GDP Growth Halved in 1st Quarter, Corporate Profits Suffer 3rd Straight Quarterly Decline 1st Time Since Obama Era

May 25th, 2023 12:01 PM
The nation’s Gross Domestic Product rose 1.3% in the first quarter, half the rate of the previous quarter, as other key measures of the economy faltered, the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) reported Thursday.

Biden Wants ‘Clean’ Debt Limit Hike – Americans Want Spending Cuts, Say He’s Being Irresponsible, Mishandling Budget

May 24th, 2023 3:31 PM
With the U.S. at the brink of default, President Joe Biden is demanding that Congress pass a debt ceiling increase that doesn’t put a cap on government spending – but, that’s not what the majority of Americans want.

Most Americans Don’t Know What ESG Is and Have No Opinion About It – But, Would Rather Invest Purely for Profit

May 23rd, 2023 4:40 PM
Most Americans aren’t familiar with the ESG investment movement, which uses its financial resources as a cudgel to coerce companies into compliance with Environmental, Social and Governance ideology, at the expense of profits, a new Gallup survey shows.

AP: Judge Bars Trump From ‘Disseminating Evidence’ About His Accusers

May 23rd, 2023 10:34 AM
Donald Trump is barred from using evidence turned over by prosecutors to disparage his accusers in his court case regarding business records, Judge Juan Manuel Merchan told the former president on Tuesday.

Commodity Oil’s Short Future

May 22nd, 2023 5:09 PM
As of last March 30, oil had traded as a commodity on open exchanges for 40 years. Most people do not remember a time when “WTI” oil was not quoted as “the oil price” by news sources in the United States or “Brent” internationally. It was not always so.

84% of Voters Want TikTok Either Restricted or Banned Outright Due to Privacy, Security Concerns

May 22nd, 2023 4:08 PM
Fully 84% of voters want the U.S. government to take action to address the privacy and security threats posed by the popular video-sharing app TikTok – up to, and including, banning the social media platform entirely, according to a new Harvard-Harris poll.

FBI Scandals Mount: Conducted Warrantless Searches on More Than a Quarter-Million U.S. Citizens in 12-Month Period

May 22nd, 2023 11:15 AM
The FBI improperly performed warrantless searches on more than a quarter-million U.S. citizens in a single year, a 127-page court filing unsealed Friday by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISA), in the latest instance of FBI abuse of its powers to make the news.

State Dept. Spox Rattled by Question About Why Email System Is Forcing Pronouns on Senders – And Getting Them Wrong

May 19th, 2023 4:24 PM
A frightened State Department spokesperson became visibly rattled and refused to either look at the evidence or comment Thursday, when an Associated Press reporter asked him why State Department emails have begun imposing pronouns on their senders – and getting them wrong, in the process.

House Cmte.: “There Is No Such Thing as Debt ‘Forgiveness;’” Joint Resolution to Block ‘Biden’s Student Loan Scam’ Advances

May 19th, 2023 1:40 PM
On Thursday, the House Committee on Education and the Workforce advanced a joint resolution (H.J. Res. 45) to block a Biden Administration rule forcing taxpayers to pick up the tab for billions of dollars of student loans.

Mark Levin Asks the ‘Question That Is Never Asked About Reparations’

May 18th, 2023 5:52 PM
With California considering a plan to pay hundreds of billions of dollars in reparations for the practice of slavery abolished generations ago, commentator and Constitutional Scholar Mark Levin asks a question that’s being ignored in the debate about reparations.

Durham Report: FBI, DOJ Failed to Practice ‘Strict Fidelity to the Law’ in Trump-Russia Investigation

May 18th, 2023 1:05 PM
In his newly-released report, Special Counsel John Durham concludes that the FBI merely failed to practice “strict fidelity to the law” in its launch and handling of the Crossfire Hurricane surveillance and investigation seeking to prove former Pres. Donald Trump colluded with Russia.

Durham: Trump-Russia Investigator Became ‘Visibly Upset and Emotional’ When Shown ‘Clinton Campaign Plan’ to Tie Trump to Putin

May 17th, 2023 2:18 PM
The original Supervisory Special Agent on the Crossfire Hurricane investigation had never seen a CIA memo pointing to a Clinton campaign plan to tie former Pres. Donald Trump to Russia – and became “visibly upset and emotional” when Special Counsel John Durham’s office showed it to him.

Durham Report Attributes 13 FBI Misdeeds Targeting Trump to ‘Confirmation Bias’

May 16th, 2023 3:58 PM
The FBI is guilty of “a minimum” of 13 instances of “confirmation bias” in its Crossfire Hurricane investigation of former President Donald Trump, a newly-released report from Special Counsel John Durham concludes.

FBI, Intel Community Didn’t Have ‘Any Actual Evidence’ When Investigation of Trump Was Launched, Review of Durham Report Reveals

May 15th, 2023 4:02 PM
There was no evidence to support the Crossfire Hurricane investigation of former Pres. Donald Trump, Special Counsel John Durham concluded in a copy of his report exclusively obtained by The Federalist, the publication’s CEO Sean Davis reported Monday.