According to a Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington report, Jared and Ivanka Trump made somewhere between $172-640 million while they worked in the White House. The two opted out of a government salary, which made supporters think they were being altruistic. This report raises serious questions about their side businesses while at the …

A Proud Boy who stormed the U.S. Capitol had bomb-making materials at his home. Perhaps unrelated, but definitely eyebrow-raising: The pipe bombs found at the Capitol were placed the day before, the FBI said, raising questions about how far in advance the January 6 insurrection was planned. Arrests are still rolling in from those riots. …

China, worried that Taiwanese leadership is preparing to declare formal independence, has issued a warning: any such decree means war. The announcement comes just says after Taiwan reported a Chinese incursion into their airspace, including eight bombers and four fighters. China has long considered Taiwan part of its own territory. China is currently in hot …

The international Jewish community has vowed that no genocide would ever happen again. This year, on the annual memorial of the Holocaust, Jewish leaders have spoken out against the genocide currently underway against the Uighur people. The U.S. State Department has labeled China’s treatment of the Uighur people genocide, the harshest criticism of Beijing’s actions. …

Newspapers from Houston, San Antonio, and El Paso have all called on Senator Ted Cruz to resign. The El Paso Times editorial board wrote that it knew Cruz wouldn’t resign, but it nevertheless resignation was the right thing to do.  In the immortal words of Al Franken, “Here’s the thing you have to understand about Ted Cruz. …

The United States Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC) has concluded, finally, that “crimes against humanity – and possibly genocide – are occurring” against the Uighur people. Columbia professor Leta Hong Fincher has warned China watchers at the Center for International and Strategic Studies conference that the country is embarking on a eugenics program.  “What caught my eye …

Fox News espoused the election-fraud conspiracy theory––a theory that ultimately led to the seditious riots at the Capitol––some 800 times, even after it called the election for Joe Biden. The result of that nonsense: Donald Trump became the only president ever impeached twice. The case will likely not go to the Senate until Joe Biden …

Frustrated members of the Capitol police, some of whom with a decade of experience, are expressing anger with congresspeople who can stoke the kind of flames that lead to the conflagration on January 6. Some even suspect members of Congress helped plan it. U.S. acting Attorney Michael Sherwin has said that 70 people have already been charged …

Both Scotland and England have announced national lockdowns in the face of the new, highly-infectious strain of COVID. This new strain of COVID has been found in 33-countries. Just last week, the United States confirmed its first case of the new, more contagious variant of COVID that is currently ripping through Europe. Last week, scientists warned Prime …

A dozen GOP Senators are looking to block Biden’s inauguration. The Lincoln Project, an anti-Trump Republican organization, has called Ted Cruz and the others the “new Jim Crow caucus.”  Amy Klobuchar put it a bit more simply: “Get a grip.” Meanwhile, Rudy Giuliani has revealed that the Trump campaign will submit another lawsuit in their …

The U.S. vaccine rollout is not going well––long lines expose people to COVID and the number of vaccines is far too low to lead to herd immunity any time soon. This comes as the new, highly-infectious strain of COVID has been found in 33-countries. Just last week, the United States confirmed its first case of …

Donald Trump has spent a whopping 313 days of his presidential term golfing. That’s ten months, or roughly a quarter of his presidency. Trump told the American people that he would be working “tirelessly” for them, but instead he went golfing. While members of the G20 were meeting to discuss how to address the COVID …