North Korea Conducts Third Missile Test This Month

American Consumers Have Never Been Less Confident Despite Inflation Fears Easing; UMich With the "mini war" still ongoing (albeit with a 'ceasefire' in place), expectations were for a continued slide (already at record lows) in the American consumer's sentiment in preliminary UMich data for May released today. And while the expectations were correct in direction, once again they underestimated just how bad things are as the headline UMich print fell from 49.8 to 48.2 (a new record low and below the 49.5 expectation). Under the hood was more mixed with Current Conditions tumbling...

Leftists sarcastically asking where the money for this war will come from are right about the GOP’s hypocrisy, but wrong to imply that it actually means there's plenty to spend on all these government programs. We can’t afford any of this.

Britain's Biggest Council Pushes Two-Year Jail Term For Flying National Flags Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News, Britain's largest local authority has gone to the High Court to stop people hanging the Union Flag and the St George's Cross from lampposts, with campaigners warning that a breach could mean up to two years behind bars. Birmingham City Council filed the application this week as the latest move in a year-long war on "unauthorised attachments." The attachments in question are the flags of the country. The penalties being threatened include prison, unlimited...