Via Zero Hedge by Tyler Durden Update (1257 ET): Elon Musk responded to Gates on Thursday, saying “Gates is a huge liar” in response to Gates’ assertion that “DOGE will cost 2 million lives.” If we know Musk, this is only the beginning of his response… * * * Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has reignited […]
A routine press conference quickly turned into a medical emergency this week when a Florida state senator suddenly collapsed while delivering remarks… Republican Florida State Sen. Ileana Garcia appeared to faint during remarks alongside Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis in Miami. The incident occurred when Garcia addressed the crowd during a news conference for DeSantis’ ban on local governments from adding fluoride to public drinking water. “Governor, forgive me, I’ve got to sit down because I’m not feeling well,” Garcia said before collapsing moments later. Watch: According to The Daily Caller, Florida Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo quickly caught Garcia before she could hit the […]
A desperate plea… Former Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.), who faces more than seven years behind bars after pleading guilty to wire fraud and identity theft, is seeking clemency from President Trump. “I’ll take a commutation, clemency, whatever the president is willing to give me,” Santos told British media personality Piers Morgan in an episode of Morgan’s YouTube show “Uncensored” on Thursday. “Seven years […]
Donald Trump changed the game… Fox News anchor Bret Baier didn’t shy away from the fact that Trump has had a major impact on the changing media landscape and Americans’ general distrust of the media. “Of course, yeah, he kind of broke the system,” Baier told Politico Playbook this week when asked about Trump’s influence on media. […]
The moral halo of philanthropy is one of the most impenetrable armors in American public life. Wrapped in the rhetoric of generosity and reform, large foundations like the Gates Foundation, Soros’ Open Society, and the Ford Foundation operate under the assumption that doing good excuses their methods. But methods matter. Especially when those methods amount […]
There is something curiously reflexive in the way modern states panic over private innovation. When Elon Musk, through SpaceX and its Starlink constellation, assumed functional dominance in the launch and operation of low-earth orbit (LEO) satellites, the global chorus of concern struck a familiar note. So much power in one man’s hands, they said. What […]
Ivanka Trump, once a fixture in Washington and a senior adviser to the President, has stepped decisively out of the political spotlight. At first, this retreat appeared curious, even dissonant. Why would a woman so central to her father’s first administration recede during his triumphant return to the White House? But as her latest venture […]
It is often said that central banks whisper what markets scream. In this case, the Federal Reserve’s silence on interest rates speaks volumes about the durability of Trump-era economic policy. Contrary to the feverish calls from analysts and market speculators demanding rate cuts as a panacea for every tremor in sentiment, the Fed has held […]
A former top Justice Department official in the Biden administration is publicly criticizing President Joe Biden, warning that his recent media appearances are hurting the Democratic Party’s image and distracting from the future of the movement. Anthony Coley, who served as spokesman for Attorney General Merrick Garland, joined a growing chorus of Democrats frustrated by […]
In her recent address to the American Bar Association, Justice Sonia Sotomayor spoke not as a neutral jurist interpreting the Constitution, but as a partisan urging mobilization against the sitting administration. Her remarks, delivered with careful modulation, carried all the marks of political rhetoric under the guise of moral urgency: “This is our time to […]
The U.S. may be key. The world’s first drone war between nuclear-armed neighbors has erupted in South Asia as the India-Pakistan conflict grows into the most expansive in decades. Both countries have launched attacks at each other’s territories well beyond their disputed Kashmir border. Could this conflict go nuclear? The risks are high as the two […]
Trade Justice, Not Trade War: Trump’s China Confrontation Was Long Overdue
Was President Trump’s decision to levy tariffs on China an act of economic aggression, or an overdue course correction in a lopsided and dishonest global trade relationship? For decades, American consumers unknowingly subsidized the rise of a mercantilist adversary. We purchased their goods, but what we really bought was the erosion of American industry, the […]