The tax party of Germany’s welfare-state engineers is over. In the first four months of the year, Germany’s total tax intake developed into a fiscal catastrophe. During that period, the federal government, states, and municipalities collected 2 percent less revenue than a year earlier.

"Chinese authorities are now moving to rein in ..."

What could go right from here?

The steady advance of Islamic terrorist control over territory in the Sahel could soon threaten the sovereignty of West African states on the continent's Atlantic Coast...

Wipes clean up to $140,000...

Through its deregulation agenda, the American government is proving the thesis that prosperity is created exclusively in the private sector — not through state regulation.

Space will not be settled by treaties and committees, but by pioneers willing to claim, build, and risk everything on worlds no one owns...

The Trump administration is expected to deploy US public health officers to Kenya to staff a potential quarantine facility there amid the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo, in a departure from procedure used during previous outbreaks of the virus

Trump endorsement seals the deal...

A few weeks after Combs' post, the city itself issued a notice urging residents to boil their water to "avoid harmful bacteria..."

Trump suggested the arms package could be used as a "negotiating chip" with China.

The US may have a better use for plutonium besides just burying it in the ground.

...use public monies to single out 49% of the population as constituting a lurking threat to each and every member of the other 51% of the population,

 29 Chinese aircraft, including fighter jets & 7 warships operating around the island...

Never once do they stop & ask whether the thing they're selling is bullshit...

The household Real-Time Population Survey shows slow and steady growth through February, while the similarly worded survey of Hartley et al. shows a consistent decline in use starting last summer through March.

Plus in another 44 bigger cities, condo prices dropped by 7% to 14% so far, as the mindboggling Condo Bubble comes unglued.