Aug 12, 2025 – I’ve never met a farmer or rancher I didn’t like. They are the world’s most miserable optimists. This year’s crop may have been bad, but next year — next year — they are sure that commodity prices will be better and their grain silos will be filled to overflowing.I made this...

Aug 12, 2025 – It’s Aug. 11, and the weather’s finally been nice for a few weeks, minus the Canadian smog.But instead of enjoying these late-summer days, lots of Chicago-area kids are marching to school today, bulging backpacks perched on sweat-soaked backs.This week marks the start of a new school year for many students,...

Aug 12, 2025 – Utility workers unearthed two pre-Incan tombs during a routine day on the job in Peru – one of many archaeological discoveries in the country this year.The workers, employed by the energy company Cálidda, found the burials in Lima just recently. The employees have been digging trenches in the city as part...

Aug 12, 2025 – Compass Points has been contacted by a reader with a reply to a recent article in, War on the Rocks. Compass Points thanks the reader and all our readers who continue, despite all hecklers, to speak out and advocate for a global Marine Corps that is strong today and even...

Aug 12, 2025 – Legitimate disagreement about the wisdom of dropping two bombs on Japan to end World War II in 1945 persists even 80 years later, as reflected in discussions this past week.But recently, there has often been no real effort even to present the facts, much less to consider the lose-lose choices...

Aug 12, 2025 – Washington D.C. is a town so filled to the brim with disreputable, scummy creatures that stand in any hallway of the Capitol Building, one could reach out (with gloves on) and conceivably poke one as it slimes by.So many who try so hard to distinguish themselves from the mucky Swamp...

Aug 13, 2025 – It was in July 2019 that New York State adopted its Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act.  Our Legislature and Governor (it was Andrew Cuomo at the time) had officially designated us as the climate “leader,” here to show the unsophisticated rubes and provincials in the rest of the country...

Aug 15, 2025 – While not everyone is on board with President Trump’s “America First” philosophy, its importance when it comes to energy is brought into sharp focus when considering where the U.S. would be if it capitulated to the whims of global organizations like the United Nations or obeyed the verdicts of world...

Aug 15, 2025 – Politicians and pundits are always looking for historical analogues as a crystal ball to predict the results of upcoming elections. For the 2026 midterms – now less than 15 months away – it may be helpful to wind back the clock all the way to the 1930s and the birth...

Aug 15, 2025 – FBI Director Kash Patel has uncovered a bombshell memo written in 2017 chronicling the extensive political obstruction that career agents in three cities faced from their own bosses and the Obama Justice Department during the 2016 election as they probed whether Hillary Clinton engaged in a pay-to-play corruption scheme involving...

Aug 15, 2025 – Few people know the power of pop culture as well as Mark Judge.The indefatigable journalist has been covering the arts for decades. His work explores the intersection between art and politics, pushing past “hot takes” and knee-jerk criticism. He continues the Andrew Breitbart legacy, providing the heartland with a forum...

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Aug 16, 2025 – It should have been an omen of things to come when Friedrich Merz made history by almost failing to be elected as chancellor. Back in May, nearly 100 days ago, MPs in the German Bundestag cast their votes on whether to accept Merz as chancellor. In a situation unprecedented in...

Aug 16, 2025 – The end of the Cold War in the early 1990s did not bring humanity to the “end of history,” but it did significantly change its direction. As if being deprived of the enemy that mobilized its energies, keeping it in a battle-ready spirit and confident of its course, the West...

Aug 15, 2025 – Every time you connect your bank account to a budgeting app or crypto exchange, you risk letting a hidden middleman silently steal your financial data—sometimes forever. Firms like Plaid, Yodlee, and MX aren’t just helping apps work; they’re scraping your account details billions of times each month—often without you even...

Aug 15, 2025 – Official Europe is anxious and apprehensive about Friday’s summit in Alaska between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump. Perhaps their worst fears will finally be realised, and Trump will force Volodymyr Zelensky to sign a deal that imperils Ukraine’s existence.But perhaps not. It’s worth recalling that this is not the first...

Aug 15, 2025 – The other day I did something I haven’t done in quite a while: Interview a victim of political violence.This is his story. His name is Joe Abraham. He’s from Glenview, a suburb of Chicago. His father was an immigrant from Iraq.Joe’s daughter Katie Abraham, 20, was killed in January 2025...

Aug 14, 2025 – Lies, damn lies, and statistics are a boon for some and the bane of others. It only depends which side you're on, what you need out of them, and the level of one's tolerance for the hanky possible panky - intentional or otherwise - inherent in numbers, their interpretation, and...

Aug 14, 2025 – Well, we all know the competitive madness of the virtue-signaling world that is the progressive loony bin. That he who is talked about the mostest, gets the mostest views, clicks, comments, whatever, wins, and is crowned they/them for a day.These sub-humans will jump on whatever seems to be the current...

Aug 15, 2025 – Many Americans are asking how we reached a point where lawlessness, anti-Americanism, and open sympathy for terrorists are not only tolerated but celebrated—and where mayoral candidates who would once have been considered “fringe” can win primaries in major cities. The answer? Since the 1960s, the United States has undergone one...

Aug 14, 2025 – As the U.S. Navy struggles to catch up with the People’s Republic of China’s rapid expansion as a growing maritime power, yet another frontier must be added to its responsibility for the ocean’s surface, subsurface and the sky above them. A vast undersea infrastructure, spanning the world in the form...

Aug 15, 2025 – esterday, President Donald Trump nominated a high-profile critic of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, EJ Antoni, to be its new commissioner, promising on Truth Social that under his leadership “the Numbers released are HONEST and ACCURATE.”If confirmed, Antoni, currently chief economist at the Heritage Foundation, has his work cut out...

Aug 15, 2025 – President Donald Trump’s planned meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin has the Ukrainian government on high alert. It’s not just the fact that Trump will be speaking with Putin one-on-one, but that it comes amidst a reported offer from Putin to agree to a ceasefire and freeze the battlefield –...

Aug 15, 2025 – The upcoming Alaska summit between Presidents Trump and Putin could shape the endgame for the Ukraine war. While international law supports Ukraine’s full territorial restoration, battlefield realities and Western half-measures make compromise likely.-Such concessions would challenge moral principles and risk rewarding Russian aggression, yet Kyiv may have little leverage—especially with...

Aug 15, 2025 – God bless Gavin Newsom's greasy, shiny, pointy head. Lord knows he tries, and he so wants to be the tough guy, ever striving to steal a move on Donald Trump.I mean, how could he not, gifted as he is with those made-for-TV villain good looks, bright white, tooferery Peposodent smile,...