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The Fed Is ‘Chasing Its Own Tail’ On Inflation, And The Housing Market Is Paying The Price, Expert Says
By The Daily Caller A guest essay published in The New York Times on Tuesday finally pointed a finger at a major culprit behind the housing crisis: The Federal Reserve. The essay was written by Westwood Capital Investment bank’s managing partner Daniel Alpert, and detailed his take on the Fed’s “relentless attack on inflation” which he thinks […]
Obama’s Financial Legacy – A Shift from Bank Bailouts to Bail-Ins
By Amil Imani Bail-ins, they say, are like financial gymnastics gone wild – saving failing banks with the equivalent of a fiscal somersault. According to Fortune magazine: A bail-in is a form of financial relief for banks that are in danger of collapsing or going bankrupt. The relief comes from canceling some or all of the […]
Johnson Scores First Win, Dodging Shutdown and Year-End Bloat
By Family Research Council That sound you hear in Washington, D.C. is every congressional staffer breathing a sigh of relief. For once, the Hill will be home at a reasonable time for Christmas — not staring down another government shutdown or stuffing an unread trillion-dollar omnibus down the Democrats’ chimney. In the real first hurdle […]
Fiscal Insanity by the Congress of the United States of America
By Geoff Ross The Congress of the United States has been negligent in protecting tax payer money from fraud waste and abuse for 50 plus years. The majority of the elected career politicians in Congress are put into power by low IQ Americans who do zero research on the “R” politicians and stay misinformed by […]
New Gov’t Data Suggests Biden Admin’s Anti-Gas Appliance Push Could Make Home Heating Way More Expensive
By The Daily Caller Americans using electric heating systems, favored by the Biden administration’s climate agenda, will pay significantly more to keep their homes warm this winter than Americans using natural gas, according to data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA). Those who use electricity to heat their homes will pay $1,063 on average […]
Illegal aliens chant ‘Biden, Biden, Biden’ as they approach U.S. border
By Royal A. Brown III This failure to secure our borders and safeguard our national sovereignty by ignoring our own immigration laws continues and must be stopped. I’m overstating the obvious by saying the only way to do so is to re-elect Donald J. Trump as POTUS in 2024 as well as primary out all […]
Americans Are Increasingly Failing To Make Debt Payments As Inflation Continues To Put ‘Strain On Consumers’
By The Daily Caller Americans are increasingly falling behind on their debt payments as inflation continues to erode real incomes, threatening to cause many consumers to declare bankruptcy. Delinquency transitions, debts that were previously being paid but no longer are despite outstanding obligations, rose rapidly in the third quarter of 2023 in all forms of […]
Biden Admin’s Regulatory Overhaul Is Poised To Burden Americans In The Name Of Fighting Climate Change
By The Daily Caller President Joe Biden’s administration finalized guidance Thursday likely to burden Americans with costlier regulations to fulfill administration priorities such as combating climate change. Biden’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is enacting new guidance that would require regulators to consider priorities like inequality and climate change when analyzing the costs and benefits of […]
‘It Ruins Their Case’: Attorney Reveals Why New York Judge Tried To Hush Trump During Testimony
By The Daily Caller A legal spokesperson for former President Donald Trump said that the judge in Trump’s civil fraud trial was trying to hush the former president because Trump’s explanations wrecked the case against him. Trump and attorney Alina Habba clashed with Judge Arthur F. Engoron during the former president’s testimony Monday, with the judge threatening to remove […]
Top Hunter Biden Prosecutor Confirms Key Detail Of IRS Whistleblower Testimony, Jim Jordan Says
By The Daily Caller Delaware U.S. Attorney David Weiss, special counsel in the ongoing Hunter Biden investigation, confirmed a key allegation made by IRS whistleblower Gary Shapley, Republican Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan said Tuesday. Weiss testified before the House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday and said he requested special attorney authority under section 515 in the spring […]
‘Answer The Question’: Sparks Fly As Trump Spars With Judge In NYC Fraud Case
By The Daily Caller Former President Donald Trump was told not to make “speeches” soon after taking the stand Monday to testify during his New York civil fraud trial. Judge Arthur Engoron reminded the former president to stay on topic and told his lawyer “this is not a political rally,” according to The Hill. His sons and […]
House Passes H.R. 8126 the ‘Israel Aid Bill’ Funded by IRS Cuts
By The Daily Caller The House of Representatives passed a bill on Thursday that would send military aid to Israel during its conflict with Hamas, which will be funded by cuts to funding for the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). The Israel Security Supplemental Appropriations Act of 2024 would provide funds to the Department of Defense to replace […]
House Passes EPA Spending Bill That Defunds Several Biden Climate Initiatives
By The Daily Caller The House of Representatives passed its sixth appropriations bill to fund certain government agencies related to the environment on Friday that would defund many of the Biden administration’s climate-change-focused initiatives. The Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2024 allocates over $25 billion to fund conservation programs, agencies such as […]
Job Gains Fall Short Of Explanations As Unemployment Ticks Up
By The Daily Caller The U.S. added 150,000 nonfarm payroll jobs in October as the unemployment rate ticked up to 3.9%, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) data released Friday. Economists had anticipated that the country would add 180,000 jobs in October compared to the 336,000 jobs that were added in September and that the unemployment rate […]
Biden ‘Depleted’ Israeli Weapons to Back Ukraine: Congressman
By Family Research Council Before Hamas launched a terrorist attack on Middle Eastern Jews, the Biden administration had weakened Israeli defenses by diverting hundreds of thousands of artillery shells out of Israel to support the war in Ukraine. A Republican congressman says it is “unclear” Biden’s actions fully complied with U.S. law. The New York […]
HAMAS OFFICIALS: Iran Has Given Our Organizations $ Billions, Paying For ‘Every Weapon’ And Funding Our Jihad
By Middle East Media Research Institute Over the past few years, MEMRI has translated top officials from Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), and even the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) talking openly about how Iran is funding their organizations’ military activity. MEMRI has compiled these clips into a video exposing these leaders […]
Dozens Of GOP Reps Urge Speaker Johnson, Mitch McConnell To Repeal Biden Natural Gas Tax
By The Daily Caller Several dozen Republican lawmakers wrote to the newly-elected Speaker of the House asking him to repeal an emissions reduction program from the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), according to a copy of the letter obtained exclusively by the Daily Caller News Foundation. Rep. August Pfluger of Texas wrote the letter, which urges House […]
Biden’s $110 Billion Fiasco
By Center For Security Policy Now that the US House of Representatives has finally, after four tries, elected a Speaker, business can resume in that chamber. As all money bills by law must originate in the House and not in the Senate, one of the first pieces of business will be to take up President Joe Biden’s […]
Biden is Sanctioning Hamas While Funding Hamas
By Jihad Watch Is USAID still operating under a terrorism funding exemption license? The Biden administration has rolled out some new sanctions on Hamas and other terrorist groups. “Today’s action underscores the United States’ commitment to dismantling Hamas’s funding networks by deploying our counterterrorism sanctions authorities and working with our global partners to deny Hamas the ability […]
THE WAR ON X: WW III • The Global War Against Islamic Terrorism — Day 16
By Dr. Rich Swier Today October 23rd, 2023 we are now seeing the violence that Hamas began 16 days ago is now spreading like wild fire across the Middle East, Europe and in America. Demonstrations, some violent, are being led by supporters of Hamas. This is the global Islamic jihad we have been predicating for […]
Biden’s Billions For Hamas
By The Geller Report “The U.S. is working round the clock to resupply Hamas.” By: Daniel Greenfield, Oct 21, 2023 “Biden’s Deputy National Security Advisor couldn’t explain how the US can prevent Hamas from taking control of the goods” The Biden administration is widely broadcasting that it’s made a budget request of almost $106 billion […]
Congress Can End the Nonprofit Status of Pro-Hamas Groups
By Jihad Watch The IRS has allowed Pro-Hamas groups to benefit from tax-exempt status. “We give our heart, we give our life, we give our blood to the Palestinian people,” Manolo De Los Santos of The People’s Forum declared at a pro-Hamas rally in Manhattan. “Continue to resist. We stand with you. By any means necessary.” “By […]
THE WAR ON X: WW III • The Global War Against Islamic Terrorism — Day 14
By Dr. Rich Swier On this the 14th day of The Global War Against Islamic Terrorism we are learning more and more about the barbary of Hamas. To read WW III • The Global War Against Islamic Terrorism — Days 1 to 14 click here. We are also learning about how the media, e.g. the […]
With U.S. Distracted, Biden Admin Quietly Funds Open Borders Allies
By Family Research Council Amid the prospect of a possible government shutdown over the fiscal 2024 budget, the Biden administration’s U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) recently announced $22 million in grants for organizations to “help prepare lawful permanent residents for naturalization.” The announcement drew little attention. After all, helping legal immigrants become citizens hardly seems scandalous, […]
Another Shameless Pentagon Policy: Cutting Overseas Cost-of-Living Allowances to Fund Abortions
By Dr. Rich Swier The shame of this is that the DOD is rolling in $ – over $820 Billion and you can bet there is a ton of fraud, waste and abuse going on. So many examples including: The Afghanistan withdrawal; Cost overruns in F-35 program; Unaccounted for billions in aid and equipment going to […]
‘Totally Inappropriate’: Trump Rips Biden For Sending $100 Million In Aid To Gaza
By The Daily Caller Former President Donald Trump blasted President Joe Biden Wednesday for sending $100 million in humanitarian aid to Palestinians, calling the move “totally inappropriate.” Biden announced the aid Wednesday, just days after the United Nations Relief and Works Agency posted on X that Hamas stole fuel and other relief supplies. Hamas attacked multiple locations in southern Israel […]
Inflation Stays Hot As High Prices Continue To Plague Americans
By The Daily Caller Inflation remained high in September, staying well above the Federal Reserve’s 2% target, according to the latest Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) release on Thursday. The Consumer Price Index (CPI), a broad measure of the prices of everyday goods, increased 3.7% on an annual basis in September, compared to 3.7% in August, exceeding the expectation […]
Here’s Why McCarthy is Finally Out
By The Geller Report For anyone still scratching there thick heads as to why McCarthy is out….a much needed trip down memory lane. By: Sundance, The Last Refuge, October 3, 2023 | According to multiple DC media sources, a quiet effort is underway by members of the professionally republican mindset to kick Matt Gaetz out of the […]
House Votes To Remove Kevin McCarthy As Speaker
By The Daily Caller The U.S. House voted Tuesday to remove Kevin McCarthy as speaker after Democrats joined with eight House Republicans to vote for a motion to vacate the chair. Republican Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz filed the motion to vacate the chair Monday night, which then picked up the support of Democrats. House Minority […]
Acting Speaker Patrick McHenry Orders Pelosi to Vacate Her Capitol Secret Hideaway Office Immediately
By The Geller Report One of his first acts Acting Speaker House Rep. Patrick McHenry has ordered Rep. Nancy Pelosi to vacate her capitol hideaway office by Wednesday Secret Speaker office? WTH? Acting Speaker Patrick McHenry Orders Pelosi to Vacate Her Capitol Hideaway Office by Wednesday By Cristina Laila, Gateway, October 3, 2023: As his first act […]