By Robert Romano A rapid escalation of the war in Ukraine has followed Russia’s annexation of Donetsk, Luhansk and other cities across the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine. The Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines were bombed , and now Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has requested fast-track approval of Ukraine’s application to be in NATO. […]

By Robert Romano Don’t look now, but Democrats’ 8-point lead in the generic Congressional ballot question from a month ago has evaporated in the latest Economist-YouGov poll of registered voters, which now shows the race for Congress tied, 44 percent to 44 percent on Sept. 24-27. On Aug. 28-30, […]

By Rick Manning   Is Chinese president Xi under house arrest in Beijing?  Are a number of Xi’s opponents under arrest?  Is Russia’s Vladimir Putin in danger of a coup due to his Ukraine invasion?  Are trained Venezuelan militia coming across our southern border to set up […]

By Robert Romano Since 1901, federal spending outlays have increased in 100 out of 122 fiscal years, according to the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) , or about 81.9 percent of the time, as the budget has grown from a mere $525 million to its gargantuan $6.8 trillion as of 2021. Only 22 times was […]

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By Rick Manning The latest ABC/Washington Post national poll is a disaster for national Democrats. The headline is that the GOP holds a five-point (51-46) advantage amongst likely voters, but that is not the worse news from Democrats. Not surprisingly, the economy remains the dominant issue on the minds of voters […]

By Robert Romano Giorgia Meloni and a coalition of center-right parties have won the snap elections in Italy after Mario Draghi’s consensus government fell apart amid crippling 9 percent inflation fueled by high energy costs as Europe falls into recession. Meloni’s Brothers of Italy won 26 percent of the vote , and Mateo Salvini and Silvio Berulsconi’s parties won 8.8 […]

By Robert Romano On Sept. 20, a paranoid, drunk 41-year-old Biden supporter tragically ran a 19-year-old Trump supporter down with his car in North Dakota “because he had a political argument with the pedestrian and believed the pedestrian was calling people to come get him” apparently after the boy called his mother to come and pick him up. The […]

To the People of the State of New York: AMONG the numerous advantages promised by a wellconstructed Union, none deserves to be more accurately developed than its tendency to break and control the violence of faction. The friend of popular governments never finds himself so […]