Aug 2, 2025 – “Honesty” isn’t just the title of one of Billy Joel’s best songs — it’s also what he should’ve given his audience in his latest documentary instead of repeating the “very fine people on both sides” hoax.I spent my Friday evening like any loyal Joel fan would: watching part two of...

Aug 2, 2025 – The Secret Service was moving forward with renewing former Director Kimberly Cheatle’s top-level security clearance but reversed course after RealClearPolitics inquired about a key senator’s opposition, according to multiple sources in the Secret Service community.Sen. Ron Johnson, a Wisconsin Republican who chairs the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations and previously chaired...

Aug 2, 2025 – Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley announced this morning:Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today is making public the formerly Classified Appendix (“Durham annex”) to John Durham’s 2023 Special Counsel report…The Durham annex contains previously classified information exposing a reported Clinton campaign plan to falsely tie President Donald Trump to Russia…Attorney...

Aug 2, 2025 – Federal Reserve Board Gov. Adriana Kugler will resign from her position later this month, the Fed announced on Friday. Kugler, who has served on the Reserve’s Board of Governors since September 2023, is stepping down Aug. 8, according to a press release. She is planning to return to Georgetown University as...

Aug 2, 2025 – America runs on gas stations. The US has more gas stations than any other country in the world, around 196,000. These rest stops and corner pumps supply the country with the gas it needs for its commerce and road trips.Not only do they fuel the wheels of the American economy,...

Aug 2, 2025 – The owners of the NFL’s Washington Commanders fear they will have to snub the woke mob and restore the original Redskins name – or risk President Trump throttling their deal for a new stadium, On The Money has learned.That, at least, is the word from insiders close to private equity titans Josh...

Aug 1, 2025 – Orwell's Big Brother is definitely peering into every aspect of one's life in the United Kingdom.The latest step into dystopian hell is the so-called Online Safety Act, and it was enacted into law in the name of, again, as you might imagine, FOR THE CHILDREN.As these sorts of things tend...

Aug 3, 2025 – Gov. Kelly Ayotte has signed into law two bills aimed at blocking gender-affirming care for minors.House Bill 377 bans puberty blockers for children if they're used as part of gender-affirming care. Puberty blockers and other hormone therapies can still be used to treat certain medical conditions in young patients.The new...

Aug 4, 2025 – On July 29 — the same day that EPA initiated the process of revoking the absurd “endangerment finding” that demonizes CO2 emissions from energy production (covered at Manhattan Contrarian here) — there was another equally momentous development on the energy front at the federal government.  On that day, the Department...

Aug 5, 2025 – There has been a perfect trifecta of movement among President Donald Trump’s cabinet members and agency administrators, with a focus on making our energy sources both reliable and affordable.First, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin slams a stake into the heart of the green energy regulatory monster, by rescinding...

Aug 4, 2025 – Amid all the discussion of Iran’s nuclear program, and Israeli and U.S. efforts to destroy it, one fact remains largely ignored: Iran scarcely needs a nuclear arsenal.To begin with, any detonation of such a weapon against Israel, which reportedly has hundreds of nuclear weapons and clearly has the ability and...

Aug 5, 2025 – The Trump administration has notified the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) that it is freezing $339.2 million in federal funds from the institution following civil rights violations, a senior administration official told the Daily Caller.The Department of Energy (DOE), the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and...

Aug 5, 2025 – A GoFundMe campaign to support severely injured Virginia Republican Councilman Lee Vogler has raised over $57,000 just days after he was targeted in a brutal and unprovoked attack.Vogler, 38, a city councilman in Danville and a father of two, sustained second- and third-degree burns over more than half of his...

Aug 5, 2025 – The discovery of a 'massive' rat has sparked fears that the issue could become a 'growing' problem in North Yorkshire.A pest controller found a dead rat, said measure 22 inches from nose to tail. The rodent had made its nest within a home in Normanby.Now there are fears that it...

Aug 4, 2025 – The alleged gunman who shot the driver suspected of plowing his car into a crowd standing outside an East Hollywood nightclub last month has been arrested.Efrain Villalobos, 38, was taken into custody Sunday afternoon at a home in Redondo Beach, according to the Los Angeles Police Department.On Friday, police released images of...

Aug 5, 2025 – Your school has a $22 billion endowment. You don’t need federal cash.The University of Pennsylvania student paper is very upset the school agreed to Trump administration demands regarding men’s participation in women’s sports — so much so it says UPenn is “descending into fascism” (its headline).The Daily Pennsylvanian Summer Opinion Editor Ingrid Holmquist and her summer-session...

Aug 4, 2025 – There you are, mingling with friends, minding your own business, trying to spend a little downtime in the city.Did you see a matinee? Schmaybe went to a museum or shopping.Time to get home as the afternoon wanes, so you head back to Grand Central for the train into New Jersey...

Aug 4, 2025 – Nobody likes getting a bill. For Northern Californians, the monthly Pacific Gas and Electric Co. statement can be a particular source of frustration.A reader named Lisa from Oakland wrote to me with a plea: “I am hoping that you might provide an explanation of our PG&E bills. I am a...

Aug 4, 2025 – A mother and her 11-year-old daughter were killed in a head-on crash after an illegal immigrant allegedly drove drunk into oncoming traffic in New Jersey.Raul Luna-Perez, 43, a Mexican national living in the US illegally has a long rap sheet and two DUI arrests in just the last four months together...

Aug 4, 2025 – 🚨NEW: CNN's Harry Enten suggests Kamala Harris *only* claimed she doesn't want to return to "the system" because her polling is BRUTAL🚨"The bottom line is this: She is looking at the numbers. She knows what's cooking.""And then all of a sudden, you know what? Actually,… pic.twitter.com/cFHnfL2L6o— Jason Cohen 🇺🇸 (@JasonJournoDC)...

Aug 4, 2025 – Former White House aide and “The View” co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin weighed in on former Vice President Kamala Harris’s appearance on Stephen Colbert’s “The Late Show,” arguing the interview, her first since losing to President Trump in the 2024 election, represents everything that is “wrong” with Democrats since the November presidential...

Aug 3, 2025 – BREAKING: Massive protests all over Britain today to close the borders.You probably won't see this on the BBC... 👇pic.twitter.com/uX1bFNnehA— PeterSweden (@PeterSweden7) August 2, 2025

Aug 3, 2025 – any people described the jobs report that dropped from the Bureau of Labor Statistics on August 1 as “disappointing.”But it wasn’t disappointing for the left and other anti-Trump redoubts. On the contrary, it was cause for celebration. Experts had expected the economy to add 110,000 jobs in July. It added only...

Aug 3, 2025 – Harvey police are investigating a deadly shooting at a house party.The shooting happened at about 8 p.m. on Saturday in the 14400-block of Des Plaines Street, a Harvey spokesperson said.A total of seven people were shot.A 4-year-old boy was shot, officials said. He was taken to a hospital and is...

Aug 3, 2025 – Donald Trump is a master at using the rules that the radicals use against us against them — the Saul Alinsky rules, that is.  He picks a target, freezes it, personalizes it, and polarizes it (Rule 13 of Rules for Radicals).  Then he rides it to electoral success.  In 2016,...