Feds Create Task Force to Investigate Fraud, Corruption in California’s Homeless Services – HotAir
A potential scandal has been brewing in southern California. Back in February I wrote about what may have been just the tip of the iceberg. The person in charge of the LA Homeless Services Authority (LAHSA) was caught signing a $2.1 million contract with her husband’s employer. A LAHSA spokesperson told LAist the contracts had...
It’s no secret that the propaganda war over Trump’s cuts of government programs, particularly foreign aid, grossly distorts what Trump and Marco Rubio have actually done while eliminating USAID. If you follow the “news” put out by Pravda, you would be led to believe that people are dying in droves, children are left starving, and...
I once had a point, or should I say, it once had me … One could come up with a number of good arguments against tariffs. Chris Matthews did not choose well among them. Earlier today, the MSNBC commentator complained that American construction companies would lose access to … Canadian wood? Indeed, Matthews chose this...
I’ve never been a fan of Jamelle Bouie and his latest take on Trump and tariffs is a good example of why. As with everything he writes, it comes with no surprises or genuine insights. Instead, it’s more anti-Trump, anti-Republican material for his audience of like-minded readers. His job is to convince you he’s being...
Americans were never crazy about electric vehicles to begin with, certainly not in a Cabbage Patch Doll or Beanie Baby buying frenzy sort of way. For one thing, EVs were always too expensive and too impractical for an impulse purchase, which is what Americans live for when they go nuts over some new technology. Take...
Good news! I bring you good tidings and great cheer. You can retire again. Don’t ask me about tomorrow. Tomorrow never comes. About an hour ago, the Trump administration announced a couple developments on the tariff front. First, in response to China going all-in on reciprocity, The United States will now impose a 125% tariff...
This proves once again that Supreme Court decisions require careful reading rather than broad assumptions. Federal judges in both Texas and California read the per curiam order issued late Monday in challenges to deportations of alleged Tren de Aragua organized-crime members — and issued separate stays today. The first came in New York:   A...
Acting IRS Commissioner Melanie Krause has decided to resign, though she will continue working for at least another month. She is now the 3rd leader of the agency to resign this year. Melanie Krause is the third leader of the agency to resign this year; Senate-confirmed Commissioner Danny Werfel resigned from his role on Inauguration...
Well, this screws up my writing schedule for the day. I had a post scheduled for this time but this one is much more important. President Trump just paused almost all his tariff increases, citing the flood of countries begging for new trade deals to avoid the massive increase in business costs they would impose...
President Trump’s reciprocal tariffs went into effect at midnight last night and this morning the president had a simple message for the country who were feeling nervous about his moves.              As discussed yesterday, countries around the world seem to be heeding Treasury Secretary Bessent’s advice not to retaliate immediately but to see this as...
No one can claim they hadn’t been warned. Secretary of State Marco Rubio argued last month that the US offers student visas for those who wish to study in this country, not agitate and contribute to illegal actions on behalf of terrorist organizations. And the same is true for applications to emigrate to the US,...
We are being treated to what the CIA called a “modified limited hangout” as they try to recover their credibility after the systematic failures and lying that have disgusted the less self-deluded members of the public. Over the past decade or more, the formerly “mainstream media” engaged in a series of lies, hoaxes, campaigns of...
What a difference a couple of months of lies and betrayals make. Two days ago, the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, led by Alice Weidel, was in a statistical tie with Chancellor-Elect Friedrich Merz’s Christian Democrats (CDU). AfD was, however, still iced out of any government participation, even as Merz lied and finagled his way...
First, the good news: A Democrat governor in a border state has recognized that fentanyl trafficking is a real emergency. And more good news; the same governor has mobilized the National Guard to join the fight. It’s as if the success of Donald Trump and Texas Governor Greg Abbott has actually taught a lesson to...
Nobody knew about the COVID-19 virus in particular at the time, but there is plenty of evidence that it was circulating in Wuhan in mid-2019, and US soldiers who participated in the World Military Games held in Wuhan in October 2019. But as part of a Congressionally mandated investigation, the Biden administration was required to...
