House Armed Services Chairman Prepared To End Investigation After Viewing Double-Tap Boat Strike Congress this week has been threatening to withhold travel funds for Pentagon leadership as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has refused to turn over videos of strikes against suspected drug-smuggling boats off the coast of Latin America, amid the ongoing debate over their ‘legality’ of the actions. The demand, which would significantly […]

Supreme Court To Hear Arguments Over IQ And Death Penalty Authored by Sam Dorman via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The Supreme Court is set to hear oral argument on Dec. 10 in a case that could impact how prisoners attempt to prove the type of intellectual disability that would allow them to avoid a death sentence. The U.S. Supreme Court in Washington on Oct. 20, 2025. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch Times In 2002, the court held in […]

Musk Says DOGE Was “Somewhat Successful,” But Wouldn’t Do It Again After Swamp’s Attack On Tesla Elon Musk joined Katie Miller’s podcast for a wide-ranging interview, opening with a question about his time at the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and whether the effort was worth it. Musk said DOGE’s push to cut waste, fraud, and abuse from the federal government was “somewhat successful,” but cautioned he wouldn’t take on […]

Wild Video: Somali Student In Minnesota Threatens To “Pop” ICE Agents A Minnesota State University student has sparked outrage and a federal investigation after posting a video on TikTok in which he explicitly threatened to shoot Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents. “ICE, I actually heard you guys pulled up to Owatonna, the big O, and you pulled up when I was not there? Y’all so p–s-ass s–t, boy. You’re gonna […]

Republicans Taking Note After Miami Mayor’s Office Flips Blue For First Time In Decades Republicans looking for hints on how midterms might go need look no further than Miami, Florida – where Democrat Eileen Higgins won the mayor’s race, becoming the first woman to lead the city – and the first Democrat to take the helm in nearly 30 years.  Miami mayor-elect Eileen Higgins celebrates at a watch party after winning the Miami […]

Elon Musk Confirms SpaceX Is Going Public, Space-Based Data Centers Secured Update (1950ET): Elon Musk confirms reports that SpaceX is going public. As usual, Eric is accurate — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 10, 2025 Space-based data centers are now secured…  SpaceX has way more satellites in orbit than the rest of the world combined, so maybe we know a thing or two about the subject 🤣 Starlink V3 will be 20kW and […]

The Hyperventilating Over The DOE Restructuring Is Ongoing Authored by Larry Sand via American Greatness, In the latest wave of fearmongering surrounding President Trump’s efforts to overhaul the U.S. Department of Education, a coalition of states that sued to stop mass layoffs at the department in March is now challenging recent decisions to transfer many of the DOE’s core functions to the U.S. Department of Labor and other […]

Watch: Third Russian Oil Tanker Hit By Sea Drone In Black Sea Ukraine has carried out another drone attack on a Russia-linked so-called ‘shadow fleet’ tanker in the Black Sea on Wednesday, which marks a third such attack in less than two weeks, and which seeks to disrupt Moscow’s maritime oil trade. Local reports have identified the Comoros Islands-flagged Dashan as being struck while sailing en route to the Russian port terminal […]

Mistakes That Can Wreck Your Estate Plan Authored by Javier Simon via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), So you have an estate plan. You’ve taken a major step in making sure you leave behind a legacy and that your assets are passed down as you see fit. But that, however, is not enough. There are plenty of potential mistakes that can torpedo your estate plan. That’s why you need to mobilize now to make sure your estate plan is […]

Crockett’s Senate Run Was Engineered By Republicans Rep. Jasmine Crockett. (D-Texas) officially launched her campaign for the U.S. Senate on Monday, and Republicans appear to have played a major role in that happening.  According to a report from NOTUS, the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) was “actively worked behind the scenes to encourage Rep. Jasmine Crockett to jump into the Senate Democratic primary in […]

Letitia James Moves To Silence Debate Over Transgender Policies Authored by Jonathan Turley, There was an interesting complaint filed in New York yesterday in which a group of parents and educators sued New York Attorney General Letitia James over a letter viewed as threatening those who are raising transgender policies in public meetings. While the legal basis for the complaint is likely to be challenged as premature by the […]

US To Ask Visitors For 5 Years Of Social Media History Under New Plan The United States is planning to require visitors from dozens of countries on the visa waiver program to provide up to five years of their social media history, according to a proposal from the US Customs and Border Protection posted to the Federal Register on Wednesday.  Countries on the list include much of Europe, Australia, New Zealand, South Korea, […]

Could A Debasement Trade Drown Those Without Gold? Authored by Matthew Piepenburg via VonGreyerz.gold, Anyone who has spent decades within a specific craft or industry (be it carpentry, medicine, academia, masonry, or markets) slowly acquires not only skills but pattern recognition. The years, as I like to say, gradually teach things the days don’t notice. Such context cannot be downloaded, transferred or absorbed through an AI […]

Japan, South Korea Scramble Jets After Russian-Chinese Bomber Flight: ‘Acts Of Intimidation’ Airspace over Western Pacific waters near Japan continues to heat up at a moment of the highest tensions in decades between Beijing and Tokyo. Tuesday saw Japan and South Korea dispatch fighter jets in response to a joint patrol by Russian and Chinese bombers over the Asia-Pacific region, the countries’ militaries confirmed. Russian […]

Oracle Tumbles On Disappointing Cloud Revenue; CapEx Soars: Funding Questions Remain While the Fed’s “not so hawkish” cut was certainly better than what the market expected, largely thanks to the very dovish addition of $40BN in not QE monthly Reserve Management Purchases of T-Bills, there was another key event today and, as we previewed earlier, that was Oracle’s second quarter results. And unlike the Fed, this one was not nearly […]

11 Signs That Our World Is Rapidly Becoming A Lot More Orwellian Authored by Michael Snyder via The Economic Collapse blog, All over the globe, the digital control grid that we are all living in just continues to get even tighter. They are using facial recognition technology to scan our faces, they are using license plate readers to track where we travel, they are systematically monitoring the conversations that we are having on […]

‘Most Divided’ Fed In 37 Years Cuts Rates; Restarts Balance Sheet Growth Tl;dr: The FOMC cut rates by 25bps to 3.50-3.75% as expected, with a 9-3 vote split; Miran sought a 50bps cut, while Goolsbee and Schmid preferred no change. It reiterated data dependence, signalling further adjustments will hinge on the evolving outlook, labor market conditions, inflation dynamics, expectations, and global and financial developments. […]

Musk Reveals Life On “Hardcore Mode” As Serious Security Concerns Linger Amid Radical Left Threat Elon Musk said on the Katie Miller podcast that the current threat environment from radical left-wing activists remains too dangerous for him to appear in public, especially after the political assassination of Charlie Kirk. Miller asked Musk: “When’s the last time you did something extremely ordinary like go to Target or CVS?” […]

Wall Street Reacts To Powell’s “More Dovish Than Expected” Rate Cut Consensus was expecting a hawkish rate cut, and while it got the cut, the hawkish elements – more dissenters, higher dots, a pushback by Powell during the presser – did not not materalize, and instead we have a low-grade revolt by the non-voters at the Fed (6 dots for unch today, only 2 dissents, more 3 dots expecting a rate hike in 2026), yet that will be promptly […]

McDonald’s Serves Up Creepy Soulless AI Christmas Ad Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, McDonald’s in the Netherlands unleashed a Christmas ad that, much like its ‘food’ has left the world gagging on the plastic aftertaste. The entire spot—talking cookies, uncanny animated characters, and a vibe that screams “please make it stop”—was 100% AI-generated, and viewers are torching it as creepy, lifeless, and […]

Watch Live: Will Fed Chair Powell Push Back Against The ‘Not Hawkish’ Dots? Given that Powell and his pals were flying blind into this meeting, just how will he defend his actions (and hint at his outlook) considering it exposes even more guesswork among the groupthinkers than normal. Powell’s previous comments were the hawkish signal that sank stocks and bonds and needed Fed’s Williams to stop the pain… Will Powell let the […]

Gunboat Diplomacy Returns: US Seizes Oil Tanker Off Venezuela Update (1518ET): President Trump confirmed to Bloomberg that U.S. forces intercepted and seized a tanker near Venezuela’s coast, saying further information will be provided soon. WATCH: U.S. forces seize oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela pic.twitter.com/xCJjDP2oY3 — BNO News (@BNONews) December 10, 2025 Comments from Trump.  🚨 Q: What happens to the oil on […]

FTA Threatens To Cut Funds To Chicago Transit Authority After Woman Set On Fire Authored by Melanie Sun via The Epoch Times, The Federal Transit Authority has threatened to withdraw funding for Chicago’s public transport network if the city doesn’t “measurably reduce assaults on transit workers and passengers” and address “unsafe conditions that have contributed to increased crime.” FTA Administrator Marc Molinaro on […]

“Bud Light” Moment Hits Cracker Barrel: Stock Crushed, Traffic Slides, Guidance Slashed Cracker Barrel shares are lower in premarket trading after posting softer-than-expected quarterly sales and cutting full-year revenue and profit guidance. Customer traffic dropped more than anticipated, driven in part by backlash after the casual dining chain effectively “Bud Lighted” itself with a disastrous woke rebranding. The rebranding […]

Obamacare Was Not A Failure Authored by Connor O’Keefe via The Mises Institute, “You have turned, Mr. President, the right of every American to have access to decent healthcare into reality for the first time in American history.” Those are the words then-Vice President Joe Biden said to President Obama in the East Room of the White House on March 23, 2010, as he prepared to sign the Patient Protection and Affordable Care […]