A potential rail strike that was on the verge of upending the U.S. economy may have caught your attention in the headlines this week. It was averted on Thursday, but underlying the battle between rail carriers and labor unions over wages and quality of life policies for workers is an issue over which the American … Read more
Trump asked his Homeland Security secretary to abolish an entire Appeals Court, per a new book. “Let’s just cancel it,” Trump told then-Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen of the Ninth Circuit. Trump, per the book, told Nielsen to draft a bill to “get rid of the fucking judges.” Loading Something is loading. President Donald Trump asked his … Read more
If you were planning to spend Thursday stocking up on toilet paper in advance of a seemingly imminent freight-railroad strike or lockout, you woke up to welcome news. President Joe Biden has announced a tentative agreement to avert the disruption and the body blow it would have caused the economy and our supply chains. The … Read more
Hewitt asked Trump what he meant by “problems.” “I think they’d have big problems. Big problems. I just don’t think they’d stand for it. They will not sit still and stand for this ultimate of hoaxes,” Trump said. It’s not the first time Republicans have hinted at potential civil unrest if the DOJ indicts Trump. … Read more
To add insult to taxpayer injury, the new Inflation Reduction Act funds 87,000 additional Internal Revenue Service tax agents. These IRS agents will focus their auditing-based revenue recovery efforts disproportionately upon middle class earners who, unlike wealthy Americans, cannot afford to defend themselves against the federal government. By seeking to quench their insatiable thirst for … Read more
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New details have emerged about former President Donald Trump‘s alleged desire to have the United States acquire the island of Greenland while in office. According to a forthcoming book, the former president at one point even suggested to aides that the U.S. could trade Puerto Rico for it. The claim is one of many sensational … Read more