Aug 20, 2025 – In a public meeting immediately after the Israeli attack on Iran, Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan tried to calm the nerves of the public. “The victorious army of the Ottoman Empire had a principle,” Erdoğan said. “If you want peace, you must always be ready for war.” It was not...

Aug 20, 2025 – German chancellor Friedrich Merz promised to lead Germany out of the political drift of recent years. But after just 100 days in office, he has already lost his way. His approval ratings have collapsed to around 30 per cent – lower than any previous chancellor at this stage in their tenure....

Aug 20, 2025 – History offers a powerful lesson for any nation on the brink of surrendering key sovereign powers to outsiders. The East India Company (EIC), which once exercised dominion over a large part of the Indian subcontinent and Hong Kong, ultimately failed because of its lack of accountability, rampant corruption, mismanagement, and...

Aug 20, 2025 – Jim Simons’ mathematical skills helped transform him from a prize-winning academic at Harvard and MIT into a legendary financier whose algorithmic models made Renaissance Technologies one of the most successful hedge funds in history. After his death last year, one of his consequential bequests went to his daughter, Liz, who...

Aug 20, 2025 – The High Court has ruled that illegal immigrants can no longer be housed at the Bell Hotel. This is a great victory for the parents and concerned residents of Epping. Let it also be an inspiration to the rest of Britain.They do not want their young women being abused and...

Aug 20, 2025 – Legislators are making fast work on Gov. Gavin Newsom’s redistricting proposal this week — but not without some procedural hiccups led by Republicans who oppose the effort.Elections committees in both the state Assembly and Senate on Tuesday, Aug. 19, heard the legislation that would call a special election in November over proposed...

Aug 20, 2025 – “Mistakenly deported” Kilmar Abrego Garcia is seeking dismissal of his criminal case in Tennessee, citing it as “vindictive and selective prosecution”.In truth, Abrego-Garcia did not come up with this all on his own. His team of scumbag lawyers (funded by NDLON and God only knows who else) did. After all,...

Aug 20, 2025 – An organiser behind a recent trend of England and Union flags being raised across the country has said it is being done to restore "civic pride" in Britain.Flag-raising teams have been spotted in towns and cities across the country.But not all areas have approved the surge in patriotic flags, with...

Aug 19, 2025 – This is the most alarming and astonishing thing I've heard in a while, and I only heard of it thanks to catching a quick snippet of mayoral candidate Curtis Sliwa going off about it.Visualize New York City proper for a moment. Got that picture in your head? The crowded streets,...

Aug 20, 2025 – Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard announced security clearances had been pulled from 37 current and former officials who “abused public trust by politicizing and manipulating” information — including several who were involved in a controversial, Barack Obama-ordered assessment of Russian influence in the 2016 election.An ODNI memo announced that...

Aug 20, 2025 – Only a journalist truly committed to the ancient art of panic-clickbait could squeeze all the world’s existential dread into a headline like, “A Giant, Destructive Volcanic Eruption Is Set to Shake the World in the Coming Months, Bringing About the End of Mankind, Scientists Warn.” They’ve accompanied it with the following...

Aug 20, 2025 – Romania is taking steps to fight rampant tax fraud and to trim its budget deficit by taking its nationalized industries public. With Romania being one of the most corrupt countries in Europe, with a score of 46/100 per Trading Economics, this effort to reform is a welcomed sign. But will...

Aug 19, 2025 – Comey always struck me as one of those weird sort of tweener people. Granted, he was hamstrung by his enormous height - he's near Andre the Giant territory at 6'8" tall. But I always got the vibe that he wanted to be a beatnik with a guitar, a bunch of...

Aug 20, 2025 – Last week, Attorney General Pam Bondi, fresh from straightening out the impasse on ICE enforcement in the sanctuary city known as the District of Columbia - they will henceforth be fully cooperative - fired off a letter to tens of cities and several governors, warning them they were next on...

Aug 18, 2025 – Back in June, the...um...sudden 'saucy' rejoinders flying off the official X account titled 'Governor Newsom Press Office' had some eyebrows flying skyward and eyeballs rolling back into heads so far you had to scrape them out with spoons.😮 Over the last few days, the official @cagovernor @gavinnewsom press office account...

Aug 19, 2025 – Archaeologists in Tajikistan have made a groundbreaking discovery at the Mugtepa settlement in Istaravshan: an ancient water pipeline system, constructed approximately 1,500 years ago, perched atop a 65-meter hill — roughly the height of a modern twenty-storey building. This remarkable find sheds new light on the engineering capabilities and daily life...

Aug 19, 2025 – The United Nations adjourned its plastics summit in Geneva, Switzerland, with no version of a global treaty coming close to reaching “consensus.”This is great news for the global economy, as radical proposals sought to place taxes and controls on every phase of plastic production and use.The UN plastics summit tried...

Aug 19, 2025 – Peacemaking requires cooperation between the two superpowers. This was certainly accomplished at the Alaska Summit. Peace in Ukraine cannot be achieved in isolation from everything else happening in the world. If the rest of the world becomes as chaotic as Europe, there will be more wars and suffering, and the...

Aug 19, 2025 – Britain once built the infrastructure of empire. Today, it is dismantling the infrastructure of sovereignty. Not by accident, but by policy design. Net zero was meant to deliver justice, green jobs, and a fairer future. But in practice, it is entrenching inequality, excluding regions from economic renewal, and handing control of...

Aug 19, 2025 – Most of the Western commentary on the Alaska summit is criticizing President Trump for precisely the wrong reason. The accusation is that by abandoning his call for an unconditional ceasefire as the first step in peace talks, Trump has surrendered a key position and “aligned himself with Putin.”This is nonsense....

Aug 19, 2025 – The European Commission has published its latest report on the rule of law in Poland for 2025.  Previous reports were highly critical of Poland and served as a ruthless tool of political pressure. Brussels’ attitude towards Poland over the last decade has been largely based on political pressure through systemic...

Aug 19, 2025 – Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker, a major Democratic leader and rumored presidential candidate, signed a bill into law opening student financial aid to all residents, regardless of immigration status, opening a pathway for illegal immigrants residing in the state to receive educational financial benefits.The move was slammed by conservative Rep. Mary Miller,...

Aug 19, 2025 – As the people of Ukraine know, neighborliness is not among Putin’s great qualities.Still, it was with a reference to the US and Russia being neighbors that Putin kicked off his conversation with President Trump in Alaska yesterday.On the red carpet at the airport he apparently said to Trump: “Good afternoon, dear neighbor....

Aug 19, 2025 – Seven people suspected of being in the country illegally were taken into federal custody Saturday, Aug. 16, off the coast of Newport Beach.Officials with the U.S. Coast Guard Sector Los Angeles-Long Beach received a report around 9 p.m. requesting a boarding after a patrol of a 20-foot ship with seven...

Aug 19, 2025 – I'm sorry, bad guys. This is yet another rock star addition that complements the team Trump has already assembled.Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey announced he was resigning last night to accept the position as Co-Deputy Director of the Bureau.I am proud to announce I have accepted the role of Co-Deputy...