Trump Vs Biden: ICE Detentions By Administration (2019-2025) Since January 2023, the number of people held in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention has more than doubled. This increase has accelerated notably during the early months of Donald Trump’s second term, compared to the final stretch of Joe Biden’s presidency. As Visual Capitalist’s Bruno Venditti shows in the chart below, the data behind this […]

August 15, 1971 – The Beginning Of The End For US Hegemony Authored by Matthew Piepenburg via VonGreyerz.gold, Fifty-four years ago (August 15, 1971), Nixon took the USD off its gold standard, thereby officially putting the final nail in the Constitutionally mandated concept of US money. But hey, at least the Constitution can still serve as a nice museum piece for kids to walk past. Lies from on High Back in 1971, the lies […]

Michigan Lawmaker Under Investigation After Late-Night Ballot-Stuffing Video Emerges A Hamtramck City Council member in Michigan is facing scrutiny after seemingly being captured on video participating in stuffing ballots into an official drop box just days before his primary election victory. Video footage obtained by Local 4 seemingly shows Council Member Abu Musa in a black vehicle on August 1st, handing what appear to be […]

“Adaptive” Learning: Study Shows Almost 90% Adopt More Liberal Views To Satisfy Professors Authored by Jonathan Turley, In my book, “The Indispensable Right,” I write about the intolerance for viewpoint diversity in higher education and the atmosphere of orthodoxy created by overwhelmingly liberal faculties. We have also discussed consistent studies showing that students no longer feel free to express their viewpoints in […]

Trump Says US Willing To Provide Security Guarantees For Ukraine In Zelensky Meeting Update(1545ET): A big talking point from today has been security guarantees – with European leaders and the US appearing to be on the same page so far, and of course Zelensky is welcoming this as well.  As a reminder, the Kremlin has said over and over again that it would never accept Western troops enforcing anything inside Ukraine… BREAKING: […]

More Than 300 Arrested In Washington Amid Federal Crackdown On Crime: Bondi Authored by Aldgra Fredly via The Epoch Times, More than 300 people have been arrested following the federal takeover of law enforcement at the District of Columbia police department, according to U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi. Bondi said that 68 people were arrested overnight on Aug. 16 after President Donald Trump federalized policing in the […]

Tech Giants Spend Over $45mn Protecting CEOs Amid Rising Threats Large tech groups including Meta, Alphabet, Nvidia, Amazon and Palantir are sharply increasing spending on personal protection as executives face rising hostility and a bigger role in US politics, according to Financial Times, The FT found security budgets for 10 major tech CEOs exceeded $45mn in 2024, with several firms raising spending by more than 10% year on […]

Victor Hanson: Putin, Trump, & The Elusive “Peace” Authored by Victor Davis Hanson via American Greatness, At the August 15 Alaska summit, Vladimir Putin performed as expected. He desperately wants an end to Western sanctions, détente with the U.S., and assurances that the U.S. will not impose a disastrous anti-Russian secondary boycott—and, apparently, some additional Ukrainian territory. Consequently, Putin, in his […]

Trump Vows ‘Movement’ To Eliminate Mail-In Ballots Before 2026 Midterms President Donald Trump on Monday vowed to eliminate mail-in voting, and has vowed to “lead a movement” to do so before the 2026 midterms. “ELECTIONS CAN NEVER BE HONEST WITH MAIL IN BALLOTS/VOTING, and everybody, IN PARTICULAR THE DEMOCRATS, KNOWS THIS,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “I, AND THE REPUBLICAN PARTY, WILL FIGHT LIKE HELL TO BRING HONESTY AND […]

Trump Admin Discussing A 10% Stake In Intel Extending the similarities to it recent deal with rare earth miner MP Materials, Bloomberg reports that the Trump administration is in discussions to take a stake of about 10% in Intel, in a move that could see the US become the chipmaker’s largest shareholder, something which we correctly advised our readers would take place a little over a week ago. The Pentagon took a stake in US […]

NYC Times Square Reopens After Suspicious Device Triggers Bomb Threat Update (1315ET): The New York City Police Department has reopened Times Square in Midtown Manhattan after a man left a “suspicious device” at West 43rd Street and Seventh Avenue. The area was placed on lockdown for about an hour while a bomb squad unit investigated the item.  UPDATE: The area has reopened to both pedestrian and vehicular traffic. — NYPD […]

“When Bubbles Happen…”: Sam Altman Says AI Hype Compares To Dot Com Boom Before 2000 Crash OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says investor enthusiasm for artificial intelligence may already look like a bubble., according to CNBC. “Are we in a phase where investors as a whole are overexcited about AI? My opinion is yes. Is AI the most important thing to happen in a very long time? My opinion is also yes,” he told reporters last week. […]

Treasury Department Releases New Guidance Restricting Wind, Solar Tax Credits Authored by Aldgra Fredly via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The Treasury Department on Friday unveiled guidance that tightens the criteria for wind and solar energy projects to receive federal tax credits. Giant wind turbines are powered by strong winds in front of solar panels in Palm Springs, Calif., on March 27, 2013. Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images […]

Trump Issues Clearest Greenlight For Netanyahu’s Offensive To ‘Confront & Destroy’ Hamas To Date President Trump on Monday issued a scorching message aimed at Hamas as well as the growing internationall and domestic critics of America’s Israel policy. He called for the total destruction of Hamas and the return of the hostages, in that order. “The sooner this takes place, the better the chances of success will be,” he wrote on […]

Today’s Outcome In DC Could Leave The US Much Stronger, And Europe Far Weaker By Michael Every of Rabobank Following what was expected to be a Friday of high geopolitical drama for markets, but wasn’t, today may prove that event instead. Yes, President Trump just failed to get a Russia-Ukraine ceasefire; but today he’s pushing for a full peace deal. The UK PM, key EU leaders (though none who border Ukraine), and NATO’s Rutte will […]

DOGE Savings Top $200 Billion, Almost $1,300 Per Taxpayer Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times, The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has terminated 123 “wasteful contracts” over the past five days with a ceiling value of $5.3 billion and savings of $4.2 billion, DOGE said in an Aug. 16 X post. The canceled contracts included an $857,000 contract from the Department of the Interior for a technical […]

Hungary Expresses Outrage After Ukraine Strikes Key Oil Pipeline To EU, Forcing Halt Crude oil flows from Russia to Hungary and Slovakia via the Druzhba pipeline suffered a forced halt on Monday, officials from both countries confirmed, after a Ukrainian drone strike crippled a vital transformer station. Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto stated Monday “this latest strike against our energy security is outrageous and […]

An Offer He Can’t Refuse Authored by James Howard Kunstler, “This is not our war. The US is not in a war. Ukraine is in a war. . .” – Sec’y of State Marco Rubio Volodymyr Zelenskyy is dropping in at the White House today so that Mr. Trump can read him the riot act. It’s that simple. Somewhere to or from Alaska, Mr. Trump concluded that a ceasefire would not work, for the excellent reason that seven previous ceasefires […]

Homeless Arrests Climb After Supreme Court Clears Bans Homelessness in the U.S. has reached record levels, with more than 771,000 people unhoused on a single night in 2024, according to The Conversation. Since the Supreme Court’s June 2024 ruling in Grants Pass v. Johnson, cities have stepped up enforcement of bans on sleeping or camping in public, even when no shelter is available. The Court found such laws constitutional, […]

Bud Light Considers Tapping Sydney Sweeney To Rehab Tarnished Image Authored by Ben Sellers via Headline USA, What started as a joke may soon become a multimillion-dollar reality as Anheuser–Busch marketing executives were reported last week to be in serious consideration for a deal with actress and American Eagle model Sydney Sweeney. The Daily Mail reported that the blonde bombshell could net $10 million dollars in a […]

Key Events This Week: All Eyes On Zelensky At The White House And Powell At Jackson Hole As we arrive at a new week, DB’s Henry Allen writes that the focus is still on Ukraine this morning, as the world reacts to the Trump-Putin summit in Alaska last Friday. The main headline was that no deal was reached on a ceasefire, but multiple outlets reported that Putin wanted Ukraine to withdraw from the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, and he […]

Vestas Wind Shares Surge On Revised Tax Credit Guidance, Wall Street Analysts Breathe Sigh Of Relief Vestas Wind Systems jumped the most in years after the Internal Revenue Service issued revised guidance on U.S. wind and solar tax credit eligibility that proved far less restrictive than initially feared top Wall Street desks. President Trump’s tax and spending bill dialed back the Biden-Harris regime era renewable […]

Waste Of The Day: “Medicaid Millionaire” Bought Lamborghini Authored by Jeremy Portnoy via RealClearInvestigations, Topline: A Louisiana woman was arrested and charged with fraud last month after allegedly underreporting her income to qualify for Medicaid. The state Bureau of Investigation claims that Candace Taylor, 35, bought a Lamborghini and owned six businesses that earned almost $10 million in five years while on federal […]

Futures Dip Ahead Of Trump-Zelensky Meeting As Jackson Hole Looms US equity futures are down a touch, after closing in the red on Friday having tagged a new all time high earlier in the day, with small caps outperforming to start the week. As of 8:00am ET, S&P futures are down 0.1% and Nasdaq futures drop 0.2% after the benchmarks closed last week near an all-time high, with Ukraine’s Zelenskiy and his European allies arriving […]

Trump Vows Social Security Will Thrive For Another ’90 Years’ Authored by Philip Wegmann via RealClearPolitics, Nearly a century removed, President Donald Trump heralded his Democratic predecessor FDR for “one of the most significant pieces of legislation ever signed into law,” the bill that created Social Security. The program turned 90 this month. Without reform, its 100th anniversary is not guaranteed. President Trump […]