Author: Press Room

Adam Smith, long treated as the patron saint of free trade, argued in a letter written after The Wealth of Nations that tariffs could help strengthen domestic production by pushing native industry to improve quality. The January 3, 1780 letter to British politician William Eden complicates the standard picture of Smith as an unqualified opponent of import duties. In the letter, Smith defended “moderate and reasonable duties” while criticizing outright prohibitions on imports. “A prohibition,” Smith wrote, “can answer no purpose but that of monopoly.” A duty, by contrast, could still allow foreign goods into the market while changing the…

A criminal illegal alien has been charged with voter fraud in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the news coming as President Donald Trump urges Republican lawmakers to safeguard United States elections by passing the SAVE America Act. The suspect was identified as Mahady Sacko of Mauritania, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced Monday. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested him and DHS noted: Sacko has been illegally voting in this country since 2008. He entered the U.S. near Miami, Florida and an Immigration Judge ordered him removed. Sacko exhausted all appeals, and the Board of Immigration Appeals upheld his removal on November…

The US president has been increasingly vague on his endgame as the conflict drags on Democratic lawmakers say they fear US President Donald Trump could deploy troops to Iran, after classified briefings with administration officials left senators with what they described as significant unanswered questions about the war’s objectives and scope.Speaking after a closed-door briefing with members of the Senate Armed Services Committee on Tuesday, Senator Richard Blumenthal said the administration appears to be moving toward the possibility of sending US forces into Iran.“We seem to be on a path toward deploying American troops on the ground in Iran to…

HBO host Bill Maher is taking aim at the New York Times for portraying Donald Trump’s actions in Iran as a “bad war.” Maher brought up the subject on his recent Club Random podcast featuring neuroscientist Sam Harris. The show was recorded a few days after Trump launched his sorties against Iran’s radical, Islamist Mullahs, and during the segment Maher and Harris began to talk about the media’s portrayal of the military actions that had only just started. “As we’re talking now, the Iran [war], the new Iran war, and The New York Times headline was, you know, ‘U.S. troops…

A proposal to enact a moratorium on new data centers across the country is gaining traction among progressives on Capitol Hill. Last year hundreds of advocacy groups, led by Food and Water Watch, sent House and Senate lawmakers are letter calling for a “National Data Center Moratorium Now!” They cited energy, water and other environmental concerns. But only Vermont independent Sen. Bernie Sanders appeared to take them up on the plan. Now, even though the idea remains unpopular with members of both parties, it’s gaining currency among lawmakers like former Progressive Caucus Chair Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.). Sanders said he’s preparing…

Throughout Trump’s first year of 2.0, I speculated that the Trump family was working out a plan to replace the US dollar with their own family money. Over time, the wealthy elite become brazen about their plans, and they start talking openly about them because they feel invulnerable, like when King George Bush the First (KGB1) started talking openly about the New World Odor after the fall of the Soviet Union or when the WEF started posting videos of their meetings as they talked about depopulation needs, dining on bugs and the Great Reset. So it is now with Trumpcoin…

Canadian Police are investigating a “national security incident” after multiple shots were fired at the U.S. Consulate in Toronto in the early hours of Tuesday morning. At least one handgun was discharged multiple times at the U.S. Consulate in Toronto, Canada, around 0430 ET. Canadian police said in a press conference updating on progress with their investigation on Tuesday morning that they were seeking more information about two men who drove up to the consulate in a white Honda CRV and got out of the vehicle before shooting at the building. A police spokesman said “two individuals emerged and discharged…

Europe’s mad dash to decommission its nuclear power plants was a “strategic mistake” which now has to be rectified, European Commission boss Ursula von der Leyen has admitted. Energy prices are too high in Europe, which harms both consumers and industrial competitiveness, and this is partly because several European nations destroyed their own nuclear energy industries, leaving the continent dependent on imported gas and oil, a nuclear energy conference in Paris heard on Tuesday. EU chief Ursula von der Leyen, who was a member of the Angela Merkel-led government that decided to destroy Germany’s nuclear energy, and who personally voted…

Minnesota state Sen. Matt Klein (D) has put forward legislation that would allow police to enter homes to check compliance with semi-automatic gun storage. The language allowing police to enter the home is contained in a semiautomatic firearm ban very similar to the one that failed to make it out of committee in late February. Breitbart News noted that the ban that failed in committee in February contained a grandfather clause, allowing current owners of prohibited firearms to keep them by obtaining a “certificate of ownership” and consenting to store the semiautomatic firearms in a certain way inside the home. Those who…

Conservatives are putting John Thune in a political pressure cooker as they try to bypass the Senate filibuster and pass a controversial elections bill. The majority leader is making it clear he’s willing to take the heat. Thune is at the center of a relentless pile-on from prominent figures in the GOP’s MAGA wing who want Senate Republicans to force a “talking filibuster” to smoke out and ultimately defeat Democratic opposition to the bill known as the SAVE America Act — a tactic Thune believes doesn’t have enough support from his members. President Donald Trump declared the bill his “No.…