1. Todd Sheets: The Big Beautiful Bill Passes
2. Kenneth Rapoza: China Solar, Once Biggest
Beneficiary of Inflation Reduction Act, No Longer Qualifies
3. Kerry Lutz: Bitcoin Nears $107K – But This
May Not Be the Top
4. Greg Rabidoux: Is Harvard Still Committed to
Veritas?
5. Daniel Greenfield: America Props Up An Al Qaeda
Terror State
6. Lord Conrad Black: End of Ukraine War Would Be a
Chance to Resolve Long-Deferred Strategic Matters Between United States, Europe
and Canada
7. John Lott: Crime Rates of Illegal
Immigrants Underreported
8. James Hirsen: Comey's Stumble on the Beach
The Big Beautiful Bill Passes
By Todd Sheets, Author of 2008: What Really Happened
President Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson achieved a
milestone accomplishment with the passage of legislation that will preserve the
tax cuts from Trump 1.0. The Senate will now take up the bill, with a goal of
delivering a final version for Trump’s signature this summer. Combined with the
preliminary Geneva agreement on Chinese tariffs and his successful trip to the
Middle East, this announcement helps build momentum for the Trump agenda of
reinvigorating growth through reduced taxes, deregulation, trade, energy
independence, and efficiency. The recent increase in Treasury bond yields
reflects the fact that there is still important work to do on the spending side
of the equation, but the best chance to work our way out of our serious
financial problems is through economic growth, and avoiding a draconian tax
increase is critical in this regard. [more...]
China Solar, Once Biggest Beneficiary of Inflation Reduction
Act, No Longer Qualifies
By Kenneth Rapoza, Reporter/Columnist for
Coalition for a Prosperous America
Under the so-called “Big Beautiful Bill” as
passed by the House, Chinese solar companies will no longer qualify for
renewable energy tax benefits under the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) of 2022.
Congress previously had barred benefits under the CHIPS Act and the Bipartisan
Infrastructure Bill (BIL) from flowing to so-called "foreign entities of
concern" (FEOCs), defined as the governments of the "countries of
concern" being China, Russian, North Korea, and Iran, and companies with
defined relationships with those governments. [more...]
Bitcoin Nears $107K – But This May Not Be the Top
By Kerry Lutz, Host of Financial Survival Network
As Bitcoin approaches record highs, investors are asking the
same question they asked in 2017 and 2021: Is this another top? I called both
of those previous peaks - not with hype, but with the help of Martin Armstrong's
Economic Confidence Model, which has guided my market timing for over a decade.
But as I am preparing to attend the upcoming Bitcoin conference in Las Vegas, I'm
not sounding the alarm. This time, the signals are different. Let's explore
why... [more...]
Is Harvard Still Committed to Veritas?
By Greg Rabidoux, Award-Winning Filmmaker, Author
& Cultural Commentator
As Harvard students and faculty defend their school against
Trump's efforts to eliminate antisemitism on its hallowed campus, one truth is
inescapable -they brought it upon themselves. For curiosity, learning, and
growth to occur, these campuses must be free of intimidation, coercion,
retaliation, and of course, violence of any kind. And Harvard has been one of
the biggest violators of betraying this sacred trust in learning for decades
now. Along with Columbia University, both have had its hand out for so long,
saying yes to every wealthy extremist, radicalistic, anti-American donor there
is, they forgot that it's okay to say no and stay true to your core mission and
why you got a tax-exempt status in the first place... which is a privilege not
a right, by the way. Harvard and its faculty got into the business of training
radicalized activists because it seems that's who was paying the bill. [more...]
America Props Up An Al Qaeda Terror State
By Daniel Greenfield, Author of Domestic Enemies
How is supporting terrorists - who rule Syria and threaten
Christians - in our national interest?
Democrats and Republicans got played by Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the
UAE, Turkey and other Islamic states into embracing the Arab Spring. Now we're
being roped into supporting Jhadis taking over Syria all over again. And then
where to next? Libya? Gaza? America? [more...]
End of Ukraine War Would Be a Chance to Resolve Long-Deferred
Strategic Matters Between United States, Europe and Canada
By Lord Conrad Black, Author of The Political and Strategic History of the World, Vol II
Yet the joint declaration by Britain, France, and Canada on
ending the Israeli offensive in Gaza is so fatuous and dishonest that it
condemns all three governments as appeasers of terrorism. [more...]
Crime Rates of Illegal Immigrants Underreported
By John Lott,
Worldwide Expert on Guns & Crime
Democrats actively oppose the Trump administration's efforts to
arrest and deport illegal immigrants, despite the administration's focus on
those with criminal histories. To support their opposition, Democrats
frequently claim, almost as an article of faith, that illegal immigrants are
less prone to commit crime. "The crime rate among immigrants is far lower
than the crime rate among native-born Americans," New York Rep. Jerrold Nadler asserted confidently. The media's
relentless narrative that illegal immigrants don't commit crimes has shaped
Americans' perceptions. And these numbers, as bad as they are, likely
undercount the number of criminal illegals. Even if some believe undocumented
immigrants commit crimes at lower rates, ignoring ICE detainers for convicted
undocumented immigrants to prevent their deportation raises doubts about
whether they really care about the criminal rate of these illegal immigrants. [more...]
Comey's Stumble on the Beach
By James
Hirsen, NY Times Bestselling Author, International Business
Attorney, News Analyst & Cultural Commentator
Former FBI Director James Comey recently posted
a photo of seashells on the sand that had been arranged to form the following
pair of numbers: 86 47. Perhaps surprisingly for Comey, the seriousness
of his wholly ill-advised post appears to be increasing with the passage of
time. This is because the individual with whom the second seashell number is
associated was saved by God's grace from two attempts of the first seashell
number's kind. A political viewpoint? FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino sees it
very differently: he said that the numeric symbolism was being used by copycats
to send out threats that the FBI is mandated to investigate, which
requires valuable time and resources. "We are now dealing with copycats,
sending cryptic threats to public figures, using the '86' reference," Bongino
wrote. [more...]