Author: Press Room
The members of the Républicains party have overwhelmingly backed former Interior Minister and party leader Bruno Retailleau to represent them in next year’s French presidential election. Perhaps signalling a shift to the right in French politics, the liberal-conservative political party, long seen as the heir of the Gaullist tradition, has thrown its weight behind the Senator from the Vendée, the historic bastion of traditional Catholic conservatism in France, dating back to before the Revolution. Over the weekend, Les Républicains (LR) members were called on to share their strategic preference as the party heads into the campaign to replace President Emmanuel Macron,…
Tokyo has further drifted away from its proclaimed post-WWII pacifist stance, allowing arms sales to 17 nations Japan has lifted restrictions on lethal arms sales, ending a ban on military exports imposed under the country’s pacifist constitution in 1947.The move was announced on Tuesday by Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, a hardline conservative who had long advocated revising Japan’s pacifist constitution and further beefing up the country’s offensive military capabilities. The PM said the decision comes amid an increasingly challenging security environment, when “no single country can now protect its own peace and security alone.”“Until now, the overseas transfer of…
Donald Trump sure has a strange approach to making housing more “affordable”. He apparently wants lower costs for buyers and higher prices for owners and sellers! “I don’t want to drive housing prices down. I want to drive housing prices up for people who own their homes.” Needless to say, as the Donald’s scrambles about seeking housing affordability “solutions”, we’d rather suspect that higher house prices are not quite what the economic doctor ordered. That is to say, during the last 55 years the number of hours an average worker needed to put on the clock in order to afford a median…
On Monday’s broadcast of MS NOW’s “Rachel Maddow Show,” host Rachel Maddow said that “we need to go to the mullahs in Iran to find out whether or not the president is just huffing or whether or not some of these words are supposed to have something to do with something that’s happened in the real world” with the war in Iran. Maddow said, “It’s like the reporting on what the White House, generally, the administration, generally, but, specifically, what the president has to say about the war, it’s like if you were, like, reporting really intently on when your…
The average immigrant pays more in taxes than the average paid by U.S. children, disabled people, retirees, students, and employees, says a cherry-picked report from the Cato Institute. The cherry-picked report is intended to insert a headline into the minds of busy politicians and lazy reporters who are facing competing pressures from pro-migration corporate lobbyists and from pro-prosperity Americans. The April 15 Cato report is headlined: “Immigrants Pay More In Taxes Than the Average Person.” But the key trick in the Cato report is to quietly transfer many migration costs onto Americans. For example, the report celebrates the value of taxes…
President Donald Trump is slated to read a few verses from the Bible Tuesday evening as part of the “America Reads The Bible” initiative. The initiative kicked off on April 18 and ends April 25 and features Christian leaders, government officials, and celebrities all taking turns in reading the entire Bible. It goes from 9 a.m. – 9 p.m. ET every day: Hosted by the nonprofit Christians Engaged, in partnership with Great American Pure Flix and a coalition of other ministries, the first “America Reads the Bible” week will be broadcast and streamed from the Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C.…
Vance must execute a revolutionary strategic maneuver to avoid permanent taint by association with Trump. “This even-handed justiceCommends the ingredients of our poison’d chaliceTo our own lips.”William Shakespeare’s Macbeth (Act 1, Scene 7)US Vice President J. D. Vance faces a dual trap: the acute poisoned chalice of serving as lead negotiator in the 2026 Iran crisis – exposed by limited control, maximal visibility, and profound uncertainty – and a second, more insidious snare: the creeping taint of being associated with US President Donald Trump.The V-Strategy offers a distinct, victory-yielding path of escape from both the perils of a poisoned mandate…
Six in ten adults in France believe that their country is facing a “great replacement” with the mass importation of non-European immigrants. A survey conducted by the Institut français d’opinion publique (Ifop) research firm has found that 60 per cent of French people believe that their country is experiencing a “profound demographic transformation” and that the French are being “progressively replaced by non-European populations, primarily from the African continent.” Of those who agreed with the statement, 66 per cent said the development was entirely bad, compared with 21 per cent who felt it was neither good nor bad, and 9 per…
The Greek maritime risk management agency MARISKS issued an alert on Monday warning that scammers masquerading as Iranian officials are offering false promises of safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz to shipping companies, in exchange for ransoms paid in cryptocurrency. At least one ship appears to have fallen for such a scam, only to be attacked by Iranian terrorist forces while attempting to pass through the strait. The warning from MARISKS said that unidentified actors pretending to be Iranian officials are sending messages to shipowners, offering safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz in exchange for “transit fees” to…
Seventeen rare and extremely valuable books have been restored to the John Hay Whitney estate in Long Island after they vanished in the 1980s. The books that were stolen from the home belonging to philanthropists John Hay Whitney and Betsey Whitney included titles by John Keats, Oscar Wilde, and James Joyce, Fox 5 reported Monday. When someone tried to sell them in early 2025 to Manhattan rare book dealers, the items were flagged on the Art Loss Register and police were alerted to the finds. An image showed some of the recovered titles displayed on a table: Officials seized the…