In 2019, I joined with a group of parents in Park City to oppose the implementation of an "anti-bullying" program at a local elementary school – even though all three of my kids had long graduated from the school system and matriculated to university.
On the surface, the program seemed well-intentioned, but it was part of a broader initiative by the Human Rights Campaign to inject LGBTQ ideology into elementary schools under the guise of combating bullying.
The curriculum raised concerns among parents - conservative and progressive alike - who saw it as less about protecting kids and more about promoting a specific social agenda to young, impressionable students who were essentially captives of the classroom. The resistance we mounted wasn’t without backlash...
President Donald Trump on Thursday announced the first deal reached since Trump announced tariffs on America’s trading partners.
“The agreement with the United Kingdom is a full and comprehensive one that will cement the relationship between the United States and the United Kingdom for many years to come,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
“Because of our long time history and allegiance together, it is a great honor to have the United Kingdom as our FIRST announcement. Many other deals, which are in serious stages of negotiation, to follow!” Trump wrote.
A child smuggling attempt was thwarted by federal authorities at the U.S.-Mexico border. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced the bust, which unfolded on April 29 in Yuma, Arizona. ICE agents, along with Customs and Border Protection, intercepted a woman who was traveling with an unrelated 5-year-old boy...
“Even more vile, in this case the child’s own mother handed him over to strangers—mules—who attempted to smuggle him into the U.S. using fake identity documents. The woman posing as his guardian also admitted she was going to leave him with a man she didn’t know.”...
The White House Friday posted a video of President Trump explaining to illegal aliens how they can easily self-deport by booking a free flight to anywhere outside the U.S.
And he also warns them what will happen if they do not get out of America and are caught.
"We making it as easy as possible," Trump explains, noting he signed an executive order laying out the details.
He posted that it was “really scary” that hostilities between India and Pakistan were escalating and that Trump was “completely asleep at the wheel.”
Twelve hours later Trump announced he’d mediated a peace deal between the two countries.
In Lebanon he has acted to substantially cut off Hezb’allah’s supply and revenue sources, making it more likely that country’s civilian government will be able to reassert control and enhance the peace of the area.
BEIRUT—Lebanon’s only commercial airport sits in the heart of a densely populated area of southern Beirut largely controlled by Hezbollah. The militant group has for years used it as a smuggling channel and a lever to assert its dominance in the country.
Now the country’s new government, with U.S. support, is trying to take it back...
Voting is underway to elect the President of the United Federation of Teachers in New York City. Michael Mulgrew, who has held the position since 2009, is expecting he can sleepwalk into another term. Brooklyn-based Social Studies teacher Mike Dowd writes why it’s time for a change and for basic discipline to be brought back.
Officials love to brag about the 84% graduation rate for New York City public-school students.
But if you thought that was an honest measure of how many kids are passing, I have bad news. High-school grading policies have become so corrupt, class credits have become almost meaningless...
Wrapped in the rhetoric of generosity and reform, large foundations like the Gates Foundation, Soros' Open Society, and the Ford Foundation operate under the assumption that doing good excuses their methods.
But methods matter.
Especially when those methods amount to a private-to-public laundering operation, designed to seed ideologically rigid organizations with just enough early capital to unlock the federal coffers.
What follows is not generosity, but influence peddling, and not in the margins, but at scale. Let us begin with a familiar model: private equity.
When George Soros breaks a currency or Bill Gates acquires a company, they begin not with domination, but with leverage. A modest injection of capital, paired with structure, timing, and most importantly debt, can produce wildly asymmetrical returns. That same logic is now applied not to companies or commodities, but to ideology. The left-wing philanthropic giants fund non-governmental organizations (NGOs) whose only product is political conformity. They seed them with grants, polish their proposals, and send them, briefcase in hand, to Washington. The return on investment is swift and staggering...
The scale is almost unfathomable.
Private foundations make more than $100 billion in grants available to NGOs each year. Those NGOs, freshly seeded and polished, in turn raise nearly $900 billion from the federal government in additional grants. The leverage is nine to one. For every dollar a foundation donates, the federal government grants nine...
"Shockingly, the NIH had not asked that question," he continued. "But what I'm looking forward to is that we're going to address the health questions and the health needs of the American people with excellent, gold-standard research."
In February, Vance visited East Palestine on the second anniversary of the disaster.
"President Trump and I have never forgotten the people of East Palestine, and we will never stop fighting for the cleanup effort in this community to be completed," Vance wrote in a post on X. "We are with you for the long haul."
He guaranteed the community that the environmental cleanup would be completed, calling it "a tragedy and a shame" that the Biden administration failed to finish the effort.
Former President Joe Biden took a year to visit the town after the disaster.
The program is beyond the proper scope of the federal government.
On Friday, President Donald Trump released his budget proposal, which included targeted cuts to federal clean energy programs and ending funding to what the president calls "the Green New Scam."
The Trump administration is now shifting its focus to energy efficiency programs.
CNN reported Tuesday that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) plans to shutter the Energy Star program.
First launched under President George H.W. Bush in 1992, Energy Star sets voluntary energy efficiency standards for appliances and buildings...
Louis Farrakhan (Louis Eugene Walcott) 1933 - National Representative of the Nation of Islam
1935 - U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed an executive order that created the Rural Electrification Administration to provide emergency loans.
1934 - A severe two-day dust storm stripped the topsoil from the great plains of the U.S. and created a "Dust Bowl." The storm was one of many.
1997 - In New York, Garry Kasparov, world chess champion, lost his first ever multi-game match. He lost to IBM's chess computer Deep Blue. It was the first time a computer had beaten a world-champion player.
2020 - Twitter announced that it would add a warning label to any tweet they decided contained disputed or misleading information about the coronavirus.
Five of those indicted have ties to Democratic candidates, the New York Times reported.
The alleged vote harvesters were arrested on May 2, except Camacho. Paxton’s office noted that she would be “processed at a later date.”
“In August 2024, Attorney General Paxton’s Criminal Investigation Division executed multiple search warrants in Frio, Atascosa, and Bexar Counties as part of a multi-year election integrity investigation into credible allegations of vote harvesting,” a press release from Paxton’s office read. “On May 1, 2025, Frio County District Attorney Audrey Louis and the Election Integrity Unit of the Office of the Attorney General presented a criminal vote harvesting case to a grand jury in Frio County.”
On Friday, it was a group of New Jersey politicians arriving at Delaney Hall, a New Jersey facility housing the worst of the worst - illegal aliens who are gang members, killers, child abusers and rapists - and demanding to be allowed in to the facility to "exercise oversight."
...entered ICE's Delaney Hall detention facility in Newark and were held up inside the first checkpoint...
"These members of Congress storming into a detention facility goes beyond bizarre political stunt and puts the safety of our law enforcement agents and the detainees at risk," a DHS statement to Fox News said. "Members of Congress are not above the law and cannot illegally break into detention facilities....
Here's the fun bit:
The prison currently holds alleged killers, MS-13 gang members, child rapists, among other criminal offenders...
Per OutKick, most people slapped their cash on Cardinal Pietro Parolin, who was the odds-on favorite going into things, but there were a few lucky gamblers who placed their money on Robert Prevost. According to cryptocurrency-based prediction market Polymarket, Prevost only had a 0.3% chance of winning the election only hours prior to white smoke blowing out of the Vatican.
In other words, the lucky few who did place some money on Prevost walked away with an insane amount.
But he ignored, even while promoting those chemicals and those body-mutilating surgeries as "health care," the results now confirmed in a government study that was being developed at the time, and now is released, revealing that all of those attempts to "change" adults didn't "improve their lives."
The agenda immediately was applied to children, despite the failure in "treating" adults.
In fact, according to a report in the Washington Stand, the report, "Treatment for Pediatric Gender Dysphoria: Review of Evidence and Best Practices," released by the Department of Health and Human Services on May 1, said those "same medical interventions had failed to improve the lives of adults."
Voting is underway to elect the President of the United Federation of Teachers in New York City. Michael Mulgrew, who has held the position since 2009, is expecting he can sleepwalk into another term.
