https://pjmedia.com/avoiding-another-kyoto-commitment/feed/PJ Media is a leading news site covering culture, politics, faith, homeland security, and more. Our reporters and columnists provide original, in-depth analysis from a variety of perspectives.en-usMon, 15 Jun 2026 06:14:53 -0400<![CDATA[On Sunday, President Donald Trump announced that a peace deal with Iran had been finalized, immediately lifting the U.S. naval blockade on Iranian ports and reopening the Strait of Hormuz to global shipping.]]>Sun, 14 Jun 2026 18:45:15 -0400<![CDATA[Matt Margolis]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]><![CDATA[Iran]]><![CDATA[Qatar]]><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]>https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2026/06/14/trump-announces-peace-deal-with-iran-is-complete-n4953969<![CDATA[Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you know by now that with SpaceX’s Initial Public Offering (IPO), Elon Musk has become the world’s first trillionaire. The implications of this for all of us and our grandchildren are many and far-reaching. Of course, the left has found a way to narrow it all down to one simple idea: “His money is our money, or it should be.”]]>Sun, 14 Jun 2026 17:42:24 -0400<![CDATA[Tim O'Brien]]><![CDATA[Elon Musk]]><![CDATA[SpaceX]]>https://pjmedia.com/tim-o-brien/2026/06/14/elon-musk-and-the-politics-of-envy-n4953968<![CDATA[Democrat Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass is facing a lawsuit against her city administration from her own brother over the Palisades fire, which critics argue was greatly exacerbated by her policies, and Bass's former mayoral rival, Spencer Pratt, says he and Kenneth Bass are joining forces.]]>Sun, 14 Jun 2026 16:35:13 -0400<![CDATA[Catherine Salgado]]><![CDATA[2026 Elections]]><![CDATA[Karen Bass]]><![CDATA[Lawsuit]]><![CDATA[Los Angeles]]><![CDATA[Spencer Pratt]]>https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2026/06/14/spencer-pratt-and-basss-brother-sue-mayor-bass-n4953965<![CDATA[Today, June 14, is the 251st birthday of the United States Army. In honor of this important anniversary, I want to highlight a handful of the lesser known patriotic and courageous heroes who served in the Army throughout American history.]]>Sun, 14 Jun 2026 14:45:31 -0400<![CDATA[Catherine Salgado]]><![CDATA[Military]]><![CDATA[Veterans]]><![CDATA[Veterans Day]]><![CDATA[Virginia]]><![CDATA[America 250]]>https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2026/06/14/tales-of-daring-and-bravery-for-us-armys-birthday-n4953962<![CDATA[House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) had one clean chance to calm the country. He was asked whether Democrats would move to impeach President Donald Trump if they win control of the House in the midterms.]]>Sun, 14 Jun 2026 14:25:00 -0400<![CDATA[David Manney]]><![CDATA[Democrat Party]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]><![CDATA[Hakeem Jeffries]]><![CDATA[House of Representatives]]>https://pjmedia.com/david-manney/2026/06/14/jeffries-just-told-america-what-democrats-will-do-if-they-win-the-house-n4953964<![CDATA[My colleague Rick Moran’s post on Flag Day today struck a nerve with me for a couple of reasons. First, I’m a Gettysburg geek, and second, I’m a flag nerd. Rick inspired me to go back and revisit something I once wrote for my own blog. It was titled, “Why I Stand for the American Flag,” and I think it may be worth your time on a day like this. And so, I decided to expand upon it.]]>Sun, 14 Jun 2026 13:57:22 -0400<![CDATA[Tim O'Brien]]><![CDATA[History]]>https://pjmedia.com/tim-o-brien/2026/06/14/why-i-stand-for-the-american-flag-n4953963<![CDATA[Israeli civilians are once again spending the weekend running to bomb shelters. Don’t expect anyone in the world to care, except perhaps Iranian/Persian&nbsp;freedom fighters.]]>Sun, 14 Jun 2026 12:10:02 -0400<![CDATA[Catherine Salgado]]><![CDATA[Iran]]><![CDATA[Israel]]><![CDATA[Terrorism]]>https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2026/06/14/netanyahu-idf-comment-on-ongoing-iranian-and-hezbollah-threats-n4953959<![CDATA[If you've spent any time arguing with liberals online, you already know this. Now there's a study to prove it.]]>Sun, 14 Jun 2026 12:04:46 -0400<![CDATA[Matt Margolis]]><![CDATA[Columbia University]]><![CDATA[Conservatism]]><![CDATA[Liberal Media]]><![CDATA[Mental Health]]>https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2026/06/14/a-new-study-just-confirmed-the-lefts-worst-kept-secret-n4953961<![CDATA[Back in January I chronicled the death of a local newspaper daily, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, which at the time was slated to close for good in May. I listed the many reasons for the newspaper’s demise and how it served as a great example of why so many American daily newspapers have expired. The newspaper industry would have you believe that the massive decline in America’s dailies was driven only by changes to news delivery technologies, but it’s much more than that, and yet they are related.]]>Sun, 14 Jun 2026 11:59:42 -0400<![CDATA[Tim O'Brien]]><![CDATA[Fake News]]><![CDATA[Fox News]]><![CDATA[Liberal Media]]><![CDATA[Media Bias]]>https://pjmedia.com/tim-o-brien/2026/06/14/the-dirty-little-secret-why-newspaper-dailies-are-killing-their-editorial-pages-n4953960<![CDATA[It was the first day at the Battle of Gettysburg, July 1, 1863, and things were not going well for Abe Lincoln's boys in blue. Robert E. Lee's Johnny Rebs had arrived on the battlefield almost behind General Oliver Otis Howard's 11th Corps, which panicked the "Dutchmen" and sent them flying towards the town of Gettysburg.]]>Sun, 14 Jun 2026 11:56:43 -0400<![CDATA[Rick Moran]]><![CDATA[History]]><![CDATA[Military]]><![CDATA[Pennsylvania]]><![CDATA[USA]]><![CDATA[Veterans]]>https://pjmedia.com/rick-moran/2026/06/14/youre-a-grand-old-flag-and-long-may-you-wave-n4953957<![CDATA[A CNN panel meant to discuss extraordinary wealth lurched far off the rails Friday night when one commentator went into full-on slander mode on Elon Musk, who became the world’s first trillionaire this week. He’s been getting attacked from the left for his success because that’s what the left does.]]>Sun, 14 Jun 2026 10:39:00 -0400<![CDATA[Matt Margolis]]><![CDATA[CNN]]><![CDATA[Elon Musk]]><![CDATA[Scott Jennings]]><![CDATA[USAID]]><![CDATA[Bakari Sellers]]>https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2026/06/14/bakari-sellers-calls-elon-musk-a-white-supremacist-and-all-hell-breaks-loose-n4953955<![CDATA[Hello and welcome to Sunday, June 14, 2026. Today is Flag Day. It's also the Army's birthday. Our Chris Queen will be interested to know it's National Bourbon Day. It's also National Strawberry Shortcake Day, National Cucumber Day, and National Pop Goes The Weasel Day. I add the explanatory link because it'll all news to me, too.]]>Sun, 14 Jun 2026 10:00:05 -0400<![CDATA[Eric Florack]]><![CDATA[Crime]]><![CDATA[Firearms]]><![CDATA[New York]]><![CDATA[Riots]]><![CDATA[Sports]]>https://pjmedia.com/eric-florack/2026/06/14/ive-got-a-basketball-joke-for-you-knicks-fans-n4953951<![CDATA[In a viral video emanating out of the UK, two migrant “enforcement officers” (more on what that means in a moment) are seen threatening to knock out a civilian’s teeth after he begins recording their activities on the street in Harrow.]]>Sun, 14 Jun 2026 07:25:36 -0400<![CDATA[Benjamin Bartee]]><![CDATA[Crime]]><![CDATA[England]]><![CDATA[Law and Order]]><![CDATA[United Kingdom]]><![CDATA[Video]]>https://pjmedia.com/benbartee/2026/06/14/watch-feral-migrant-uk-enforcement-officers-threaten-to-knock-out-civilians-teeth-n4953950<![CDATA[Federal authorities are delighted by a new trend online where stupid fraudsters brag about how much taxpayer money they have stolen — thus literally handing authorities a full confession without any extra effort.]]>Sun, 14 Jun 2026 03:35:00 -0400<![CDATA[Catherine Salgado]]><![CDATA[California]]><![CDATA[Crime]]><![CDATA[DOJ]]><![CDATA[Fox News]]><![CDATA[Illegal Alien]]>https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2026/06/14/fraud-fluencers-brag-about-stolen-taxpayer-cash-online-n4953949<![CDATA[Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is once again asking authorities in woke states not to release child predators.]]>Sat, 13 Jun 2026 23:45:30 -0400<![CDATA[Catherine Salgado]]><![CDATA[ICE]]><![CDATA[Illegal Immigration]]>https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2026/06/13/ice-seeks-custody-of-child-predators-in-maryland-connecticut-n4953945<![CDATA[President Barack Hussein Obama wanted a monument in Chicago, and Chicago gave him parkland, patience, tax breaks, years of disruption, and now a tower that looks less like civic memory than self-regard poured into granite.]]>Sat, 13 Jun 2026 23:30:00 -0400<![CDATA[David Manney]]><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]><![CDATA[Chicago]]>https://pjmedia.com/david-manney/2026/06/13/obamas-presidential-center-looks-like-his-ego-cast-in-stone-n4953947<![CDATA[Arthur Schopenhauer’s argument is that thinking for oneself is better than regurgitating information from books and that the two produce very different effects in a learner. In the beginning of his essay, he compares the difference between regurgitation and reflection (or critical thinking) to two different libraries. Regurgitation is represented by a disorganized library with books all over the floor, furniture, shelves, or wherever else they have been mislaid. Similarly, someone who exclusively regurgitates information may have jumbled facts in his mind and will not have a clear picture of anything specific, despite learning (allegedly) so much about that thing. In the public domain essay "On Thinking for Oneself," Schopenhauer shows us some men who appear to know so much about specific countries from travel books, but they cannot form their ideas into a gestalt to describe those countries as a whole. They cannot see the bigger picture because they were habitually exposed to only small bits of information.]]>Sat, 13 Jun 2026 22:13:00 -0400<![CDATA[Ashli-Meghan Eskeldson]]>https://pjmedia.com/ashli-meghan-eskeldson/2026/06/13/thinking-for-ourselves-n4953922<![CDATA[The U.S. State Department has uncovered sophisticated and dangerous “birth tourism” networks from West Africa, Europe, and North Africa exploiting our current unconstitutional “birthright citizenship” system.]]>Sat, 13 Jun 2026 18:23:00 -0400<![CDATA[Catherine Salgado]]><![CDATA[China]]><![CDATA[Illegal Alien]]><![CDATA[Islam]]><![CDATA[Supreme Court]]>https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2026/06/13/state-department-finds-birth-tourism-networks-around-the-world-exploiting-the-us-n4953944<![CDATA[Growing up, my friends and I weren't bad kids, never broke the law (/wink), and truly never started up any slobberknockers. However, we didn't always think too fondly of our local police department as a whole. Then there was Kelly, the female officer who seemed to understand kids, trouble, fear, and fairness all at once.]]>Sat, 13 Jun 2026 17:41:00 -0400<![CDATA[David Manney]]><![CDATA[Crime]]><![CDATA[Law and Order]]><![CDATA[Ohio]]>https://pjmedia.com/david-manney/2026/06/13/the-badge-deserves-honor-chad-esserts-charges-deserve-fury-n4953943<![CDATA[As is so often the case these days, the details of this particular news item are positively harrowing. The UK’s Lancashire Telegraph reported Friday that “a man was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after armed police attended an incident where a teenage girl was reportedly ‘stabbed in the neck.’”]]>Sat, 13 Jun 2026 16:19:00 -0400<![CDATA[Robert Spencer]]><![CDATA[Crime]]><![CDATA[England]]><![CDATA[Islam]]><![CDATA[Islamic Terrorism]]><![CDATA[United Kingdom]]>https://pjmedia.com/robert-spencer/2026/06/13/uk-17-year-old-girl-stabbed-in-neck-but-dont-worry-the-cops-have-reassuring-words-n4953940