Survival Plans

Cattle rancher Debbie Bacigalupi is working overtime to protect her family’s Northern California ranch. It’s not just the government’s newly “reintroduced” wolves or the poorly managed government forests burning up that threaten to destroy it. To Bacigalupi and other embattled ranchers in the Klamath River Basin, it seems like costly new decrees, orders, laws, and regulations are lurking around every...

AP Images New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan has delayed the sentencing hearing in former President Donald Trump’s “hush money” trial until November 26. He rescheduled it from September 18 until after the election due to concerns of a “politically prejudicial” motive to alter this year’s presidential election, stating in his decision:By letter dated August 14, 2024, Defendant requests...

AP Images Juan Merchan One of the Left’s most fervent wishes this election season is for Donald Trump to be sitting in jail on November 5. They would like to see the former president be sentenced to a lengthy prison term as a result of his spurious conviction on 34 felonies in New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan’s court...

Bet_Noire/iStock/Getty Images Plus The “Beige Book,” released every six weeks by the Federal Reserve, provides anecdotes from business owners on the state of the economy from their regional perspectives. The latest report, released early this week, confirms the economy’s slowdown and likely slide into recession.From the Boston district: “Retailers aimed at gently lowering their average prices to consumers … by...

AP Images Vladimir Putin Russian President Vladimir Putin said he supported Vice President Kamala Harris while speaking at the 9th Eastern Economic Forum (EEF) plenary session. The EEF broadcast translated Putin’s remarks in support of Harris, stating:If we can name a favorite candidate, it was, it used to be Joe Biden but now he’s not participating in the election campaign...

John Whitehead It’s not easy being a child in the American police state.Danger lurks around every corner and comes at you from every direction, especially when Big Brother is involved.Out on the streets, you’ve got the menace posed by police officers who shoot first and ask questions later. In your neighborhoods, you’ve got to worry about the Nanny State and...

AP Images As anticipated, Tesla tycoon Elon Musk will head a government efficiency commission to rein in fraud, waste, and abuse, former president and GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump announced today.Speaking at the Economic Club of New York, Trump also proposed a drastic cut in the corporate income tax rate. Corporations that manufacture products in the United States will pay...

Fox News/X Akim Marc Desire Yet another one of President Joe Biden’s Haitian “migrants” who was flown directly into the country is charged with a sex crime.This suspect is accused of molesting a 10-year-old boy. He is the second Haitian flown in directly to be charged with a sex crime.Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) took Akim Marc Desire into custody...

More than half of the nation’s governors declared publicly that they will not comply with the United Nations World Health Organization (UN WHO) and its attempt to usurp vast new powers, a response to enormous public pressure to protect liberty and sovereignty in the face of a historic global power grab by the organization and the forces behind it. “The...

RonBailey/iStock/Getty Images Plus U.S. District Judge Iain Johnston, nominated to his position by then-President Donald Trump in 2020, ruled on Friday that Illinois’ ban on citizens carrying a concealed firearm for personal protection on either of Chicago’s two mass transit systems violated the Second Amendment. The bad news is that his ruling only applies to the four individual plaintiffs who...

Twitter/X It was another bad day for Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walz. It wasn’t enough that his big brother, Jeff, said he wasn’t the “type of character” to make decisions for a great nation.Now, it turns out, Walz’s family back in Nebraska, his home state, won’t vote for him, either. They’re going to vote for former President Donald Trump.They...

In broad daylight, the first-round draft pick of the San Francisco 49ers was shot in the chest Saturday afternoon by a teenage thief, and the star’s first words were “Am I gonna die?” Wide receiver Ricky Pearsall had been walking alone on a sidewalk near Union Square when a 17-year-old with a gun tried to steal his Rolex watch. Once...

Lisa-Blue/iStock/Getty Images Plus It’s said that Saint Patrick drove all the snakes from Ireland. It appears, however, that he might’ve missed a bunch. That is, if a recent story out of the Emerald Isle is any guide. To wit:In a testimonial to our upside-down world, an Irish Christian teacher has been imprisoned for the third time. His trespass?The educator, Enoch...

Child Protection League has been exposing and opposing Minnesota’s new Marxist teacher licensing standards for over two years. Our battle exploded onto the national scene last week when Joy Pullman, executive editor of The Federalist, published her article ‘Minnesota Poised To Ban Christians, Muslims, and Jews From Teaching In Public Schools.’  With Governor Walz now campaigning as the Vice-Presidential candidate beside...

AP Images Dmytro Kuleba Ukrainian Minister of Foreign Affairs Dmytro Kuleba resigned in a handwritten document submitted yesterday. Resigning along with Kuleba are Minister of Strategic Industries Olexander Kamyshin, Minister of Justice Denys Maliuska, and Minister of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources Ruslan Strilets. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky responded to the resignations, stating, “We need new energy today, and these...

AP Images If former President Donald Trump lands in the White House and gets his way, fellow billionaire Elon Musk, the X, Tesla, and SpaceX entrepreneur, might have another job: targeting wasteful government spending.Most likely, Musk won’t get a Cabinet post, The Washington Post reported. But he might just wind up consulting with Trump on government efficiency.Musk has bandied the...

JohnnyPowell/iStock/Getty Images Plus Russia targeted a military institute in the city of Ukrainian city of Poltava. Reuters reports at least 50 people have been killed, with 271 wounded. In response to the attack, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky claimed Russia would face retaliation for the strike, stating on X:The Russian scum will surely pay for this strike. We continue to urge...

Every four years, the best athletes on the planet compete against one another while the watching world marvels at their physical prowess in the Summer Olympics. This year, however, in addition to bizarre and blasphemous rituals, humanity got to see the idiocy behind attempts to mitigate “climate change” — attempts very similar to those routinely mandated by Governor J.B. Pritzker...

AP Images Democrat political advisor James Carville offered an important message in today’s New York Times. Vice President and Democrat presidential contender Kamala Harris must jettison Joe Biden’s failed policies if she wants to defeat Donald Trump.That was the most notable of the three pieces of advice Carville offered the Jamaican-Indian presidential candidate, the other two being to let former President...

Ron Paul The Penn Wharton Budget Model, a think tank headquartered at the University of Pennsylvania, recently released a study claiming former President Donald Trump’s economic plans would add about four trillion dollars to the national deficit over ten years while Vice President Kamala Harris’s economic plans would add about two trillion dollars.Vice President Harris would increase the deficit largely...