Obamacare Enrollment Trails 2025 By Less Than Expected Authored by Lawrence Wilson via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Plan selections in the Affordable Care Act Marketplace were 3.5 percent behind 2025’s number with two weeks left in open enrollment, but the drop-off has not been as severe as some analysts predicted. An Affordable Care Act sign sits in front of an insurance agency in Miami on Nov. 12, 2025. Joe Raedle/Getty […]

Is It Time To Realign State Borders? Authored by John Kudla via American Thinker, Let’s pretend you are a liberal living in a red state.  If you feel aggrieved about the condition of the world and believe that conservatives are to blame, you can find a few like-minded souls, print up some signs covered in half-clever phrases, and go protest.  In most cases, unless you chain yourself to a railing on the courthouse steps or […]

Need To Escape Socialism? Come To Florida! Authored by Jeffrey Folks via American Thinker, The difference between red and blue states is not just a matter of degree; it is a qualitative difference based on the loss of freedom in blue states and an entirely different attitude in the red states.  The best example is the contrast between what now exists in New York and Florida.  Whereas New York, especially New York City, is […]

Trump Appears To De-Escalate Iran Rhetoric, ‘Killing Has Stopped’ – Oil Tumbles There are reports that President Trump is listening to the non-interventionists in his cabinet, as he says Wednesday afternoon he’s been told that the killing in Iran is stopping, and with no plan for executions. WTI futures immediately dropped on the newswires:  WTI fell from USD 62.30 to lows of 59.80/bbl over 7 minutes. Brent fell from 66.80 to […]

“Everything’s On The Table”: JPM CFO Signals Possible Fight With Trump Over Credit Card Rate Cap Wall Street has benefited greatly from the Trump administration’s economic policies and “Make America Great Again” agenda and has largely been supportive of the president. That relationship abruptly fractured last Friday when the president called for a one-year cap on credit card interest rates at 10%. All it took was President Trump’s […]

Minnesota Stealing: Reason To Rethink Government Welfare Authored by Larry Elder via The Epoch Times, As for the estimated $8 billion in government (taxpayer) money stolen by crooks in Minnesota, people demand answers to many questions. But the 800-pound elephant/question goes unasked: Why is government in the business of welfare in the first place? Where in the Constitution does it permit the federal government to extract […]

Denmark Says It’s Clear Trump “Has A Desire To Conquer Greenland” After WH Meeting Latest: DENMARK SAYS AGREED WITH US TO FORM WORKING GROUP ON GREENLAND RASMUSSEN: WE DIDN’T MANAGE TO CHANGE THE US POSITION RASMUSSEN: MEETING TOOK PLACE IN CONSTRUCTIVE ATMOSPHERE RASMUSSEN: IN US-GREENLANDIC TALKS `WE AGREE TO DISAGREE’ RASMUSSEN: EXPERT GROUP WILL MEET IN MATTER OF WEEKS Greenland’s Foreign Ministry says they will […]

Ukrainians Fight Back: Family, Friends, & Neighbors Start Standing Up For Men Being Dragged Off To War Via Remix News, In Ukraine, ongoing forced conscription and violent practices by the military are provoking civilians to finally resist in unprecedented fashion: passersby, neighbors, and family members are blocking the recruiters’ path as they try to drag civilians off the streets. Forced conscription is causing […]

Nuclear Reactors On The Moon By 2030 First it was data centers in space. Now it’s nuclear reactors on the moon. The global space race is heating up again, but it’s more than about just reaching the moon. International partners are teaming up to develop and establish remote posts on the moon utilizing nuclear reactors as the primary energy supply. The Russians are teaming up with the Chinese, the French are teaming up with the […]

In Some Minnesota Schools, The Focus Is Reading, Writing, And Resistance Authored by Aaron Gifford via The Epoch Times, In the Twin Cities, schools play a key role in fostering a culture where resistance and anti-authoritarianism thrive. A Minneapolis charter school located near where 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good was shot and killed last week by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent is centered on social justice […]

Trump Freezes All Visa Processing For 75 Countries: The Full List The US government announced Wednesday it will pause or suspend immigrant visa issuance for 75 countries, with Iran among the countries listed, at a moment President Trump is said to be mulling some kind of US military intervention after two weeks of protests – but which largely seemed to have died down at this point. The new visa pause order will take effect January […]

US Designates Chapters Of Muslim Brotherhood As Foreign Terrorist Organizations Authored by Jill McLaughlin via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The Trump administration has followed through on its stated goal of designating three branches of the Muslim Brotherhood as terrorist organizations, sanctioning the groups and their members in accordance with President Donald Trump’s plan to strengthen national security. Secretary of […]

Disruptions Reported At Major US Cellular Carriers, Downdetector Shows Downdetector, the website that tracks real-time outages and service disruptions across the internet, reported moments ago that users of Verizon, T-Mobile, AT&T, Verizon Fios, and U.S. Cellular are experiencing disruptions and outages that began within the last hour. At a more granular level of the Verizon outage, reports indicate that outages and […]

Newsom Scrambles To Keep Billionaires In California, Vows To Kill Wealth Tax After a swath of billionaires publicly announced they are leaving the state of California over a proposed wealth tax, Governor Gavin Newsom went into a full blown panic – vowing to stop the proposed tax and “do what I have to do to protect the state.”  In an interview with the NY Times, Newsom said that he has been working ‘relentlessly’ behind […]

Rivian Shares Slide After Second Sell Downgrade In Week As UBS Flags “Limited Catalysts”  Shares of Rivian Automotive moved lower on Wednesday morning after UBS analyst Joseph Spak downgraded the struggling EV maker from “Neutral” to “Sell,” marking the second analyst this week to slash their rating on the stock. Spak told clients that his downgrade of Rivian from Neutral to Sell, along with shifting his price target from $15 to […]

Immigrant Secret Service Agent Leaks JD Vance’s Travel Details Authored by Ken Silva via Headline USA, Journalist James O’Keefe published a shocking report Tuesday about how a Secret Service agent assigned to Vice President JD Vance’s security detail leaked details about his travels to one of O’Keefe’s undercover reporters. Furthermore, the agent, Tomas Escotto, only became a citizen in 2018, he voted for Joe Biden […]

France Records First Peacetime Natural Population Decline As Deaths Exceed Births Authored by Thomas Brooke via Remix News, France recorded a negative natural population balance in 2025 for the first time since the end of the Second World War, according to the national statistics institute INSEE, as the number of deaths exceeded the number of births over the year. INSEE estimates that 645,000 babies were born in France in 2025, […]

Ford Worker Suspended For Heckling Trump Raises Over $300K On GoFundMe Update (1145ET): The suspended employee, TJ Sabula, has raised over $300,000 via GoFundMe since the incident. The Ford Factory Worker who was let go after humiliated Trump_ is a Hero. My Donation to him $500.00#FuckTrump pic.twitter.com/1DpSRpNzH1 — Rydercc64 #Don’tFollowLead 🪶🪖💪🏽👊🏼🍀 (@rydercc64) January 14, 2026 *  *  * After […]

How Greenland Became The Most Dangerous Real Estate on Earth By Michael Kern of OilPrice.com The United States will officially begin negotiations to dismantle the Western world’s operating system in just about 30 minutes or so…and oil prices are up just over 1% in anticipation.  The meeting, which will take place at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, will include Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco […]

Justices Ask For Definition Of Sex During Supreme Court Arguments On Transgender Students In Girls Sports Authored by Arjun Singh via The Epoch Times, Three justices of the Supreme Court of the United States on Jan. 13 pressed advocates in two cases regarding transgender student participation in sports to define “sex” for the purposes of constitutional law. “What is that definition, for equal protection purposes? What does […]

Crude Stocks Rise Most In Two Months As US Oil Production Finally Drops While oil prices keep rising on mounting geopolitical tensions in Iran, the production glut refuses to go away, and as today’s DOE report showed, there was a material increase across almost all products, with the exception of Distillates which were flat. Of note, amid expectations for a modest crude draw, we saw a 3.4MM barrel increase, the largest since the […]

Are Central Bankers Willing To Truly Upset Markets So Trump Backs Off? By Michael Every of Rabobank Officially it’s 2,000, but reportedly as many as 12,000 Iranian protestors could have been killed by their own government over the past few days. While the West has seen none of the mass protests that the last two-plus years have been full of, President Trump told those on Iran’s streets to keep going and that “Help is […]

FBI Raids WaPo Reporter’s Home In Classified Docs Case The FBI executed a search warrant on the home of Washington Post reporter Hannah Natanson as part of a probe into “a government contractor accused of illegally retaining classified government materials,” the paper announced Wednesday.  Natanson, was at her Virginia home when the agency showed up with a warrant. According to the outlet, “law enforcement was investigating […]

“Defining Moment”: Saks Global Files For Bankruptcy After Botched Neiman Marcus Takeover Luxury department store conglomerate Saks Global filed for bankruptcy protection late Tuesday night, in one of the largest US retail collapses since the Covid era and, among other things, what appears to be a casualty of the menacing K-shaped economy. Saks Global has been weighed down by heavy debt following its $2.7 billion, debt-fuelled […]

How Independent Is The Federal Reserve? Authored by Jeffrey Tucker via The Epoch Times, The Department of Justice has opened an investigation into cost overruns in the Federal Reserve’s renovation project, with particular focus on Fed Chairman Jerome Powell and his testimony to Congress in June 2025. The question is whether he perjured himself concerning what he knew and when. Powell responded with a highly unusual video […]