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After a year of navigating stormy geopolitical developments that kept businesses and consumers on edge, the U.S. economy is starting to look like it it could have a smooth descent to a soft landing. A soft landing is the term used by economists for getting inflation down to the Federal Reserve’s 2% annual target without putting the economy in a recession.

🚨 BREAKING: 🇫🇷 More than 40 antifa members beat a young French conservative to death in France. He was on the security staff protecting Collectif Némésis (@Coll_Nemesis), an organisation campaigning for women’s safety. Antifa killed him.

All. Elon Musk retweeted a chart showing the percentage of mass shooters who were transgenders. this is the URL: https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2021674796078248300 I reposted it got slammed that it was false info. People claiming that less than .1% are trans involved in mass shootings. (Most were from AI chats which i've found to lean left since not much 'right' data is available) Anyway.. does anyone have any source that show more data to show that trans are truly more involved in mass shootings? TYIA

VIDEOWatch carefully the face of Kate Bolduan's face as Matt Egan delivers very positive news about the inflation rate coming down. Happy news! Right? And yet a great SADNESS fell across Kate Bolduan's face. This wasn't how it was supposed to be in her world. Liberal world had been guaranteeing that Trump's tariffs would cause massive inflation due to soaring costs by now with the result that an economic crash would also crash Trump's popularity. That thought might have flickered across Kate's face as the bitter reality of the success of the Trump economy caused poor Kate to suffer extreme...

So, I think a lot of people are under the impression that I've always been, like, far-right, and that's why I'm so, like, strong-minded about being a conservative. And I want to kind of share my walk-away story and the fact that, yes, I was a Democrat, and why I'm not anymore. So, for a little background, yes, I was raised in a conservative household, um, and I had a wonderful childhood. My parents were amazing people. They were not homophobic or racist or anything. They just believed in smaller government, no taxes, be a modest, good person, don't do...

All those many many months focused on one primary task at Politico. Get Trump via the Epstein files. It is hard to underestimate the insane lengths Politico employed to somehow implicate President Donald Trump with the foibles of Jeffrey Epstein via the Epstein files. Politico acted if they just kept focusing on those files, damaging material just had to be found about Trump. The pathetic spectacle of Politico madly pursuing their political White Whale culminated last July when Politico was flooded with SIX Epstein stories in just one 24 hour period.So what was the end result of Politico's absurd Epstein-Trump...

Hiring increased sharply at the outset of 2026, the year's first jobs report said, blowing past economists' expectations and besting sluggish performance from the previous year. The U.S. added 130,000 jobs in January, according to the report, which marked a sharp increase from 50,000 jobs added in the previous month.

As the Trump economy begins to boom even as inflation moderates, Democrats and the anti-Trump media are desperate for a spin that might discredit Trumponomics. Their latest Hail Mary: pushing a counterfactual narrative that President Trump’s tariffs are hurting, rather than stimulating, a manufacturing revival for blue-collar America. The latest manufacturing data obliterates that lie. In January, the ISM Manufacturing Index jumped 4.7 points to 52.6. That wasn’t just an estimate beat; it was a blowout, and an important one. The ISM Manufacturing Index is the most widely followed survey of factory activity worldwide. When it moves above 50, the...

The economy added 130,000 jobs in January — far more than economists had anticipated — while the unemployment rate edged down slightly to 4.3%, Labor Department data released Wednesday showed. Still, according to updated 2025 numbers, the job market also added a paltry 181,000 jobs for the entirety of last year, revised down from the earlier-reported growth of 584,000 jobs — the slowest pace of job growth outside recession since 2003. The releases come after private data released last week indicated the labor market remained bruising in January for out-of-work Americans, with little in the way of new jobs. Economists...

00:50 — The World Today: Rising Hatred & Global Tensions 01:53 — Brigitte Gabriel’s Childhood in the Middle East 04:19 — Growing Up During the Lebanese Civil War 06:03 — Learning How to Survive in a War Zone 08:42 — How War Shapes Identity at a Young Age 11:41 — Why Israel Became a Lifeline, Not an Enemy 14:11 — What Hatred Really Looks Like Up Close 17:09 — Witnessing the Compassion of Israel Firsthand 19:44 — Lessons the World Refuses to Learn 27:05 — A Wounded Mother & the Journey to an Israeli Hospital 29:42 — Humanity in War:...

President Donald Trump’s mass deportation policies are not the only reason for the decline, but they are a big contributing factor. Enforcing immigration law and allowing more homes to be built are doing more for renters than slogans and rent control ever did. I

This is what you get when Democrats have complete power.

1. "I'm really good at killing people. Didn't know that was going to be a strong suit of mine." a. President Donald Trump, 2019 b. President Barack Obama, 2012

Legendary Hollywood actor Bill Murray trashed Bob Woodward during an appearance on The Joe Rogan Experience, challenging the author’s work after delving into just a few pages of Wired: The Short Life & Fast Times of John Belushi, Woodward’s 1984 tome chronicling the life of John Belushi. Murray was clearly underwhelmed by Woodward’s attempt to capture the character of his friend and fellow actor Belushi, claiming Woodward’s lackadaisical relationship with the facts could easily have been transposed into his work as a Washington Post reporter in the early 1907s that helped topple U.S. President Richard Nixon via the Watergate scandal..

Violent crime plummeted around the country this year, but the legacy media refuse to acknowledge that it has anything to do with the return of President Donald Trump.According to a report by the Council on Criminal Justice, over the past year, the murder rate dropped to its lowest level since 1900. Other crimes dropped across 11 of 13 categories in the report.The study also noted that while FBI crime statistics won’t become available until later this year, there is a strong possibility that 2025 could mark “the largest single-year percentage drop in the homicide rate on record.”While crime was beginning...

After Charlie Kirk’s assassination, the multiple assassination attempts on President Trump, and the violent targeting of federal agents in Minnesota, non-leftists in America must accept that leftists intend to do them harm. There are no signs that Democrats want to de-escalate political tensions in the United States. On the contrary, at least since community organizer Barack Obama became president, escalation -- including verbal harassment, stalking, physical intimidation, and outright violence -- has been a key component of Democrats’ political strategy. Scaring political opponents into silence or subjugation is now standard operating procedure for the Democrat Party. Elected Republicans have proven...

The truth of the matter is that bodycams may have been the single greatest idea to debunk the insane claims from the BLM communities that cops are systemically racist.More often than not, bodycam footage from police altercations actually shows the danger that police officers are in on a day-to-day basis rather than showing them acting with impunity and seeking out altercations with minorities.You could make the argument that they have been the driving force in dealing a deathblow to the BLM movement.

🚨 JUST IN: In a devastating blow to the "experts," US steel production now EXCEEDS JAPAN for the first time in nearly 30 YEARS as a result of President Trump's tariffs US is now third globally to China and India THIS IS HUGE! We love Japan, but USA must be number 1! 🇺🇸🇺🇸

The mask fully came off during Monday’s edition of The View and exposed their true extremist face. Reacting to another ICE-involved shooting death in Minnesota, ABC News co-hosts declared that the law enforcement actions by Immigration and Customs Enforcement were the kind of thing America’s Founding Fathers wanted the Second Amendment used for. It was The View’s most direct incitement to violence to date. Despite being staunchly against the Second Amendment prior to weekend shooting, including denouncing a concealed gun carrier for stopping a mass shooting, The View cast was suddenly Second Amendment scholars.

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt gave a briefing Monday afternoon to, in part, distill the latest on the Trump administration's plans to bring law and order to Minneapolis, Minnesota. It was the first official White House press briefing since Saturday's shooting of leftist protester Alex Pretti by a Customs and Border Patrol agent, and the weekend's events were clearly top of mind for everyone in the briefing room. Leavitt spoke first of the administration's disgust for the efforts of Democrats and hard-left agitators to disrupt "the will of the people;" President Trump has spoken previously of his dismay at...