President Donald Trump has drafted an executive order calling for the U.S. Department of Education to be shut down, The Wall Street Journal reported late Wednesday, citing unnamed “people briefed on the matter.” A draft of the order “directs Education Secretary Linda McMahon to ‘take all necessary steps to facilitate the closure…
The mRNA vaccines that helped to end the COVID pandemic — and stoked a considerable amount of vaccine skepticism and misinformation — are now a target of legislators in some conservative-led states. Why it matters: The efforts risk further politicizing science and illustrate how the pandemic experience we all want to put…
Caregivers and the costs of caregiving don’t get much attention. They’re not part of the news flow, and the day-to-day grind of caregiving doesn’t lend itself to the self-promotional zeitgeist of social media. Look at me, helping Mom on her walker is not going to score big numbers online.The burdens in human…
The great deception of our age is not that AI will replace humanity, but that it will convince us we were never more than machines to begin with. The rapid advance of artificial intelligence, biotechnology, and transhumanist ideologies is forcing humanity to confront an age-old question in a new…
President Donald Trump capped off his first six weeks in office with a 100-minute speech to a joint session of Congress The March 4 address followed a blitz of more than 100 executive actions that impacted nearly every aspect of government and U.S. relationships with other nations. Americans largely…
Texas Congressman Al Green was removed from the House of Representatives chamber this evening after repeatedly heckling and refusing to sit down during President Trump’s Joint Address to Congress. Green, 77, announced to the press upon his exit that he once again plans to introduce articles of impeachment against President…
AI, the shorthand symbol for artificial intelligence, is not merely a technological development that enhances productivity. It is also an attack on the viability of most of humanity. Elon Musk, who knows something about the subject, said recently that AI’s ability to be programmed to replace so many human jobs is…
Over the last thirty years, many people have noticed that all moral claims within the public policy sphere can be reduced to a few time periods. In the realm of foreign policy, it is always about 1938 and the events around that time. If it is a domestic issue…
President Donald Trump called out Democrats for wanting the war between Ukraine and Russia to continue, noting that “Pocahontas” Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) “says yes.” During Trump’s presidential address before a joint session of Congress, Trump revealed that he is “working tirelessly to end” the Ukraine-Russia war.
“A secularized, atheist leaning Europe that has forgotten its roots, has demonstrated that it will NOT protect the personal freedoms of its citizenry.” — Jim Shea See if you can get this straight: So, Keir Starmer says: the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland wants to “put…
