Survival Plans

Shakeel Sha/iStock/Getty Images Plus “The right to swing my arms in any direction ends where your nose begins,” children would sometimes hear years ago, from teachers trying to illustrate the rightful balance of rights. Much like the “sticks and stones may break my bones” free-speech lesson, however, it’s not related to kids much anymore. It shows, too. The latest example...

Education It’s the Elites, Stupid How are we going to build anything if we’re trapped beneath the rubble produced by those in control? Credit: Public Domain Media James B. Conant—first chairman of the National Science Foundation, scientific advisor to the Manhattan Project, Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient, and Harvard’s 23rd president—did much to make Harvard a recognizably modern, elite university....

When confronted with international appeals for humanitarian aid due to the ongoing crises in Gaza and Yemen, the United States and the United Kingdom have chosen instead to turn Yemen’s Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden into a combat zone, initiating an ariel bombing campaign against the war-torn country already suffering immensely from nine years of deadly conflict spearheaded...

AP Images For the second time in less than 10 days when discussing the death of his son Beau, President Joe Biden revealed his advancing dementia. Reacting to special counsel Robert Hur’s report on mishandling classified documents, which said Biden couldn’t remember the date of Beau’s death in 2015, Biden fumbled his angry reply, which included remarks about a wrist...

Imgorthand/iStock/Getty Images Plus Michigan officials are calling upon state lawmakers to enact a mandatory state registry of all homeschooled children in Michigan. Since December 2023, Michigan state officials — including Attorney General Dana Nessel, the state House and Senate Education Committee chairs, the State Board of Education, and State Superintendent Michael Rice — have criticized homeschooling and called for stricter...

Politics Biden: Survival of the Unfittest Biden’s snap press conference paraded all his weaknesses before the nation—but don’t expect the Democrats to do anything about it. Joe Biden’s presidency imploded on live television Thursday night.  Hours after a special counsel report found him culpable of violating federal secrecy yet excused him on grounds of mental incompetence—calling him “a sympathetic, well-meaning,...

Tucker Carlson interviewed Russian President Vladimir Putin for over two hours. Watch the conversation, at times a filibuster, here. He seems more coherent than our president. At the same time, KGB agents, former and present — whatever the agency currently calls itself — can persuade even when they lie. Putin spins the Hitler–Stalin Pact, preposterously, as a reaction to Poland’s betrayal of Russia....

Liudmila Cernetska/iStock/Getty Images Plus The courts in Kentucky have a message for the “trans” men who pretend they are women. If you sexually molest a baby, no worries. You won’t go to jail, and you won’t be convicted of a felony if you can’t get your estrogen in jail. And the courts will take your pro-molester “trans woman” attorney seriously...

Politics The ‘Putin Supporter’ Slur Has Jumped Shark The intellectual bankruptcy of fanatical Ukraine war supporters is laid bare in their wacky equation of Russia and Hamas, and right and left skeptics alike. Credit: Asatur Yesayants “To call for a ceasefire is Mr. Putin’s message.” So said California’s Democratic Rep. Nancy Pelosi recently, before proceeding to call for FBI investigations...

Oleksii Liskonih/iStock/Getty Images Plus In a remarkable reinterpretation of the Second Amendment, the Supreme Court of the State of Hawaii ruled on Wednesday that an individual exercising rights guaranteed under that Amendment was guilty of violating the state’s laws supporting that right. If that seems counter-intuitive to you, you’re not alone. In its ruling the Supreme Court of the State...

uschools/iStock/Getty Images Plus The United States Senate voted 67-32 today to advance a foreign aid bill that would send $61 billion to Ukraine, $14 billion to Israel, and $4.83 billion to allies in the Indo-Pacific. Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.) stated the reason the bill was advanced by Senator Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Senator Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) was because they are...

Alexey Bakharev/iStock/Getty Images Plus Maritime exports of Russian crude oil saw a robust recovery in the week of February 4 after two weeks of disruptions, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday, indicating that the flows from the country’s major ports were at record levels. Weekly average shipments reportedly rose by some 880,000 barrels per day, signifying the highest since the beginning of...

ShopJBS.org Indoctrinating Our Children to Death: Government Schools’ War on Faith, Family & Freedom — And How to Stop It, by Alex Newman, Pinecrest, Florida; Liberty Sentinel Press, 2024, 133 pages, paperback. Alex Newman has done it again. His new book is the must-have, must-read treatise on the urgent crisis in American education today. It is a worthy follow-up to...

AP Images Nikki Haley GOP voters in Nevada sent a message to presidential candidate Nikki Haley in yesterday’s primary election: We want Trump. She lost to Nobody, meaning “none of these candidates,” and by a big margin. And because the Silver State doesn’t award delegates in the primary but instead at a caucus that will be held tomorrow, Trump will...

Art Wager/iStock/Getty Images Plus LNG terminal in Houston The temporary halt of approvals for new LNG export terminals by the administration of U.S. President Joe Biden will imperil trust in the industry, Shell CEO Wael Sawan told the Financial Times in an interview on Sunday. “I don’t think the recent announcement by the administration necessarily impacts, in the short or...

Twitter/X U.S. Central Command (USCENTCOM) announced on X that it conducted an airstrike in Baghdad, Iraq, and killed a senior leader in Kata’ib Hezbollah. The strike was in response to the attacks that killed three U.S. service members on January 28 in Rukban, Jordan. In the announcement on X, USCENTCOM stated: USCENTCOM Conducts Strike Killing Kata’ib Hezbollah Senior Leader At...

In an effort to protect children from groomers, revolutionaries, and perverts seeking to indoctrinate them with obscene and illegal material, Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita quietly launched a new “Eyes on Education” portal for parents and citizens to upload objectionable content from schools. The education establishment, along with groomers and perverts in government schools, are freaking out.  “Our kids need...

VeranoVerde/iStock/Getty Images Plus The German government’s move to get more Ukrainian refugees into the workforce has been failing amid the substantial financial support given to those seeking shelter in the country, the tabloid Bild reported on Monday. Per the paper, only 25.2 percent of the refugees from Ukraine in Germany are presently employed, compared with 78 percent in Denmark and...

AP Images Nikki Haley Results from the Nevada primary held last night show Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley gathered less votes than ballots marked “None of These Candidates.” The Associated Press is reporting with 88 percent of votes counted, Haley received 30.5 percent (21,199) of the vote, and “None of These Candidates” gathering the most votes with 63.2 percent (43,893)....

Oleksii Liskonih/iStock/Getty Images Plus Guatemala is contemplating reaching out to develop formal trade ties with China, the Central American country’s foreign minister told Reuters on February 5, although it plans to maintain its existing ties with Taiwan. The Central American country is one of a handful of Taiwan’s remaining allies, as countries increasingly back the world’s second-largest economy, China, which...