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When AI’s Architects Promise a New Age
By Family Research Council A former AI industry executive warned me this month: “Massive culture shock is coming.” He did not mean job losses or new regulations. He meant a collision between what artificial intelligence may soon be able to do and what people believe about themselves. That warning came to mind as I read […]
EXCLUSIVE: Trump To Sign Executive Order Calling For More Vaccine Flexibility And Research
By The Daily Caller President Donald Trump will sign an executive order Monday aimed at increasing confidence in the childhood vaccination schedule through greater flexibility for families, according to a fact sheet obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation. Trump’s recommendations to align the childhood vaccination schedule with “gold standard science” involves three policies. White […]
One Gaza Palestinian … $547,000,000 Fraud
By Jihad Watch A Muslim illegal alien ripped off Americans and sent the money home including to pro-Hamas groups. In 1992, Khaled Ahmed Satary arrived in the United States on a student visa. Even though student visas are only supposed to be temporary, the Gaza ‘Palestinian’ Muslim would not leave the country, not even when […]
Mamdani Blames E-Bike Sellers for Crisis He Refuses to Police
By The Daily Signal When real-world problems arise, you can always count on socialists to fall back on blaming their old ideological bugaboos rather than addressing them head on. That appears to be the case in New York City, where Mayor Zohran Mamdani has been forced to deal with an escalating problem of e-bike fatalities. You can guess […]
AI Agents Are Not What Most Businesses Think — with Special Guest Devin Kearns
By A.I. Guys What does it really take to build an AI native business right now? In this episode of The AI Guys Podcast, Rich and Lee sit down with Devin Kearns, founder of CustomAI Studio, to unpack the real state of AI agents, why so many early AI products got wiped out fast, and […]
Gold Bottom Now Confirmed
By Neland Nobel Written by Neland Nobel Estimated Reading Time: 6 minutes Readers would do well to follow the trail of comments, especially January 28, May 2, June 9, June 18, and the latest July 7. A compressed compendium of comments would inform you that we were looking for gold to correct from its lofty […]
TXSE: Dallas Debuts New Stock Exchange To Rival Wall Street
By The Geller Report Welcome to the real bull market. With the Communist Mayor Zohran Mamdani implementing his anti-business agenda, many financial firms will rightfully downsize their operations in New York City. Over time, several will just leave all together. No rational CEO would want to invest or maintain operations in a city that is governed by lunatics like Zohran Mamdani. […]
Israel Reports All-Time High of $169 billion in 2025 Exports Despite Nazi-Inspired BDS (Boycott the Jews) Movement
By The Geller Report Despite the relentless attacks, slanders, and calls to boycott by the Islamic/Commie Left and Woke Right, the Jewish state of Israel continues to flourish. Israel’s economy is going to Pluto. Israel reports all-time high of $169 billion in 2025 exports The Foreign Ministry said that the record figures reflect “the strength, […]
U.S. Bars Imports From 43 More Companies Over China’s Alleged Forced Labor Involving Uyghurs
By The Daily Signal REUTERS—The United States on Friday banned imports from 43 more companies over alleged human rights abuses of Uyghur and other minority groups, including Hunan Aihua Group, one of China’s largest capacitor manufacturers, according to a government posting. The companies were added to the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act Entity List, which restricts […]
Russia’s Diesel Export Ban
By Kenneth R. Timmerman For the past few weeks, I have been going by gas stations in the south of France, wondering if I was seeing double. In early July, as prices were going down, something strange was happening to diesel. For the first time in twenty years, it was more expensive than premium gas. […]
Mamdani’s Tax List Reveals the Dark Side of Socialist Class Warfare
By The Daily Signal It should be no surprise that New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani not only wants to tax the rich but dox them too. On Monday, New York’s Department of Finance published a searchable database of properties that could fall under New York’s new so-called pied-à-terre tax on second homes in the city. The New York Post ran […]
California-style Attack on Our Suburbs: Coming to Your Town Soon
By Cherie Zaslawsky There’s a slow-motion tragedy unfolding in many California cities, and no doubt in other cities across our nation. And for my subscribers who are wondering why I haven’t been writing new articles of late, here’s my overdue explanation: My own tranquil suburb of Menlo Park, a bedroom community tucked away in a […]
A Little Comparison Shopping: Food Prices on Average in Free (U.S.) vs Communist Country (Canada)
By Vlad Tepes Blog National average price for a whole chicken in the USA: Whole bird: $6.00 to $9.00 USD or CDN $10.43 Loblaws advertised price today: T bone steaks: US Average price: Per Pound: $12-18 average Premium/Organic: $18-25+ Grocery Store Range: $10-22 per pound depending on grade and region In Canadian that would be […]
Tech Time with Thomas | How MCP Connects AI to Your Business
By A.I. Guys In this episode of Tech Time with Tommy, Rich and Thomas go deep on one of the biggest challenges in agentic AI, getting AI to work inside the systems businesses already use every day. They break down MCP in plain English, explain why it matters, and show how AI is moving beyond […]
NYC Landlords Sue Commie Mamdani for ‘Blatantly Illegal’ Rent Freeze
By The Geller Report Good. The implementation of a rent freeze by the Communist Mayor Zohran Mamdani is an outrageous abuse of power. Mamdani’s rent freeze policy will crush landlords because it ignores rising operating expenses, inflation, taxes, etc. Thereby causing property owners to incur major losses or just go bankrupt. The irony is that […]
TRUMP JOBS BOOM: U.S. Unemployment Claims Plunge to Lowest Level Since 1969, Shattering Forecasts
By The Geller Report More breaking news the Democrat media axis will never report or without some fictional warning like this classic ABC News bullshit line, “historically low despite global economic uncertainty.” U.S. filings for unemployment aid fall to 187,000 last week, fewest since 1969 U.S. applications for jobless benefits tumbled to the lowest level […]
Microsoft Stops Discriminating Against Conservatives
By The Daily Signal FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Microsoft has stopped systematically excluding conservative nonprofits from its corporate generosity program, the Daily Signal has learned. The tech giant—the fourth-largest company in the world by market capitalization—has directed its corporate generosity platform, Benevity, to stop relying on the Southern Poverty Law Center’s “hate map” to filter out nonprofits. Critics […]
Your Agentic Dream Team: The Four Roles That Make AI Projects Work
By A.I. Guys What does it actually take to launch AI successfully inside a business? In this episode of The AI Guys Podcast, Lee Dickson and Rich Swier break down the four essential roles every company needs to move AI projects from idea to execution. If your team has been treating AI like a side […]
EXCLUSIVE: This Little-Known Climate Report Card Casts A Dark Cloud Over Home Sales — And BlackRock Is Involved
By The Daily Caller A new climate-related metric advanced by a company linked to private equity firms is quietly subverting the U.S. housing market, a new report claims. Major online real estate platforms such as Zillow, Relator.com, Homes.com and Redfin all have featured predictive climate-risk scores, according to a July report from the American Energy Institute and Consumers’ Research first shared […]
The War on Corporate Activism: Win, Lose, or Draw?
By Family Research Council Pride Month came and went this year, a wilted version of the weeks-long rager activists are so used to enjoying. But as dejected as the Left must be over the cultural and corporate retreat from their cause, you can’t blame them for hoping that this tsunami of grassroots change is temporary. […]
THE WHITE HOUSE: Adjusting Imports of Commercial Aircraft, Jet Engines, and Aircraft and Engine Parts into the United States
By The White House BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION 1. Within the past 90 days, the Secretary of Commerce (Secretary) transmitted to me a report on his investigation into the effects of imports of commercial aircraft, jet engines, and their associated parts on the national security of the United […]
Qatar prevents an agreement that was supposed to save the jobs of thousands of Germans
By Udi Geva The Qataris Torpedoed a Deal Between “Rafael” (Israeli company) and Volkswagen. Due to the difficult crisis in which it finds itself, the giant conglomerate has decided to shift production at one of its plants to weaponry. Within the framework of the deal, the plant was supposed to manufacture components for Iron Dome […]
One of the Biggest Fraud Rings You Never Heard of: Social Adult Daycares — Billions in NYC alone
By The Geller Report As a taxpayer I am sickened at the abuse and contempt of hardworking Americans. CMS Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz joined investigative influencer Nick Shirley in New York City to confront operators of suspected Medicare and Medicaid fraud schemes. Visiting elderly daycare centers and medical equipment companies, there are major red flags, […]
Your AI Spend Is Rising, But Where’s the ROI?
By A.I. Guys What happens when AI adoption goes up, but business results do not? In this episode of The AI Guys Podcast, Lee and Rich break down why so many companies are pouring money into AI tools, burning through tokens, and still struggling to connect that spend to real outcomes. They unpack the shift […]
June Low For Gold In Play?
By Neland Nobel Written by Neland Nobel Estimated Reading Time: 6 minutes New readers may have to go back to the archives to fully absorb the thread of these comments. See January 28, May 2, June 9, and June 18. The quick summary is that we looked for gold to peak earlier in the year […]
The “Quantum AI Discovered a Universal Mind” Story Isn’t Science — Here’s What’s Actually Going On
By Amil Imani If you’ve scrolled past a headline claiming that a quantum AI system uncovered the universe’s “source code” in 2025, and that physicist Michio Kaku confirmed reality itself might be conscious, you’ve encountered one of the more polished pieces of science-flavored fiction circulating online right now. It has all the trappings of a real discovery: […]
Nothing in Commonwealth
By The Daily Signal As July begins, Virginians brace for higher gas taxes, hoping that the $68 price of a barrel of crude oil will start to bring the price at the pump back down. However, they will very soon be hit with a 7% increase in their electric bills. Iran? No. Trump tariffs? No. This […]
The Consequences of Elite Overproduction
By Neland Nobel Written by Neland Nobel Estimated Reading Time: 7 minutes TPP Editors’ Takes When colleges pump out more “elites” than society has elite jobs for, the frustrated ones don’t get humble — they get radical Capitalism is so successful it pays people to attack it. Schumpeter called this in 1942. Mises: if nobody […]
Study: Illegal Immigration Drives Up American Housing Prices
By Family Research Council President Donald Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance have both repeatedly asserted that the Trump administration’s immigration policy — chiefly, deportations — will significantly ease economic burdens on Americans, especially in sectors like housing. A new report is confirming those statements as likely accurate. According to the Federal Reserve Bank of […]
Is the AI Bubble About to Burst?
By A.I. Guys AI is moving fast, maybe too fast. In this episode of The AI Guys Podcast, Lee and Rich break down why the current AI boom is starting to look a lot like a bubble, and what that means for businesses trying to keep up. From hype-driven valuations to real-world adoption lag, this […]