Category Archives: Notes of Interest

Dem Leader Hakeem Jeffries Calls Pete Hegseth ‘Dumb Effing Individual’

Dem Leader Hakeem Jeffries Calls Pete Hegseth ‘Dumb Effing Individual’

New York Democrat House Minority Leader Rep. Hakeem Jeffries posted a video on his official House account on X attacking Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth as an “extremist” over book removals at the U.S. Naval Academy and promising to “keep the pressure” on until Hegseth is fired from his post. Photo by Kayla BartkowskiMORE

SecDef Hegseth Evaluating Space-Based ‘Golden Dome’ for U.S. Defense

SecDef Hegseth Evaluating Space-Based ‘Golden Dome’ for U.S. Defense

Plans initiated by President Donald J. Trump for a comprehensive missile defense shield have reached the review stage under Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. The proposed “Golden Dome,” a next-generation missile defense system situated in space, aims to secure the United States from ballistic, hypersonic, and other advanced missile threats. Photo by Anna MoneymakerMORE

Stocks Soar After Strong Demand in Treasury Auction and Tariff Pause

Stocks Soar After Strong Demand in Treasury Auction and Tariff Pause

Wall Street surged Wednesday after a blowout 10-year Treasury auction helped calm fears of a financial crisis, delivering a sharp rebuke to doomsayers who predicted foreign investors would flee American assets in protest of President Donald Trump’s trade agenda, and President Trump announced a pause in tariff hikes on some countries. Photo by ANGELA WEISS/AFPMORE

Israel’s Fascist Judicial Polit Bureau

Israel’s Fascist Judicial Polit Bureau

The Israeli Supreme Court today rejected the principles undergirding the Magna Carta, the Western democratic values birthed from the Enlightenment, not to mention Judeo-Christian values, Aristotle, Cicero, Locke, Montesquieu, and scores of other ancient and more modern historical events and philosophers — as well as more modern thinkers and scholars — in sealing its fate…MORE