Survival Plans

AP Images Rishi Sunak and Grant Shapps The U.K. announced today that it is providing Ukraine with $500 million pounds in addition to Storm Shadow and other missiles. U.K. Secretary of State for Defense Grant Shapps announced the latest aid package, stating on X: If Putin wins it will be open season for any dictator to plunge the world into...

AP Images Caitlin Clark We heard it with the female tennis players. We heard it with our women’s national soccer team (even though they’d lost to 14-year-old boys). Now we hear it with lady basketball sensation Caitlin Clark.“Look at how much the male players receive,” is the complaint. “She’s not getting the money she deserves!” This is true, too.Clark is...

Liudmila Chernetska/iStock/Getty Images Plus In a frightening development for German children, the nation’s parliament passed a law on April 12 that permits parents transfixed by “transgender” ideology to change the sex of newly born children on their birth certificates.In addition, anyone found to have “deadnamed” someone could face a $10,000 fine.Women’s rights activists opposed the socialist-sponsored measure unsuccessfully, Reduxx reported. The...

CSPAN Rami Shy Another top Democrat with links to the White House has been charged with sex crimes against children.This time, the suspect is one Rahamim “Rami” Shy, the Daily Mail has revealed, an anti-terror bigwig under President Barack Hussein Obama. His high-level role in the White House and other agencies — and the strong possibility that he committed such...

More than 34,000 Palestinians killed and vast swaths of the enclave is in ruins as Israel continues its assault. Mass graves, crippled hospitals, thousands of civilian deaths and near-total destruction of infrastructure haunt Gaza as Israel’s war on the besieged Palestinian coastal enclave entered its 200th day on Tuesday. Israel launched its brutal military offensive on October 7 following a...

kyletperry/iStock/Getty Images Plus Oil pipeline in the North Slope region of Alaska On April 19, the Biden administration took further steps to reduce America’s ability to achieve energy independence. The Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM) announced that the administration had placed millions of additional acres in Alaska off limits to further extraction of oil and gas.“Following...

Politics Is It Game, Set, Match to Moscow? The American brand will suffer so long as Washington pretends its capacities are limitless. (Photo by DIMITAR DILKOFF/AFP via Getty Images) It is an axiom of warfare that it is always desirable to have friendly territory beyond one’s own borders or the capacity to prevent the buildup of significant military power in...

jurgenfr/iStock/Getty Images Plus The plagiarism plague has infected UCLA Medical School.Yet again, a top diversity official has been revealed as a literary thief. This time, reported the City Journal’s Christopher Rufo and Daily Wire’s Luke Rosiak, the culprit is Natalie J. Perry, who leads the university’s diversity, equity, and inclusion program called “Cultural North Star” at the med school.The writers...

AP Images When Bank of America (BofA) arbitrarily and quietly closed the accounts of Indigenous Advance Ministries and one of its church supporters, it afterward claimed that it no longer wanted to serve their “business type.” When BofA closed the account of Timothy Two Project International, it informed the ministry it was because it was “operating a business type we...

AP Images Xi Jinping On April 19, Chinese President Xi Jinping announced a large-scale overhaul of the Chinese military and the creation of the Information Support Force (ISF), a new wing of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA), which will oversee hybrid warfare.According to Russia Today (RT), Xi in his speech declared that China must channel efforts toward developing its...

Jeffrey O. Gustafson/Wikimedia Commons It was generations ago that C.S. Lewis warned of “omnipotent moral busybodies … who torment us for our own good.” Such people are more dangerous than robber barons, he explained, because they “will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their consciences.” Enter Lindsey Smith Taillie, “nutrition epidemiologist,” associate professor at...

Luis Miguel Year after year, the U.S. border remains open. Laws on the books against illegal migration go unenforced as the federal government, particularly when Democrats are in office, encourages migrants with asylum status, work permits, room, board, and more.Meanwhile, well-intentioned border officials have their hands tied as the White House refuses to supply them with the resources needed to...

AP Images Viktor Orbán Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán warned NATO is preparing to enter Ukraine, stating, “We are one step away from the West sending the military to Ukraine.”Orbán claimed the majority of NATO members are pro-war, stating, “Today in Brussels there is a pro-war majority. The mood in Europe is bellicose. The logic of war dominates politics. I...

AP Images Ann Coulter Campus leftists didn’t cut short Ann Coulter’s latest speech at Cornell, but one of them was arrested for disrupting the event.And it was something of a droll coincidence that “interpersonal communications” Professor Monica Cornejo was the arrestee.The title of Coulter’s talk was “Immigration: The Conspiracy To End America.” Cornejo is an immigrant — an illegal immigrant....

ftwitty/iStock/Getty Images Plus Jury selection is finished for former President Donald Trump’s New York “hush money” trial. New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan stated, “We have now completed jury selection for this case,” after the jurors and alternates had been sworn in.Representative Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) said that, regardless of the verdict, Americans should be reassured that ordinary citizens will...

AP Images Volodymyr Zelensky On April 19, former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev declared that recent Polish claims about the arrest of a man allegedly planning to kill Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky were indications that Kyiv’s Western backers hope to “liquidate” Zelensky.Polish authorities reported that they had arrested one “Paweł K,” on the grounds of aiding, “among other things, in planning...

JacobH/iStock/Getty Images Plus This week, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) announced changes to regulations for roughly one-tenth of the public land that it oversees — approximately 245 million acres. According to a BLM press release, the new changes will “improve the health and resilience of public lands in the face of a changing climate; conserve important wildlife habitat and...

PaulPaladin/iStock/Getty Images Plus “A man capable of deceiving only others,” instructs a sage old saying, “is not as dangerous as a man capable of deceiving himself.” Bringing this to mind are comments Democrat-turned-independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. made recently, talking about an interaction he had with CNN news anchor Erin Burnett two weeks ago.Kennedy described how Burnett was...

AP Images Sergey Lavrov On April 19, during an interview with Russian radio stations Sputnik, Komsomolskaya Pravda, and Govorit Moskva, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said that his country had no plans to end tensions with Ukraine even if both sides come to the negotiation table, as Kyiv has proven itself to be untrustworthy.“As President constantly reminds us, we always...

Rhododendrites/Wikimedia Commons Lincoln Center Here we go again. We heard leftists trumpet the “browning of America” (see MSNBC et al.) via Third World immigration. We also heard them, contradictorily, complain about the “whitewashing” of San Francisco’s Mission District neighborhood when Caucasian dot-commers moved in. Now we’re told that New York City’s famed Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts is also...