Breitbart News The Federal Reserve appears to expect economic growth to come crashing to an abrupt halt later this year. The market suggests that is still too optimistic. The Summary of Economic Projections released by the Federal Open Market Committee showed the median expectation for growth this year is just 0.4 percent, down a tenth of a point from…
by Kaitlin Housler | Tennessee Star Tennessee U.S. Congressman Chuck Fleischmann (R-TN-03) joined a bipartisan group of his colleagues in introducing the National Nuclear Commitment Act. The text of the one-page resolution reads, “That it is the sense of Congress that in order to achieve geopolitical energy leadership, reduce carbon emissions, and secure American energy independence, Congress…
By Michael McKay | American Thinker I’m going to make a blanket statement: We’re all emotionally numb to a degree we’ve never been before from multiple years of constantly increasing craziness that’s been an I.N.S.A.N.E assault on our basic sensibilities – from multiple directions. In my last paper on LRC – Defending Yourself Against Wealth and Health Destruction – I…
By LOU KESTEN, BASSEM MROUE AND JON GAMBRELL BEIRUT (AP) — A strike Thursday by a suspected Iranian-made drone killed a U.S. contractor and wounded five American troops and another contractor in northeast Syria, the Pentagon said. American forces said they retaliated soon after with “precision airstrikes” in Syria targeting facilities used by groups affiliated…
BY LOUISE CHAMBERS A Texas teen who restored a 1954 John Deere tractor to its former glory has collected three titles at a prestigious stock show and rodeo, alongside a cash prize of $10,000 which will go toward his college fund. Above and beyond the titles, the teen said that restoring the tractor was a labor…
I commit you to God and to the word of his grace, which can build you up and give you an inheritance among all those who are sanctified. Acts 20:32 After years of research, scientists have learned that wolves have distinct voices that help them communicate with each other. Using a specific sound analysis code,…
Your participation in Hillsdale College’s National Survey on the United States Supreme Court is requested. Your response will only take a few minutes, but the subject is crucial to the future of liberty and the separation of powers in America. In an interview published in Imprimis, Hillsdale’s digest of liberty, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court Clarence…
by David Kelly The House Freedom Caucus hit the bullseye by targeting President Biden’s woke policy-driven proposed budget while offering their votes to raise the debt ceiling contingent to enacting commonsense legislation. The White House responded by issuing a “FIVE-ALARM FIRE” statement on Thursday that could only be seen as a precursor to a budget battle standoff that could push…
by R. Cort Kirkwood An American judge famously said a grand jury would “indict a ham sandwich, if that’s what you wanted,” but it appears that the grand jury in Manhattan won’t indict former POTUS 45 Donald J. Trump. For the second day, the grand jury did not meet, apparently because hate-Trump Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg believes it…
Lysander Spooner once observed that, compared to the government, an armed robber is a gentleman by comparison. The highwayman takes solely upon himself the responsibility, danger, and crime of his own act. He does not pretend that he has any rightful claim to your money, or that he intends to use it for your own…
The idol of the South to this day, Virginian Robert E. Lee had some difficulty in adjusting to the new form of warfare that unfolded with the Civil war, but this did not prevent him from keeping the Union armies in Virginia at bay for almost three years. The son of Revolutionary War hero “Light…
March 24 is the 83rd day of the year (84th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 282 days remaining until the end of the year. March 24th is the 365th and last day of the year in many European implementations of the Julian calendar. Holidays Christian Feast Day: Catherine of Vadstena Mac…
All of us in this office have a stake in the term “Over the hill”. It is an expression that is used in corporate America today in reference to workers over fifty—in some cases the line of demarcation is as low as forty. The inference of the expression is that a person who has passed…
“The truth is, that, even with the most secure tenure of office, during good behavior, the danger is not, that the judges will be too firm in resisting public opinion, and in defence of private rights or public liberties; but, that they will be ready to yield themselves to the passions, and politics, and prejudices…
JIM DENISON, PHD On a morning when the news is dominated by the Federal Reserve attempting to control the economy and the grand jury investigating Donald Trump, I wanted to focus on something more transcendent. To do so, however, I have to begin with the temporal. Actress Gwyneth Paltrow’s trial over a 2016 ski accident got underway this week. The actress…
The Federal Reserve hiked its target federal-funds interest rate by a quarter of a percentage point Wednesday, the ninth in a series of hikes that started in March 2022. The hike brings the Fed’s target rate to a range between 4.75% and 5% with the Fed maintaining its pace of slowed increases. Most economists expected…
Today is the 13th Anniversary of the Affordable Care Act. Passed in 2010 and signed by President Obama 13 years ago, the ACA is designed to end health freedom as we know it. It was also designed as a wealth redistribution scheme. After final passage in Congress, U.S. Senator Max Baucus (D-MT), Chair of the Senate Finance Committee, said on…
By Michael Gryboski, Mainline Church The United States Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from a traveling evangelist who was barred from preaching at the University of Alabama for failing to obtain a permit. In an order released Monday, the Supreme Court declined without comment to hear arguments in the case of Rodney Keister v. Stuart Bell et al.,…
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A coalition of conservative groups led by Americans for Tax Reform are calling on lawmakers to block the creation of a government-run tax preparation service or a “direct file” tax return system, a largely overlooked reform included last year in President Biden’s landmark Inflation Reduction Act. The program is the brainchild of Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), who…