Survival Plans

Salena Zito Most of the great filmmakers in American cinema will candidly admit some of the most enduring and memorable moments in their films were scenes or lines that were never in the script.“Here’s looking at you, kid,” was never in the “Casablanca” script; it was a Humphrey Bogart ad-lib. “Leave the gun, take the cannoli,” from Francis Ford Coppola’s...

Ron Paul Why does it seem the Pentagon is far better at spending money than actually putting together a successful operation? The failed “Operation Prosperity Guardian” and the disastrous floating Gaza pier are but two recent examples of enormously expensive initiatives that, though they no doubt enriched military contractors, were incapable of meeting their stated goals.To great fanfare, last December...

leolintang/iStock/Getty Images Plus Rep. Mike Turner (R-Ohio), chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI), has stated the threat of a terror attack occurring within the United States is at the highest level since the attacks of September 11, 2001. Turner said President Joe Biden’s border policies are responsible for the increased terrorism threat, stating on X, “President...

Bet_Noire/iStock/Getty Images Plus Just as it’s “garbage in, garbage out” with a computer, feeding incorrect data (lies) to the population has serious consequences. After all, how can people make correct judgments about what politicians and policies to support — i.e., civilization-preserving decisions — if they’re being fed misinformation about those politicians and policies?And, boy, the lies do fly fast and...

NicolasMcComber/iStock/Getty Images Plus Farmers are facing water restrictions in Idaho due to groundwater districts allegedly not complying with “approved mitigation plans” set by the Idaho Department of Water Resources (IDWR).Brian Murdock, a farmer in east Idaho told Fox Business: Well, like … you said, the state of Idaho and the Idaho Department of Water Resources has issued this curtailment of...

Taral Patel/Facebook Taral Patel Yet again, a leftist has been caught perpetrating a hate hoax.This time, the suspect is one Taral Patel, a Democratic candidate for Precinct 3 Commissioner in Fort Bend County, Texas. He is charged with creating a fake online persona and making racist comments that appeared to have come from supporters of his Republican opponent.Not surprisingly, Patel...

Matt Hunt/iStock/Getty Images Plus During much of 2020 and early 2021, the United States military ran a covert propaganda campaign aimed at countering China’s growing influence in the Philippines and beyond, according to a Reuters investigation.This previously undisclosed operation sought to undermine confidence in Chinese-provided Covid vaccines and aid. According to the report: Through phony internet accounts meant to impersonate...

John Whitehead Take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties. — James Madison James Madison, often referred to as the “Father of the Constitution,” once predicted that the Bill of Rights would become a mere “parchment barrier,” words on paper ignored by successive generations of Americans.How right he was.Although Madison initially felt that the inclusion of a bill of...

Bacsica/iStock/Getty Images Plus The United States Supreme Court has dismissed a challenge to the federal government’s mail-order policy for abortion pills.All nine SCOTUS justices agreed that the plaintiffs lacked standing to challenge relaxed regulatory requirements adopted by the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) in 2016 and 2021.Those policy changes made the dangerous medication easier for doctors to prescribe and...

xiaoying shi/iStock/Getty Images Plus A recent study is predicting a dire future for the polar bear population on Canada’s Hudson Bay due to the effects of global warming, which climate zealots claim is caused primarily by mankind’s emissions from using fossil fuels to power civilization. But at least one prominent polar bear scientist claims that the study is flawed and...

John Whitehead Take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties. — James Madison James Madison, often referred to as the “Father of the Constitution,” once predicted that the Bill of Rights would become a mere “parchment barrier,” words on paper ignored by successive generations of Americans.How right he was.Although Madison initially felt that the inclusion of a bill of...

Ekaterina Bolovtsova/pexels U.S. District Court Judge Reed O’Connor didn’t hold back in his criticism of the ATF in his decision yesterday in Mock v. Garland: “The Court VACATES the Final Rule on the grounds that violated the APA’s (Administrative Procedures Act) procedural requirements in promulgating it” and “because it was arbitrary and capricious….”  The fractious rule was birthed when Joe...

Photos.com/iStock/Getty Images Plus June 15 marks a pivotal date in the annals of liberty: the anniversary of the Magna Carta’s signing at Runnymede, England. Over 800 years ago, this “Great Charter” enshrined liberties so essential that the noblemen who drafted it placed them beyond the reach of the king. They created a document that would lay the foundation for the...

vkyryl/iStock/Getty Images Plus First we had Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg talking about “racist roads.” Then we had the city of Oakland, California, remove traffic lights because public officials were unwilling to stop thieves from stealing copper from them. Now there’s yet another indication of what many consider our descent into idiocracy and social decay:Los Angeles has removed “homophobic” “no...

AP Images Caitlin Clark Caitlin Clark would assuredly just like to play basketball. Unfortunately for the WNBA standout, however, focus on the game has been subordinated to racial games in an America in which everything is now about identity politics.Because of this, some may say the WNBA is snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. Clark, much touted as one...

AP Images The opening of the G7 meeting in Italy offered the world another view of an ailing American president unfit to continue serving in office, let alone serve a second term.Biden’s bizarre behavior alarmed his counterparts at the summit, but, more importantly, proved again that oftentimes Biden simply doesn’t know where he is, what he’s doing, or maybe even...

Tetiana Strilchuk/iStock/Getty Images Plus New records from the U.S. Secret Service show that President Biden’s German shepherd, Commander, was an out-of-control Hound from Hell that terrified Secret Service agents.Obtained by Judicial Watch, the records show that Biden watched the vicious canine bite an agent. In an email, one agent told a colleague to have a “safe shift,” clearly hoping the...

kontekbrothers/iStock/Getty Images Plus Key federal healthcare agencies under the umbrella of the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) have been concealing plans for nearly nine years to engineer a highly transmissible and moderately fatal monkeypox virus (MPXV), according to a recent report by congressional investigators released Tuesday.Over the past 17 months, the House Committee on Energy and...

AP Images Rashida Tlaib Representative Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) criticized the U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) decision in Garland v. Cargill announced earlier today, stating on X, “Today’s Supreme Court decision will result in more gun deaths.”Tlaib’s remarks today come after attacking Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito yesterday, describing the associate justices as “unhinged, corrupt extremists.” “I know we need urgent action...

Olivier Le Moal/iStock/Getty Images Plus “I would rather be governed by the first 2,000 people in the telephone directory,” wrote the late William F. Buckley in 1961, “than by the Harvard University faculty.” It might be wise bearing this in mind in light of the warning just issued by The Washington Post:If Trump is reelected, states the paper’s Karen Tumulty,...