Drivers Are Noticing Higher Gas Prices in Colorado: “$4 to $5 a gallon? Yeah, that’s not good!“
As National Debt Nears $39 Trillion and Trump Promises to Balance Budget, Americans Spend More on Interest Payments Than on Defense
As of Friday, the national debt had surpassed $38.7 trillion, according to the Treasury Department – or more than $113,000 per American. It has grown at a pace of nearly $77,000 per second over the past year, according to a tracker maintained by Republicans on Congress’s Joint Economic Committee.
“We’re $39 trillion in debt,” Rep. Michael Baumgartner said in an interview Feb. 18. “We’re running annual 20% budget deficits.”
Since the day Trump took office in 2017, the national debt has nearly doubled from just under $20 trillion to more than $38.7 trillion… (Continue to full article)
Gas Jumps 26.8 Cents In A Week, Trump Says, If They Rise, They Rise!
The national average price for a gallon of gasoline has soared to $3.251, up from $2.997 on Monday. Look a little further back, and the jump is even more noticeable. Prices have risen 26.8 cents over the past week.
That’s an increase of 9 percent and AAA implied this is the largest increase since the war in Ukraine began in March of 2022. This comes as even more price increases are expected as the war in Iran rages on and refineries will begin switching over to more expensive summer-blend gasoline.
In Arizona it is now in exces of $.20 per gallon of regular… (Continue to full article)
Dow Plunges More Than 1,000 Points Amid Concerns About Surging Oil
Stocks tumbled Thursday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average shedding almost 800 points as oil prices jumped amid the war with Iran. Higher energy prices are sparking concerns on Wall Street that they could reignite U.S. inflation.
The Dow tumbled 785 points, or 1.6%, on Thursday, after briefly dropping more than 1,000 points. The broad-based S&P 500 shed 0.6%, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq composite declined 0.3%.
Oil prices rose after Iran launched a new wave of attacks against Israel, American bases and countries around the region. The war’s escalations are raising worries about how long disruptions to the production and transport of oil and natural gas in the region could last.
A barrel of Brent crude, the international standard, rose 4.2% to $84.75. That’s up from close to $70 late last week. A barrel of benchmark U.S. crude climbed 6.9% to $79.80… (Continue to full article)
Nobel Economist Paul Krugman Says the Iran War Could Be the ‘Straw That Breaks the Camel’s Back‘ for a Fragile US Economy
The Iran war upended markets this week, and economist Paul Krugman thinks the effects could ultimately be much more far-reaching.
The Nobel Prize winner hasn’t been too optimistic about the US economy recently, largely due to the impacts he sees from President Donald Trump’s tariffs. Yet, as the military conflict escalates, he sees severe consequences looming for the US economy.
Krugman highlighted several pressing factors that have kept uncertainty high in a recent Substack post, but also laid out why the war may be accelerating the economy’s decline.
“There are many stresses on our economy, and this could be the straw that breaks the camel’s back — a straw that becomes heavier the longer the war goes on… (Continue to full article)
Trump’s Loss of $1.7 Trillion in Tariff Revenue Will Send the National Debt to $58 Trillion by 2036
A landmark Supreme Court ruling against President Trump’s tariffs has cost the federal government an estimated $1.7 trillion in projected revenue through 2036, according to a new analysis by the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget (CRFB), setting the United States on a course toward a national debt of $58 trillion within the next decade if the country continues its current rate of spending.
The nonpartisan fiscal watchdog, which released its findings on Tuesday, found that the court’s decision striking down tariffs imposed under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) has altered the country’s fiscal trajectory in the direction of larger debts and deficits.
Without that revenue, CRFB projects the national debt will climb to 125% of GDP—or roughly $58 trillion—by fiscal year 2036, compared to a baseline projection of $56 trillion, or 120% of GDP, that assumed the IEEPA tariffs would remain in force. “Deficits in that scenario will rise to 7.1% of GDP, or $3.3 trillion,” CRFB warned, versus $3.1 trillion under the original baseline… (Continue to full article)
All over the United States, the streets of our major cities are covered in poop. So exactly what does that say about us? It isn’t as if this is a new problem. As long as human societies have existed, human and animal waste has been a problem. Civilized societies have always found ways to deal with it, while uncivilized societies have always struggled to keep things clean.
The latest estimates from the Congressional Budget Office show that the Social Security trust will run out of money by fiscal year 2032, which starts in October 2031. 
The United States is facing an existential threat. My guess is this summer will be the most violent, damaging domestic summer since the Civil War. And I predict the left will win and come out victorious on the other side. They will, after winning this new civil war, seek to eliminate the last vestiges of republicans.
Chaos has erupted in the streets of major cities all over this country, and it appears that we have reached a boiling point which could cause events to completely spiral out of control. We knew that there was no way that the Trump administration was going to back down on immigration enforcement, and we knew that there was no way that the left was going to back down and allow ICE to conduct mass deportations without resistance. In fact, the left now has “response teams” that literally operate like military units in cities such as Chicago, Minneapolis and New York City.
Judging from opinion polls, the American public has increasingly become largely disenchanted with the bizarre behavior of President Donald J Trump and the clownish entourage that surrounds and encourages him.
President Trump has put a $1 billion price tag on membership for nations who wish to permanently join his new ‘Board of Peace’.
President Trump’s bid to knock four letters off the “Department of Defense” in a rebrand to the “Department of War” could cost upwards of $100 million, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has estimated.
In 1987, American historian Paul Kennedy wrote an influential book, “The Rise and Decline of Great Powers.” Its thesis was that powerful nations falter once they devote too much energy and resources to military interventions at the expense of their own economy.
Being the holiday season with Christmas and the New Year are behind us and we naturally find ourselves – though perhaps not everyone – reminiscing and remembering a few of the multitude of frauds and deceptions the Left has gifted us these last few decades.
President Donald Trump is an occasional practitioner of an unsparing form of political logic. Having taken an interest in the massive public-programs fraud committed by an almost exclusively Somali cast of perpetrators in Minnesota, he has followed up with unfriendly comments on Minnesota fifth district Rep. Ilhan Omar (D.). “She comes in, does nothing but bitch, she’s always complaining,” the president told a crowd in Mount Pocono, Penn., on Tuesday. “
I think it’s fine to wish for a president to set the tone of civility. But the Bushes and Romneys did that and they were still compared to Hitler and slaveholders and what not.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) is reportedly testing support for a last-ditch effort to remove House Speaker Mike Johnson, with barely weeks left in office.
Former President Clinton appeared in a tranche of photos from the Epstein estate released Friday
“I’ve had paper cuts that took longer to heal than Erika Kirk.”
Minnesota’s scandal-ridden Democrat Gov. Tim Walz spoke in defense of his state’s Somali community at a recent fundraiser, even though members of that community have recently bilked North Star State taxpayers out of more than a billion dollars through various fraud schemes.
Intelligence director blames Biden administration for allegedly allowing 18,000 known or suspected terrorists into country
