Survival Plans

MicroStockHub/iStock/Getty Images Plus The EU has agreed to its 13th package of sanctions against Russia, the EU’s Belgian presidency announced on February 21 on X (formerly Twitter). The package will be formally approved in time for the second anniversary of the start of the Russian military operation in Ukraine on February 24. Brussels has imposed 12 rounds of restrictions on...

AP Images Kristi Noem South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem announced on X today that she will be sending South Dakota National Guard soldiers to the U.S.-Mexico border. Noem stated in her announcement posted on X, “The border is a warzone, so we’re sending soldiers. The @SD_Guard’s primary mission will be construction of a wall to stem the flow of illegal...

Politics The U.S. Should Get Out of the Israel-Palestine Game Forty years of Western peacemaking have seen nothing but deteriorating conditions in the Holy Land. Credit: WikiCommons The first time I went to Jerusalem (crouched in the back of Margaret Thatcher’s obsolete VC10 jet) in 1986, it was an easy matter to drive down to Bethlehem for the evening, and...

AP Images Greg Abbott Texas Governor Greg Abbott has taken yet another step to protect Lone Star Staters from the invasion of illegal aliens that President Joe Biden is aiding and abetting. The state is building a military base on the border with Mexico that will house thousands of Texas National Guardsmen. Message from Abbott to Sleepy Joe: You won’t stop...

Cristian Borrego Sala/iStock/Getty Images Plus “Consensus is the business of politics,” said late author Michael Crichton in 2003. “Science, on the contrary, requires only one investigator who happens to be right.” While true, being right and doing actual science may get you arrested under a bill that just passed in France’s National Assembly — if your activities are deemed contrary...

AP Images Pro-Assange protest in London WikiLeaks founder and Australian citizen Julian Assange’s hearing at the High Court of Justice in London today could be his last attempt to stop extradition to the United States for publishing hundreds of thousands of classified documents. Assange’s lead lawyer told the court today, “Mr Assange is being prosecuted for engaging in ordinary journalistic...

Former President Donald Trump is set to challenge New York State Judge Arthur Engoron’s definition of fraud after he was ordered to pay a $364 million penalty. Trump lawyer Chris Kise told Newsweek, “The case raises serious legal and constitutional questions regarding ‘fraud’ claims/findings without any actual fraud,” and stated the appeal would be filed within 30 days, telling Newsweek...

Olga Kaya/iStock/Getty Images Plus An annual report on the fiscal health of 75 of America’s largest cities revealed on Thursday that 53 cities did not have enough money to pay all of their bills at the end of fiscal year 2022.   “This means that to claim their budgets were balanced — as is required by law in the 75 cities...

piola666/iStock/Getty Images Plus Scientists at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) in Massachusetts are planning an experiment in which they will dump approximately 6,000 gallons of sodium hydroxide — a common ingredient in soaps, cleansers, and chemical pipe cleaners — into the waters off of Martha’s Vineyard. The experiment is a part of WHOI’s LOC-NESS project, which seeks to ascertain...

AP Images Yesterday in Burnsville, Minnesota, two police officers — Paul Elmstrand and Matthew Ruge — and a firefighter — Adam Finseth — were killed when responding to a domestic-abuse incident. Alpha News has identified the suspect as Shannon Cortez Gooden. When officers arrived at the scene, Gooden barricaded himself and was armed with multiple firearms. After exchanging gunfire with...

AP Images “I don’t do it for the money. I’ve got enough, much more than I’ll ever need. I do it to do it. Deals are my art form…. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That’s how I get my kicks,” opened Donald Trump’s hit 1987 book Trump: The Art of the Deal. Thirty-six years after publication, Trump’s perspective...

For months the mainstream media and Washington Pols have been pushing the metaphor that the US economy is a plane on its final approach to a ‘soft landing’. Soft landing is defined as inflation steadily coming down to the Federal Reserve’s goal of a 2% price level AND does so without provoking a recession. However, as revealed by the inflation statistics...

yavdat/iStock/Getty Images Plus A federal judge on Wednesday allowed a class-action lawsuit challenging the Navy’s religious-accommodations process to proceed even though the Defense Department’s Covid-19 vaccine mandate, which occasioned the suit, has since been rescinded. “While the mandate may be gone, the effects of that mandate and the discriminatory treatment the class members were subject to because of the mandate...

AP Images Liz Cheney Former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) told CNN’s Jake Tapper on the State of the Union program Sunday that House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) should consider getting military aid to Ukraine in its war with Russia to be more important than his continuing to serve as Speaker of the House. When Tapper suggested that Johnson might very...

AP Images John Podesta When Joe Biden created the position of Special Presidential Envoy for Climate (SPEC), few understood that the new position would be so secretive in nature. On the surface, the SPEC office is attached to the State Department “to ensure that the United States actively engages on climate, including exercising strong U.S. leadership to increase global climate...

AP Images Tony Bobulinski In closed-door testimony before the House Oversight and Judiciary Committees on February 13, Tony Bobulinski, former business associate of Hunter Biden, largely repeated what he said in his opening statement, while elaborating on his meetings with former Vice President Joe Biden in Los Angeles in 2017. Hunter Biden had 24-7 access to his father, and used...

AP Images President Joe Biden blamed Russian President Vladimir Putin for the death of Russian political dissident Alexei Navalny. Biden spoke of Navalny’s death, saying, “We don’t know exactly what happened, but there is no doubt that the death of Nalvany was a consequence of something that Putin and his thugs did,” and said of of a U.S. response, “We’re...

Shutthiphong Chandaeng/iStock/Getty Images Plus OpenAI, the maker of the popular chatbot ChatGPT, has just made a tidal wave in the industry with its latest development. On Thursday, the company revealed its latest software, named Sora, a text-to-video AI that allows users to create HD-quality video clips by inputting nothing more than a text description. As OpenAI notes on its website,...

AP Images Even as Democrats and the establishment media claim victory at news of Donald Trump’s legal-related money ordeals, the 45th president and once-heralded business tycoon has scored a subtle win that might allow him to recoup any potential losses in the long-term. On Friday, Trump was in the headlines once more after New York State Judge Arthur Engoron imposed...

400tmax/iStock/Getty Images Plus It’s called “the narrative” — which is usually just a polite name for a fashionable lie. A black Ivy League academic has learned the price of contradicting cherished narratives, too: threat to life and limb. In fact, after releasing a credible study finding “no evidence of racial bias” in police shootings, Harvard economics professor Roland Fryer said...