Who eats the tariffs? Importers will pay the import duty imposed by the US government. Businesses purchasing foreign-made goods will then decide to either absorb the levies in the form of lower profits or pass the costs on to their customers. Exporters might also pay the tariffs by lowering prices to remain competitive in the…
The establishment media has gotten itself into another fine mess, as the late, great Oliver Hardy would have put it. And, once again, it is destined for humiliation at the hands of President Donald Trump. On May 21, he hosted Cyril Ramaphosa, the president of South Africa, at the White House. This meeting came on…
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An American cultural war is simmering – and it lies on the fringes, just in the peripheral view. Transparency is a promise being kept and accounted for by Elon Musk, who is uncovering fraud and corruption on nearly every level of a bloated federal government, showing it for all the world to see. And many…
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The US government’s fiscal health has deteriorated over the last 25 years. The national debt has spiraled out of control; the budget deficit will likely remain above $1 to $2 trillion for the foreseeable future, and interest payments are eating a sizable chunk of tax revenue. With Uncle Sam’s hemorrhaging out in the open, what…
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Donald Trump will forever be identified as the dragon slayer. In 2016, he deep-sixed two political dynasties, those of the Bushes and Clintons. In 2024, his decisive victory over Kamala Harris reversed the tide of rampant progressivism. And in 2025, he has brought neoconservatism to its knees, replacing it with an entirely different vision of…
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It was the most poorly kept secret in Washington, DC – a city known all too well for poorly kept secrets. The country’s chief executive, supposed leader of the free world, was neither mentally nor physically up to the job. Before the very eyes of the American people, Joe Biden was deteriorating. It seemed as…
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The progressive-dominated Episcopal Church has finally found a foreigner it doesn’t want resettled into the US. White South Africans fleeing oppression cannot be welcomed into America because, in the eyes of these religious leftists, that would help bolster a dominant and oppressive “lighter skin tone” (their words) social construct that must be destroyed. For the…
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Political stunts had flyover folks piping up this week, deciding it was time for the US Department of Justice to do some work. Former FBI Director James Comey apparently thought he’d look all tough and cool by posting an ominous image on social media, getting the Trump administration fired up. Comey is still the big…
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Bureaucrats from Ukraine and Russia met in Turkey on Friday, May 16, to discuss peace. Neither nation’s president showed up to the talks – and neither did Donald Trump, which might seem an odd thing to point out at first glance, but it’s nevertheless relevant. The talks lasted less than two hours and reportedly resulted…
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Just when you thought dominant establishment “journalism” couldn’t sink any lower, the floor of the muck-filled Swamp drops another 100 feet. It looks like a prominent DC insider media outlet has been openly selling pay-for-play access to big corporate advertisers. Meanwhile, the larger “news site” it broke away from has entered into a sponsorship deal…
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Even though the 2028 presidential election is more than three years away, the contours of the Democratic competition to succeed President Donald Trump are already beginning to take shape. Of course, the outcome of the 2026 midterms will have a significant bearing on how the race for the White House is ultimately framed, but in…
The tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee released the highly anticipated 389-page tax portion of “the one big beautiful bill” on May 12. A day later, the committee hosted a markup of the drafted legislative proposal, with Republican and Democratic lawmakers exchanging terse comments. What matters, however, is not the political theater taking place in…
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