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President Donald Trump is making a huge mistake campaigning on the economy -- an economy that’s projected to have expanded well over four percent at least in the fourth quarter of 2025. At least, that’s the newest hot take being blurted into cyberspace by CNN. CNN Business Senior Writer Allison Morrow, who’s developing quite the reputation for mastering the art of incoherence, published yet another example of brain-dead anti-Trump screeds January 28, “Trump wants to refocus voters’ attention on the economy. He might regret it.” Yes, that's a real headline. So what exactly — pray tell — should Trump talk...

David Warrington, White House Counsel to President Trump At SHOT Show, on January 21, 2026, in Las Vegas, Nevada, David Warrington, the White House Counsel, gave remarks prior to the Governors Forum. Larry Keane, the Senior Vice President & General Counsel for the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF), introduced David Warrington before the start of the Governors Forum.David Warrington, White House Counsel for President Trump, gave his remarks before the Governors’ Forum began. They were concise and precise. Warrington has been with President Trump for some time. He was appointed as White House Counsel on January 20, 2025, at the...

Under Trump, the media elites treat the executive branch as an evil empire, but under Biden, journalists were so eager to help promote the Democrats that they sometimes offered their sources the ability to edit their articles to their liking. New documents shared exclusively with MRC Business just exposed the latest example of elitist media hacks violating every modicum of journalistic integrity to genuflect to the Biden administration’s whims and wishes. Forbes contributor Rhett Buttle and his associate Abdullah Kahn offered to delay a story schmoozing President Joe Biden’s Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan on his “environmental justice” focus...

VIDEOIt's on! The European Union vs Elon Musk. The battle began when the EU demanded that X (forever to be known as Twitter) bow down to its censorship regime by paying a 120 million Euro fine. However, the EU may have bit off more than it can chew because it is also trying to extend its censorship to TikTok and Apple and they are also refusing to comply. How will this war end? Will the EU be able to impose its censorship on the rest of the world? Stay tuned!

Former President Bill Clinton spoke with a raspy voice and said he may be unable to attend future Democratic conventions in a Wednesday night speech to delegates — as stunned viewers noted his hands trembling during his remarks.

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...

After decades in public life as a prosecutor, senator and vice president, Kamala Harris has a long track that could provide fodder for opponents. The Trump campaign could focus on her reputation as a liberal senator, her support for the chaos of Black Lives Matter protests, or a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants. But the issue that could hurt her most is her support for a bail fund blamed for freeing a man who went on to commit murder, according to our exclusive poll of likely voters.

Kamala Harris has selected Tim Walz as her running mate for the upcoming election. This decision raises serious concerns about national security and the integrity of American values, given Walz’s radical policies and extensive ties to Communist China. Senior reporter Paul Sperry from RealClear Investigations recently uncovered a disturbing pattern in Walz’s relationship with China. According to investigative journalist Paul Sperry on X, Walz traveled to China annually from 1996 until at least 2003. His travels were not merely for tourism; he was granted a special work visa by the Chinese government, which raises questions about his loyalties and motivations....

VIDEOOceana is at war with Eurasia. Oceana has always been at war with Eurasia.Kamala is not the Border Czar. Kamala has never been the Border Czar.

Some of this blog's posts are reposted to Free Republic and FR is conducting its quarterly fundraising. Join me in supporting FR through these links... Welcome to another your host a "Recovering Politician" that's what... The Drama Over Tiananmen Square This Coming Week... An in Israel the much hyped Nikki Haley tour a politician on the take of the "Military Industrial Complex" if ever there was one... And self-righteously moralizing about "Democracy" being "our side" and then talking "Tyranny" in reference to China or Russia belies what our Western society is becoming... "How long till we can order death pills?"...

"News" outlets are engaged in feverish speculation about just how dystopian Donald Trump's second term might be. Their fervent imaginations overrule the reality of Trump's first term, which never devolved into dictatorship. On Sunday, Politico's Joanna Weiss conducted a Q&A with liberal Samantha Rose Hill, a scholar of totalitarianism and the author Hannah Arendt. The headline was "‘A Truer Reality Beyond Reality’: Hannah Arendt’s Warning About How Totalitarianism Takes Root."Although Stalinism and Nazism are touched upon (barely), the main focus was Orange Man Bad.

Its early Friday morning in the UK results beginning to come in for the local government elections... Turkey (Türkiye) halting all trade with Israel... Eight Syrian soldiers wounded in an Israeli attack tonight in a Damascus suburb... A massive fire tonight in Moscow.. In the Uk 45 people arrested resisting efforts to detain illegal immigrants for transfer to Rwanda... Swedish authorities granting permission for a Quran burning rally on May 10th in Malmo... "If the Russians were to break through the front line, if there were a Ukrainian request--which is not the case today--we would legitimately have to ask ourselves...

"I am the vine and you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing" John 15:5 In The Bible (New International Version)... And now we have messaging saying: "Christ Is King" How about a Campus Protest Update Buffalo Springfield with "For What It's Worth"... The Globalist Speaker of the House Mike Johnson goes to the site of one of those protests Columbia University sets himself up to be jeered by these protesters so he can look like some sort of victim.... It all seems...

"No summons, no intimidation of any kind will prevent us from protesting against the ongoing genocide against the Palestinian people" Mathilde Panot-Leader Of "La France Insoumise" In The National Assembly Following A Police Summons For Alleged "Glorification Of Terrorism" The Liberal Capitalist Globalist government of French President Emmanuel Macron has had the French "Left" in its crosshairs for more than a year now... The Anti-Terrorism Police arresting a 16-year old suspect accused of making a statement on social media about become a "martyr" at the Paris Olympics...On Friday that 16-year old was formally indicted... The Liberal Capitalist policies of President...

Plans for the 2024 Paris Olympics 100 years after Paris Olympics of 1924 involved an elaborate opening ceremony along the Seine River but now security concerns and fear of terrorism are putting those plans into question... This week National Rally leaders Jordan Bardella and Marine Le Pen in the National Assembly saying defeat for the government in the European Parliament elections on June 9th should lead to dissolution of the Assembly and new elections in France... This week the leader of France's main Leftist party (LFI) Jean-Luc Melenchon was banned from speaking in a room at the University of Lille......

I read this on a "Spring Valley" vitamin bottle at Walmart the other day... Sobriety Check Update lets play the song... Does that song make you angry or did it make you angry when you first heard it... Getting back to "DEI" I didn't say it wasn't a problem or isn't a problem I would be denying my own experience. I worked in television news and right before I was drummed out as a drunk in 1990 I could see corporate efforts to bring in "Minority" hires. Marxist-Leninist thinking was in the heart of one of those hires she did...

An Israeli warship firing missiles destroying an unidentified aerial target... Joe Biden given the lead in a head-to-head contest with President Trump...In a multi-candidate field Trump and Biden at 38 percent each... A week ahead of a trial in New York brought by Democrat prosecutors, President Donald Trump... A wanted terrorism suspect from Tajikistan arrested in Rome... Hamas reported rejecting a Gaza ceasefire deal from US CIA Director William Burns... Canada unveiling a new defense strategy today...But in the end defense spending will top off at 1.76 percent of GDP short of the 2 percent expectation... Israel says it struck...

Welcome here we are on what is considered a Holy Week culminating on Easter Sunday the Resurrection Of Christ and lets bring in Russell Brand... One can say the name of "the Lord" proclaim it loudly but in the end one must do what Jesus would do act like "the Lord"... "As soon as we begin to implement these destructive thoughts about the fact that everyone else is strangers here, we will ruin the country, and the main victims will the Russian people..."... "The well-being of the people of both countries, as well as the future and destiny of humanity,...

Anti-Israel protesters frequently interrupted a star-studded fundraising event in New York... US Central Command says four drones from Yemen were shot down... 45 are dead in South Africa an eight-year-old girl the only survivor... Rising political tensions in Israel tonight as the High Court has ruled...These moves by the Attorney General and High Court can be interpreted as moves to bring down the Netanyahu government... The International Court of Justice ruling famine has begun in Gaza and Israel must allow more humanitarian aid... At the UN Security Council Russia vetoing...panel monitoring sanctions against North Korea... Israeli airstrikes on the Aleppo...

The Centrist Liberal Capitalist movement of President Emmanuel Macron trying to contain taxes and inflation for the moment. The Macron faction hoping to maintain a plurality of support from the French electorate in the upcoming June 7th European Parliament elections. Social issues emphasized to suck in voters further to the Left as the Right in France solidifies behind notions ranging from peace in Ukraine to limits on immigration and an end to disintegration of French culture and tradition... ...a unanimous vote in France's National Assembly this week for legislation to pay reparations to 10,000 gay people discriminated against by laws...