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Call It Censorship: A Court Rules Against Former “Disinformation Czar” Nina Jankowicz Authored by Jonathan Turley, Below is my column in the New York Post on the ruling against Nina Jankowicz in her defamation case. It turns out that calling opposing views defamation is no better than calling them disinformation. Here is the column: For…

Alphabet Shares Unimpressed Despite Top- & Bottom-Line Beat Alphabet reported better than expected top- and bottom-lines for the second quarter after the bell tonight. Revenue $84.74 billion, estimate $84.37 billion Revenue ex-TAC $71.36 billion, estimate $70.7 billion EPS $1.89, estimate $1.84 Cloud revenues were particularly strong as the rest of the business segments were basically…

Small Caps Surge On Short-Squeeze, Sloppy-Surveys; ETH Outperforms BTC As ETFs Launch An ugly day for macro with hard data (US home sales) and soft data (regional Fed surveys) all puking… Source: Bloomberg …was just the bad news needed to spark good news in STIRs as rate-cut expectations rebounded… Source: Bloomberg After yesterday’s big exciting…

Public University Sued Over Alleged Use Of Student Fees To Support Leftists Political Groups Authored by Patrick McDonald via Campus Reform, A recent graduate of St. Cloud State University in Minnesota is suing the university administration, alleging that she was forced to pay a fee that went to a liberal student activist group. Tayah Lackie…

Musk Says “Take Away Subsidies” As EV Price-War Enters Final Chapter With Trump Win The final chapter of the electric vehicle price war ignited by Tesla’s Elon Musk could hinge on the outcome of the November elections, especially if former President Trump wins. Trump has expressed no issues with EVs and recently stated, “I will…

US Subsidiary Of Chinese EV Manufacturer BYD Donated Hundreds Of Thousands To Democrats Well you can add this to a list of reasons Democrats just can’t seem to stomach Elon Musk any more. The U.S. subsidiary of Chinese electric vehicle manufacturer BYD and its top executive, Stella Li, have donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to Democratic…

Succession By Defenestration: How Biden’s Withdrawal May Trigger A 25th Amendment Fight Authored by Jonathan Turley, President Joe Biden’s decision to withdraw as the Democratic Party’s nominee solved an immediate problem for his party. Biden has plummeted in the polls as the vast majority of voters concluded that he is too diminished by age to serve another…

Visualizing The Cost Of Hosting The Olympics The Paris Olympics are estimated to cost over $9 billion to host, making them one of the less expensive Summer Olympic Games in recent memory. This graphic, via Visual Capitalist’s Marcus Lu, lists the estimated cost of hosting the Olympics (Summer and Winter) in 2021 USD. It goes back to…

VDH: Which Party Is ‘Killing Democracy’? Authored by Victor Davis Hanson via X: Democracy Really Is Dying in Darkness – But by Whom? Never in modern presidential history has a political party staged a veritable inside coup to remove their current president from his ongoing candidacy for his party’s nomination and reelection. Stranger still, the…

Houthis Warn ‘No Red Lines’ In Counterattack After Israel Bombs Yemeni Port Israel confirmed on Sunday its military forces launched a retaliatory airstrike on the Hodeida Port, a key Yemeni port on the Red Sea and the second largest in the country. Al Hudaydah port in Yemen keeps burning and all their oil reserves are going up in…

Speaker Johnson Threatens To Arrest Lawmakers Who Disrupt Netanyahu’s Congress Speech Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is set to address Congress at the invitation of Republicans on July 24. Several Democratic lawmakers have announced their intent to boycott the speech, citing what they say are ongoing human rights abuses and war crimes by the Israeli…

Gov. Pritzker’s Role In The Extreme Rhetoric Surrounding Donald Trump By Ted Dabrowski and John Klingner of Wirepoints The language of politics is nasty and in recent years it’s become extreme. Many even link the assassination attempt on Donald Trump to the rhetoric that’s enveloped this presidential election. We won’t go that far, as vile…

Trump Tells Zelensky He’ll “Bring Peace” In “Very Good Call” Former President Trump has again declared he will “bring peace” following a rare phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday, which comes as world leaders prepare for a likely second Trump administration.  Trump in a readout hailed it as a “very good phone call” wherein Zelensky congratulated…

Slowly… Then All At Once! Authored by James Howard Kusntler via Kunstler.com, “Biden has been jabbed at least four times. This is his third covid diagnosis. The shots are working great.” – Jeff Childers, Coffee & Covid There was a lot of talk about divine intervention at the Republican Convention this week. The country has…

Bitcoin & The Buck Bounce As Biden, Big-Tech, Bonds, & Black Gold Breakdown A bounce back in macro this week (both ‘hard’ and ‘soft’ data better than expected)… Source: Bloomberg ….stalled the ‘bad news is good news’ shift in rate-cut expectations… Source: Bloomberg The world’s largest IT outage today did nothing to help the week…

California Family Appeals Ruling Which Punished 1st Grader For ‘All Lives Matter’ Drawing Authored by Matthew Vadum via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A schoolchild and her mother asked a federal appeals court this week to decide whether a child should have been punished for making what their lawyers call an innocuous drawing that arose…

Secret Service ‘Appalled’ By Criticism Of Female Agents After Attempted Trump Assassination Instead of admitting to facilitating an assassination attempt on Donald Trump last Saturday, either through ‘malice or massive incompetence,’ the US Secret Service is ‘appalled’ that people are criticizing their decision to place short, incompetent women on Trump’s security detail. Evan Vucci /…

China Had Persistent Access to US, Allied Networks For Years: White House Official Authored by Andrew Thornebrooke via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Hackers in communist China maintained persistent access to U.S. and allied systems for multiple years, a Biden administration official has said. An unnamed Chinese hacker uses a computer at an office in…

CBDC: Creating Shortages With Full Shelves Authored by Paul Cwik via The Mises Institute, Of all the areas that economics students need to master, counterfactual reasoning is near the top of the list. Counterfactual reasoning is outlining and comparing the differences and similarities between two alternatives. While everyone uses counterfactual reasoning, such as choosing what…

Ex-Comedian Zelenskyy Claims Veteran JD Vance Doesn’t Understand War Authored by Luis Cornelio via Headline USA, In a resurfaced video, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy voiced cynical remarks against JD Vance, President Donald Trump’s running mate and staunch America First supporter. AP Photo: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Zelenskyy, a former comedian who rose to power in…

Biden Went On Unhinged Rant During Call To Discuss His Viability: Report Hours before Donald Trump was shot by a would-be assassin on Saturday, President Joe Biden became absolutely unhinged during a Zoom call with Democrats to discuss whether he should abandon his bid for reelection. According to Puck News, Right before the Trump rally…

Medicare’s Real Contribution: Hollowing Out Healthcare By Peter Earle of the American Institute for Economic Research As high inflation enters its third year and disinflation slowed, the impact of broad price increases are seeping into increasingly far flung areas. They are seen and felt not only in the prices of capital, producer, and consumer goods,…