POLITICS

(By Peter Jacobsen, FEE) For “Ask an Economist” this week, I have two questions from J.R. He says, “My question is what happens when the government continues to spend out of control where it potentially out spends its ability to pay its bills/debt? With the national debt over $30 trillion and...

(Headline USA) The House Oversight Committee demanded records from the National Archives and Records Administration this week regarding Hunter Biden’s use of Air Force Two. As part of their investigation into the Biden family business dealings, House Republicans said they are looking into how frequently Hunter Biden accompanied his father...

(Mark Pellin, Headline USA) Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban strongly criticized the Biden administration's handling of the Ukrainian conflict, blasting the president and his mainstream media collaborators for leading the country closer to another world war. When the prime minister was asked during an interview with Tucker Carlson for his...

(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) In a recent MSNBC appearance, GOP presidential hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy called out Democrat Party mouthpiece Andrea Mitchell for using an isolated weather event to peddle leftist disinformation about climate change, Fox News reported. Alluding to Ramaswamy's recent debate comment, wherein he claimed that climate change is...

(Robert Jonathan, Headline USA) Cornel West condemned the Democrat Party as, in effect, being irretrievably broken for selling out purported progressivism to corporations and the military-industrial complex. West, the far-left former Harvard and Princeton professor, is running for president in 2024 for the Green Party. During a 20-minute interview, West weighed...

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) When the U.S. government arrested 21-year-old Air National Guardsman Jack Teixeira in April for allegedly leaking classified Pentagon documents, prosecutors said he needed to be kept in pretrial detention because he's a criminal with an “arsenal of weapons”—including AR- and AK-style weapons, and a “bazooka.” Most media...

(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo wasted a lot of time and taxpayers' money on a visit to Beijing for a meeting with China's Vice Premier He Lifeng to discuss China's trade concerns. The meeting lasted for four and a half hours, and reportedly solved nothing, according...

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) A Wednesday press conference with Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., was interrupted after he stopped his remarks mid-sentence and stared off into space for several seconds—the second such public medical episode in the span of about a month for the 81-year-old senator. McConnell’s apparent medical episode...

(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) Investigations into numerous land deals surrounding a major U.S. Air Force base in California revealed that tech billionaires bought up millions of dollars worth of farmland and planned to turn it into a utopia-like city. The investors bought much of the land, located in Solano County,...

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) “Aahhh! You won’t get me, you goddamn police. Aahhhh!” Those were the final words posted online by Democrat ex-state representative Stacie Laughton of New Hampshire, before Laughton was arrested and charged in June for the exploitation of children, as well as the distribution of child pornography. The supremely...

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) The Biden Justice Department is facing growing pressure as new revelations come to light about the extensive embezzlement of U.S. taxpayer funds earmarked for COVID-19 relief, carried out by international criminal groups and foreign entities. These groups are accused of siphoning off approximately $280 billion, originally earmarked...

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Gold Star father Mark Schmitz voiced his frustrations about the handling of the tragic events surrounding the deadly withdrawal of U.S. troops in Afghanistan on August 26, 2021. In an emotional testimony before the House Foreign Affairs Committee on Tuesday, Schmitz slammed what he described as a...