On Dec. 16, 1944, 30 German divisions smashed into U.S. and British forces in the heavily wooded Ardennes region of Belgium and Luxembourg. The Germans counted on bad weather as their ally for this breakthrough. The predicted snow fell, and mists and clouds choked the skies, rendering air support for the Allies impossible at times.…

Government excels at NOT getting things done. But politicians promise more things anyway. Kamala Harris declared that our government would “build thousands of miles of fiber-optic cable!” This “broadband connectivity agenda” was supported by “every House Republican on Energy and Commerce,” write Republican representatives. Three years later, not a single person has been connected. Why? Because,…

Can you feel it? Something’s happening. It’s visible in all sorts of places from universities to the courts to the media. It’s present in the way in which ordinary Americans are now emboldened to stand up to the forces that have been keeping them down. Despite the darkness of the winter days, despite the continuing…

Posted on Saturday, December 14, 2024 | by Ben Solis | 0 Comments | Print The corporate media has once again betrayed a fundamental misunderstanding of President-elect Donald Trump’s tariff agenda and how it will benefit American industry and consumers. In a recent interview on NBC’s Meet the Press, the…

MANGIONE/MASS: What Do We Want? Healthcare Price Transparency — NOW! Struggling Americans told political candidates early in 2024 that healthcare costs topped the list of their financial worries. Congress would do well to listen. Hospital costs have been nothing short of a gluttonous sinkhole of American wealth.  Not only has inflation in those costs outpaced inflation in college tuition,…

Posted on Friday, December 13, 2024 | by Aaron Flanigan | 12 Comments | Print Supporters gather at a campaign rally for Republican presidential nominee, former U.S. President Donald Trump, at the Butler Farm Show Grounds on October 5, 2024 in Butler, Pennsylvania. For decades, few adages in American electoral…

Please come with me to see … a miracle. It happened near Christmas in 1982, to a Salvation Army bellringer and is what happens when people of heart refuse to let circumstance defeat them. May the spirit that made that miracle happen never stop flowing. Wind the clock back to that frigid, frightening winter in…

House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer is taking aim at two new accountability targets, revealing that he will soon review more than 400 Treasury Department money laundering reports that raised alarm about the Democrat fundraising platform ActBlue and is already passing information to the next leaders of the Justice Department to punish bureaucrats who tried…

Posted on Friday, December 13, 2024 | by Barry Casselman | 24 Comments | Print The poet T.S. Eliot’s famous closing line of “The Hollow Men” suggested the world would end “not with a bang, but a whimper.” What we call “the world” will presumably continue in 2025, but the…

Posted on Friday, December 13, 2024 | by Outside Contributor | 1 Comments | Print Two dozen FBI confidential sources were part of the crowd outside the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, and four of those informants illegally entered the building, according to a new report by the Department of Justice’s Office…