Fitch Ratings' recent downgrade of United States debt one notch from AAA to AA+ is still much too sanguine. America’s debt today should be rated closer to junk than to top-notch.
When contemplating the greatest threats to American national security, an aggressive communist China or expansionist Russia properly come to mind. However, there’s another threat closer to home, one that affects millions of Americans and is already affecting our national security.
Cancel culture is out of control. Firing, doxxing, or just threatening a person because of what he or she has posted or “liked” on social media is the new political weapon, and there are few ways most average people can fight that kind of power.
This generation of men can’t stand by what they believe.
Xylazine—a tranquilizer approved as a sedative for veterinary medical use but not for any use in humans—is currently worsening the opioid crisis. Known on the street as “tranq,” xylazine has become a common additive to substances such as fentanyl, heroin, and cocaine, whether taken orally, by smoking or snorting it, or by injecting it.
FBI Director Christopher Wray has repeatedly warned the public that China poses by far the greatest espionage threat to the United States — perhaps the greatest such threat in our history given the vast scope of Beijing’s stealing American secrets of every kind, public and private.
“It’s the economy, stupid.”
The single anti-abortion Democrat in the House has received a new boost in support after a nail-biting primary, winning the support of the entire House Democratic leadership.
Fitch Ratings, one of three major credit rating agencies, downgraded U.S. debt from AAA (the highest possible rating) to AA+ yesterday, explaining:
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Two law professors have an idea for how to circumvent the Supreme Court’s repeated rulings in support of the Second Amendment: use police officers to seize guns of “dangerous” people.
When contemplating the greatest threats to American national security, an aggressive communist China or expansionist Russia properly come to mind. However, there’s another threat closer to home, one that affects millions of Americans and is already affecting our national security.
The Federal Reserve’s launch of FedNow, a system to centralize financial transactions, is a significant threat to individual liberty and a major leap toward a central bank digital currency, or CBDC. While the Fed denies FedNow will precede a CBDC, the public has no reason to believe them.
It is time to restore fortitude in citizens before it is too late.
- Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-Texas)
