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Four Key Cases SCOTUS Will Look at in 2025-2026 Term
By Family Research Council Over the past year, the U.S. Supreme Court has made several significant decisions and rulings, from protecting children from online pornography, allowing parents to opt their children out of LGBT promotion in the classroom, and empowering states to defund Planned Parenthood to halting the abuse of universal injunctions, ending workplace reverse discrimination, and letting states […]
Mind-reading technology is here and it’s poised to go off the rails
By Leo Hohmann Last month, I reported on a company that produces a wristband called the Bee that logs everything you say — to your friends, your family, your roommate, even what you say out loud to yourself. Its maker is in buyout talks with Amazon as the Bee seems like an upgrade from the Amazon Alexa. […]
Bill Gates is at it again, promoting fake butter in his latest attempt to replace real farmers and cows with factory-made counterfeits
By Leo Hohmann New product called Savor is being marketed to restaurants, bakeries and food suppliers We have an update in our ongoing coverage of the war on food. A Bill Gates-backed startup is now producing butter with no animals, no plants, and no oils. It’s made exclusively from carbon. It is being praised because […]
08/09/25 | 200 Days of Winning!
By The White House HAPPY 200 DAYS! President Trump was shouting from the rooftops this week, literally. He visited our departing White House interns for a group photo, visited the East Wing gift shop, donated his first presidential paycheck to the White House Historical Association, and called into CNBC’s Squawk Box for a phone interview.The President announced the 2028 Summer Olympics White House Task Force—even signing an executive […]
“Climate Science is Baaaack!”
By Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow by Judith Curry Climate science is baaaack Energy Secretary Chris Wright has commissioned a new climate assessment report: A Critical Review of Impacts of Greenhouse Gas Emissions on the U.S. Climate From the Secretary’s Foreword: What I’ve found is that media coverage often distorts the science. Many people—even well-meaning […]
Democrat accusses Trump of doing ‘Exactly what Stalin did’ by dismantling climate agenda!
By Marc Morano from Climate Depot Morano on Fox: EPA Chief: ‘Lee Zeldin is the most consequential EPA Chief in the history of the agency’ – ‘He is dismantling the climate agenda.” MUST Watch: British TV show’s dead-on take on ‘climate change’ – The most accurate & funny way of explaining why politicians get involved […]
A huge story broke this week that the corporate media doesn’t want you to know about
By Leo Hohmann A huge story broke this week that the corporate media doesn’t want you to know about. There’s been a lot of attention-grabbing news stories this week: Epstein subpoenas incoming, AWOL Democrat legislators in Texas, Trump’s expanding trade wars and sanction threats against Russia, violent crime in D.C., and a mass shooting at […]
Nazi Zyklon B Heiress Leads Anti-Jewish Riots in Europe
By The Geller Report Marlene Engelhorn, one of the major organizers of anti-Israel protests in Europe. Fun Fact: Her wealth comes from her great-grandfather Friedrich Engelhorn, who made his fortune from producing Zyklon B, the gas used by the Nazis to murder Jews during the Holocaust. The Nazi doesn’t fall far from the tree. Zyklon […]
The Resurgence of Science: Critical Thinking about monumental recent developments
By John Droz, Jr. Sometimes we are not able to see the significance of events when we are in the middle of them. Often it takes time to elapse before we can look back and see what happened in an accurate perspective. However, Critically Thinking people who are paying attention will always get a jump on the […]
Childhood vaccines have been laced with a known neurotoxin for years and the government just now decided to do something about it
By Leo Hohmann Mercury is not only in vaccines, it’s in our mouths and in other products. It’s making people dumber and less fertile, two things the globalists have always wanted. Mercury is not only in our tooth fillings, some soaps and skin-care products, it’s in vaccines injected into children and pregnant women. You want […]
PART ONE: God’s Rainbow Was Stolen — And Now It’s a Weapon
By Majority Report The story behind the flag that now demands obedience. This is Part 1 of a 7-part series introducing Stolen Rainbow: The Great Unmasking — a powerful new film exposing how the LGBT movement hijacked God’s covenant symbol and turned it into a political weapon. The film premieres September 25 at the Republican Capitol Hill Club in Washington, […]
PEACE & TRADE: Dealmaker-In-Chief
By The White House President Trump started his week in Scotland where he met with the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, to hammer out a trade deal with the European Union. While in the UK, he hosted a bilateral meeting with Prime Minister Keir Starmer and sat down with Miranda Devine of Pod Force One. Before even arriving at Aberdeen, he also […]
Superintelligent AI Glasses Are Coming
By Majority Report A pot of gold dipped in a vat of arsenic old lace. They’ll look like ordinary sunglasses. But behind the stylish frame, a powerful intelligence will be watching you. Listening to you. Learning from you. And eventually, thinking for you. Yes, it’s real. And it’s happening faster than we imagined. Meta—the parent […]
Fixing The U.S. Education System: Once again to the well…
By John Droz, Jr. I read with great interest the recent Report about Saving US Higher Ed. It was authored by one of the leading US Conservatives, and co-signed by a very impressive Who’s Who list of 40+ heavyweight education experts. I am in complete agreement with everything in the Report — but very disappointed with what was missing: not a […]
Carl Jung and The Most Important Rule of Life
By Academy of Ideas Marie-Louise von Franz was a Swiss psychologist who closely collaborated with Carl Jung from 1933 until his death in 1961. One of von Franz’s primary topics of interest was fairy tales. For like myths, fairy tales contains timeless wisdom that teaches us about the human condition. Jung believed that so […]
‘Extinction-Level’: MAHA Warns Pesticide Immunity Provision Could Mirror Anger-Inducing Bill From 1980s
By The Daily Caller Critics are sounding the alarm over a provision in a House appropriations bill they say could shield pesticide manufacturers from legal liability — drawing comparisons to the 1986 law that granted similar protections to vaccine makers. The rule, tucked into Section 453 of the House’s Fiscal Year 2026 Interior and Environment […]
Is College Worth It Today?
By Jerry Newcombe, D. Min. Is college worth all the expense and trouble these days? I used to think it was. But look at all the changes for the worse. So much of what passes for a college education these days is indoctrination in political correctness. A recent study reported in Newsweek found that one […]
EPA Releases Proposal to Rescind Obama-Era Endangerment Finding, Regulations that Paved the Way for Electric Vehicle Mandates
By Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow INDIANAPOLIS — At an auto dealership in Indiana, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin released the agency’s proposal to rescind the 2009 Endangerment Finding, which has been used to justify over $1 trillion in regulations, including the Biden-Harris Administration’s electric vehicle (EV) mandate. If finalized, the proposal would […]
Israel Launches NIS 44m Data Initiative to Power AI Innovation Across Key Sectors
By NEWSRAEL Telling the Israeli Story These repositories will offer researchers, tech startups, and industrial players access to data sets that were previously scattered, siloed, or inaccessible. Israel is taking a bold step toward cementing its global status as an artificial intelligence powerhouse with a new government initiative that will pour NIS 44 million into […]
The Science of Persuasion
By John Droz, Jr. Some useful ideas… Whether we are aware of it or not, a significant percentage of our conversations and communications involve some type of persuasion. It happens every day with our spouse, our kids, our neighbors, etc., etc. How do we know what persuasion methodology to use? Mostly this is a subconscious decision, […]
Trumps’ AI Action Plan Sets the Course on American Leadership in Artificial Intelligence
By The Geller Report DOGEai: President Trump signs three executive orders on AI: — Accelerating permitting to build data center infrastructure — Promoting the export of American AI models abroad — Protecting Americans from woke AI models driven by Radical Left ideology at the expense of accuracy WATCH: Trump signs 3 key AI orders to […]
Democrats Go on the Defensive as Mamdani Moves the Party Further Left
By Family Research Council Journalist Mark Halperin — who first reported former President Joe Biden’s decision to drop out of the 2024 election — claims House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) is not supportive of Zohran Mamdani’s bid for New York City’s mayor. In an interview with Axios, Halperin explained, “Hakeem Jeffries strongly believes that if Mamdani wins, [Jeffries] […]
In a shocking about face, the United Nations comes out against transgenderism; the question is why, and why now?
By Leo Hohmann New UN study says transgender identities ‘actively erasing women and girls while placing vulnerable children at risk.’ We have some shocking news today out of the United Nations. A U.N. draft report has warned that the push to elevate transgender identities is actively erasing women and girls, while placing vulnerable children at […]
VIDEO: Dr. Mark Trozzi at Pembroke, Ontario on July 14, 2025
By Vlad Tepes Blog Write up at RAIR. This was a fairly casual and informal chat compared to previous presentations with Dr. Trozzi. But there are bombshells and gems in his talk in Pembroke. I got a question in which is in a separate video at the bottom. Here is the main portion of the talk […]
Use It or Lose It
By Linda Goudsmit Use it or lose it is the colloquial definition of neuroplasticity, defined in more technical terms by BetterHelp online in its, February 19, 2025, article “What ‘Use It Or Lose It’ Means in Neuropsychology“: Neuroplasticity is the ability of the central nervous system to form and reorganize neural connections in response to injury or a learning […]
New Insightful Report on Key Healthcare Policy Lessons from the COVID-19 Fiasco
By John Droz, Jr. One of the most significant health events of our lifetime Although it has not yet received much publicity, a very detailed Report was just published by 37 MDs and related experts about their takeaways from the COVID-19 matter. I was thoughtfully sent a copy by the lead author. Based on four (4) relevant […]
The Dr. Rich Swier Report for July 17, 2025
By Editorial Board – DrRichSwier.com The Dr. Rich Swier Report for July 17, 2025 View this email in your browser 100% of 2025 Job Growth Went to Americans Thanks to Mass Deportations ‘You Can’t Use This Feature Right Now’ — How Meta’s Facebook Censors Americans using the ‘Spam Scam’ ‘Woke,’ ‘Weak,’ and ‘Out of Touch’: […]
EXCLUSIVE: Epstein-Funded MIT Lab Hosted Panel On Giving Pedos Child Sex Robots
By The Daily Caller A Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) lab previously funded in part by Jeffrey Epstein hosted a panel where attendees openly discussed the idea of using “child-size sex robots” to treat pedophiles. The MIT Media Lab’s July 2016 conference on research questions without “social and moral constraints” included a panel discussion arguing […]
Thinking vs Critical Thinking
By John Droz, Jr. It’s important to know the difference… I had a nice chat the other day with a friend, and the subject came up: what is the difference between normal thinking and Critical Thinking? I thought we must have covered this before here, but I couldn’t find it. My apologies… Briefly, Critical Thinking = normal thinking + more thoroughness + […]
AI Industry Needs Standards To Protect Against Bad Actors
By Middle East Media Research Institute MEMRI Daily Brief No. 805 The following is an op-ed for the Forbes Nonprofit Council by MEMRI Executive Director Steve Stalinsky, Ph.D. Titled “AI Industry Needs Standards To Protect Against Bad Actors,” it was published June 18, 2025 by Forbes.[1] Exemplifying the legitimate fears among many who study AI and warn […]