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By Rick Moran We were originally referred to as "baby boomers," the generation born in the immediate aftermath of World War II. From 1946 to 1964, the U.S. Census Bureau tells us that more than 76 million babies were born. Why 1964 as a cutoff point? That's the year that the birth control pill was introduced in the U.S., and the birth rate began to decline. Today, we're simply referred to as "Boomers." We grew up in a period of massive wealth creation, painful social change, and the specter of nuclear annihilation hanging over our heads. All of that impacted our worldview and led to a mixed record of accomplishments on the economy, social change, and America's standing in the world. Over the next 20 years, most Boomers will exit the stage of history. Someone else will chronicle our successes and failures. What should concern all of us is the coming crisis when what's left of the 76 million Americans born between 1946 and 1964 retire, sicken, and ...

THE NEW BRIDGER PIPELINE would cross through eastern Montana and eastern Wyoming. By Claire Carter President Donald Trump on Thursday approved a major oil pipeline project from Canada into the United States, reviving an initiative from his first term that the Biden administration canceled. The project, informally dubbed “Keystone Light,” is seen as a scaled-down successor to the controversial Keystone XL pipeline, which President Joe Biden terminated in 2021. Trump granted a presidential permit allowing the pipeline to cross the U.S.-Canada border, clearing a major hurdle for the proposal led by Bridger Pipeline and its Canadian partners. The new pipeline would stretch roughly 650 miles from Canada through Montana and Wyoming, carrying up to 550,000 barrels of crude oil per day, about two-thirds the capacity of the original Keystone XL project. Speaking after signing the approval, Trump contrasted his decision with Biden’s cancellation of the initial project, which had bee...

By Ward Clark The F-15 Eagle fighter has been, since its adoption by the United States Air Force in 1974, one of the world's premier air-superiority fighters. It's not stealthy, but it's fast, big, and carries a huge variety of weapons. It's gone through several revisions and upgrades since its Cold War birth, and the latest, the F-15EX, is in production now, making it over half a century of F-15 production. But the new F-15EX is a very different bird than the original Cold War fighter, and now, the United States Air Force is looking to ramp up the numbers of these magnificent warbirds in the inventory. The War Department and the Air Force are working with manufacturer Boeing to  ramp up production of the F-15EX . The Pentagon’s latest budget request for the air force would more than double the planned procurement of F-15EX strike fighters to 268 examples — moving Boeing to full-rate production of the revamped Cold War jet in the next year. Boeing has a long-establi...

FEDERAL RESERVE CHAIR Jerome Powell's term in office expires a week from next Friday, but he's not going away. (AP) By Larry Kudlow So I guess the Fed chairman, Jay Powell, is not going off quietly into the night. Today is his last meeting as chairman, but he announced his ungentlemanly decision to stay on as a Fed board member for who knows how long. “I’ve said that I will not leave the board until this investigation is well and truly over with transparency and finality, and I stand by that,” he said. “In terms of when I would leave, I will leave when I think it’s appropriate to do so,” he added. “The things that have happened in the last three months, I think, left me no choice but to stay.” Mr. Powell concluded that “after my term as chair ends on May 15th, I will continue to serve as a governor for a period of time to be determined. I plan to keep a low profile as a governor.” Mr. Powell’s not the martyr he thinks he is. You can’t have two chief executives. P...

By Becca Lower The United States has been reassessing the force strength our military maintains around the world, under Secretary of War Pete Hegseth in President Trump's second term, and it is now acting on that review,  according to  new reporting on Friday:  President Trump ordered the Pentagon on Friday to withdraw about 5,000 U.S. service members from Germany amid his public feud with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz.  The redeployment of troops will bring the number of service members roughly to pre-2022 levels and will affect a brigade combat team and potentially other U.S. forces already in Germany, according to a senior Pentagon official. This comes after Sec. Hegseth brought some other European-based servicemembers - who had been helping NATO brigades -  back to the U.S . in late Oct. 2025. At the time, U.S. European Command issued a statement, waving away any critique of the move as a withdrawal of American military might by the leader of the free...

By Tim O'Brein Food stamp users in Florida are waking up to some big changes that took place in their  Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program  (SNAP) benefits that took effect April 20. The entitlement program’s beneficiaries can no longer use their EBT cards to purchase soda, energy drinks, candy, and “ultra-processed prepared desserts” such as Twinkies, cookies, cupcakes, and other packaged sweets. They can continue to use their taxpayer-funded, free-food cards for fruit, vegetables, grains, meat, dairy and other staples. They can also use their EBT cards for coffee, tea, bottled water, and sport drinks. On the snack side, they can use their EBT cards for granola bars, freshly prepared baked goods, and packaged “breakfast” foods such as toaster strudels and breakfast biscuits. The federal government did not implement the restrictions, even though the state of Florida’s SNAP program receives subsidies from the government. Rather, this a  state policy  which i...

By Matt Margolis During an appearance on CNN with anchor Erin Burnett, Rep. Seth Moulton (D-Mass.) accused War Secretary Pete Hegseth of committing war crimes — and even invoked the execution of Nazi war criminals as a warning. Burnett played a clip of Moulton hectoring Hegseth at a congressional hearing over his "no quarter, no mercy" remarks, attempting to twist the secretary's words into an admission of war crimes. When Burnett asked directly whether he believed Hegseth was guilty of war crimes, Moulton answered without hesitation. "Absolutely," he said, pointing to military operations targeting boats in the Caribbean. "It's very unclear that we actually have any confirmation that these so-called narcoterrorists — a term the administration invented to justify this action — are even on the boats. In fact, there's a lot of evidence that these are just fishermen, you know, getting jobs, piloting these boats, trying to feed their families." ...

By Bob Hoge President Donald Trump spoke at the Forum Club of the Palm Beaches in Florida on Friday night, and he seemed in a jocular mood. He had a wry smile on his face as he talked about the 67-year-old problem of communist Cuba, which is only 90 miles off Key West. The long-suffering residents have faced dire economic conditions for decades, and photographs show an island country still mired in the 1960s. Meanwhile, they have a long history of cozying up to our enemies. Maybe we’ll just take it, the president joked (?). Watch: 🚨 JUST IN: President Trump says he might TAKE OVER CUBA "almost immediately" using the USS ABRAHAM LINCOLN traveling back from Iran "On the way back from Iran, we'll have one of our big, maybe the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier. We'll have that come in, stop about 100… pic.twitter.com/10YcQY1GPO — Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) May 2, 2026 🚨 JUST IN: President Trump says he might TAKE OVER CUBA "almost immediately"...

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By Brad Slager It is time for a new round of nominations of nefarious news nonsense! In recognizing the unprofessional press, journalistic sloth, and the deserved media mockery, we nominate these efforts in a variety of categories for end-of-the-year honors. To commemorate the legacy of muckraking reporting and shoe-leather investigation, we have created The Golden Remington Awards.   Our trophy honors the olden days when hard-scrabble hacks committed actual journalism and hammered out dispatches on those hefty word-smith devices. We compile some of the most fractured examples of journalism, nominating them for the un-coveted dishonor of our un-distinguished trophy, The Remmys.  Here is the latest batch of nominees for consideration, gathered for the end of the calendar when we will be handing out trophies to the most un-impressive acts of journalism throughout the past year!  Distinguished Explanatory Reporting Lawrence O’Donnell -  MS NOW Following the dra...

By Jennifer Oliver O'Connell   The Democrat Socialists of America (DSA) faction of the Los Angeles City Council is offering up another middle finger to the citizenry of  Los Angeles , led by Councilman Hugo Soto-Martinez (CD-13), who is proposing a plan to let illegal aliens vote in city elections. This is our shocked face. And so it begins… LA City Councilmen Hugo Soto Martinez & Ysabel Jurado have unveiled a plan to let "noncitizens" VOTE in LA elections There are 1.5 million noncitizens in LA 15% of their entire population pic.twitter.com/LddRPRpiXh — End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) April 30, 2026 City Councilmember Hugo Soto-Martínez, who represents an Echo Park-to-Hollywood district, released a proposal Wednesday to ask voters in the Nov. 3 election to give the council the power to let noncitizens vote in city elections, including those for mayor and City Council, as well as for Los Angeles Board of Education seats. The proposal faces multiple hurdles that coul...