CBO deficit projection is up 27% since February

Congressional Budget Office raises this year’s federal budget deficit projection by $400 billion
A 27% increase compared to its original estimate released in February.

Foreign Aid And Student Loan Forgiveness Behind Massive Increase In Deficit Estimate
CBO analysts increased their estimate due in large part to the foreign aid package signed by President Joe Biden in April and his administration’s efforts to reduce student loan balances.

Joy Behar, Rachel Maddow Predict Trump Will Take Them Off The Air If He Wins
“I think that he is so vindictive that he will go after [us], however he has to, through the IRS maybe, or even through sponsors, to get us off the air maybe, or you.”

When The SEC Started To Investigate Hunter Biden, He Played The ‘Do You Know Who My Daddy Is’ Card
"It would be unfair, not just to our client, but also to his father, the Vice President of the United States, if his involvement in an SEC investigation and parallel criminal probe were to become the subject of any media attention."

Jim Banks Says DOJ ‘Declined’ To Prosecute Threats Targeting His Family, Unlike Those Against Dems
“When Capitol Police referred the criminal case against Aaron Thompson to the U.S. Attorney for Northern District of Indiana, they declined to prosecute despite clear evidence that Thompson violated federal law,” Banks wrote.

Biden Administration Seeks Overly Harsh Sentences for Blocking Abortion Clinic Access
Whatever you think of abortion, the Department of Justice's latest approach to these cases is misguided.

Secret Service destroyed video of Biden's dog Commander biting agent
The brutal attack forced the White House to stop tours so blood could be wiped off the floor.

Government Warns That Playground Equipment Gets Hot
Americans who are unaware that things — including playgrounds — heat up during summer have finally received some much-needed clarity from the government. Isn't it about time?

Chicago mayor creates reparations task force
"As a Black man, and as the leader of a major U.S. city, I have a responsibility to set the tone on how we rectify decades of neglect."

New York's highest court refuses to hear Trump's gag-order appeal
The Democrat court claimed the case involved "no substantial constitutional question."

House GOP moves to reverse J6 committee subpoena against Trump advisors days before Steve Bannon is set to report to prison
The House GOP states that the J6 committee was "solely partisan exercise determined to vilify President Trump and his advisors for the January 6th breach of the U.S. Capitol."

CNN gloats over Steve Bannon being placed with 'violent criminals and sex offenders' in prison
"Sources telling CNN that the longtime Trump ally will not get a cushy prison assignment, but is likely to serve time in a Connecticut prison, where he could be placed with violent criminals and sex offenders."

Alvin Bragg Attended Fundraiser For Group That Fought To Keep Trump Off Ballot
Bragg hobnobbed at event with director Spike Lee, who has compared Trump to Hitler.

Stop Trying To Convince Me Joe Biden Isn’t A Confused, Doddering Old Man
I’m not contending that every video clip spread by the RNC of Biden is offered in full, pristine context. Democrats who are still accusing Trump of calling Tiki-torch Nazis “very fine people” or claiming he wanted people to “inject bleach” aren’t really in a position to complain. I’m merely saying there are numerous videos of these events, and there are endless examples of Biden’s decline.

Low-turnout voters favor Trump over Biden by 14 points — good for Trump so long as they get out and vote: NYT polls
"If everyone voted, it is Mr. Trump, not Mr. Biden, who would benefit."

Politico: How Turning Point, once spurned by the RNC, is becoming Trump’s ‘force multiplier’ in battleground states
Once spurned by top officials at the Republican National Committee, Turning Point’s stature has rapidly grown from a controversial student movement into one of the most active organizations in conservative politics.

Here’s How The Media Are Lying Right Now: CNN’s ‘Tools’ For A ‘Civilized’ Debate
CNN says it has “tools” to enforce a “civilized” debate between Trump and Biden. What they mean is there’s a plan to interfere.

NY Mag: How Did Republican Women End Up Like This?
The baffling, contradictory demands of being female in the party of Donald Trump.

New York Mag Dragged For Cover Story Mocking Republican Women
“Do you know any Republican women?” Christina Pushaw, a senior analyst for DeSantis, asked. “I mean in your family or circles of friends? Because it seems like you are lazy and narrow-minded enough to form strong opinions about all of us based on a few politicians and media personalities.”

Horowitz: Grassroots conservatives score an upset win in Indiana
Indiana’s Republican convention, like Utah’s earlier this spring, shows that this method is the future. We need this structural change in the nominating process to transform the party.

Ramaswamy's 'Truth': What the Trump VP prospect's podcast reveals about his future
Earlier this year, influential conservatives like Glenn Beck were encouraging Trump to pick Ramaswamy as VP. His name has remained in the conversation ever since, though Bloomberg reported Trump told Ramaswamy he was not in the running for the no. 2 slot.

Carol Roth: With money woes on the ballot, Ron DeSantis deserves more credit
Florida’s fiscal restraint is a model for the rest of the nation.

May retail sales rise 0.1%, weaker than expected
Retail spending was weaker than expected in May as consumers continued to wrestle with stubbornly higher levels of inflation.

Bidenomics: More companies announce bankruptcies, shutter operations, citing inflation
Retailers are closing nearly 3,200 stores this year, according to a recent analysis from CoreSight Research. The closures are a 24% increase from 2023.

Trump: Business execs should vote for me or be fired because of Biden's tax policies
Biden's plan for a 28% rate would reverse part of Republicans' 2017 tax cuts, putting the U.S. corporate rate back among the highest among major economies.

The Glue Binding Democracy and a Free Economy Has Melted
In a democracy, the Common Good relies on citizen responsibility and shared sacrifice, but the unchecked pursuit of individual wealth is dismantling social capital and eroding civic virtue, threatening the foundations of both democracy and a free economy.

Trump Blasts Biden For His ‘Illegal’ Amnesty Program For Illegal Aliens
Biden’s new policy will provide legal status and a streamlined path to U.S. residency and citizenship to more than 500,000 illegal aliens who married American citizens and have lived in the country for 10 years.

Mother Of Maryland Woman Allegedly Killed By Illegal Immigrant Blasts Biden
"Biden sure isn’t trying to prevent these types of crimes from happening. He is the one that is welcoming the illegal immigrants here. Government agencies, federal and local, need to take responsibility and put American citizens first and not last. Our safety is not being put first.”

Good Samaritans beat, hog tie illegal alien accused of horrific rape of 13-year-old girl
Dramatic video and photos obtained by the NY Post show the shirtless creep cowering on the sidewalk early Tuesday as the angry mob pounds him and calls him out as “a rapist.”

Senate hearing previews emerging bipartisan consensus on reining in gain-of-function research
In a surprisingly substantive hearing, members of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee appeared to demonstrate an emerging consensus that gain-of-function research requires significant additional governmental oversight or perhaps elimination altogether.

Prominent scientists demand retractions from journals that pushed articles downplaying possible COVID-19 lab origins
Dozens of scientists have sent open letters to the editors of the journals Science, Emerging Microbes & Infections, and Nature Medicine, requesting the retraction of "scientifically unsound papers" concerning the origins of the virus.

Netanyahu goes after Biden: 'Give us the tools and we'll finish the job'
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said in response to the video, "We genuinely do not know what he is talking about."

AOC calls Netanyahu 'a war criminal'
The anti-Semitic lawmaker railed against the head of the Jewish state saying he shouldn't have been invited to deliver an address to a joint meeting of Congress.

Wikipedia moves to bar ADL, claiming reliability concerns on Israel and anti-Semitism
Wikipedia’s editors have voted to declare the Anti-Defamation League “generally unreliable” on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, adding it to a list of banned and partially banned sources.

Suspect in arsons at UC Berkeley lives in parents' million-dollar home, is a PhD grad, and called US a 'fascist hellhole'
The arson attacks were a part of the anti-Israel "protests" at the far-left university.

WaPo: A wary White House views Russia oil sanctions through lens of inflation
Biden insists that the United States stands unequivocally with Ukraine. But when it comes to aggressively sanctioning Russia’s hidden network of oil traders, who provide the Kremlin with large cash infusions, the Biden administration has been very cautious indeed.

Feds Say Mexican Cartel Conspired With Chinese-Linked Bankers To Launder Drug Cash
The Chinese bankers created a market for U.S. currency to launder drug money by offering Chinese nationals a method of getting around the $50,000 limit for capital flight out of China.

US approves $360 million arms sale to Taiwan for missiles, drones
China has been stepping up military pressure against Taiwan, including staging war games around the island last month after the inauguration of Lai Ching-te as president.

Millionaires are abandoning the UK in droves, new research shows
The Labour Party, which is projected to win the election, has said it will target the wealthy in order to better fund public services.

Diplomats report at least 550 pilgrims died during hajj, most of them from the heat
Sources tell AFP over half of those killed were Egyptians, with one diplomat saying death toll was "absolutely" boosted by the high number of unregistered pilgrims.

Brazil’s Left-Wing Supreme Court Imprisons Prominent Conservative Based On US Border Patrol Error
A prominent Brazilian conservative, who was a senior aide to former president Jair Bolsonaro, has been imprisoned without trial in the South American country for four months, justified by what appears to have been an "error" on a U.S. government website.

Netflix WWII Documentary Refers To Nazi Holiday Home As ‘Hitler’s Mar-a-Lago’
The six-episode docuseries, titled “Hitler and the Nazis: Evil on Trial,” purports to dig into “Hitler and the Nazis’ rise, rule and reckoning from pre-WWII to the Holocaust to the Nuremberg trials.”

‘Literal Streisand Effect’: Singer’s Desperate Attempt To Direct People Away From NY Post Story About Biden Backfires
The Streisand effect is a phenomenon where attempts to hide or suppress information actually result in increased publicity and awareness of that information. It’s like trying to cover up a secret only to have it plastered all over the front page of a newspaper.

Publisher of mass shooter's writings at risk, but establishment media, press advocates eschew story
Leahy and his outlet maintain that no wrongdoing was committed while reporting on the story, but media advocates are eerily silent on the free press issues.

70% of Unionized Daily Beast Staffers Take Buyouts as Layoffs Loom
Almost all of the outlet’s senior staffers are taking buyouts.

Jeff Bezos Delivers Reality Check To WaPo Employees Complaining About Leadership Shakeup
Bezos noted that the paper has lost half of its subscriber base since 2020 and was $77 million in the red for 2023.

Researchers say low-sulfur shipping rules made climate change worse
A sweeping regulatory change in 2020 to slash air pollution from the world’s ships could have played a role in boosting global average temperatures.

Texas Children’s Hospital May Have Committed Fraud As It Provided Child Sex Changes: Whistleblower
Two doctors at the Houston-based hospital allegedly billed Medicaid in violation of Texas state law as they provided medical interventions that sought to change the sex of their patients, the report from Chris Rufo reveals.

Washington Health Dept's 'Teen Health Hub' offers access to abortion, child sex change services without parental consent
The hub was launched months after Washington state Democrats passed SB 5599, which allows shelters or host homes to provide housing for runaway minors without being required to notify their parents.

RINOs align with teachers’ unions to muzzle the fight for parental choice
If this attempt to silence education reformers and parents can happen in one of the most conservative states in America, it can happen anywhere.

'New Nostradamus' stands by prediction that World War III is here
"Tuesday, 18 June 2024 has the strongest planetary stimulus to trigger WW3. Although 10 and 29 June may have a say as well."

Legendary baseball player Willie Mays dies
Willie Mays, whose unmatched collection of skills made him the greatest center fielder who ever lived, died Tuesday afternoon at the age of 93.