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Boltinhouse has yet to speak out about the decision, but Brodeur emphasized her statement will be made publicly available soon. She has been described as, “a proud Latina woman with Honduran roots, entrepreneur, and community advocate.”

A big tent may end up being the death of what was once the Democrat Party. Scott Jennings made the case on Tuesday as the country waited to see whether five Democratic Socialists of America-backed candidates in Missouri, Michigan, Kansas, Virginia, and Washington state would topple Democrat incumbents and push the party even further toward the radical left. What’s unfolding now is not just a primary-season skirmish; it’s the visible advance of a hostile takeover. Establishment Democrats who refuse to condemn their ideological allies, along with the party’s progressive wing, have spent months celebrating the “big tent” chief among them...

What do New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Alexander Soros—George Soros’s son and heir—have in common? A shared ideological inspiration: Slavoj Žižek, the self-proclaimed “left-fascist” who seeks the West’s bloody destruction. This should chill every American. Zizek has been described as “the most dangerous philosopher in the West.” His agenda is summed up in his publisher’s description of his 2008 book, In Defense of Lost Causes: “Žižek argues the case for revolutionary terror and the dictatorship of the proletariat.” The “lost causes” he wants to revive and succeed are those of the Bolsheviks, Mao Tse-tung, and Robespierre. The Iranian...

Activists Disrupt U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator Jeff Graham at International AIDS Conference, Protesting Trump’s Chokehold on Congressionally Appropriated HIV Funding, Mass Closure of Key Population Programs, and Attacks on Transparent Oversight of PEPFAR Programs New Data Show Trump and Rubio Responsible for Severe Deterioration in Program Outcomes, Including HIV Treatment Cut for 77,163 Children, 42% Reduction in PrEP Enrollment, Closure of 1700 PEPFAR HIV Treatment Sites, and More Rio de Janeiro — Activists from directly impacted countries today [July 26] disrupted Senior State Department Official Jeff Graham, the acting US Global AIDS Coordinator responsible for PEPFAR [the U.S. President’s Emergency...

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"The very concept of the success is deeply immoral. If you are successful the other is loser. We shouldn’t accept it. We should prosper or suffer together. Otherwise it is satanic. - Aleksandr Dugin, X/Twitter, July 10 2026"

What the Welfare State UnleashedFrom dignity to dependence to thievery.America’s debate over poverty has undergone a remarkable—and troubling—transformation. Two centuries ago, the central challenge was persuading needy people to accept public assistance. Today, the challenge is preventing people from fraudulently claiming benefits to which they were never entitled.That trajectory tells us something profound about the nation’s changing moral culture.Alexis de Tocqueville noticed something remarkable when he traveled through America in the early 1830s. Unlike Europe, where poverty often produced permanent dependence upon the state or aristocratic patrons, Americans possessed an almost universal determination to remain independent. They formed voluntary associations...

I was listening to the Joe Rogan podcast while mowing the mare pasture the other day. Joe had Rupert Lowe on, a British politician and businessman who has served as a Member of Parliament since July 2024. Lowe is currently the leader of Restore Britain. In that conversation, they briefly touched on the Fabian Society and its infamous wolf-in-sheep’s-clothing emblem shown above. Most people have not heard the name. Few remember what the Fabian Society actually was, or why it still matters. Yet it is the most important organization that you have hardly heard of. The Fabian Society is directly...

Asbury Theological Seminary, a 103-year-old Kentucky evangelical seminary, is no longer approved as a school for United Methodist candidates for ordained ministry, the school announced June 25. It attributed its removal by the United Methodist Church’s university accrediting body to the school’s objections to a new version of the denomination’s social principles that no longer solely affirm heterosexual marriage. In its acknowledgment of the decision, the seminary based in Wilmore, Kentucky, said “this outcome reflects a determination made by the UMC rather than a shared resolution.” A statement from the UMC General Board of Higher Education and Ministry said that...

Jonathan Cain, a keyboardist and guitarist for the rock band Journey, slammed left-wing rocker Bruce Springsteen as an “annoying, bitter old man” who should “shut up” about politics. “You were ‘Born in the USA,’ weren’t you?” Cain said of Springsteen, adding, “So act like it.” “We’re blessed to live where we live,” Cain said during a recent appearance on the Tom Barnard Podcast. “And I’m obviously a conservative. I used to be a Democrat back in the old days, but I just couldn’t go there anymore.” “I thought Obama, maybe, but then I saw where he was going and I’m,...

Nolan’s movie keeps the spectacle, but cuts the moral heart out of Homer’s timeless classic. Christopher Nolan’s audacity to gut one of the greatest stories ever told of its themes, meaning, and essence is an unforgivable sin that can only have been perpetrated by Hades or Hollywood. The only reason Nolan’s Odyssey is winning praise at the box office is that we stopped teaching the Classics a hundred years ago, and with it, education itself. Homer’s most important lessons do not even make the screen. What he replaces them with is an assault on the heroic and divine world of...

The definitional lines between globalization and globalism have long been blurred. For its part, globalization is best defined as a process or series of processes that integrate the world economically, politically and socially. Globalism’s critical role But what is globalism? Quite often, the term is used synonymously with the word “globalization,” as if the two words were interchangeable. To be sure, the word “globalist” has come to be a battle cry — primarily on the political right, but is also one on the political left. The “globalist” charge is alternatively (ab)used to describe either the creation of some imaginary and...

It isn’t exactly news that Homer’s “Odyssey” is a very, very good poem. But seeing Christopher Nolan’s screen adaptation drove this home again for me. The hotly anticipated mega-spectacle is, in the end, pretty good. But it isn’t Homer. Mr. Nolan’s shortcomings have made me love Homer more by comparison and sent me running back, agog, to his deathless masterpiece. Mr. Nolan’s “Odyssey” succeeds as well as any adaptation can. It tells the story of Odysseus’ 10-year journey home from the Trojan War with verve and affection for the source material. It isn’t the hostile woke takeover that some high-profile...

Cincinnati — For Avondale resident Christopher Adams, going to the grocery store was a twice a week trip. After the store closed, that task may become a lot harder. The neighborhood of Avondale’s only sizable grocery store, The Country Meat Co. Marketplace, announced that it’s shutting its doors on Facebook in early July. It opened in February 2025, and when it closed the “now open” banner still hung above the door. Before the store opened, Avondale was considered a “food desert.” Many of its residents lived more than a mile away from a grocery store that could provide nutritious, fresh...

JD Vance has served admirably as Donald Trump's vice president and has been a true asset to the administration. Right now, he's favored to be the next Republican nominee for president when 2028 rolls around. But there are many other viable contenders. That's why his latest deep-dive interview on his views on the economy is highly disturbing. In Vance's interview last week with The Daily Wire, he sounded much more like a Mitt Romney, big-government RINO than a Trump or Ronald Reagan. Decide for yourself. Here are some of Vance's misguided views on economics and the future of the GOP:...

According to the latest data from the West Health–Gallup Affordability Index, only 49% of U.S. adults are able to afford quality care and have been able to pay for healthcare visits and prescriptions in recent months, marking a five-year low in healthcare affordability. The number of people able to afford quality healthcare has been on a steady decline since 2022, when affordability was the highest. In 2025, 2.8 million more Americans reported inability to afford healthcare. “Healthcare affordability is moving in the wrong direction,” West Health Institute chief medical officer, Zia Agha, MD, told Healio. “Notably, financial barriers are increasing...

To the Americans: I've travelled all over the world. I've familiarized myself with many places, and met many people. And I'm a Canadian, although I’m privileged to reside once again in the States. And here's something I've noticed, and it’s a key element of America's continuing greatness: You bloody Americans value success, and you believe in its existence. This is something that doesn't really happen anywhere else in the world. Even in other free democracies—the United Kingdom; Finland, Sweden, and Norway; Australia, New Zealand and Canada; Germany, France, and the Netherlands (great countries all)—a counterproductive cynicism too often reigns. Success...

HAVANA, July ⁠6 (Reuters) - ⁠Cuba's national ⁠electric grid collapsed ​on Monday at ‌midday, the country's ‌grid ⁠operator ⁠said, leaving around 10 million ​people on the Caribbean island ​nation without power. Cuba has ⁠for months ⁠suffered ⁠from hours-long, ​and more recently, days-long ​power ⁠outages linked in part to an ⁠ailing grid and a U.S. imposed oil ⁠blockade that has cut off the island's fuel supply.

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani's speech for our nation's 250th birthday has gotten a lot of well-deserved criticism. It was pretty awful on the whole. But there was one particular part on Friday that got a lot of attention, in which he lambasted America, attacked Elon Musk, and demonized Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). JUST IN: NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani used America’s 250th anniversary to sharply criticize the country, accusing the U.S. of allowing children to go hungry while billionaires and “oligarchs” gain more power.He said America’s wealth was built by working people with “calloused, dirt-streaked hands" while accusing...

Daily Signal’s new documentary, “Sacred Honor: The Declaration That Defines a Nation,” is an in-depth investigation into America’s Declaration of Independence. Join Bradley Devlin, Victor Davis Hanson, Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Missouri, Rep. Brandon Gill, R-Texas, Dr. Kevin Roberts, and many more, as they tell the story of one of the greatest political dramas in world history. Special Thanks to: The Heritage Foundation | Washington, D.C. Hillsdale College’s Steve and Amy Van Andel Graduate School of Government | Washington, D.C. The Museum of the American Revolution | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania U.S. National Park Service | National Historic Park...