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A group of boys at a grade school in Loudoun County in Virginia were recently suspended from school because they objected to a female student in their locker room who identifies as male. The female student even took pictures in the locker room but the boys were suspended for objecting. The case is outrageous. The Gateway Pundit reported on this story: The radical madness in Loudoun County, Virginia, just hit a new low. Loudoun County Public Schools (LCPS) has decided to SUSPEND two boys at Stone Bridge High School, not because they misbehaved, not because they broke the law, but...

Canada's assisted suicide laws have continued rapidly expanding in recent years, with a group of doctors now pushing for disabled newborn babies to be euthanized. The demand for euthanasia is so high that doctors who provide it cannot keep up, according to a new report by The Atlantic. Assisted dying, legalized in 2016, now accounts for about one out of 20 deaths in Canada, far surpassing countries where it's been legal for longer. As assisted deaths have become a major part of Canada's health care system, the Quebec College of Physicians suggested legalizing euthanasia for infants born severely ill. As...

OSWEGO, N.Y. — When the DIRTcar Pro Stock Series returns to Super DIRT Week 53 at Oswego Speedway in October, it’ll be the end of an era for one of its competitors. Veteran Pro Stock driver Marc Lalonde will retire from full-time competition at the end of the 2025 season, meaning this year’s DIRTcar Pro Stock I Love New York 50 will be his final chance to win at “Racing’s Biggest Party.” And he’ll try to do so with his high school class. Lalonde is an auto shop teacher at Plantagenet High School in Ontario, and, as a class project...

On August 12, 2025, tragedy struck on Florida’s Turnpike near the St. Lucie County border when a semi tractor-trailer attempted a U-turn in an “official use only” area, leading to a catastrophic collision with a minivan. According to the Florida Highway Patrol (FHP), three South Florida residents, a 30-year-old man from Florida City, a 37-year-old woman from Pompano Beach, and a 54-year-old man from Miami, lost their lives. While the official crash investigation is ongoing, the details already released point to a dangerous maneuver by a commercial truck driver that raises serious legal questions about liability, safety regulations, and the...

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick canceled an Biden administration agreement Monday to distribute billions of dollars for semiconductor research through a nonprofit set up and staffed by former political appointees, according to a letter obtained by The Post. The 2022 CHIPS and Science Act provided for $11 billion in semiconductor research and development funding to be given out by the Commerce Department’s National Semiconductor Technology Center. “Rather than establishing these operations within the Department, however, Biden Administration officials spent significant time, effort, and resources creating an unaccountable, outside entity–Natcast–to administer taxpayer funds,” Lutnick wrote Natcast CEO Deirdre Hanford. Four days before...

Peter Baum @baum_p: Palestinians steal the cultures of others because they have no culture of their own. They even call themselves Palestinians even though they speak Arabic though there is no letter ‘P’ in Arabic . So in Arabic the pronunciation is Filastin which means Philistine - or uncouth uncultured heathens……seems appropriate.

ST. LUCIE COUNTY, Fla. - A petition urging Florida officials to show leniency toward Harjinder Singh, an illegal immigrant truck driver accused of causing a crash that killed three people, has garnered nearly 2.5 million signatures as of Sunday afternoon. The petition — posted on the website Change.org and addressed to Florida Governor Ron DeSantis — calls for both DeSantis and the Florida Board of Executive Clemency to re-examine the case against the 28-year-old. Singh faces three counts of vehicular homicide and three counts of manslaughter in connection with the deadly Aug. 12 crash. Harjinder Singh, 28, an illegal immigrant,...

President Trump went on a late-night attack against NBC and ABC News on Sunday, deriding them for what, in his view, was "biased" coverage and said he would be in favor of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) revoking their licenses. The Republican president said the news outlets had given him negative coverage on "97%" of stories. It wasn’t clear from where Trump was citing the "97%" figure. A study released earlier this year by the conservative media watchdog group, Media Research Center (MRC), found that coverage of the president’s first 100 days in office was "92% negative." "IF THAT IS...

Despite a very high popularity and, according to many, among the greatest 8 months in Presidential History, ABC & NBC FAKE NEWS, two of the worst and most biased networks in history, give me 97% BAD STORIES. IF THAT IS THE CASE, THEY ARE SIMPLY AN ARM OF THE DEMOCRAT PARTY AND SHOULD, ACCORDING TO MANY, HAVE THEIR LICENSES REVOKED BY THE FCC. I would be totally in favor of that because they are so biased and untruthful, an actual threat to our Democracy!!! MAGA

Axios co-founder Mike Allen appeared on Monday's Morning Joe to tout the outlet's article, "Trump's identity project," which begins [emphasis added]: "Through immigration crackdowns and cultural purges, President Trump is wielding government power to enforce a more rigid, exclusionary definition of what it means to be American." Allen cites as an example: "We see this in a new question for citizenship applications, an assessment of whether they're of good moral character."Uh, Mike, hello? That "new" question has been around since 1790, in our country's very first naturalization law. It reads: "The court admitting such alien shall be satisfied that he...

Last year I cited Horace Walpole, fourth Earl of Orford and youngest son of the chap generally regarded as Britain's first prime minister: No country was ever saved by good men because good men will not go to the length that may be necessary. To which I added: The length is lengthening, and is very necessary. To be sure, Lord Orford's characterisation of "good men" does not really apply in our own time. There is nothing "good" about turning a blind eye to rape gangs, or stringing along with the idea that child rape is a mere "cultural difference", or,...

A wave of national fury has swept Holland following the arrest of an asylum seeker for the killing of a 17-year-old who was stabbed to death while she was calling the police to report being followed on her bike ride home.

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NATIONAL BANANA SPLIT DAY National Banana Split Day recognizes the sweet ice cream treat served with a banana, whipped cream, and various toppings. Get yours on August 25! #NationalBananaSplitDay Originally served in drug stores, soda fountains, and ice cream parlors, the banana split is traditionally served in a long dish called a boat. To make a banana split, cut the banana lengthwise and place it in the dish. Then add scoops of vanilla, chocolate, and strawberry ice cream between the slices of banana. Each scoop gets a topping; add crushed pineapple to the strawberry, drizzle chocolate syrup over the vanilla,...

The Democrat Party abandoned the middle class for elites and identity politics—trading broad appeal for globalism, DEI dogma, and political self-destruction. The answer was not Trump alone. Indeed, irony abounds when Democrats resonate with the claims of the vestigial Never Trumpers that the MAGA movement “hijacked” the Republican Party. In characteristic projectionist fashion, the left is simply falsely attributing to their opposition the very hijacking that hit the Democratic Party. The Republicans are still the party of conservatism and traditionalism. But in the last decade, it adopted an expansionary middle-class agenda that has led to record party registration, its first...

The European Union's economy would have looked far weaker after the pandemic without foreign workers, European Central Bank chief Christine Lagarde said Saturday, warning policymakers not to ignore migration’s role even as it fuels political tensions. Speaking at the U.S. Federal Reserve’s annual symposium in Wyoming, Lagarde said an influx of foreign labor helped the eurozone absorb successive shocks like soaring energy costs and record inflation, while keeping growth and jobs intact. Employment in the bloc expanded by 4.1 percent between late 2021 and mid-2025, nearly matching gains in gross domestic product (GDP), she noted. “Although they represented only around...

BALTIMORE — Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who reunited with his family last week after 160 days apart following his mistaken deportation to El Salvador, was taken into ICE custody Monday after an immigration check-in, his attorney said.

The District has not seen a homicide in nine days as of August 22 after federal law enforcement was deployed to patrol the area.

The accusation that Israel is committing a “genocide” in Gaza has become pervasive on the Left, and particularly in academia. I think that the accusation is absurd, so much so that until now I haven’t thought it worthy of a response. However, the accusation has recently arrived on my own website. In the comment thread on the prior post, one of the commenters (regular readers can guess who) has leveled against President Trump the charge that he “is sending weapons to Israel for the genocide in Gaza.” Really? It’s time for a response. In my opinion, what’s going on in...

Send in the troops to Chicago? For Portage Park resident John Trotti, the answer is clear. “I think it’s a terrible idea,” the 41-year-old said. “I think it’s a misuse of the resources that the military has and the authority that they have over what a state can and can’t do.” Trotti was among several Northwest Side residents Sunday who rejected President Donald Trump’s plan to send the National Guard into the city next month as part of his monthslong campaign against immigration, homelessness and crime.