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Bed Bath & Beyond is making its customers and employees sweat these days. (…) “It’s not surprising that they might look for incremental ways to save money, because the sales trends are not going in their favor,” said M Science analyst, John Tomlinson. “Our data looks pretty negative” for the company and “people are clearly expecting sales to be weak tomorrow.” (…)

Donald Trump is the only Republican presidential candidate in modern history who not only ran against Democrats but also against the establishment of his own party. Trump was also the recipient of vicious and baseless attacks from the media, showbiz, academia, intelligence agencies, big tech, big corporates, foreign leaders, etc. While the absence of these attacks would have helped him. They did not affect his popularity or his electoral prospects significantly because Trump‘s candidacy was based on grassroots support, not media hype. As the late great Rush Limbaugh observed, Trump created an almost unbreakable bond between him and his voters,...

Joe Rogan is jumping on board the Ron DeSantis for President train. On Tuesday’s episode of The Joe Rogan Experience, he spoke with Daily Wire actress Gina Carano about the state of the country. “So all this stuff is happening while we have a dead man as a president,” Rogan said while referring to President Joe Biden. “Are you throwing out any support towards anyone or are you gonna hold off?” Carano asked regarding the 2024 elections. “Didn’t Elon Musk, come out recently for DeSantis?” “I think Ron DeSantis would work as a good president,” Rogan replied. “I mean, what...

What the heck are we going to do about the sky-high price of gasoline? I know that everyone is feeling it right now… It’s one of the most pressing questions in the current economic environment. And no, a three-month holiday on the federal gasoline tax won’t solve the problem. Here’s how the costs of gasoline (& diesel) break down: As we can see above, taxes make up only 11% of the total price of a gallon of gasoline. And the federal gas tax is just 18.4 cents. For a 25-gallon tank, that amounts to a mere $4.60 savings. That’s enough...

The European Commission has been unable to find the text messages exchanged between president Ursula von der Leyen and the boss of giant pharmaceutical company Pfizer, the EU executive said in a letter to the EU ombudsman published on Wednesday (29 June).

This past week has not been kind to the exoteric progressive Left’s agenda. In quick succession, lefties have seen the highest court in the land hand them losses on religious school funding, gun control, voter ID, the repeal of Roe v. Wade, and then school prayer (and they could potentially take another L later this week in the case of West Virginia v. EPA). The thing about this is that these losses are not merely symbolic - as important as that would be in and of itself for undermining the Left’s carefully cultivated image of inevitability. Instead, many of these...

The public pension situation could get really messy in the near future. There are currently about 300 state-administered and nearly 6,000 locally-administered public retirement plans, according to PublicPlansData, a project of the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College and the MissionSquare Research Institute. Those public pension systems have 14.7 million workers (e.g., state and local government employees, teachers, police and fire departments) and 11.2 million retirees. Collectively, those systems had some $4.5 trillion in assets at the end of 2021. After six months of stock and bond market declines, those assets have likely dropped significantly, putting public pension plans...

Joe Biden’s disastrous oil and gas policies in America are creating massive food shortages across the country, putting Americans at risk of famine. One America’s Pearson Sharp has more.Video Link

Justice Breyer has sent a letter to President Biden informing him that his retirement will be effective 24 hours from now: at noon on Thursday, June 30.

“I’ve covered politics a long time,” Bret Baier said on the air. “I don’t think there has been testimony like this — that is kind of jaw-dropping, in a way — on the inside workings of a White House in crisis after, you know, at this moment, Jan. 6, that we have seen since Watergate.” < snip > Baier continued to comment on Hutchinson’s testimony. “Bottom line though, this testimony is stunning … I think this — it does move the ball in this hearing,” he said.

President Joe Biden fled his news conference Tuesday when asked by reporters about the 51 migrants who were found dead inside a truck trailer in San Antonio. The president held a joint news conference with Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez after traveling to Spain for a NATO meeting with European leaders. But he did not take questions after the news conference was over. “Mr. President any reaction to the death of 50 migrants in Texas?” one reporter asked as the president and prime minister turned to leave. Biden did not answer the question, turning and walking away instead. A total...

Ireland Baldwin says she got an abortion because she knows “exactly what it felt like to be born between two people who hated each other” — referring to her parents, actors Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger.

Within months after dropping MyPillow products from their stores, Bed Bath & Beyond is in a fiscal freefall. They have now fired their CEO and are turning off air conditioners in retail stores across the country in an effort to save money. Chances are dropping MyPillow played less of a role in their current freefall than the fact that Bidenomics is tearing through retail stores like an Oklahoma tornado, but it’s conspicuous that Bed Bath & Beyond seems to have been hit harder than less “woke” retailers. For transparency, we wholeheartedly support MyPillow, not just because they’re one of our...

chloeforman 7 hours ago I wonder if Mr. Baier will have the guts to admit that the "compelling" testimony has been proven to have all been a lie?

The U.S. economy shrank at an annualized pace of 1.6% in the first quarter, reflecting a deeper contraction than previously reported. The Bureau of Economic Analysis's third and final estimate of first-quarter GDP released Wednesday morning showed a 1.6% annualized drop in economic growth to start 2022, more than the 1.5% previously reported and which was expected by economists, according to estimates from Bloomberg. Real gross domestic product (GDP) decreased at an annual rate of 1.6 percent in the first quarter of 2022, according to the Real gross domestic product (GDP) decreased at an annual rate of 1.6 percent in...

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VIDEOThat fable that was spun for the January 6 Committee by Cassidy Hutchinson about how an enraged President Trump was supposedly held back by the Secret Service from grabbing the steering wheel in his limo in order to go to the Capitol? That tall tale is already falling apart as you can see but not before many in the media hilariously swallowed the fable hook, line, and sinker.

I have often wondered how to determine when the United States of America is approaching a catastrophic financial crisis, similar to the stock market crash of 1929. President Biden will never provide us with that information because it would further expose him as a dysfunctional, incompetent, nowhere man sitting in his nowhere fake office land. Biden, as the captain of the Titanic, would yell, "Full speed ahead. Maybe we'll get lucky and hit a mine!" You get the point. The Biden administration, better known as dysfunction junction, still blames Trump for their disastrous tenure in office: "Hey, look over there...

The cash donation accepted by the Prince of Wales for his charity would not happen now, a royal source says. "That was then, this is now," the source said, following reports Prince Charles had accepted around £2.5m ($3m) in cash in a suitcase and carrier bags. "It was passed immediately to his charity and it was his charity who decided to accept the money," said the senior royal source. The cash was from former Qatari prime minister, Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim. The Charity Commission earlier this week said it was considering whether it needed to review the donation, with a...

Comedian Chelsea Handler smeared Republicans while guest hosting for Jimmy Kimmel Monday on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, comparing the GOP to O.J. Simpson, and claimed Republicans are not pro-life because they support the Second Amendment.