowering their expectations of students. States, including Oklahoma and Wisconsin, are making it easier for students to demonstrate on […]

US Deficit Explodes: Blowout October Deficit Means 2nd Worst Start To US Fiscal Year On Record It is only fitting that the twilight days of the Biden admin would exhibit more of the same fakeness that defined not only all of the past four years, but certainly the fakeness of that Kamala Harris presidential campaign which had a billion dollars a month ago and ended up in failure, broke and in debt. We are talking, of course, about […]

Fight! Fight! Fight! …For The Truth Authored by Robert Gore via Straight Line Logic, The alternative media is the media. Donald Trump would not have won three elections without the alternative media (AM). The mainstream media (MSM) were almost uniformly opposed to his campaigns. He has made adroit use of social media site Twitter (now X) to bypass the MSM. However, not everyone is on X and in all three campaigns he received a […]

NatGas Prices Near Breakout Level Ahead Of Cold Blob Invasion US natural gas futures are up 2.5% in late afternoon trading, reaching $2.98 per mmBtu, driven by new forecasts showing a shift in cold weather from the West Coast to the East next week. This suggests households may crank up their thermostats for the first time this season as a proper chill sets in.  Private weather forecaster BAMWX published a new mid-day GEFS run […]

Why Many Working Class Voters Shifted Rightward This Election Authored by Lawrence Wilson via The Epoch Times, President-elect Donald Trump won the 2024 election in part because working-class voters continued their migration toward the America First populism that Trump has advocated for the past three election cycles. One indicator of that shift is the working-class city of Fall River, Massachusetts, which voted Republican for […]

Trump Expected To Appoint Ukraine Peace Envoy ‘Soon’: Fox President-elect Donald Trump has long promised to immediately negotiate an end to the Russia-Ukraine war upon entering office. Fox News is reporting Wednesday that toward this end he may “soon” appoint a Ukrainian peace envoy to head this up. “You’re going to see a very senior special envoy, someone with a lot of credibility, who will be given a task to find a resolution, to […]

A Stock Market Crash Is Bad But Nuclear Annihilation Is Far Worse; Jim Rickards Warns “Don’t Put AI In The Kill-Chain” Via Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com, Seven-time, best-selling financial author Jim Rickards predicted in July 2023 (when gold was trading in the $1,600 range) that the yellow metal would get a big boost.  He was correct.  In his new book called “Money GPT: AI and the Threat to the Global […]

Bitcoin, Big-Tech, & Bond Yields Blow-Out After CPI Resurgence While this morning’s CPI all printed in line with expectations, it is clear that the narrative that “inflation is headed in the right direction” is on increasingly shaky grounds… Source: Bloomberg Disinflation has stalled in the core goods sector… “October’s CPI report contains no information that would discourage the FOMC from cutting rates again at […]

School Districts That Spent COVID-19 Money Hiring Now Grapple With Layoffs authored by Aaron Gifford via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Around this time last year, Franklin Central School in upstate New York faced a $1.46 million budget gap and painful choices: Push for a double-digit tax increase, lay off teachers, or send high school students to a neighboring district. Illustration by The Epoch Times, Shutterstock The state […]

Former DC Officer Fanone Hunkers Down In Blue Ridge Mountains; “Fully Expects” Shootout With Trump Agents Authored by Debra Heine via American Greatness, Former D.C. Metropolitan police officer Michael Fanone is not handling President-Elect Donald Trump’s resounding victory Tuesday night very well. According to a sympathetic Washington Post report Thursday, the notorious J6 celebrity cop is holed up in the Blue Ridge […]

Gaetz Resigns ‘Effective Immediately’ After Trump AG Pick; DC In Full Blown Panic Update (1905ET) According to House Speaker Mike Johnson, Gaetz has resigned effective immediately. “I think out of deference to us, he issued his resignation letter effective immediately, of Congress,” said Johnson. “That caught us by surprise a little bit. But I asked him what the reasoning was, and he said, well, you can’t have too many absences. […]

Trump Taps Tulsi Gabbard As Director Of National Intelligence President-elect Donald Trump has selected former Congresswoman and Lieutenant Colonel Tulsi Gabbard as the Director of National Intelligence. Tulsi Gabbard should be President Trump’s Secretary of State #TulsiForSOS pic.twitter.com/Olxl49n428 — Ashley Nicole🌺 (@antiwarmisfit) November 10, 2024 Gabbard broke with Democrats to endorse Trump in his 2024 presidential […]

OPEC+ Faces Double Trouble: China Demand Weakness And Trump’s Policies Authored by Tsvetana Paraskova via OilPrice.com, China’s weak oil demand has already thrown OPEC+ off track in its supply-management policies. Trump’s energy policies could create a new challenge for OPEC in 2025. Amidst further uncertainties about global oil supply and demand with President Trump, OPEC+ may have to tweak their production policy […]

Trump Completes Trifecta: Republicans Keep Control Of US House Republicans will maintain control of the House of Representatives by the thinnest of margins, NBC News projected Wednesday, handing President-elect Donald Trump and his party all the levers of power in Washington. A Republican-controlled Congress will allow Trump to quickly fill out his Cabinet and other top administration roles and advance his agenda for at least the […]