Survival Plans

John Whitehead Sometimes ten seconds is all the warning you get. Sometimes you don’t get a warning before all hell breaks loose. Imagine it, if you will: It’s the middle of the night. Your neighborhood is in darkness. Your household is asleep. Suddenly, you’re awakened by a loud noise. Barely ten seconds later, someone or an army of someones has...

AP Images Dan Crenshaw Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-Texas), who is increasingly gaining notoriety as a voice for what’s left of the neocon movement, is calling on his party to not immediately shoot down a border and migration deal being worked out in the Senate. Contrary to the sentiment of some of his GOP colleagues who have expressed misgivings about the...

alexis84/iStock/Getty Images Plus In retaliation for the attack that killed three U.S. military members in Jordan on Sunday, the United States carried out airstrikes against targets in Iraq and Syria today. U.S. Central Command announced they struck over 85 Iranian targets in the two countries, stating on X, “At 4:00 p.m. (EST) Feb. 02, U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) forces conducted...

courtneyk/iStock/Getty Images Plus As if Harvard’s problem with quota-hire plagiarists, United Airlines’ vow to prioritize “diversity” when retaining pilots, and today’s prevalent affirmative-action mentality aren’t enough, now there’s this: The American Psychological Association (APA) is claiming, based on a study, that merit-based hiring is unfair. Of course, it’s easier making this accusation stick when you confuse merit with credentials —...

AP Images Stacey Abrams Has Stacey Abrams, once viewed as a rising star in the Democratic Party, now become a falling star? As it grapples with debt totaling millions of dollars, two-time gubernatorial Georgia candidate Stacey Abrams’ voting-rights group — once a major force to be reckoned with — is now reportedly cutting almost all of its staff. Fair Fight,...

AP Images Rashida Tlaib Two members of the leftist Squad in the U.S. House of Representatives took their extremist views to a new level yesterday when they said, without actually saying it, that they hope terrorists immigrate to the United States. Democrats Cori Bush of Missouri and Rashida Tlaib of Michigan voted no on a bill that would prohibit Hamas...

AP Images Kevin McCarthy Kevin McCarthy may have retired from Congress, but he’s far from done with politics. The former GOP leader who was ousted from the speakership by the hard-right flank of his own party last October has a new project that he’s passionately devoting himself to: Seeing to it that the Republicans who contributed to his downfall are...

AP Images Once again, President Joe Biden has claimed that his son Beau died in Iraq in combat. This time, he was on the phone with the parents of Army Spc. Kennedy Sanders, who was killed in a drone attack in Jordan on January 28. But Biden likely isn’t lying. Because he clearly has dementia, as one of his own...

Oleksii Liskonih/iStock/Getty Images Plus New Delhi is still keen on defense cooperation with Moscow, Russia’s Deputy Foreign Minister Andrey Rudenko told TASS, remarking on a Reuters report claiming that India is “seeking to distance itself” from Russia, which remains its key partner for military procurements. Reuters’ report cited four unnamed sources in the Indian government and in think tanks based...

AP Images European farmers protesting in Brussels Eurpoean farmers have been engaging in protests and tractor blockades all across EU countries in recent weeks, opposing what they say are harmful climate regulations and taxes, as well as foreign competition. The protests came to a head today in Brussels, as thousands of farmers descended on the EU Parliament building. According to...

A government schoolteacher in Maine asked students to confess their “unconscious biases” and gave a homework assignment asking them to write a “Declaration of Independence” from “something problematic” in their lives such as … “parents” or “authority” more broadly. Critics lambasted the exercise as part of a far left and “woke” indoctrination scheme. The scandalous exercise, assigned by high-school “social...

AP Images Harvard University Harvard University is dealing with yet another plagiarism and academic fraud scandal in yet another of its diversity hires. This time, the Washington Free-Beacon reported, citing another complaint to the university, the culprit is Sherri Ann Charleston, Harvard’s chief diversity and inclusion officer. The charges against Charleston are more serious than those that helped jettison former...

AP Images The Philippines and the United States hope to conduct what could be their largest military exercise in April, in a display of the strength of their alliance in the wake of escalated tensions in the South China Sea. The annual exercises — known as “Balikatan” — will showcase “more complex drills,” including cyberspace and information warfare, Armed Forces...

AP Images James O’Keefe, founder of Project Veritas, released a video on the O’Keefe Media Group X page showing an undercover video of White House Cyber Official Charlie Kraiger. According to Kraiger, the White House is concerned about President Joe Biden’s cognitive ability, but cannot publicly acknowledge the concerns, saying, “They’ve got to toe the line…. They know it. Of...

AP Images Ilhan Omar The Somali Muslim refugee who represents the 5th U.S. congressional district of Minnesota proved yet again that she is not an American and still considers herself a Somali. In remarks about an election in a place called Puntland in Somalia on January 27, she clearly stated that her main interest in Congress is representing the country...

AJ_Watt/iStock/Getty Images Plus The National Gathering for Prayer and Repentance that was live-streamed on Wednesday morning from Washington, D.C.’s Museum of the Bible is a reminder of the eternal verities forming the foundation of the American Republic. Co-founded by Dr. Jim Garlow, CEO of Well Versed, a ministry to members of the U.S. Congress, and Tony Perkins of the Family...

Ben Franklin gave an address at the Constitutional Convention, titled “Dangers of a Salaried Bureaucracy,” June 2, 1787: “Sir, there are two passions which have a powerful influence in the affairs of men … ambition and avarice — the love of power and the love of money … When united … they have … the most violent effects. Place before the eyes of such men a post of honor, that shall, at the same time, be a...

FG Trade/iStock/Getty Images Plus “It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things that men of intemperate minds cannot be free,” observed Anglo-Irish philosopher Edmund Burke. “Their passions forge their fetters.” In light of this, what are the implications of the reality that, according to a new poll, Gen Z is more likely to “identify” as having sexual devolutionary status...

AP Images Russia is discussing using national systems for transmitting financial messages with other BRICS countries, the country’s central bank governor, Elvira Nabiullina, said on Tuesday, January 30. “Russia has a System for Transmitting Financial Messages (SPFS), which is an alternative to SWIFT. Similar infrastructure exists in some other countries. We are holding discussions on the interaction of such platforms,...

AP Images Cori Bush The Department of Justice is investigating one of the ballyhooed members of The Squad — four leftist women members of Congress — for misspending campaign funds. DOJ is investigating Missouri Democrat Cori Bush, apparently because has spent almost $750,000 on private security since 2020 even as she advocates “defunding the police.” Six sources told Punchbowl News,...