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There is a fitting symmetry in the numbers landing on the 250th Labor Day. The August jobs report came in at 162,000 new positions — roughly triple the 53,000 economists expected — with unemployment holding at 4.1 percent. Acting Labor Secretary Keith Sonderling spent the holiday weekend on the cable circuit taking a victory lap, … Read more
Over the holiday weekend, President Trump posted four words to Truth Social — “the moon is ours” — and the internet did what the internet does. Prediction markets floated headlines about the U.S. annexing the lunar surface. Supporters cheered. Critics scoffed. This claim is a violation of the Outer Space Treaty. @UN “outer space is … Read more
Democrats can never be allowed to run our country again Reason No. 1025. The Danbury, Connecticut city council voted 18-2 this week to let non-citizens — including DACA recipients — become police officers. Mayor Roberto Alves framed it as knocking down a pointless barrier: these are people who can already serve as EMTs, firefighters, soldiers, … Read more
For months, the administration’s case for renovating the Kennedy Center ran into the same wall: critics insisted the urgency was manufactured, a pretext for Donald Trump to slap his name on a building he didn’t build. This week the building settled the dispute itself. A section of the Grand Foyer ceiling gave way overnight and … Read more
For years, “Havana Syndrome” was treated by much of the establishment press as a punchline — mass hysteria, anxiety, crickets, anything but what the victims described. Independent investigative journalist Catherine Herridge’s latest reporting makes that dismissiveness harder to sustain, because the pattern she lays out is not what psychosomatic illness looks like. It’s what targeting … Read more
Rosie O’Donnell doesn’t live in ‘Merica anymore and we have to give her credit for that because, unlike the bulk of Hollywood stars and has-beens who threatened to “leave” if Donald Trump won a second term, she actually did leave. Fled to Ireland. Must be something to the ‘O’Donnell’ name, I guess. Still, following through … Read more
Donald Trump promised a booming economy when he was running for his second term in 2024. By any measure, he’s delivering on that pledge. Wall Street braced for a soft August. Consensus called for roughly 53,000 new jobs, a number that would have fit the sluggish summer trend of about 31,000 a month. Instead the … Read more
“You can’t hate CNN enough” – Reason Number 699. The clip was built to go viral, and it did: CNN’s Kaitlan Collins confronting Vice President Vance about a Gold Star family allegedly denied benefits, Vance appearing to fumble the name. Liberal accounts ran it as proof the administration doesn’t care about its fallen. The trouble … Read more
Republicans did something clever on Wednesday. Instead of arguing with Democrats about court-packing, they simply asked them to promise, in writing, that they wouldn’t do it. The proposed constitutional amendment was one sentence long — “The Supreme Court of the United States shall be composed of nine justices” — and it said nothing about who … Read more
This couldn’t have happened to a more deserving Trump-deranged anti-America jerk. For years the political press treated now-former California Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell’s problems as a partisan mirage — the Chinese-spy business, the ethics questions, all of it waved off as a right-wing obsession. It turns out the most damning verdict on Swalwell wasn’t going … Read more
There is a grim comedy in watching the Islamic Republic of Iran — the regime that has spent half a century murdering civilians by design — suddenly become a scholar of international humanitarian law. This week Tehran filed a formal letter with the UN Security Council accusing the United States of a “war crime,” citing … Read more
For two generations, America’s governing consensus told its young people the same thing: get a four-year degree, take on the debt, and don’t look back at the factory floor your parents worked. The bill for that advice is now visible in a single number. There are, by the administration’s count, 580,000 manufacturing jobs open in … Read more
