Blame those conservatives who insisted so loudly and for so long that it was going to happen. Blame the conspiracy theorists, who ended up being right once again when the conspiracy turned out to be real. Thanks to them, we were all too ready to accept it when it happened — to accept that Joe […]
Republican vice presidential nominee Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) has been heralded as a sort of intellectual progenitor of “Trumpism” as a political philosophy. The Ohio senator’s career has evolved from his bestselling memoir and excursions in venture capital to becoming former President Donald Trump’s running mate on the 2024 GOP ticket. But for all of […]
In the ever-expanding category of political behavior that is shocking but hardly surprising is Vice President Kamala Harris’s ostentatious snub of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as he addressed a joint session of Congress on July 24. She decided to set out on the campaign trail, where she garnered only a tiny fraction of the […]
The honor of carrying the flag for the Olympic opening ceremony often falls to those who represent the country the best. In other cases, it falls to someone like LeBron James. Team USA will be led into the 2024 Olympics by LeBron, the NBA star who represents several facets of being an American, such as […]
The Federal Reserve’s preferred gauge of inflation rose slightly in June, according to new data from the Commerce Department released Friday. The personal consumption expenditures (PCE) price index rose 0.1 percent last month and 2.5 percent over the past year. Core PCE, which excludes more volatile food and energy prices, was up 0.2 percent in...
Anthony Scaramucci said in a new interview that Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio), who secured the Republican vice-presidential nomination last week, is already “hurting” former President Trump's campaign. “JD, I think, stands for ‘Just Dull,’ so, he is not doing well on the stump for Donald Trump. He’s hurting him. The memes on social media are...
The latest data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ (BLS) Job Openings and Labor Turnover Summary (JOLTS) reports that at the end of May, there were 8.1 million job openings in the U.S.. While that’s an increase compared to 7.9 million job openings in April, year over year, hires were actually down by 415,000. The...