American History

AP Images Atilis Gym in Bellmawr, N.J. Two New Jersey gym owners have been cleared of more than 80 charges stemming from their defiance of Democratic Governor Phil Murphy’s Covid-19 orders.Ian Smith and Frank Trumbetti, co-owners of Atilis Gym in Bellmawr, refused to close their establishment in the face of Murphy’s order shuttering all “nonessential” businesses.“Telling people that liquor stores...

natasaadzic/iStock/Getty Images Plus In a recent Convention of States® (COS) blog post, an attempt was apparently made to smear The John Birch Society. The attempt was abortive, at best, given the lack of merit of the claims and the lack of skill in the making of them. To put it simply, the arguments made by COS in the post were...

fizkes/iStock/Getty Images Plus Climate-change zealots claim that human emissions will eventually lead to melting polar ice caps, more extreme weather events, and the poverty and displacement of billions of souls. Now, researchers at University College London (UCL) believe that climate change will aggravate the effects of certain brain conditions such as stroke, migraine, Alzheimer’s, meningitis, epilepsy, and multiple sclerosis.This conclusion...

f11photo/iStock/Getty Images Plus U.S. House Democrats took up the fight again this week for the “people we care about most”: illegal aliens.A strong majority of 143 voted against a successful Republican measure to overturn Washington, D.C.’s law that allows noncitizens to vote.To their credit, not all the Democrats voted to let noncitizens have a say in the city’s elected officials...

Politics To Fix the FBI, Abolish It A new study of the national security apparatus finds the existing Bureau incompatible with republican government. Big Intel: How the CIA and FBI Went from Cold War Heroes to Deep State Villains, by J. Michael Waller, Regnery, 256 pages Your perspective on the FBI depends a lot on when you grew up. If...

AP Images Ted Cruz Yet another of President Joe Biden’s leftist judicial nominees is a science denier.This time, it’s federal Magistrate Judge Sarah Netburn, whom Ice Cream Joe nominated for the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.Like Supreme Court pick Ketanji Brown Jackson, Netburn is unclear on the difference between a man and woman. And because...

Bankruptcy filings increased by 16% in the first quarter of this year, compared with a year ago, and the familiar Red Lobster chain is shuttering 87 of its restaurants. Far from helping our economy, the 10 million new illegal aliens allowed in by Biden are driving up food and housing costs, while they cannot afford to keep Red Lobster in business....

AP Images Geert Wilders People “in Africa and the Middle East will start thinking they might be better off elsewhere.” So said the Netherlands’ Geert Wilders, whose Party for Freedom (PVV) leads a coalition that will soon helm Holland’s government. The coalition has vowed to opt out of European Union rules and adopt the “strictest-ever” asylum policy.“The sun will shine...

AP Images Joe Biden’s hard-left speechwriters slipped their leash again last week in the jeremiad they concocted for Biden’s commencement address at historically black Morehouse College.It contained more than the customary boilerplate anti-American sentiments. It was an unspoken attack on whites, with an unfortunate, condescending message to the black graduates that a previous president called the “soft bigotry of low...

TW Farlow/iStock/Getty Images Plus A Minnesota teachers union has expelled an elementary-school counselor for publicly challenging her school district’s long-hidden policy of keeping students’ in-school gender switches a secret from their parents.On May 9, Rochester Education Association (REA) President Vince Wagner informed Christina Barton, a Rochester Public Schools (RPS) student counselor, by letter that she was being expelled from the...

The United States, Mexico, and Canada should be united under a European Union-style transnational government, declared far-left Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador last month in barely noticed comments. The controversial remarks come as regional governments modeled on the EU proliferate and absorb once-sovereign nations around the world.   Speaking during an event marking the 110th anniversary of the U.S. military’s occupation...

AP Images Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador The United States, Mexico, and Canada should be united under a European Union-style transnational government, declared far-left Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador last month in barely noticed comments. The controversial remarks come as regional governments modeled on the EU proliferate and absorb once-sovereign nations around the world.  Speaking during an event marking the...

Vertigo3d/iStock/Getty Images Plus If creations do often reflect their creators, at least in some way, perhaps it’s not surprising that artificial intelligence has reportedly developed a troubling new skill: lying.In fact, writes the AFP, forget about fears of AI potentially “going rogue” — because it already has.Science Alert reports on the story: You probably know to take everything an artificial...

AP Images Javier Milei Argentina’s new president, Javier Milei, who won his election last year by wielding a chainsaw illustrating his intention to cut government spending, boasted last week that his policies are working: Contrary to the forecasts made by most political leaders, professional economists, television, and pettifoggers, I would like to announce that the national public sector recorded a...

With all the trouble in today’s world, including the completely pointless American-instigated war in Ukraine, Israel’s loathsome genocidal onslaught against the Palestinians in Gaza, and militant U.S. threats to China over Taiwan, perhaps we should be asking whether the escalation in tensions threatening massive global conflict is really a carefully-crafted Globalist “false-flag” concealing something even more sinister. Particularly dominating the news...

Olivier Le Moal/iStock/Getty Images Plus Those who have been following the decline of the U.S. patent system may wonder what can be done about the many assaults on the only right actually enshrined in the U.S. Constitution (outside the later Bill of Rights), the right mentioned in Article I, Section 1, requiring that Congress secure “for limited Times to Authors...

mj0007/iStock/Getty Images Plus The idea, close to the heart of the Democratic Party, to count illegal aliens for the purpose of apportioning representation in the U.S. House of Representatives raises substantial constitutional, political, and practical concerns. The matter came to a vote in the House on May 9 when a measure favored by Republicans that would prevent apportionment manipulation via...

Are we witnessing the controlled demolition of America? Alex Newman tells Glenn Beck that the globalist types at the World Economic Forum and the Council on Foreign Relations may be “nice to have a coffee with,” but the one-world government they are promoting won’t be the utopia they think it will be. In actuality, if it isn’t stopped, it could...