Month: May 2022

Flight Cancellations Pile Up on Busy Memorial Day Weekend

ATLANTA—Hundreds of flights worldwide were cancelled by mid-afternoon Sunday, adding to the mounting number of scrubbed flights during the busy Memorial Day holiday weekend in the United States. More than 1,260 flights had been canceled as of 2:30 p.m. ET Sunday, according to flight tracking website FlightAware. That followed more than 2,300 cancellations Friday and…


Online Fundraiser for Uvalde Teacher’s Orphaned Family Reaches $2.5 Million

A GoFundMe campaign has raised more than $2.5 million in support for the children left behind by the slain Uvalde elementary school teacher and her husband who died shortly after her killing. The fundraiser was launched after the death of Irma Garcia, one of the two teachers killed in the May 24 attack at Robb…


Strawberry Shortcakes

Have plans to go berry picking this summer? If you are, you may find yourself with an overabundance of fresh fruit. After snacking endlessly on berries between every meal, use some of that fresh summer fruit to create an amazing dessert at home, like strawberry shortcake. This 100% from-scratch recipe is better than those processed store-bought…


Zelenskyy Suggests Donbas Could Soon Fall Amid ‘Indescribably Difficult’ Russian Onslaught

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the Donbas region in Eastern Ukraine could soon fall to Russian forces, giving his most grim assessment yet. In a video address over the weekend, Zelenskyy said that conditions in Donbas have grown “indescribably difficult” and suggested the region could fall to Russia. Since the 2014 color revolution in Kyiv,…


Michael Taube: Tory Leadership Debates: Intensity May Surprise Some, but It’s Not New and Not Unique to Canada

Commentary Canada’s Conservative Party has held several debates involving its six leadership candidates. It’s notable to mention that political observers and party members who have either watched or attended these events have remarked on what they perceive as being a similar theme—that is, the leaders’ debates have been more intense, divisive, and politically charged than…


Why It’s Time to Give Up on Government

It’s almost like falling dominoes. First, the collapse of affordable fuel and food – the necessities of life – followed by a caving of the stock market and crypto currency. This mass destruction of Western values suggests all this is no accident, but a premeditated plan set to converge in the not-so-distant future. In the…


Rep. Madison Cawthorn Under Scrutiny For Suspicious Crypto Trading Activity

Representative Madison Cawthorn (R-N.C.) revealed in a filing on Friday that he had sold more than $250,000 worth of “Let’s Go Brandon” (LGB) meme cryptocurrency on Dec. 31, 2021, the day the value of the digital coin peaked before it lost much of its value. At a party on Dec. 29, 2021, Cawthorn posed with…


After Summer, Europe to Target the Unvaccinated

Anyone who imagines that the suspension of Covid-related measures in much of Europe means that those measures, and hence the C-19 vaccination campaign, are things of the past should have a look at the recent pronouncements on the subject of the European Commission, starting with Commission President Ursula von der Leyen’s April 27 statement on…


Fearful Elites Shield Globalization From Democracy

Are ordinary people served or threatened by globalization? The term itself, of course, means different things depending on who is using it. But the form of globalization that has provoked populist-oriented passions in both hemispheres in recent years has at its heart the determination to suppress people’s exercise of the powers of representative government. If,…


Study Finds COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates Had Damaging Political, Legal, Socioeconomic Effects

Mandating COVID-19 vaccines and related passports have had damaging political, legal, and socioeconomic effects; while also destabilizing the integrity of science and public health, according to new research published at the BMJ Global Health, a global online health journal based in London. Several countries have implemented vaccine mandates and passports to manage the COVID-19 pandemic,…