Forget “Made in China.” There’s a much better alternative that puts America first. Born in 1975, the same year the Vietnam War ended, I witnessed Vietnam’s profound struggles under socialism and its remarkable transition toward a market economy. My father, who served alongside U.S. forces during the war, brought our family to the United States, where we became…

Posted on Monday, December 16, 2024 | by Andrew Shirley | 4 Comments | Print When President-elect Donald Trump takes over for Joe Biden next month, he will be inheriting an economy teetering on the brink of disaster. But as hazardous as the situation is, Trump may be the man…

The arrest of Luigi Mangione for the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson is more than a criminal case. It is a test of America’s ability to distinguish right from wrong. At this point, far too many Americans have flunked that test. Elizabeth Warren, for example. The Democratic senator from Massachusetts did not wait long…

Posted on Monday, December 16, 2024 | by AMAC Newsline | 0 Comments | Print Earlier this month, reports surfaced that President Biden’s former Social Security Administration (SSA) Commissioner Martin O’Malley signed a deal to make teleworking policies permanent until 2029 for more than 40,000 federal employees. The move was…

It’s become commonplace, though not cliché, to say that Donald Trump has transformed America’s political culture in fundamental and lasting ways. As with anything, the full impact of the Trump chapter in American history will not be understood completely until enough time has elapsed, giving the opportunity for a comprehensive and objective assessment down the…

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,…