The news this week focused on a glut of truly momentous stories: President Donald Trump's norms-breaking conviction, Joe Biden's loophole-ridden executive actions at the border, and Biden's attempt to draft D-Day veterans into his war to maintain the White House. But a week of consequential news often drowns out genuinely significant developments, as well.
The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) continues to march on its self-paved path of defining morality. They seem to think they're the ultimate judge of what's right and wrong, with an infamous reputation for smearing the names of those who engage in conservative work. For instance, the most recent expansion to the SPLC's annual "Year in Hate and Extremism" report, released last Tuesday, involves anyone who opposes gender transition operations for children.
A popular trend among self-styled conservative pundits is to mock Democrats and left-wingers as stupid, and it isn't difficult to understand why. Every time that Joe Biden invents a new dialect of gibberish, every time that Kamala Harris cackles like a hyena in public, every time that a White House press secretary has to "circle back," every time that a Democrat-nominated Supreme Court pick can't answer basic questions about basic biology, it's fodder for Fox News's alternative to "The Tonight Show." But for all the outrageous, logic-defying nonsense that Democrats spout, there is one field of study that they have mastered completely: war.
After Joe Biden's "perpetual state of confusion" at this week's D-Day commemoration, rumors about the president's diminished mental state are picking up even more steam. A bombshell article by The Wall Street Journal, which paints the picture of a man in steep cognitive decline, is adding to the White House's panic leading up to the November elections. Already, 63% of Americans admit they're "not very" or "not at all" confident that Biden has a sound enough mind to serve effectively as president. And after a number of disconcerting meetings with the president, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) might be one of them.
Reports surfaced Wednesday that an independent scientific advisory committee to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) overwhelmingly recommended that the risks of using the party drug MDMA (commonly known as "ecstasy") to treat post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) outweigh the benefits. Experts are welcoming the decision as a positive step in restoring common sense within the field of trauma care that has increasingly promoted the use psychedelic drugs in recent years.
After ridding his country of violent gangs, one world leader is crediting God with his administration's success. In an interview with Tucker Carlson on Wednesday, El Salvador's president Nayib Bukele discussed the satanic practices of the MS-13 gang, the "spiritual war" facing the Western world, and how his administration took El Salvador from being the murder capital of the world to the second-safest nation in the Western hemisphere.
