We all hate feeling jetlagged. That groggy, tired feeling is the unpleasant result of long-distance travel. The concept of social jetlag works in a very similar manner. The term refers to the reactions observed in people’s bodies that are similar to travel-related jetlag, which stems from a person’s circadian rhythm (or internal clock) being thrown...
Back-to-school is right around the corner, meaning that parents and guardians are beginning to buy backpacks, supplies, and new clothes for the kids. However, as many are coming to find out, this year’s shopping experience is a little more costly than in years past. Thanks to inflation and supply chain snags, the cost of getting...
On Thursday, the Bureau of Economic Analysis released its second-quarter GDP estimates revealing that the American economy shrank again. The revelation means that U.S. has officially entered recession territory and thoughtful policy prescriptions are needed to mitigate the economic pain and minimize the period’s duration. With that in mind, here are five things that Texas’...
According to the left, “woke” is a right-wing myth—you know, like the current recession, the crisis at the southern U.S. border and skyrocketing violent crime rates. Nothing to see here—move along. But we mustn’t move along; the Overton Window (the ideas considered “acceptable” for public discourse) has been dragged so far left that common-sense ideas...
Recently, President Biden gave his remarks on the “clear and present danger” of climate change in front of Brayton Point, a once thriving and now shuttered coal powered electric plant being transformed to a wind energy production and distribution facility. Standing on those steps is not as symbolic of the “clean” energy transition as he...
It’s official—we’re in a recession. And have been all year. The government reported today that there were two consecutive quarters of declining inflation-adjusted economic output to start 2022, a condition that has been called a recession every time since 1950. And inflation is running at a 40-year high. Americans are struggling in the Biden economy....
Mark Esper, former defense secretary under President Donald Trump, recently released a memoir which claimed that the former president had asked about the possibility of shooting missiles into Mexico to target drug labs run by cartels. While Esper painted this question as a potential (and “inappropriate”) attack on our southern neighbor, Trump’s proposal shouldn’t be...
UTAH—The raging camper fire blocked traffic in both directions. The family pulling the camper had managed to uncouple their truck and were a safe distance away, but the nearest fire department was half an hour out. The sole highway patrolman on the scene could do little but watch. Yet one of the vehicles closest to...
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis recently responded to questions about California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s ads airing in Florida, “It’s almost hard to drive people out of a place like California given all their natural advantages, and yet they are finding a way to do it.” He noted that California is hemorrhaging its population because of bad progressive...
Buyers from the People’s Republic of China purchased $6.1 billion in real estate last year, the most of any foreign buyer. Many of these purchases over the past few years have been of farmland or ranchland near U.S. military bases. Revelations from a groundbreaking exclusive CNN story published on July 23 about telecommunications equipment from China’s Huawei installed in...
On July 15, Austin City Manager Spencer Cronk laid out a proposed $5 billion city budget for fiscal year 2023. While introducing the mammoth 971-page document, Cronk said: “We are always mindful of our impact on the pocketbooks of Austinites. At the same time, we firmly believe that effective city government is critical to the...
Praise God for Elisjsha Dicken, the young man who stopped the attempted shooting at an Indiana mall by exercising his Second Amendment rights. Across America, there are likely countless heroes like him whose stories we’ve never heard precisely because they succeeded — honorable, responsible men and women who do what it takes to stop senseless violence...