Last week, exactly one month after the Bureau of Labor Statistics released a jobs report bad enough to convince President Trump to fire the BLS commissioner, the bureau released a new jobs report that was even worse.
The socialist State of Israel has now bombed five countries in the past year: Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Iran, and Qatar.
President Trump has recently endorsed a policy that is arguably as socialist as anything proposed by New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani or Sen. Bernie Sanders — partial government ownership of private corporations.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics this morning released new revised benchmark payroll totals used for estimating employment in the United States. The new revisions adjusted payrolls, for the year-long period ending in March 2025, downward by 911,000. That’s the largest downward revision on record, and the biggest since 2009, in the midst of the Great Recession. (The final figures for the period are due early next year.)
In an August 22 agreement with Intel, President Trump really jumped the shark in his ongoing efforts to institute a slush fund to “invest” in American industries allegedly to save them and to provide for national security needs, following the dubious precedents of Fascist Italy an
Are tomatoes a fruit or a vegetable? While some may have different answers to this mostly lighthearted question, at one point in time it was taken up by the United States Supreme Court. Despite its seemingly amusing aspects, the story of Nix v. Hedden is one which has implications for those concerned with big government and the challenges of reform, while also providing a unique window into late-nineteenth century American politics.
It turns out the skeptics were right all along, and the media “analysts” crowing about the “blowout” jobs numbers were repeatedly wrong.
Progressive liberals argue that civil rights are essential for “liberal democracy.” They see “democracy” founded on civil rights as the only political system compatible with liberalism. As explained by Paul Gottfried, a paleo-conservative who has been cast out of the liberal citadel for failing to embrace progressive notions of “good democracy,” “the consubstantiality of liberalism and democracy has become a modern religious dogma.” Human rights and civil rights are considered indispensable to that dogma.
Last week, Virginia Senator Tim Kaine said he found it “extremely troubling” that a potential Trump nominee believed that people’s individual rights come from “their Creator,” and not from the government.
