Tariffs, Markets, and Traditions

HEADLINES HAVE CAUGHT UP TO MIKE ROWE. NOW WHAT?

JOHNSTOWN, Pennsylvania — Alex Bambino, 21, is the son of two educators.

He’s busy working, welding a piece of material that will be used on a heavily armored military vehicle when finished.

Despite two college-educated parents, who teach at the local Cambrian County schools, he wanted nothing to do with college following high school.

“I like working with my hands, being part of making something that is important, and I had no interest in starting my adult life in debt,” he said.

So he went to Greater Johnstown Career and Technology Center, and he became so good at what (more…)

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EVERYTHING YOU KNOW ABOUT THE USAID CASE MAY BE WRONG

Welcome to your chance to nerd out on the difference between process and merits in legal actions. Our case of interest is AIDS Vaccine Advocacy v. Department of State.

For non-lawyers, this is the case challenging President Trump’s order to freeze all payments from USAID until they can be fully reviewed for compliance with the law and the administration’s policies.

If your claim has merit, it will be paid. If not, pound sand.

And if you think you’re owed money that the government says they won’t pay, you can go to the Court of Federal Claims.

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SYRIA’S RULING ISIS ‘MODERATES’ COMMENCE SLAUGHTERING CHRISTIANS

When Syria’s dictator, Bashar al-Assad, was thrown from power last December and fled to Russia, Europe’s elites, and its Washington swamp allies, rejoiced.

Sure, the new guys in charge, Head of State Ahmed al-Sharaa and an armed rebel group called HTS, had been members of al-Qaida in Iraq. But Assad was the bad guy — evil, wicked, worst person in the world.

What’s more, the rebels had changed. They were now Muslim “moderates” as they told the dancing gullibles at PBS who dutifully took them at their word.

Freedom would flow. They would (more…)

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ACTBLUE PROBES MAY SHUT DOWN THE DNC’S MONEY LAUNDRY

Before the recent election, the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability asked then-Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen to turn over all Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) relating to ActBlue — not much happened. An SAR is a document that banks file with the Treasury Department pursuant to potentially fraudulent or illicit financial activity.

Yellen stalled, presumably in the hope that the Democrats would win the House back in November and halt the investigation. That obviously didn’t happen and the new Secretary of the Treasury, Scott Bessent, is of course cooperating with the committee.

This may well be what precipitated the sudden (more…)

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TRUMP’S DEMOCRATIC “ALLIES”

Former Clinton strategist James Carville has reinvented himself at age 80 as a sage Democrat podcaster. His predictions—remember, a victorious Kamala Harris?—are usually wrong.

He enjoys engaging in public duels with celebrities to gain online clicks and media appearances. Yet sometimes he appears judicious in his effort to return his party to the Clinton glory days of 1992-2000, before the takeover of the party by the lunatic left.

That said, he too has become part of the new left nihilism he supposedly despises.

Most recently, Dr. Carville diagnosed Donald Trump as suffering from tertiary syphilis. Carville’s “proof” was his (more…)

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