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Iran reaffirming its right to retaliate against Israel... Joe Biden on the phone...Egyptian and Qatari leaders...talks to be held on a ceasefire hostage release... Late tonight Israel shooting down a drone near the port city of Haifa... The US military says a leader... A major part of the federal charges against two former Louisville police officers...Breonna Taylor thrown out.. At least five US Secret Service agents placed on administrative leave... Former Boeing employees say the Ethiopian Airlines 737Max plane that crashed...electrical problems that were concealed... A deadly knife attack in Germany... An Israeli air attack in the Hama Region of...

Vice President Kamala Harris wants to help you. But you must vote for her first. She needs to be elected President in November before she rolls up her sleeves and gets her hands dirty for the American people – including you. The cost of consumer goods and services went through the roof on her watch. In fact, consumer prices are up over 20 percent since January 2021. Food, rent, and electricity are up even more. Yet her four years as President Joe Biden’s sidekick don’t count. Bidenomics is on the big guy. Not Harris. And now, Harris has a plan....

In what promises to be a game-changing event, President Donald J. Trump is set to electrify supporters at a rally in Glendale, Arizona, on Friday. The 45th President will be joined by a mystery special guest, fueling widespread speculation that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. may be poised to make a historic endorsement of Trump’s campaign. “President Trump will be joined by a special guest as he delivers remarks about his America First policies and his vision to lower inflation and the cost of living, secure the border, and make our cities safe again,” according to the press release. .... Snip.......

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) claimed Thursday night that electing Vice President Kamala Harris president would lead to lower grocery prices despite the fact that inflation has skyrocketed over the last four years during the Biden-Harris administration. Warren made the comments as she spoke during the final night of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago on Thursday. Throughout her speech, she claimed that Harris would be better on economic and social issues. “You know what I love best about Kamala Harris? Kamala Harris can’t be bought and she can’t be bossed around,” Warren claimed after walking onto the stage and breaking...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. officially withdrew from the 2024 presidential race this week as rumors swirl that he is about to throw his support behind former President Donald Trump. Kennedy’s running mate, Nicole Shanahan, revealed on Tuesday that the campaign is mulling over aligning with Trump. “There’s two options that we’re looking at,” Shanahan said earlier this week. The first involves staying in the race, or “we walk away right now and join forces with Donald Trump,” Shanahan explained. Pollster Rich Baris said Trump could inherit a significant portion of Kennedy’s supporters, with surveys suggesting that 40% of Kennedy’s backers...

New York Times economics columnist Paul Krugman has spilled much ink over the last year fawning over President Joe Biden's blazing jobs market, and now here comes the boomerang. In light of the latest bad news that the government vastly overestimated job growth — by a whopping 818,000 jobs — Krugman the blowhard lost all his air. That 818,000 figure is equal to about 30 percent of the jobs growth for the 12-month period ending in March 2024 and represents the largest revision in 15 years. Yet Krugman, during that twelve-month period, was caught up in his own self-medicated political...

Vice President Kamala Harris accepted the Democratic presidential nomination on Thursday despite failing to release a policy platform since launching her campaign. Harris headlined the final night of the Democratic National Convention, accepting the nomination that the delegates had voted to give her weeks before in a virtual roll call. The vice president largely spoke about her personal background and attacked former President Donald Trump, while sprinkling in some vague policy positions and campaign themes. “On behalf of everyone whose story could only be written in the greatest nation on earth, I accept your nomination to be president of the...

(The Economic Collapse Blog)—She just can’t help herself. If Kamala Harris was smart, she would not have any specific policy positions. She is not a serious candidate and she should not try to be one. Her best chance of winning to to just wave and smile a lot. When she was running on “joy” for the first couple of weeks, millions of Americans loved that. Of course it was a total charade because just like Hillary Clinton, behind the scenes Kamala Harris is extremely mean and vicious. That is why she has always had such a high turnover rate among...

This just in: Jeff Bezos is a hypocritical gasbag. But then, I think we all knew that already.Bezos, co-founder of Amazon and owner of the Washington Post, likes to wag his finger at us about carbon footprints. He's even met with the Pope to talk about carbon footprints. (I'll bet the Pope's carbon footprint is substantial.) But Jeff Bezos is also firmly in the "do as I say, not as I do" camp in his personal life. Example: On Thursday we learned that Bezos just shelled out $80 million for a Gulfstream G700, that being one of Gulfstream Aerospace's premiere...

In Calgary, Alberta a pastor who protested drag queen story time events found guilty of four charges of criminal harassment and... Late tonight more than a dozen Israeli air strikes in southern Lebanon... Iran has determined that the helicopter crash that killed President Ebrahim Raisi was an accident... In Southwestern France a 46-year-old man seriously wounded by police after he entered a town hall and started a fire... Word tonight that the "USS Abraham Lincoln" aircraft carrier and escort warships have arrived in the Central Command area of operations in the Middle East... Joe Biden talking to Israeli Prime Minister...

Congress Trading Dashboard The Stock Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act requires U.S. Senators and U.S. Representatives to publicly file and disclose any financial transaction within 45 days of its occurrence. We download those disclosures, parse them for stock trades, fetch the stock's performance in the time following the transaction, and calculate each politician's cumulative return from their trades. Check Your Congress-Critters trades!...............

Former NBA #1 overall pick Kwame Brown is blasting black celebrity ‘gatekeepers” whom he claims are “shaming” people into voting for Vice President Kamala Harris because she is black. The former Laker adds, “Kamala’s skin color ain’t gonna pay for our groceries.” Brown made the comments in a video posted Monday afternoon, in which he specifically took aim at comedians Ricky Smiley, DL Hughley, and Steve Harvey, labeling them “gatekeepers” who are trying to turn out the black vote for Harris based on race, and not on what is best for the black community. After lamenting Harris’ efforts to award...

In a groundbreaking decision, Judge Christopher C. Conner of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania struck down the state’s ban on carrying firearms in vehicles without a license. This ruling, a win for the Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) and its allies, significantly alters the landscape of gun rights in Pennsylvania. The Core of the Ruling Judge Conner’s ruling dismantles the longstanding prohibition that kept Pennsylvanians from having firearms in their vehicles without a license. This was challenged as an infringement on constitutional rights, leading to its overturning. The decision directly addresses issues faced by many citizens,...

The M4 Carbine dates back to the Vietnam War when the Long-Range Reconnaissance Patrol soldiers needed a weapon that was compact and still semi-concealable so they could snoop deep into enemy territory without being seen. This was the CAR-15, the older brother of the M4. The M-16 was longer and cumbersome in close combat situations, so special operations personnel later preferred the smaller size of the M4, especially when they jumped out of airplanes. The M4 then spread to light infantry units later in the 1990s. Some soldiers and marines still used the M-16A2 and A3 until the Second Gulf...

Adam Andrzejewski, CEO and founder of the influential government oversight group Open the Books, passed away suddenly over the weekend. His cause of death has not yet been divulged. Andrzejewski was a former candidate for Governor of Illinois and campaigned ferociously for the vision of putting “Every Dime [of government spending] Online and “In Real Time” in a long-standing effort to keep government accountable to the public. Tributes poured in for Andrzejewski, with Stanford professor Jay Bhattacharya stating: “Sad news. Adam Andrzejewski, founder of Open the Books, has died. Adam was a brilliant young man. While [at] Forbes, he reported...

She should have just kept her mouth shut about the economy. I know that sounds harsh, but it is true. The best chance that Kamala Harris had of winning was to stand for nothing. I am being completely serious. For the first few weeks of her campaign, she was being showered with positive coverage by the mainstream media even though she had not come forward with any serious policy proposals. She could have probably continued doing that all the way to election day in November, but now she has ruined her campaign by telling us what she actually plans to...

The wealthy are doing just fine at the moment, but they don’t seem to understand that much of the country is deeply hurting right now. 59 percent of Americans believe that the U.S. economy is currently experiencing a recession, and that is because most of them are personally experiencing economic pain. Literally just about everything is substantially more expensive in 2024, more major layoffs are being announced with each passing day, and thousands of businesses are going bankrupt. We haven’t seen a tsunami of economic suffering like this in a long time.If you live in a wealthy area in a...

Starbucks just closed a 30 year location that operated in Manhattan NYC since the 90's, and was once the largest of its kind in the city. Store workers blame rent increases which the landlord disputes, but local residents think the store may have had other problems that lead to its closure... NYC crime, homelessness, and employee safety all play into this review of why the largest Starbucks in NYC is gone.

The Democratic National Convention is coming to the Windy City starting Monday, and if you're a Chicagoan, that might not be welcome news—unless you're a fan of violent protests of course. The pro-Hamas crowd is expected to descend on the convention in force, and demonstrations are all but assured. Some of those planning to attend the event are nervous, and law enforcement has warned them to be careful:House Democrats attending the Democratic National Convention next week are being advised by congressional security officials not to book hotel rooms under their own names or engage with protesters if confronted, Axios has...

On Friday these two ladies on my team at work we're comparing work ethics between the United States and Europe. They have 2 hours siestas everyday! They have free health insurance! They Take2 months off! United States sucks! We need all the workers protections Europe has! You can't get fired in Europe!! I almost lost my #$#$ but I can't tell at work. There is no place like the United States. I'm proud of my country and can stick it. Nothing's perfect.