Hot on the heels of the spectacular implosion of subprime auto lender Tricolor (whose name is a not too subtle reference to the Mexican flag, and appropriately so as the company was almost exclusively targeting illegal aliens as its customers, so probably not a shock that it had a very unhappy ending), last month’s mega […]
US stock futures are weaker to start the new quarter but have cut overnight losses by more than a third, as the first US government shutdown in nearly seven years begins. The first shutdown during Trump 1.0 lasted 3 days and the second shutdown 35 days: how long will this one last? As of 8:00am […]
Authored by Connor O’Keefe via The Mises Institute, After the Federal Reserve’s board voted to cut interest rates by a quarter of a percent last week, the Wall Street Journal editorial board declared that the central bank was now “Trump’s Federal Reserve.” The editors are referring to the political establishment’s ongoing concerns that President Trump is mounting an unprecedented […]
Authored by Jonathan Turley, Charlotte Bronte once wrote “I believe that creature is a changeling: she is a perfect cabinet of oddities.” No quote better captured the chilling curiosity that is Hillary Clinton. This week, Clinton (without any sign of shame or self-awareness) attacked others for seeking censorship and blacklisting political opponents through government and […]
U.S. educators have been slow to adopt artificial intelligence, putting America’s technological edge at risk. Meanwhile, President Donald Trump wants to keep the United States at the forefront of artificial intelligence with his AI Action Plan, which lists cultivating AI education among American youth as a key step. But messy efforts within U.S. school districts […]
Elon Musk, former the head of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), holds a chainsaw, a symbol of cost-cutting, as he speaks at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference in February 2025 IslanderNews.com Source link
Protesters demonstrate against Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) initiatives in March 2025 in Pasadena, California IslanderNews.com Source link
Not even a day after Oracle founder Larry Ellison became the world’s richest person, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, his son, David Ellison, CEO of Paramount Skydance, is preparing to make a majority-cash takeover bid for Warner Bros. Discovery, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing people familiar with the matter. WSJ sources said the majority-cash […]
Screencap of Twitter/X video. Every time you think CNN can’t drop any lower, somehow, they manage to do it. In the case of the brutal murder of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska, CNN’s Brian Stelter seems to think that the real tragedy in this situation is racism, specifically, the racism of Trump supporters for noticing this […]
Melania Trump has turned her attention from her “Be Best” anti-bullying campaign to the nation’s best bots for tots. The first lady welcomed some of the US’s foremost tech leaders – and a few bit players – to the East Wing of the White House on Thursday to inaugurate a taskforce on artificial intelligence and […]
