Daily Archives: January 22, 2026

Tax the Fruit, Not the Branches

A Supply-Side Answer to the Deflation Warning Anthony Pompliano dropped a clear warning this week. Truflation’s real-time dashboard shows U.S. inflation at 1.21% year-over-year-down sharply, well below the Fed’s lagging 2.7% BLS print for December. He’s been saying it for months: the real threat isn’t runaway inflation. It’s deflationary pressure from weak demand, delayed purchases, and a middle class that’s pulling back. Inflation is now at 1.2% according to @truflation.For the last year I have been warning that deflation was a much bigger risk than inflation.The Federal Reserve completely screwed this up.They must cut rates aggressively now! pic.twitter.com/WZ6dpfjYS5— Anthony Pompliano 🌪…

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The Bait-and-Switch Democrats

The Long March of Governing Radicals As we kick off 2026, Ben Domenech's sharp-eyed piece in the New York Post yesterday nails a timeless truth in American politics: Democrats who run as level-headed moderates too often reveal their true progressive colors once they're sworn in. Take the freshly minted governors Abigail Spanberger in Virginia and Mikie Sherrill in New Jersey. The media fawned over them as "moderate women" with bipartisan creds-The New York Times and Washington Post practically crowned them as the sensible future of the party. But Spanberger's agenda? Dismantling state cooperation with federal immigration enforcement, scrapping mandatory minimums for…

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