GM to close five plants and shed 14,000 jobs

Detroit-based US automaker General Motors has announced that it plans to close five plants in the United States and Canada, as well as eliminate 15% of its salaried workforce. The move is a part of a larger cost-cutting plan aimed at restructuring its production away from passenger cars and toward SUVs and trucks. Demand has […]

Retaliatory tariffs almost completely dry up US soybean exports in the China

After President Trump enacted tariffs against their goods, the Chinese government responded with $34 billion in retaliatory tariffs. Among the US goods hit by these tariffs were soybeans, which before the tariffs enjoyed a lucrative export trade in China. The market after the tariffs, however, has been a different story. Before the tariffs, in the […]

New Pentagon report suggests Air Force Secretary grossly exaggerated Space Force cost

In September of this year, Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson provided the federal government, and the press, with a report outlining the Air Force’s cost projection for standing up a new branch of the U.S. Armed Forces dedicated specifically to space and orbital defense. According to the report, this new Trump directive would cost the […]

The Pic of the Day: President Trump’s bullet proof limo in Paris

President Donald J. Trump and First Lady Melania Trump arrive at the Centennial of the 1918 Armistice Day ceremony Sunday, Nov. 11, 2018, at the Arc de Triomphe in Paris.   Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead   Learn more about President Trump’s limousine, “The Beast,” in the video below:

Germany joins France in calling for a European army after Trump’s trip to Paris

Tensions have been unusually high between NATO allies over the past week, despite coming together in Paris to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the conclusion of World War I. President Trump, who has been playing defense domestically over not attending a wreath laying ceremony for American soldiers that died during the first World War, found […]

French Army mocks Trump on Twitter for skipping WWI memorial over rain

On Saturday, President Trump was expected to visit the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery and Memorial, some 60 miles outside of Paris. Once there, he was meant to observe a moment of silence in honor of the Americans that fought and died for their country in a gesture of respect that would be mirrored by France’s Emmanuel […]

Deficit shrinks when government is divided — will it happen this time?

The midterm elections are over. Finally. What does that mean? Well, no more commercials, for one thing, but it also might (and the contingency of this prediction cannot be emphasized enough) mean a slow return to fiscal sanity. Historically, budgets tend to stabilize, and deficits tend to shrink, when government is divided. It has been […]

Is a war with China likely to happen in the next 15 years? One former general thinks so

As President Trump’s trade war with China continues, weakening relations between the two powerful states have already begun exacerbating tensions between U.S. and Chinese interests in other realms of geopolitics. Diplomatic spats about how the United States views Taiwan, and a looming standoff between the Chinese and the U.S.-led Pacific forces that challenge China’s claimed […]

Migrant caravan approaches US border, Trump threatens action

Mexico—A migrant caravan comprised of more than seven thousand Central Americans is headed toward the U.S.-Mexico border. Like a cascading snowball, the caravan has increased in size and visibility with every mile northward. It all began when around 150 Honduran migrants grouped to have better security for their trek north. As they hitched rides, their […]

Breaking: Explosives sent to the White House, Clintons, Obamas, George Soros and CNN

A package addressed to the White House was intercepted on Wednesday, after it was revealed to contain a pipe bomb. Other suspicious packages were also intercepted en route to former president Barrack Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. All of these packages were identified at off-site facilities through routine checks and the Secret […]