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Selwyn Duke “Why can’t the English teach their children how to speak?!” asked (sang, actually) Professor Henry Higgins in the old play My Fair Lady. Today we could wonder likewise about our culture:Why can’t Americans teach their children how to speak — or write?One reason is that not only do few among even the “intellectual” class really care about proper...

The border crisis has reached unprecedented levels. Over 7.2 million illegal immigrants have entered the United States since President Joe Biden took office. However, behind this crisis are official agreements between the U.S. government and the United Nations that are set up to facilitate mass illegal immigration into the United States. One of the big agreements is called the Global...

A-Basler/iStock/Getty Images Plus Denmark’s Parliament rejected a proposal that would recognize a Palestinian state earlier today. The proposal was introduced by left-wing politicians from the Red-Green Alliance, the Social Liberals, the Alternative, and the Socialist People’s Party.Danish Red-Green Alliance MP Trine Pertou Mach encouraged Denmark to follow Ireland, Norway, and Spain in recognizing the State of Palestine, stating: The government...

Delmaine Donson/iStock/Getty Images Plus On one side, we hear about “white privilege” and “white supremacism.” On the other, we hear that you hear about those things only because whites are one of the few groups you can impugn with impunity, inclusive of calling them privileged while treating them prejudicially. And one man who’d agree with the latter sentiment is political...

baona/iStock/Getty Images Plus The Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) filed an amicus brief with the Supreme Court on Friday in the long-running war by Mexico against America’s gun-makers. An earlier brief, filed by 20 states’ attorneys general, focused on the protection provided by Congress when it passed the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act (PLCAA) in 2005.The present brief focuses...

In this episode of Alex Newman’s The Sentinel Report, Newman and Liberty Sentinel journalist Andrew Muller break down the latest news, including Congress’ “attempt” to stop central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) and much more. Our first guest on the program is Bill Federer, a historian who, Newman says, is probably the greatest of our time. Federer, a prolific author, joins...

AP Images Hunter Biden New evidence released by the U.S. House Ways and Means Committee this week shows that Hunter Biden lied at least three times to congressional committee investigators. Two lies concern Biden’s business deals with Chinese Reds and Burisma Holdings, the Ukrainian energy company at the nexus of the Biden-Burisma influence peddling scheme. The third concerns his claim...

SDI Productions/iStock/Getty Images Plus In speaking to the NRA’s national convention on May 18, Donald Trump made it sound as if the average gun owner couldn’t care less about the upcoming election. But a study done in 2020 rebuts that presumption: Not only do gun owners vote more consistently and reliably than non-owners, they turn out in ever greater numbers.FactCheck.org,...

mj0007/iStock/Getty Images Plus “My biggest concern,” said Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson during oral arguments in Murthy v. Missouri in March, “is that your view has the First Amendment hamstringing the government in significant ways.” This comment virally raised eyebrows, and for good reason: The Constitution’s whole purpose when crafted was, and still is, to hamstring government. After all,...

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...

WillSelarep/iStock/Getty Images Plus The vicious left-wing smear merchants at Media Matters laid off more than a dozen staffers on Thursday. The layoffs may be connected to legal battles that the organization is currently engaged in with Elon Musk of X, as well as the states of Texas and Missouri. The layoffs represent approximately 15 percent of Media Matter’s workforce.In November,...

RapidEye/iStock/Getty Images Plus In an apparent effort to show just how far the radical Left has progressed in its race to the bottom, the Scottish Green Party is running an estimable personage called “Sophie Sparkles” for the United Kingdom’s parliament.He is, of course, a “transgender woman,” the perfect candidate for today’s Left.As it turns out, Mizz Sparkles is something of...

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...

gorodenkoff/iStock/Getty Images Plus Last weekend in Chicago, nearly 50 people were shot, one fatally — a typical weekend in the Windy City. That might be one reason the Democrat-controlled Illinois Senate didn’t see much newsworthy about the bloodbath.Thus, instead of passing a bill to crack down on crime, it passed HB4409, which sailed through the Land of Lincoln’s House last...

AP Images The International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruled earlier today in South Africa’s genocide case against Israel — South Africa v. Israel — and ordered Israel to stop its assault on Rafah in the Gaza Strip by a vote of 13-2. The ICJ also ordered Israel to open the Rafah crossing to allow humanitarian aid to cross from Egypt...

AP Images Israel Katz Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz announced in response to remarks made by Spanish Second Deputy Prime Minister Yolanda Díaz, and Spain recognizing the State of Palestine, that Israel will prevent the Spanish consulate in Jerusalem from providing services to Palestinians from the West Bank. Katz stated on X: In response to Spain’s recognition of a Palestinian...

ZargonDesign/iStock/Getty Images Plus The results of a poll conducted by Harris for The Guardian are driving Biden supporters crazy. After all, “Bidenomics” is working: inflation is down, job creation is up, so where’s the beef?The exclusive Harris poll was clear: “55% believe the economy is shrinking, and 56% think the US is experiencing a recession.”The Guardian, one of the Biden...