Jul 26, 2025 – There has been a lot of focus across Europe’s media outlets on the major expansion of the EU budget. In its proposal for the seven-year period 2028-2034, the Commission asks for a 67% increase in appropriations. Currently, the budget is facing a high level of resistance in the EU Parliament. However,...

Jul 26, 2025 – On July 13, 2024, 20-year-old Thomas Crooks, before witnesses and unimpeded by law enforcement, climbed onto the roof of the American Glass Research (AGR) building at the Butler Farm Show. He was 441 feet away from the stage on which candidate Donald Trump was addressing 15,000 enthusiastic supporters.From that perch,...

Jul 26, 2025 – Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard just released a trove of apparently once-classified documents -- with promises of much more to follow.The new material describes the role of the Obama administration's intelligence and investigatory directors -- purportedly along with former President Barack Obama himself -- in undermining the 2016 Trump...

Jul 26, 2025 – A Southwest Airlines flight that departed Hollywood Burbank Airport Friday was forced to perform a pair of collision-avoidance maneuvers after the pilot received two “traffic alerts,” and two flight attendants were injured.ABC7, citing online flight tracking, reported that the plane quickly descended 475 feet in response to the collision-avoidance alert. The...

Jul 27, 2025 – One of the most important developments this century has been a major increase in energy access across the globe: Billions of people have gained access to modern energy, a precondition for rising from poverty.Sub-Saharan Africa is the only region of the world not benefitting from this transformation. In Africa, energy...

Jul 27, 2025 – There have been some intriguing signs that American automakers are reembracing internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles.To begin with, General Motors (GM) recently announced a major initiative to expand production of its ICE vehicles, including SUVs and pickup trucks, in Michigan.The Detroit giant and many of its U.S. competitors have pulled back...

Jul 27, 2025 – Israel’s recent campaign against Iran scored three outsized gains. It decimated Iran’s long-range weaponry, demolished nuclear sites, and decapitated the military/scientific establishment. At the same time, American bombers cracked open ultra-hardened facilities, which Israel’s air force could not do.But winning against an outgunned foe was the easy part. The “mullahcracy,”...

Jul 27, 2025 – As the global geopolitical order recalibrates in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the escalating rivalry between Washington and Beijing, one longstanding assumption—that economic interdependence can temper political discord—is quickly losing currency. This unraveling is especially visible in the evolving and increasingly uneasy relationship between China and the...

Jul 27, 2025 – Proposed state regulations from Governor Phil Murphy’s administration are drawing sharp criticism across the Jersey Shore, where local officials and residents say the measures could drive up costs, suppress property values, and cripple coastal economies.The new rules would raise elevation requirements to 15 feet in flood-prone zones, expand designated flood...

Jul 27, 2025 – It is time to be brutally honest about AI in education, especially now that the race is on among tech companies to secure lucrative relationships with schools. As indicated by a recent New York Times article, educational AI is shaping up to be big business. Powerful forces are plowing full steam ahead to...

Jul 26, 2025 – One of two grenades recovered from a Santa Monica townhome complex is confirmed to have caused the blast that killed three detectives on July 18, but the second grenade is missing despite extensive searches, Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna announced on Friday.The day before the blast, a resident of a...

Jul 27, 2025 – San Francisco may soon ban natural gas in residential and commercial buildings undergoing major renovations, a move that supporters say will help combat greenhouse gas emissions and improve public health.The proposed ordinance, which could take effect next year, would require “major renovation” projects to include plans for replacing gas utilities...

Jul 28, 2025 – On July 27, 2025, Tampa, Florida, allegedly reached a new record high of 100°F. Almost instantly, the National Weather Service rolled out celebratory graphics and social media posts. Headlines echoed across national outlets. Climate activists called it a warning... a wake-up call... another undeniable sign that the climate crisis is...

Jul 28, 2025 – British savers are increasingly losing trust in banks, with new research revealing that many are unaware of a crucial legal detail.The study, commissioned by gold-based savings platform TallyMoney, found that around 75 per cent of people believe they still own their money once it’s deposited, but in reality, banks become...

Jul 30, 2025 – Perhaps the greatest example that good policymaking intentions go awry is the minimum wage. Proponents of increasing the minimum wage argue that doing so will help the poor. If we could snap our fingers and make the poor suddenly rich, there would be no reason to object. Unfortunately, in a world...

Jul 29, 2025 – I only caught a snippet of this last night before news of the Manhattan horror drove everything else off-air, but it was really intriguing.I mean, this was Chris Matthews' red face snug up to the camera. That's not unusual. But what was so out of the ordinary was his tone of...

Jul 29, 2025 – Well, how about that? After whipping everyone into shape and basically forcing member nations to take out payday loans to beef up their individual defense postures as well as keep the money flowing to Ukraine, there seems to have been a burp.The European Union pledges of up to $60M over...

Jul 30, 2025 – I thought I might do one of those 'feel good' sort of updates. Sure, we've all seen how the flow of bodies over the rivers and the open border lands has shriveled to damn near no one.The dearth of illegals wading through the Rio Grande and trekking the Southwestern deserts...

Jul 31, 2025 – It’s understandable, and rational, that the American people don’t trust the media. Time and time again the media have proven themselves to be untrustworthy.Still, I sometimes find myself wondering how different things might have been, how the press could have saved itself, had reporters just been willing to work with honor...

Jul 30, 2025 – The immigration situation in Germany is like watching a train wreck, and it's not a slow-motion one, either.What it is for sure is a danse macabre of competing government factions and ideologies, none of whom seem to have the least bit of concern for the safety and security or expressed...

Jul 31, 2025 – Eighteenth-century America was predominantly Protestant, and the Thirteen Colonies suffered from a virulent strain of anti-Catholicism. Despite this, the mostly-Protestant Founding Fathers, while being greatly inspired by their Protestant English forebears, were greatly inspired by Catholic thinkers as well.The United States was not established as a Christian country, with American...

Jul 31, 2025 – When last we saw Volodymyr Zelensky and the Ukrainian Parliament - like, um, just this past Tuesday - they were busy doing the Bojangles. A brouhaha had erupted over legislation they'd passed the previous week that the Ukrainian president consequently signed into law. The bill stripped the independence of the...

Jul 31, 2025 – No, I do not owe you for a new monitor after reading that and spitting your Starbucks or Mountain Dew (I don't judge) all over it. It's a for reals quote, I didn't make it up, that makes it news, and I can't help it if you think it's so...

Aug 1, 2025 – Slightly less than half of U.S. adults believe that Black people face “a great deal” or “quite a bit” of discrimination in the United States, according to a poll. That’s a decline from the solid majority, 60%, who thought Black Americans faced high levels of discrimination in the spring of...

Aug 1, 2025 – “Life’s full of tough choices, innit?”The question oozes out of Ursula the Sea Witch like a plume of playfully poisonous vapor as she interrupts a brilliantly executed cabaret of a con meant to work on Ariel, the emotionally torn “Little Mermaid” of the 1989 Disney cartoon. “Come on, you poor, unfortunate...