Israeli Knesset Passes Death Penalty Bill for Palestinians

Thursday’s diplomatic negotiations (26 Feb) – for all the panglossian noise from mediators and negotiators – confirmed the essential impasse. The US demands presented to Iran were: These demands plainly were formulated to obstruct, rather than facilitate, any diplomatic solution. It reflects a strategy rooted in the viscerally-held presumption of Iranian weakness that, in the […]

Fuels (And Canada) Spark US Import/Export Price Surge In February As we have noted numerous times in the last week or two, inflation fears are back (or rather stagflation) as growth stagnates and prices re-accelerate...   This morning we get yet more confirmation of the second wave of inflation as US Import/Export prices blew expectations away... US Import prices jumped by 1.5% MoM (the third monthly rise in a row) - the biggest MoM jump since March 2022. The acceleration in prices pushed import costs up 1.3% YoY - highest since Feb 2025. Under the...

Activists Target WNBA Player After She Takes Stand Against Trans Agenda The WNBA only has two real stars with any meaningful popular following - Caitlin Clark and Sophie Cunningham.  Both of them built reputations as underdogs in a sport traditionally dominated by minority players espousing far-left politics.  Both of them have been mistreated in the past by a league that tends to play nursemaid to those same players.  The WNBA has long been a cultural joke, not just because its reputation for low standards of athleticism, but because they are constantly...