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Wall Street has had its head in the sand through the entirety of President Donald Trump's second term, whistling past the graveyard as Trump's tariffs throttled the job market and kept inflation above the Federal Reserve's 2% benchmark. And Trump’s war in Iran is no exception, as traders have taken his word that it “is very complete,” even as other members of his own administration say the opposi…

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White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt held a whirlwind press briefing on Tuesday, where she lied and deflected when asked about President Donald Trump’s unpopular Iran war . When asked about a Reuters report that around 150 U.S. troops have been wounded since the start of the war, Leavitt refused to confirm the number, saying that “it's within that ballpark.” YouTube Video Similarly, when …

America, meet your new super-qualified member of the Air Force Academy Board of Visitors . Is it someone with military experience? Nope. Maybe some post-secondary education experience? Wrong again. It’s Erika Kirk , silly! Taking over the seat that her late husband Charlie Kirk held for about five months before he was killed, Kirk will be tasked with making recommendations about the academy to th…

Republican Sen. John Kennedy tried to paint a hearing witness as a wide-eyed leftist, despite the fact that the witness works at a libertarian think tank. It did not go well. During a hearing on sanctuary cities, Kennedy questioned witness David Bier, director of immigration studies at the Cato Institute, about a series of posts Bier made on Bluesky, including one where he described the Departmen…

As it turns out, some of Donald Trump’s promises made are turning out to be promises broken. Despite a longstanding and false Republican narrative that immigrants are taking native U.S. workers’ jobs, the president’s aggressive deportation agenda hasn’t been as beneficial to blue-collar folks and their employers as they hoped. According to new data from the American Enterprise Institute and Brook…

The Trump administration used vague allegations of rampant fraud in Minnesota as the basis for the siege of the state by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, so you’d think the U.S. attorney’s office there would be laser-focused on prosecuting actual fraud. You’d be wrong. Instead of racking up wins against known fraudsters, U.S. Attorney Daniel Rosen is currently begging the court to continue—ak…

Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky appeared on Fox Business on Tuesday, to explain how inconsistent, one might even say incoherent, the Trump administration's half-baked justifications for launching a war in the Middle East have been. “There have been many different reasons floated, but none of them, I think, have been very convincing,” Paul said, arguing the lofty declarations of spreading fr…

The New York Times continues to show its bias against New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani in the paper’s coverage of a recent attempt to use a homemade bomb near Gracie Mansion, where Mamdani and his wife Rama Duwaji live. A group led by a right-wing activist (and pardoned Jan. 6 rioter ) Jake Lang was protesting the “Islamic takeover” of the city and clashed with another group who claimed to be i…

Proving that the Trump administration can multitask, even as President Donald Trump’s pointless war against Iran rages, two Cabinet secretaries carved out some free time on Monday for a splashy White House event about the absurd IndyCar race that will take place as part of the celebration of America’s 250th birthday. The administration is calling this nonsense the “Freedom 250 Grand Prix” and eve…