https://pjmedia.com/self-esteem-is-bad-for-business/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-usThu, 11 Jun 2026 19:39:17 -0400<![CDATA[Keir Starmer lost two defense officials in one day, and both men left over the same basic charge: Britain's defense plans don't match the danger in front of it. John Healey, the UK defense secretary, resigned today. Al Carns, the minister for the armed forces, followed him out the door hours later.]]>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 18:50:00 -0400<![CDATA[David Manney]]><![CDATA[Keir Starmer]]><![CDATA[NATO]]><![CDATA[United Kingdom]]>https://pjmedia.com/david-manney/2026/06/11/starmer-heads-to-nato-weaker-than-ever-n4953881<![CDATA[On Wednesday’s episode of The Five, leftist Jessica Tarlov made an argument about the Maine Senate race that was supposed to make Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) look bad. Instead, Greg Gutfeld used it to humiliate her for making such a ridiculous argument to justify supporting a Nazi-sympathizing domestic abuser with a portapotty fetish.]]>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 18:32:00 -0400<![CDATA[Matt Margolis]]><![CDATA[2026 Elections]]><![CDATA[Democrat Party]]><![CDATA[Greg Gutfeld]]><![CDATA[Susan Collins]]><![CDATA[Graham Platner]]>https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2026/06/11/i-cant-believe-jessica-tarlov-posted-this-clip-of-greg-gutfeld-humiliating-her-n4953877<![CDATA[C.S. Lewis is the most effective Christian apologist in the modern era, and by that I mean the last 200 years or so. Perhaps his most effective work is The Screwtape Letters,&nbsp;which was written from the perspective of an imaginary demon (Screwtape) instructing his nephew (Wormwood) on how to seal the eternal fate of his “patient.” Lewis found no joy in writing it. He confessed, “The world into which I had to project myself while I spoke through Screwtape was all dust, grit, thirst, and itch. Every trace of beauty, freshness, and geniality had to be excluded. It almost smothered me before it was done.”]]>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 18:09:04 -0400<![CDATA[David Churchill Barrow]]><![CDATA[Academia]]><![CDATA[Bible]]><![CDATA[Christianity]]><![CDATA[Education]]>https://pjmedia.com/david-barrow/2026/06/11/cs-lewis-warned-us-that-dark-forces-would-distort-the-meaning-of-democracy-and-equality-n4953872<![CDATA["We just made a great settlement of the war with Iran," President Donald Trump announced from the Oval Office with typical bombast on Thursday, "and we're going to be subject to finalization of documents."]]>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 16:43:00 -0400<![CDATA[Stephen Green]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]><![CDATA[Iran]]><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]><![CDATA[Truth Social]]>https://pjmedia.com/vodkapundit/2026/06/11/trump-we-just-made-a-great-settlement-of-the-war-with-iran-n4953874<![CDATA[I have to admit that if it weren’t for my Captain Crumb Cruncher, I’d never have known who Ms. Rachel was. Sadly, I do. I’ve spent more than my share of time, while filling in for his parents, watching her alongside the captain during those moments when I needed a break, and only her squealy, hypnotic videos would do.]]>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 15:36:35 -0400<![CDATA[Tim O'Brien]]><![CDATA[DHS]]><![CDATA[Education]]><![CDATA[Entertainment]]><![CDATA[ICE]]><![CDATA[Liberal Media]]><![CDATA[PBS]]><![CDATA[YouTube]]>https://pjmedia.com/tim-o-brien/2026/06/11/kids-youtuber-ms-rachel-goes-from-activist-to-agitator-outside-of-the-dhss-delaney-hall-n4953873<![CDATA[Two days ago, the foreign minister of Iran once again issued a series of threats against the United States, framing diplomacy as merely a tool for forcing the United States out of the area and proudly declaring that America would not be safe so long as its&nbsp;troops were within reach of the Iranian regime.]]>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 15:32:00 -0400<![CDATA[Catherine Salgado]]><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]><![CDATA[Hamas]]><![CDATA[Iran]]><![CDATA[Israel]]><![CDATA[Terrorism]]>https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2026/06/11/iranian-minister-threatened-us-framed-diplomacy-as-mere-tactic-to-defeat-trump-n4953870<![CDATA[I wanted to wait until this morning to write the daily email, as things have been changing so quickly in the last 36 hours. Here is a brief update of a timeline of the last 36 hours:]]>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 14:55:00 -0400<![CDATA[Rabbi Michael Barclay]]><![CDATA[Antisemitism]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]><![CDATA[Houthis]]><![CDATA[Iran]]><![CDATA[Israel]]>https://pjmedia.com/rabbi-michael-barclay/2026/06/11/rabbi-michael-barclays-iran-war-updates-for-june-11-n4953871<![CDATA[Iran "should have made a deal," conservative radio superstar Dana Loesch quipped on Thursday, reacting to President Donald Trump's threat that U.S. forces "will be taking Kharg Island and other oil infrastructure" in the near future.]]>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 13:35:49 -0400<![CDATA[Stephen Green]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]><![CDATA[Iran]]><![CDATA[Israel]]><![CDATA[Military]]><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]>https://pjmedia.com/vodkapundit/2026/06/11/they-should-have-made-a-deal-trump-to-seize-irans-oil-infrastructure-n4953860<![CDATA[An entire series of college baseball has come and gone, and it’s now down to eight teams: Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Ole Miss, Texas, Troy, and West Virginia. The College World Series starts Friday in Omaha, Neb., and here are some of the main storylines to watch out for.]]>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 13:12:00 -0400<![CDATA[Chris Queen]]><![CDATA[Alabama]]><![CDATA[Georgia]]><![CDATA[Mississippi]]><![CDATA[North Carolina]]><![CDATA[Oklahoma]]><![CDATA[Sports]]><![CDATA[Texas]]><![CDATA[West Virginia]]>https://pjmedia.com/chris-queen/2026/06/11/eight-teams-one-omaha-dream-its-the-college-world-series-baby-n4953863<![CDATA[A hazmat incident put the Pentagon on lockdown Thursday morning as officials said they are still searching for the source of the potentially deadly problem.]]>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 12:29:00 -0400<![CDATA[Catherine Salgado]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]><![CDATA[Iran]]><![CDATA[Military]]><![CDATA[National Security]]>https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2026/06/11/pentagon-on-lockdown-amid-hazmat-incident-n4953861<![CDATA[Pope Leo XIV is a thoughtful man. His recently released first encyclical, a 44,000-word document titled Magnifica Humanitas (Magnificent Humanity), shows a surprising depth of understanding of man, technology, and our fraught relationship with modern tech.]]>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 11:46:00 -0400<![CDATA[Rick Moran]]><![CDATA[Artificial Intelligence]]><![CDATA[Catholic Church]]><![CDATA[Catholicism]]><![CDATA[Pope Leo XIV]]><![CDATA[Vatican]]>https://pjmedia.com/rick-moran/2026/06/11/maintaining-our-humanity-in-the-age-of-ai-n4953854<![CDATA[In George Orwell's 1984, Great Britain was just a province of Oceania named "Airstrip One" as a none-too-subtle nod to the U.K.'s role as host to the heavy bombers of U.S. Eighth Air Force during World War II.]]>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 11:42:00 -0400<![CDATA[Stephen Green]]><![CDATA[Big Tech]]><![CDATA[Keir Starmer]]><![CDATA[United Kingdom]]>https://pjmedia.com/vodkapundit/2026/06/11/britain-goes-full-airstrip-one-n4953857<![CDATA[Jerry Seinfeld walked out of Madison Square Garden on Wednesday after watching the Knicks in the NBA Finals and may have triggered the left more than Donald Trump’s attendance Monday night.]]>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 11:38:00 -0400<![CDATA[Matt Margolis]]>https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2026/06/11/jerry-seinfeld-just-triggered-the-left-with-three-words-n4953859<![CDATA[The U.S. Treasury has promised to pay allies who suffer from maritime terrorist attacks by the Iranian regime using money from Iranian accounts.]]>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 11:06:00 -0400<![CDATA[Catherine Salgado]]><![CDATA[Hamas]]><![CDATA[Iran]]><![CDATA[National Security]]><![CDATA[Scott Bessent]]><![CDATA[Terrorism]]>https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2026/06/11/bessent-us-to-pay-attacked-allies-from-iranian-accounts-n4953856<![CDATA[American leftists love to malign the South. We Southerners and our culture are the butt of jokes time and time again. Outsiders mock our accents and our traditions, sometimes in really ugly ways. Southerners get the broad-brush treatment regularly, with outsiders hurling generalizations our way constantly.]]>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 10:14:00 -0400<![CDATA[Chris Queen]]><![CDATA[Alabama]]><![CDATA[Georgia]]><![CDATA[South Carolina]]><![CDATA[USA]]><![CDATA[World Cup]]>https://pjmedia.com/chris-queen/2026/06/11/the-left-warned-world-cup-tourists-about-the-south-then-one-german-fell-in-love-with-it-n4953855<![CDATA[Justice was served when Karmelo Anthony was found guilty of murder. Yet, the radical left is treating him as the innocent victim, a martyr, and is attacking his victim's family as the enemy. The racial grievance machine is running at full speed, and it’s absolutely horrific.]]>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 10:02:00 -0400<![CDATA[Matt Margolis]]><![CDATA[Black Lives Matter]]><![CDATA[Crime]]><![CDATA[Law & Order]]>https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2026/06/11/legal-activist-calls-austin-metcalfs-grieving-family-white-supremacists-and-pigs-n4953852<![CDATA[That old saw about politicians eventually getting around to taxing the air we breathe hasn't quite come true in Illinois — yet. First, Illinois Democrats have to figure out how to tax social media.&nbsp;]]>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 09:36:00 -0400<![CDATA[Rick Moran]]><![CDATA[Illinois]]><![CDATA[JB Pritzker]]><![CDATA[Social Security]]><![CDATA[Taxes]]><![CDATA[TikTok]]>https://pjmedia.com/rick-moran/2026/06/11/illinois-democrats-just-passed-a-tax-on-social-media-without-understanding-who-or-what-theyre-taxing-n4953850<![CDATA[Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is celebrating the conviction of two criminal aliens who were engaged in a massive scam to manufacture and distribute fake pharmaceuticals. The scheme killed at least one American.]]>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 09:09:00 -0400<![CDATA[Catherine Salgado]]><![CDATA[DHS]]><![CDATA[Fentanyl]]><![CDATA[Illegal Immigration]]>https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2026/06/11/ice-arrests-criminal-aliens-for-deadly-pharmaceutical-scheme-n4953846<![CDATA[Hello and welcome to Thursday, June 11, 2026. It's National Corn on the Cob Day, National German Chocolate Cake Day, Yarn Bombing Day. Kinda like bombing your neighbor's houses with toilet paper, but with yarn. No, I've never done it, and I don't advise it.]]>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 06:50:00 -0400<![CDATA[Eric Florack]]>https://pjmedia.com/eric-florack/2026/06/11/why-is-the-big-boy-up4014-drawing-such-large-crowds-n4953834<![CDATA[Top O' the Briefing]]>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 01:14:00 -0400<![CDATA[Stephen Kruiser]]>https://pjmedia.com/stephen-kruiser/2026/06/11/the-morning-briefing-jasmine-crocketts-gaping-maw-is-still-belching-up-filth-n4953824