Don’t look now, but the Atlanta Federal Reserve’s GPDNow estimate for the first quarter of 2025 shows the U.S. economy potentially contracting 1.5 percent annualized. Coupled with initial jobless claims peaking up to 242,000 the past week, a good question to ask is whether President Donald Trump inherited a recession from the outgoing administration of former President Joe Biden?
Activist judges are working overtime this week to block President Donald Trump’s America First priorities and stop the president from curbing government spending and putting a pause on refugee resettlement.
In a significant blow to President Trump’s agenda, a Seattle-based federal judge blocked the president’s executive order suspending the refugee resettlement program on Tuesday.
Jim Brown
Our new president has stirred up a hornet’s nest by declaring that we no longer have a Gulf of Mexico. From now on, all government references will be to the Gulf of America. I grew up along the gulf coast, spending just about every summer there that I can remember. From Gulf Shores, Alabama to Perdido Key Florida. Passing away more hours than I can remember water skiing, fishing and, as Jimmy Buffett would sing, “wasting away” days on my used Sea-Doo sports boat. I drove that boat for 40 years until it landed in a treetop blown away by hurricane Katrina.
Jeff Crouere
On Tuesday night, President Donald Trump is delivering an unofficial “State of the Union” address to the United States Congress and to the American people. It will be his first major speech since the start of his second presidential term.
In his last “State of the Union” speech, on February 4, 2020, then House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) was so enraged that she tore up his written remarks. This act of defiance was highly inappropriate and unprecedented. Republican House Speakers never acted in such a manner.
Jeff Crouere
What happened to the party of Presidents Harry Truman and John F. Kennedy? The Democratic Party used to represent the interests of working-class people and display their patriotic support for our country. Today, some Democrats, like Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett of Texas are more supportive of foreign countries than America. In an interview on The Breakfast Club radio show, Crockett said “The fact that I am rooting for Canada and I’m rooting for Mexico a lot is really wild.”
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